Recording your kids

Ever wanted to record your infant's baby talk and set it to music? Or do you have a small child who loves to sing? Listen to some samples I have made in the past with my own kids:
http://www.robbennion.com/mp3s/changeiscoming.mp3
http://robbennion.com/mp3s/babysong.mp3

I have a selection of music, or if you have an idea in mind for a song I also compose music. Listen to some of my past compositions here: http://www.robbennion.com/composition.html

I am a Salt Lake City musician who can come to your house and record your child with my laptop and microphone, or if you prefer you can come to my house. It usually works best if the child is comfortable and happy (i.e. napped and fed). I live downtown in the Avenues Salt Lake City.

For more information about me (I am a father of two little ones myself) please visit my website http://www.robbennion.com

Thanks!

2uce Betta joins the Rob Bennion Band

It's been great working with 2uce on our collaboration "Robot Dream" (http://www.myspace.com/therobotdream) He is a very talented rapper and singer as well.

My band is going to showcase him so that we can largely expand our repertoire for events that call for dance music, playing current pop, hip-hop and R&B music (and the classics too).

Listen to a sample, our version of Estell and Kanye's :American Boy" notice how smooth 2uce sounds, and Hayley's great R&B stylings: http://www.robbennion.com/mp3s/americanboy.mp3

Martin Luther King and Jazz

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Opening Address to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival.

God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create—and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different situations.Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.This is triumphant music.Modern jazz has continued in this tradition, singing the songs of a more complicated urban existence. When life itself offers no order and meaning, the musician creates an order and meaning from the sounds of the earth which flow through his instrument.It is no wonder that so much of the search for identity among American Negroes was championed by Jazz musicians. Long before the modern essayists and scholars wrote of racial identity as a problem for a multiracial world, musicians were returning to their roots to affirm that which was stirring within their souls.Much of the power of our Freedom Movement in the United States has come from this music. It has strengthened us with its sweet rhythms when courage began to fail. It has calmed us with its rich harmonies when spirits were down.And now, Jazz is exported to the world. For in the particular struggle of the Negro in America there is something akin to the universal struggle of modern man. Everybody has the Blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith.In music, especially this broad category called Jazz, there is a stepping stone towards all of these.