Tim Garland’s Summer 2011 newsletter
email newsletter – design/build/broadcast
A general update for British reed player, composer, arranger etc. Tim Garland for the summer 2011 period. His position at the Royal Norther College of Music in Manchester makes his regular communication with students and fans even more poignant.
read moreBrad and Elliot Mason: Brothers
WordPress driven website
In time for the long awaited release of Brad and Elliot Mason’s debut album “Two Sides, One Story” (Archival Records, 2010), their website received a gentle visual refresh to bring it inline with the design of the album. As things go, once the sleeves are rolled up and a certain amount of code edits are being tackled, other optimisations are suddenly on the radar. The tour calendar is now being maintained through GigPress, a fantastic WordPress plugin for artists and agencies.
read moreTSYJO – a young big band
WordPress driven original website
We built the very first website for the Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra when the domain was a fresh registration in autumn 2006. To enable Tommy and his team to maintain the site themselves and have more control over updates such a the tour calendar and news flashes, we re-designed and built the site from scratch in 2011, to coincide with the Orchestra’s new album release “Emergence” for which we provided the album packaging.
read moreTommy Smith – “Karma” launch
email campaign – design/build
Tommy Smith’s beautiful new album ‘Karma’ was released around this time. The email was designed to replicate the CD’s grungy look, with the purpose of alerting Tommy’s fans to the upcoming events (album launch and gigs).
read moreBill Evans w/ the SNJO
email campaign – design and code
“Europe’s leading jazz orchestra presents two masterpieces of large-scale composition.” Saxophonist Bill Evans was special guest with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, performing Tommy Smith’s “Torah” suite and his treatment of “Beauty and the Beast”
read moreA Night of Blues & Ballads
promo email / design, code, broadcast
A classic eFlyer, promoting Joe Locke‘s two-night engagement at the Kitano in New York. The message went out to Joe’s 2,400 subscribers strong email database and spread further through social sharing.
read moreJoe Locke News, April 2011
promo email / newsletter
The long awaited release of ‘VIA‘, Storms/Nocturnes‘ third album and the first since 2003, with Joe Locke (vibes), Tim Garland (reeds) and Geoffrey Keezer (piano) was released in April 2011 and promoted heavily by each of the three artists. Joe Locke’s newsletter for that month therefore was all about ‘VIA’, loyal to its visual blue and weathered appearance, incl. supporting material and retail links.
read moreSNJO featuring Kurt Elling
email campaign
In March 2011 Kurt Elling joined the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, directed by Tommy Smith, for two sensational concert at Glasgow and London. This is another email campaign we put together to promote this special event – and I was able to pop over to Glasgow for the concert on the back of it.
