Jake Hanlon

Well, the semester is over, grades entered, students graduated and now I'm sitting in my best friend's home in Toronto watching weird cartoons with his 8-year-old.

A break, and planning for the future. 

I have been hungry for a long…

Well, it took a while, but I have crossed the rubicon and been granted tenure at StFX. 

I have to admit, when I left the University of North Texas if someone told me I would be in a tenured position…

I had a great trip to Toronto last week, and while it was not as planned, it just goes to show that the world is full of really outstanding musicians with high skill sets.

The Emmet Ray is a…

Not just a great Grant Green album (Talkin' About, feat Grant, Larry Young on organ, and Elvin Jones on drums). As an educator of jazz guitar, I often am asked questions about gear. Sometimes they're general questions, sometimes hyper-specific. I'm…