Writer
Founder of Spinz Studios. Writes listening notes from Portland — Tone Poet Tuesdays, Blue Note crates, and the software that keeps the hunt honest.
Review · Oct 2026
Eric Dolphy is at once one of the most diverse, innovative, and influential jazzmen of all time — and one of the most misunderstood and neglected. In this review of Out To Lunch!, Jason Elwood attempts to demystify what makes Eric Dolphy so beloved, despite being an enigma to so many.
App · Oct 2026
A shop-floor story about the two minutes between “maybe” and “mine” — and the app we built for that pulse.
Review · Oct 2026
In this Deep Dive I explain what Peter Jackson's MAL (Machine Assisted Learning) actually does to a 1965 four-track tape — spectrogram tiles, learned masks, estimated stems — and what it doesn't do. No new performances were generated, Giles Martin and Sam Okell mixed it by hand. I also make the case I've been building toward: nothing on the outside of the packaging says machine learning or AI, and the full audio chain is not be named in plain words where a buyer can make an informed choice.
Feature · Oct 2026
A buyer’s essay on Joe Harley’s Blue Note series — vinyl quiet, photography, and the difference between a fetish and a tool.
Feature · Sep 2026
How to spend a wet Saturday in Portland without turning crate-digging into a content sport.
App · Sep 2026
Screenshots are not a wantlist. Notes on building a Vault that stays honest when the hallway gets full.
Feature · Aug 2026
A field guide to runout groves, stamper gossip, and the difference between scholarship and homework.