Author Archives: Mark
The Sound of Joy Wins an Independent Music Award!!
Hey Everyone, I just found out that my tune The Sound of Joy won an Independent Music Award in the Jazz Song category!! This is really cool!! Now I need your help…you can vote for the song and it could …
The Sound of Joy Nominated for Independent Music Award!!
Hey everyone, I just received some great news… one of my tunes from Suspended Reality - The Sound of Joy – has been nominated for an Independent Music Award!! I’m honored and excited about this!! And YOU can vote for the …
Mark O’Connor Quintet Fall tour
Hi Everyone, Just wanted to let you know that I’m in the middle of lining up a midwest tour for my quintet!! I’m really excited about this and hope you are too. More details to follow. Mark
Mark O’Connor Quintet @ the Chicago Jazz Festival!!
I just found out that my quintet will be playing at the Chicago Jazz Festival!! We’re really excited to be a part of it!! We’re playing on Sept 3rd from 4:20-5pm at the Chicago Jazz Magazine tent – come on …
Chicago CD release party
Here are some photos from our recent release party in Chicago. Thanks to everyone who helped make this a huge success!!
Great Milwaukee CD release party
We had a very successful CD release party in Milwaukee at the Jazz Estate this past Friday night!! The band sounded great and a good time was had by all. Thanks to everyone who was there to help us celebrate. …
The Making of Suspended Reality
It’s been a long wait, but Suspended Reality is finally a …reality (bad humor, I know). All of us had a great time in the studio and I was excited to be able to record with Mark Maegdlin, Ben Lewis, …
Welcome
Hey Everybody!! Welcome to my blog!! I’m really excited about the release of Suspended Reality and my updated website!! I’m going to use this blog as a chance to communicate with all of you on a range of different topics, …
