Happy New Year!
Posted on | December 27, 2009 | No Comments
I hope that everyone’s holidays have gone well so far, and that everyone has a great New Year and appropriate celebrations. I’m very much looking forward to many projects coming up in the next year, and I thought I would post a bit about some exciting news and events:
- I recently received a Project Grant from Portland’s Regional Arts and Culture Council for a recording project with the new Canadian-American collaborative band Tunnel Six that was put together at the Banff International Jazz and Creative Music Workshop this past May. I’m really happy to be a part of this high-caliber group of musicians, and am very thankful to the RACC for helping to fund our project. We’ll be touring in May and June, starting in Toronto, with a foray into the midwest (Chicago, Minneapolis), and then across Canada (Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Victoria, Vancouver) and back down into the U.S. to finish our tour in Portland. The RACC funding will allow us to spend two days over at Kung Fu Bakery Studios recording our first full-length album at the end of the tour. You can hear some of the stuff we recorded at the Banff Centre studio at the Tunnel Six site, and I’ll be keeping this site updated with info on that tour as it unfolds.
- I’m also pleased to announce that the Andrew Oliver Sextet’s new album, “82% Chance of Rain,” will be coming out on OA2 records (a subsidiary of Origin) in April-May of next year, along with our first tour to the Bay Area! Over at the Sextet page is a sample track from the new album as well as some older recordings, and I’ve just posted some selected tracks from our Portland Jazz Festival gig from last year, recorded at the Cave by Patrick Springer, on the Audio page as well. We’ll be performing alongside Trio Subtonic at Jimmy Mak’s on Jan. 22, so don’t miss out on that one!
- I’m about to embark on a few days out at a cabin with the Kora Band, where we will be learning a bunch of new music! Since I live in Portland and everyone else in Seattle, it’s often hard to find rehearsal time, so we decided to just go hang out for a weekend and work. This is pretty exciting, I’ve always wanted to do something like this with one of my groups and I’m glad we’re able to pull it off. You can hear us Jan. 10 at Hidmo and March 20 at Empty Sea Studios in Seattle, and we’ll be coming back to Portland for a show with Loveness Wesa and the Bantus, a Zimbabwean band that I’ve recently had the pleasure of joining, on March 19. More details forthcoming on that one too!
Well, that’s all for now. I’m looking forward to keeping this blog and whole website a bit more updated as this year progresses too, so come back frequently for new content and information. Best wishes for the new year!
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