Thanks // Tour Next Week
Big thanks to everyone who came out to our Sextet CD Release show last night at TaborSpace, we had a great time and it was a fantastic audience as well! Also thanks to the TaborSpace folks for providing such a great venue and piano (and coffee!) It’s always interesting how tunes develop over time, and [...]
CD Release Tonight!
Well it’s arrived, our CD Release concert for the sextet is this evening, over at TaborSpace in SE Portland. This is really an amazing new venue in town, with a fantastic Steinway and a great “living room” vibe. Brett Campbell wrote a really nice review of the new album over at Willamette Week: [ELECTRIC JAZZ] [...]
82% Chance of Rain
I’m happy to announce my sextet’s second album, “82% Chance of Rain,” out in April on Seattle’s OA2 Records. We recorded this one back in August of last year, and we’re really pleased with the result! I wanted this one to sound a little less “jazzy” than Otis Stomp, both musically and in recording technique, [...]
Country Music and Authenticity
Since before he even moved to town a couple years ago, I had gigs with electric/acoustic bassist Sam Howard on my calendar, thanks to our mututal friend Russ Kleiner, who moved to Portland from NYC a few years ago and convinced Sam to make the jump a while later. Since then I’ve had the great [...]
The Woods Thursday!
This Thursday at The Woods, one of Portland’s newest and most intriguing venues (an ex-funeral parlor, in fact!), my sextet will be performing alongside A Cautionary Tale, a great member of the vibrant indie-rock scene here. Advance tickets are available here from Brown Paper Tickets (Only $7 for 2 bands!). We’re looking forward to this [...]
Bantus
Back in June I received an intriguing phone call from one Matt Gordon, who had gotten my number from Kevin Van Geem (the drummer in my sextet) and needed a substitute keyboardist to play (get this) marimba parts on a gig with a Zimbabwean singer, Loveness Wesa. Needless to say, I was more than slightly [...]
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