Busy Week – Herbie Nichols Wednesday / PJCE Returns Saturday!
This week I have two shows of interest, I’m especially excited about the return of the full 14-piece Portland Jazz Composers’ Ensemble at the Community Music Center Saturday night. I’ll also be at Tony Starlight’s on Wednesday with some great music by Herbie Nichols, the obscure but fascinating pianist from the 50′s-60′s era. We have [...]
Round Mountain tomorrow!
I’m very excited to be playing tomorrow night at the Alberta Street Public House in a double bill: my duo with Kane (the “Kane Mathis/Andrew Oliver duo”) which in this case will actually be a trio with the addition of Kevin Van Geem on percussion (read: calabash!) will be starting the evening off followed by [...]
Trio
I’m looking forward to a few gigs this week with my old friend and long-time musical associate Tyson Stubelek on drums, who will be back for a while from New York for the holidays. We’ve been playing together since high school in various configurations starting with the Portland Youth Jazz Orchestra and most recently with [...]
Solo Piano
I played two three-hour solo piano gigs in the past couple of weeks at Portland’s good old landmark Brasserie Montmartre. It’s been quite some time since I did that on a regular basis and it was an illuminating experience. Solo piano is obviously difficult because of the lack of accompanists, though I have been playing [...]
Bridgetown Sextet!
Well I’ve been a bit absent from the internet of late, partially due to nice weather and partially due to various trips and a typically nutso schedule in general. However, I’m back and ready to type, as it were, armed with some great upcoming shows for the rest of the summer and into the fall, [...]
Friday Night at Jimmy Mak’s!
I’m excited to be repeating a great double-bill over at Jimmy Mak’s. Last February my Kora Band opened for Ben Darwish‘s last CD release party, with his Trio, during the Portland Jazz Festival, and it was really a great time. Tomorrow night we’re at it again, opening for his new quartet (the “Ben Darwish Group”)’s [...]
keep looking »