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 [...]
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 [...]
Happy New Year!
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 [...]
Tonight @ Doug Fir!
Well, Reptet‘s reputation seems to be preceding them these days. We’ll be opening for them tonight over at Portland’s hipster central, the Doug Fir Lounge. It’ll be great to bring some of what Tom D’Antoni calls “indie jazz” into the room and I’m always happy to hear a set of crazy music from Reptet while [...]
Recent shows and reflections thereupon
As you can tell from the infreqent and cursory nature of my recent posting activity, things have been pretty hectic, and I’ve been doing a lot of travelling to Seattle recently to prepare for (and finally play) our big show last Thursday night at the Columbia City Theater. I’m back in Portland for a solid [...]
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