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 [...]
Project updates, the Portland Jazz Scene, and a Slovakian!
Apologies to everyone who was disappointed with the lack of a Post-Colonial African Groove last Friday, I was somewhat swamped and had some friends from the Bay Area in town, but will resume this week! Meanwhile, here’s a bunch of information packed into a short post: The Kora Band played at Jimmy Mak’s two Fridays [...]
Tension and Relaxation
While I was at the Banff workshop this last spring, there was a lot of discussion of bodily tension and relaxation. I felt that this was particularly relevant to me, as I was still working through some tendonitis issues even at the workshop itself, though I have fortunately resolved them almost completely since then. Nonetheless, [...]
« go back