PJCE Audio
Yes, I’ve been swamped with much activity lately, as usual, and have been very slack about updating here. I will make yet another effort to get it together! I’ve been in the studio this week with the excellent Sam Howard Band, we’re finishing up recording a new full-length album for Diatic Records this afternoon. It’s [...]
PJCE Tonight!
Tonight at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Portland will be the final performance in our second year of concerts by the Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble, one of my favorite ongoing projects. As I was just making up the program here, I went back through our old programs and determined that we have already debuted 30 new [...]
PJCE Spring Concert Wrapup
(photo by Maureen Oliver, more photos from the concert here) Well it seems that the PJCE is taking up a lot of space on here recently, although I have some other posts in the works (as well as lots of projects, the list of which was rather frighteningly long when I read it out loud [...]
as "grassroots" as they come…
We rehearsed the PJCE the other night at a place called AudioCinema in Portland’s industrial district. It is a great space, large and good-sounding, where I hope to do some gigs/mini-festivals or something in the future. Nonetheless, an extremely loud rock band was rehearsing in another part of the building, which made playing the more [...]
Finished Products
So it’s nearly time for the summer Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble concert, this coming Friday. Co-directing this band is one of my favorite projects to date, though it’s quite time consuming and often frustrating to get fourteen musicians together to rehearse and perform four times a year, in addition to convincing various fantastic composers to [...]