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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“Busy, Busy, Busy”
“‘Busy, busy, busy’ is what a Bokononist whispers “whenever [he] thinks about how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.” – Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle That’s a good one for musicians and artists to think about, especially with the inevitable constant rotation between weeks (like this one for me) when I barely have enough [...]
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