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 [...]
Urs Leimbgruber, and more
So on Thursday night I was invited to play in the Creative Music Guild Large Ensemble directed by Swiss virtuosic improvising saxophonist Urs Leimgruber. The CMG is a great Portland-based nonprofit that brings many fantastic creative improvisers to town. They are now moving into involving more local musicians as well, which is fantastic. We had [...]
Back To Work!
So, it’s back to work time in many ways. I have begun the process of returning from Banff to “real life” and have found a new-found love of practicing and time management. I hope that I am able to sustain these positive habits and that the “time management” one will lead me to some better [...]
SOS Recording…
Well the SOS tour has come and gone. We had a great time, albeit not amazing turnouts – par for the course I suppose. At any rate, the new material was amazingly creative and covered an even wider spectrum than our previous record (insert shameless plug for said record, Poem of the Underground, which has [...]
Cave closes!
So, in a HUGE blow to the Portland jazz scene, many musicians (including myself), and everyone’s good humor (not to mention Alan Jones’ cell phone bill), The Cave , Portland’s newest jazz club, has been visited by the fire marshall and shut down due to the low ceiling! Here’s what they sent to the email [...]
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