Happy New Year!
Happy new year to everyone! The holday season was lots of fun here in Portland and I hope everyone had an enjoyable time as well. Having finally recovered from the festivities it was time for the Bridgetown Sextet CD release this last weekend (as usual my failure to post timely notices of these things on [...]
West Coast Jazz Part 2: Shelly Manne / Russ Freeman
I am happy to be continuing my relatively new series (this will be the 2nd installment) at Tony Starlight’s on Oct. 5. The series is the first Wednesday of the month and I present a different project, theme, or guest each time. For October I am digging back into the vaults of West Coast Jazz of [...]
Kora Band Friday at Jimmy Mak’s
Always a pleasure to play at Jimmy Mak’s and to share the bill with Ben Darwish! Hope to see you there:
Thanks for a great tour!
Heading out from San Fran without time for a real post or photos, but thanks to everyone who came out to see us on our little tour, the final gig in San Francisco last night with the Nice Guy trio was really full and fun! See you all soon!
New site!
Hello all, Welcome to my new and improved site! I am consolidating some of my web activities all in one place. My blog, which heretofore has been at http://andrewoliver.wordpress.com will be moved here, which I know is annoying, but it will only happen once! I have imported all the old posts from that site below. [...]
Black Star Line
I can’t resist posting this, even though I just put up another post. On a trip over to my favorite world music blog, I found this post featuring a 45-rpm single from Ghana advertising the Black Star Line. If only advertisement jingles were this awesome today, and came in both highlife and calypso versions!!!!!