The Brendan O’Donnell Organ Trio, with Brendan on guitar, Adam Kessler on drums, and Joe Doria on organ. Holy smokes, these guys killed it at Egan’s Ballard Jam House Friday night, for all the reasons I always talk about. The tunes were tight, improvisation top notch, and communication within the trio was out of this […]
What an amazing Labor Day weekend… For about 10 years now, I’ve had an annual trip to a campsite on the Columbia River across from Vantage, WA on Labor Day weekend to see the Dave Mathews Band at the Gorge. Over time, this trip has morphed into as much a reunion with old friends as […]
This is a post I recently put up as a guest blogger on trumpeter Jason Parker’s website www.oneworkingmusician.com: This past month, I found myself picking up a string of gigs in which I considered myself a sideman. These were shows and performances in which I enjoyed the music, worked hard to play at a high […]
I went ahead and put up a couple of tunes from the Soul Kata CD release party I was fortunate enough to play on at the Triple Door earlier this month, enjoy! This show, as with any Soul Kata show, was an immense amount of fun. It’s always cool to do the backing horn section […]
This past weekend Hardcoretet had a great rehearsal after a small break after recording, and began talking about putting a tour together. Just the idea of touring stirs up all sorts of anxiety: Where can we play this music? How much will it cost? Will anybody show up? This is interesting because I’ve been reading […]
Last night I had to figure out which music I was going to check out between Clark Gibson at Barca in Cap Hill, Sun Tzu Sound at Grey Gallery, the Hang at Lucid, and Gravity at Lo Fi. Such a good problem to have…
Thank you for all of your support and great comments about the site! I never really know how well it works or looks to other folks, so I’m glad it works as well as I’d hoped. Tuesday night I headed down to the Dexter and Hayes pub to play standards and straight-ahead jazz with Gravity, a […]
I told myself I would wait to put posts up until my site was fully operational, but this is close enough, and if any of you out there have suggestions on how to make it cooler, let me know! I also am not completely sure what I’m going to post about, or how often I’ll […]