A couple of really fun performances around town over the past couple of weeks: Claudio Rochat-Felix and Michael Marcus at 418 Public House: Drums, Bass, and Saxophone. Really cool chance to stretch on things and mess with forms in interesting ways. Claudio, Tim Kennedy, Ian Sheridan, and Thomas Marriott at Vito’s: First time playing with […]
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Jazz, Teaching, and Lucky Brown
New Photos Up
I added a new gallery of photos taken from Hardcoretet’s performance at Central Washington University. The show was after an evening clinic/master class with some of the music students there, our second one at CWU, and the reception was very warm and enthusiastic. I enjoy playing music at bars and smaller clubs; I think the […]
Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up
It’s been a really fun run of performances the last couple of weeks. Polyrhythmics had a memorable mountain show at the top of Heavenly Ski Resort in Lake Tahoe, Hardcoretet played the Comet Tavern for the first time with two great bands in Industrial Revelation and Skerik and really got to rock out, and […]
Festival Mode
The hot weather took its time, but it is finally here, and my schedule has been pretty effective as far as getting me out there to enjoy it! Festival performances with the Polyrhythmics and Theoretics have been really fun, especially because I hadn’t really gone to many music festivals before, either as an audience member […]
Jobs vs. Gigs
I remember the first time Birch Pereira told me about this scene. I had never seen Flight of the Conchords before, and this was the scene he described to me to convince me to watch the show; not because it was hilarious (it is), but because it really illustrates all the problems you have to […]
Updates
Above: A friendly moth from Lopez Island. Just for fun. Hardcoretet is packaging the new recordings and video footage for release as well as writing and rehearsing new material for the next round of performances. The Polyrhythmics debut album will be released next week, with some fun festival work coming up this Spring/Summer. […]
Slumgum/Post lengths
This past weekend the group Slumgum came to Seattle as part of their album release tour. Slumgum is a quartet that plays a blend of free and composed elements that give them a really individual sound, sometimes delicate and other times in your face, sometimes long waves of sounds and other times precise rhythms, sometimes loose improvisations and […]
Earshot
So the Earshot Jazz Festival is about halfway over. The Seattle Times talked about it a bit , as did Lucas Gillan of Accujazz and Jason Parker from One Working Musician. As with every year, I am impressed with the diverse schedule of music and film, and several of the musicians in particular have been hype-worthy for […]
Changes
Tonight I will be playing with the Shawna Locey Band for the last time, and this past Sunday I played my last show with Soul Kata. The motivations for the changes in both bands are somewhat similar. Although Soul Kata will continue, I didn’t see myself putting in the necessary effort and energy into getting […]
Hardcoretet @ Cafe Racer this Friday
This Friday, September 24th, at 9 pm, Hardcoretet will be playing with Friendly Creature and Chemical Clock at Cafe Racer. This will be the first time we’ve played at Racer, but I’ve gone to the weekly Sunday Racer Sessions several times and seen some other shows there as well, and I enjoy it very much. […]