Hardcoretet took off early yesterday morning for our West coast mini-tour, San Francisco bound! The minivan was a bit of a tight squeeze: but we made it work! Most of the guys had gigs the night before, so I had planned on taking driving duties the first leg of the trip, which basically was this: […]
Once again, Seattle music blew me away. I’ve talked about playing with Scott Morning in Soul Kata before, mostly describing his ability as a section player, but that’s not how I originally got to know him. Scott’s always been a great improviser and composer, bringing together all of his musical tastes to make one stew, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]