I’ve been able to put in some significant practice time recently, which has felt great! Here’s what I’ve been working on: This was a track I heard in the Polyrhythmics van; Ben had recently came upon a Grant Green boxed set, and although it’s off of a Lou Donaldson album, Green’s solo really intrigued me […]
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Updates
July and the beginning of August has been some of the busiest times for me in recent memory! Here’s what I’ve been up to: – I went to Chicago to see my sister graduate and become a doctor in Psychology, very exciting! Over the 4 years that she lived there I visited several times, […]
Roy Orbison and Local Music Circles
I had a fun opportunity a couple of weeks ago to perform in a tribute to the music of Roy Orbison, a musician whose most popular songs I’m familiar with but who also wrote and performed a lot of material less well-known to me. It was fun and interesting to play the show and get […]
News
Hi everyone! Lots of exciting stuff happening. Polyrhythmics just returned from 4-day west coast tour that culminated in a show at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, CA. The Hall has been the site of many amazing concerts over the years, and is a beautiful room to play in. I felt very lucky […]
Greetings From The Road!
The Polyrhythmics are currently on our way out of Louisiana, heading toward Colorado. The Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans was more colorful and vibrant than I could have imagined, and although the multiple parades and costume balls range from neighbor and family friendly to parties that were for older folks, the one thing that […]
Tour Blog 5
When I left off, we were heading to Texas, a state I had never visited before, pretty exciting! It was an early departure from Santa Fe, and it was going to be a long day of driving, but luckily there was no gig we had to get to, just a hotel room waiting at the […]
Post 4
So we’re back home, in beautiful Seattle, but I have still have a ways to go in the tour. I enjoy talking about it, and hopefully you guys enjoy reading about it, so I’ll keep going. Okay…with the end of the Phoenix show came one of our monster drives: 10 hours overnight to Telluride, Colorado. […]
Tour Blog 3
San Diego: Our San Diego show was in the beach town of Ocean Beach, at Winston’s, where we’d played once before and had a really successful show. Unlike last time, I went to the beach for a little while before we started, which was gorgeous! A nice last look before we turned East. Then I […]
Tour Post #2
Writing this in the backyard of Scott’s friend Josh, a saxophonist in New Orleans who is nice enough to put us up for the week. There is a warm breeze and it is a sticky but beautiful 80 degrees, although it is kicking up a bit and there are some storm warnings. Some carryovers from […]
Tour Post #1
Okay, so I waited a little longer than I would have liked to post my first tour blog, but I’m going to try to give a quick rundown of our first couple of stops: Our first stop was at the Applegate Lodge in Applegate, Oregon, which was a great first show because we had played […]