As promised, here is a pictorial tribute to all the pooches I was likely enough to meet throughout the Pacific Northwest and along the West Coast. There were more, but unfortunately it was difficult to document the others. Here’s to more friends, dog and human, in 2014. Happy New Year everyone! […]
Category: Life
2013 Dog Blog!
Happy Holidays!
One of the many Love’s Truck Stops in the great state of Idaho: The end of this year has been punctuated with tours to Los Angeles and Montana, as well as working with new recordings and new musical ideas. I’m still trying to find a sound and approach that I can consistently use in all […]
Summer Recap
Another eventful summer is coming to a close; in many ways this one was an extension of the tours, trips, and festivals that I really began to experience last year, and yet at the same time I could feel my “adult” life begin in Seattle. I’ve become (slightly) more organized with my teaching schedule, […]
Jazz, Teaching, and Lucky Brown
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 […]
Road Post
Posting from my phone for the first time, while riding in the van with the Polyrhythmics in Idaho! I plan on putting up an album with some of the more beautiful views when I get back home. This is the longest amount of time that I have been on the road, traveling and playing music, […]
Happy New Year!
It may be a bit early for this, but I don’t care. So…I had planned a New Year’s-themed post, with resolutions and everything, and then realized I would basically be typing the same thing I typed last year. Sigh… I was not exactly stellar in following through on my resolutions. When I look back on […]
Updates
Hi all! Happy holiday season to everyone; so far the Winter has me settling in to a new living space in the Magnolia area of Seattle and getting my playing and teaching schedule together, hopefully in some kind of sustainable manner. Bands have been progressing forward in really notable ways: tours, new venues, and plans […]
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 […]
Brooklyn Buddies
I ran across an interview with Nature Conservancy scientist Joe Kiesecker where he talked a bit about keeping in touch with his childhood friends from Brooklyn, some of which “are in prison, and a few are no longer with us.” When asked why they’ve stayed friends even in those cases where their lives went in […]
Gratitude
Taking a moment to send a general thanks out to the amazing community of musicians and music-lovers I’ve met recently. Whether it’s a small town or a big one, huge stage or tiny room, the support that I’ve gotten from those who are listening is essential to me; I could not perform music otherwise. […]