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 […]
Category: Venues
New Photos Up
Spots I should have been going to a long time ago…
Two venues doing positive things for the Seattle scene: One of the great new additions to my list of places to be, the Seamonster Lounge is a great gathering spot for local heavies and for music that sometimes falls in those gaps between jazz, funk, and rock. Featuring weekly appearances by the McTuff trio, Nathan […]
Roy Hargrove Quintet at Jazz Alley
A couple of weeks ago I went to see Roy Hargrove at Jazz Alley. I knew beforehand that this was going to be straightahead, post-bop type stuff, not his neo-soul band RH Factor, which I would love to see live someday, but I realized that it had been quite a while since I had seen […]
Cafe Amore
The jam at Cafe Amore has been going on for a bit now, but until last night I had only been able to stop by quickly. The band was D’vonne Lewis on drums, Mark Bullis on bass, a piano player who goes by Gus, John Terpin on trombone, and the always entertaining Ronnie Pierce on […]
Hardcoretet Tourblog, day 5 and Conclusion
So after Skinny’s Lounge in NoHo we headed home to Jon’s house. Jon had already left for the East coast, because Slumglum was playing over there to participate in a program where they may become music ambassadors to another part of the world! Very cool. Anyway, we had already said our goodbyes, but Erin left […]
Hardcoretet Tourblog, Day 4
With one more full day in L.A., and a set time of 11:30 pm, the band had some time to bum around the city a bit. First things first: TACO TRUCK! Jon showed us to his personal favorite, which was, of course, amazing, and even more so because of where we went to eat them: […]
Hardcoretet Tourblog, days 2 and 3
Bocci’s Cellar Monday night began as possible tragedy but ended in triumph. We arrived to the gig to find another band set up inside…the gig had been double booked! Fearless leader Abouzied was on the case: Eventually it was determined that the other band would play a set, and we would follow, so we settled […]
Hardcoretet tour, day 1
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: […]
Dave Mathews Band/Bumbershoot
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 […]
Thanks everyone! / Dexter and Hayes
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 […]