Hardcoretet has received news that our album “Experiments in Vibe” is nominated for Best Mixed Genre Album in the Inside Out Awards! Presented by Lucid Jazz Lounge, and taking place for the very first time on Monday, May 31st at the S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium at Benaroya Hall, The I/O Jazz Awards show will […]
Tag: jazz
Robert Glasper at Jazz Alley
I’ve been a Robert Glasper fan since I first heard Canvas, his first Blue Note record, years ago, and since then I would say he’s gotten as close to “blowing up” as a jazz artist can get, releasing his third album, garnering a fair amount of press, touring with Maxwell, and continuing to play with his […]
Speak
Speak is a 5-piece band that plays creative instrumental music drawing on a wide variety of influences. Some of the members, like Chris Icasiano and Luke Bergman, I’ve mentioned in this blog before from their work with other groups like Bad Luck and Motorist, and I work with Aaron Otheim in Hardcoretet. I’ve known saxophonist […]
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 […]
Congratulations to Bad Luck
Bad Luck is a drums and saxophone duo with Chris Icasiano and Neil Welch, two classmates of mine from the University of Washington days, who have taken off on an amazing path of music-making since then. Chris has gone on to work in a diverse range of settings, from free jazz to rock to West […]
Hardcoretet CD Release
What a ride it’s been for the last month or so… After sweating and working hard for our tour, we had a couple of days to great ready to present our hard work to Seattle at the official CD release at Tula’s as part of the Earshot Jazz Festival. The vibe there was definitely different […]
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: […]