I first heard the Brian Blade Fellowship, now known as Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band, in 2003 when they performed at the Ballard Jazz Festival. I was not familiar with any of the musicians in the band except for Blade, and it was honestly one of the most significant turning points in my musical […]
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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, […]
Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up
It’s been a really fun run of performances the last couple of weeks. Polyrhythmics had a memorable mountain show at the top of Heavenly Ski Resort in Lake Tahoe, Hardcoretet played the Comet Tavern for the first time with two great bands in Industrial Revelation and Skerik and really got to rock out, and […]
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 […]