The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced the recipients of the 2012 Jazz Masters Award, “the nation’s highest honor in jazz.” This lofty honor bestows the grand sum of $25,000 on each of the five recipients, embarrassingly low for the likes of Charlie Haden and Jack DeJohnette, two of this year’s five recipients. Incidently, … Continue reading
Hello Folks, My interview with noteworthy jazz journalist, Marco Schweingruber was printed in this month’s issue of Jazz Podium. Continue reading
Hello Seattle Friends, please join us at the Royal Room this Sunday, February 26th at 7:30 pm at 5000 Rainier Ave., S. A creation of Seattle’s own super-talented-superstar Wayne Horowitz, The Royal Room is Seattle’s newest, edgiest, hottest place to be seen….and of course, hear great music. The Lizards will be playing selections from our … Continue reading
Hello Seattle Friends, the Chris Fagan/Dave Peterson Quartet will be appearing tomorrow (Friday, February 3rd) at Hiroshi’s from 7:30 to 10:00 pm. As always, the cover charge is zero, the food is excellent, and the company superb. We will be playing some exciting modern jazz including original tunes by the talented Dave Peterson. Did I … Continue reading
Maybe I’ll stop asking this type of pointless question someday but probably not because I’m nuts. Click here for Steve’s obituary Continue reading
Hey Pacific Northwest friends, the Young Lizards will perform at Boxley’s in North Bend, Washington on Wednesday, December 14th at 7:00 pm. Not only is Boxley’s listed in Downbeat’s top 150 jazz rooms, Boxley’s will not be charging a cover for this event! That means more of your hard-earned monetary resources may be re-directed to … Continue reading
Hello Seattle friends, For many of us, this coming Thursday, November 10th will actually be much like a Friday owing to work being canceled for the Veterans Day holiday on 11/11/11. To celebrate this happy occassion, I will be teaming up with the wonderful guitarist, Dave Peterson as well as highly individualized bassist, Jon Hamar, … Continue reading
Hello Folks. The Economist gives us a wonderful article this week telling us of poverty-stricken record labels that can’t sign anything but a sure thing (with healthy, growing followings and robust merchandise sales) and laid-off A&R folks that have not been rehired back into the profession since the meteor hit the music business in 1999*. … Continue reading
The new tools of the trade are both bewildering and useful. Bewildering in terms of the amount of time and bandwidth a person could spend creating profiles, initializing widgets, uploading media, analyzing stats and so on. Useful in terms of creating impressions (although who knows how deep or lasting) among the multitude of thrifty jazz … Continue reading
Hello Folks, The Lizards album “charted” at 70 this week which pleased us very much. If you follow the link, you will see that the numbers in the jazz world are not huge. #1 received only 220 spins for the week. Nonetheless, we feel validated by showing up. I’m out there trying to book gigs … Continue reading
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