Hello Seattle Jazz Fans, Not-nearly-famous-enough New York jazz tenor giant Rich Perry of Mel Lewis and Marie Schneider fame will be here in SEATTLE at Hiroshi’s this Friday, October 19th, and at Boxley’s on Saturday, October 20th. DO NOT MISS THIS CAT! I dropped in to Tula’s last night and the show was awesome. I … Continue reading
Hello Folks, My interview with noteworthy jazz journalist, Marco Schweingruber was printed in this month’s issue of Jazz Podium. Continue reading
“The world of now is not the world we came into.” (Copyright 2011 LSMFT). These are the profound words Loren Schoenberg spoke to me (and promptly copyrighted) at our recent lunch in Seattle during which we meditated on our early days as musicians in New York. Loren and I were band mates at a regular … Continue reading
This is my old college roommate, fine guitarist and wonderful composer of Brazilian tunes, David Rosenblatt. Shortly after graduation, he received a Watson Fellowship to travel to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and self-immerse in that musical tradition for an entire year! Rough. I recorded two of his earlier tunes, O Cristo Carioca and Subindo o … Continue reading
Loving Pottersaurus is something everyone loves to do…unless you’ve proudly evolved into hating Pottersaurus. The less imaginative of us are starting to sound like Pottersaurus and there are probably classes at Berklee now on how to sound like Pottersaurus. But yes, what’s not to love? Pottersaurus has truly inspired us and expanded our idea of … Continue reading