I’ll be doing a live interview about my new CD LITTLE PLAYED LITTLE BIRD on Lofton Emenari’s show on WHPK 88.5 fm Chicago tomorrow evening– Tuesday, June 11th. Stream it live at 7pm Chicago time […]
Category: Todd’s music
Show TONIGHT
This Wednesday [Update: That’s tonight], at the Secret Society Ballroom in Portland I’ll be playing music from my new record, Little Played Little Bird (which you can listen to, and more importantly purchase in the […]
See you in Seattle!
Heading up to Seattle to play the Ballard Jazz Festival in a moment. Tonight is the Brotherhood of the Drum, hosted by Michael Shrieve, which I’ll be playing with saxophonist Rich Cole and bassist Paul […]
My new CD is out now
Oh, hey, my new Origin Records CD of obscure tunes by Ornette Coleman, LITTLE PLAYED LITTLE BIRD, is out now and starting to get some radio play. It features my same smoking tenor player from […]
DBMITW: Lonely Woman
Maybe I shouldn’t be posting this so close to the release of my own CD with this tune, but it’s too good let go. Would you have the nerve to do what Paul Motian does […]
@ The Blue Monk in PDX, 8pm
I’m off in a bit to play at the Blue Monk with composer/pianist Andrew Durkin’s sextet tonight. The group features some excellent players, including fellow blogger David Valdez and Scott Hall on saxophones. We’ll be […]
Ballard Jazz Festival dates
I just got my gig dates for the Ballard Jazz Festival in April; I’m making up for my total, shameful absence from the Portland festival by playing two nights as leader. First I’ll be playing […]
DBMITW and news
We’ll be on light posting for the next couple of days while I do a bunch of work on publicity for my new record of the music of Ornette Coleman, Little Played Little Bird (which […]
Sabian Raw Ride in action
I finally got to record with the 22″ Sabian Raw Ride I was so excited tell you about awhile back. I’d say it has an unmistakable “A” sound- neutral-seeming, but very pretty, with a lot […]
What I was doing yesterday
Here’s one of the rough mixes from yesterday’s session- Ornette Coleman’s Lonely Woman. I hadn’t planned on recording this tune, and we didn’t rehearse it, but we had nine tunes in the can, and a […]