One of the things I’ve been working on instead of blogging:
Category: news
Europe tour coming up
Hey, I’ve got a European tour coming right up at the end of October, and I’d like to invite anyone in the vicinity to come hear me play, and say hello. I’ll be doing music […]
Interview on WHPK 88.5 fm Chicago Tuesday @ 7pm
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 […]
Waterloo bullet
All right, people, we are going to be on really, truly, unconscionably light posting through most of the next week as I do my taxes, get it together for, and then go play the Ballard […]
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 […]
That was fast
I received my Book of the Blog order yesterday- remarkably fast turnaround from “thing on my computer” to “real paper book”, considering I only completed it and placed my order on Monday. Lulu.com makes a […]
Now available: Book of the Blog 2011 – Vol. 1: Transcriptions
UPDATE: I’m keeping this at the top of the blog this week- scroll down for new stuff. OK, it took me longer than I had hoped to wrap this up, but it’s finally ready to […]
Really on the stands for real this time.
By the way, my new Drum! Magazine piece, Cross Rhythms Using Stone, is on the stands now- for real. Not a false alarm. Four action-packed pages, and we even made the cover. In the April, […]
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 […]
Another Drum! Magazine piece
Oh, hey, it looks like Drum! Magazine is going to publish another piece of mine, “Cross Rhythms Using Stone”, which outlines a polyrhythmic application for using the 3/8 portions of Stick Control in 4/4, on […]
Making bird drawings
Just so you know I haven’t forgotten about you- I’m seeing a lot of great posts from Trap’d, FOTF, and The Melodic Drummer, and Dave Aldridge and feeling bad that I’m posting kind of sparsely […]