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 […]
Category: Todd’s music
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 […]
Coordination “kernels” – further examples
You may have noticed I’ve been on rather light posting this last week. Expect that to continue for the next several days; this week I’ll be recording my new CD for the Origin label, Little […]
A lot of hard sight-reading
No entry for getting lost, panicking, and soiling oneself. An interesting day yesterday- I played two sessions in which we played through a bunch of really challenging reading. It’s an interesting dynamic when a group […]
Fundraising!
Hey, here’s a chance for you to support the blog and keep this wonderful free content coming your way day in and day out! I’m fund-raising for a project I’ll be recording and touring with […]
I’m huge in France
Apparently a track from my 2009 CD 69 Année Érotique (the music of Serge Gainsbourg) made it onto Une brique dans le ventre, a program on French national TV this month (it starts around 4’50”). […]
Tugboatism!
The Tugboat Brewery is a small venue in Portland which has for years been one of the primary places hosting consistently adventuresome music locally. The reason for this is strictly financial- basically, they didn’t want […]
Putting some things in
This is me at my most masochistic. I’m back in updating my events band’s book again- it’s a long, tedious process- and thought I would continue to share the gory “thought” process with you. Previously […]
Gainsbourg biopic
The film on the life of French songwriter Serge Gainsbourg (“GAINSBOURG: A HEROIC LIFE” Heh.), which was just being released in Europe after my last tour over there in 2010, is about to come out […]
Four cassettes
During the time I was living in LA in ’92 there was a period of about four months when I was working for a messenger service, driving around making deliveries to minor celebrities. I was […]