Join Better Homes and Gardens (aka Reed Wallsmith, Bob Jones, and Tim DuRoche) for an evening of freely improvised music on Friday, August 15 at 9 pm at the Camellia Lounge (510 NW Eleventh Avenue in Portland’s cozy Pearl District).
This is jazz in the ragtime-to-no-time continuum–expect ‘bunctious camraderie, swing-mad energy and dark, melodic […]

Make sure not to miss the fantastic maverick improviser, pianist Thollem McDonas from the Bay Area—performing next week, Tuesday, August 12, 8 pm doors, at the Cave (Alan Jones’ womb-like jazz club in the basement of the Green Onion, 626 SW Jackson at Broadway, near PSU).
Thollem is out of sight—deeply musical, […]

 

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The July 24 celebration for Carei Thomas’ 70th birthday at the Walker in Minneapolis was a resounding success—Heart of the Beast Puppet Theater, all the brightest spoken word the Twin Cities has to offer (Mankwe Ndosi, eg bailey, Roy McBride, J. Otis Powell!, John Minczeski, etc.), Douglas Ewart, Donald and Faye Washington, Pat O’Keefe, Wallace […]

 

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Gift Shop: A Tribute to Carei F. Thomas
Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 7 pm
McGuire Theater, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis)
Free, but reservations are recommended by calling the box office 612.375.7600
I’ll be heading to Minneapolis to perform as part of a special 70th birthday for AACM pianist-composer Carei Thomas on July 24 at the Walker Art Center. […]

This is booklet accompanying my project WHYTE SPACES, created in September 2007 as part of a month-long guest artist residency. SO. WATERFRONT SOUND COMMISSION looked at the conceptual corridors of placemaking. The project centered around events and temporary installations that invited participation and a subtle reorientation of engagement with sound and cityscape, partially inspired by […]

 

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Some things happening this Friday, May 23: trio with alto saxophonist Reed Wallsmith, guitarist Chris Mosley and myself—plan on a spacious and angular investigation of texture, melody and contour (somewhere between Brick Fleagle with Zutty Singleton and Pete Brown and Derek Bailey daydreaming of Brick Fleagle with Zutty Singleton and Pete Brown). Camellia Lounge, 510 […]

Join me this Wednesday, April 30 at the Tugboat Brewing Co. (711 SW Ankeny) in Portland for an evening of duos with free-bop tenor great Rich Halley. Followed by another tenor-drums deployment on Sunday, May 4 at the Someday Lounge (125 NW 5th Avenue) with the mighty Michael York. Brought to you by the key […]

Better Homes & Gardens will be hitting it at Valentines (232 SW Ankeny) tonight, April 7 around 9:30 pm.  We’ll be sharing the intimate bill with the redoubtable Fly!Fly!Fly!Fly!Fly! 

Some things on the horizon to check out in the Portland area:
Sunday, March 30, 8 pm, Someday Lounge (125 NW 5th Avenue in Old Town)—San Diego drummer/composer Nathan Hubbard and I will play a duo set, followed by a trio featuring Hubbard and wonderful local winds players Lee Elderton and Ward Baxter. Hubbard’s on tour […]

Last evening, our dear friend Paul Middendorf of Gallery Homeland invited myself, Phillip Greenlief and Citta di Vitti (a wonderful project of Bay Area saxophonist Greenlief’s compositions inspired by the classic films L’Avventura, L’Eclisse, and Deserto Rosso by Michelangelo Antonioni with Monica Vitti, featuring bassist Lisa Mezzacappa, drummer/percussionist Jason Levis), Reed Wallsmith, and Andrew […]

 

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