Goat will be playing some shows soon and you should come check them out… new music, too
April 16 – The Chapel @ Good Shepard Center
We’re opening for Cuong Vu’s trio who will be playing their third and final concert of a live recording project.
April 23 – Bop Street Records
We’re playing part of the Ballard Jazz Walk, which will be interesting…
Yeah blogs!
Well its not quite the new year yet but I’m headed for a much needed tropical vacation…
I’m looking forward to a productive and inspired 2010. I’ll be headed to the Banff Centre in late Jan for a winter artist residency that I’m very much looking forward to. I’m also headed to South by Southwest for the first time this year, playing with Uncle Pooch.
Look for more Goat activity and some new projects on the horizon as well.
I ran into this quote from Plato and think it will serve the year to come…
“Music is moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and a gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.
Peace
I’m excited to be playing a few shows with Kenosha Kid, the brainchild of Dan Nettles. Its a great band and Dans music is really great. Come check out a show near you. The new record (and it is an actual record! vinyl!) sounds great. You can get it at www.nowtrecords.com
Check out kenoshakid.com for details but heres a smattering of shows
Oct 23 Olin Fine Arts Center Washington & Jefferson College
Oct 24 @ Douglass Street Music Collective
295 Douglass b/t 3rd & 4th Ave
Brooklyn
with MAKE A CIRCUS @ 8pm and Carl Maguires FLORICULTURE @ 9pm
Oct 28 Bobo Gallery
Asheville, NC
Oct 29 The Five Spot
Atlanta, GA
Oct 30 Melting Point
Athens, GA
Frieze of Life Reunion Show @ Cafe Racer
5828 Roosevelt Way NE
9 pm
Me – tenor/bcl
Mark Taylor – alto/ten
Chris Stover – trombone
Russ Johnson – trumpet
Geoff Harper – bass
Byron Vannoy – drums
you – audient
I teach a lot. Though this summer is a little slower than usual (summers always are) I’ve been trying to come up with new ways of teaching kids how to become musicians, rather than automatons.
Next week, I’m teaching a jazz camp. We’ll be doing John Zorn’s Cobra with early high school and middle school students. Its a bit of a risk and honestly I’m not sure how well it will come off.
If you dont know Cobra, its an improvisatory game that utilizes a system of cards to indicate how the music should unfold. The players give the prompter (me) signals to show various cards, which in turn tells the musicians how to behave. The fun of Cobra is being a part of it, the actual playing of the game. I hope to teach some compositional/improvisatory concepts to the kids in the process.
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