July Shows

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So much for laying low and working on the book! A bunch of calls came in, so consider checking out these gigs:

 

May, June, July…

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Things are going to slow down for a while on the performing side while I focus on some writing. However, I am still playing a few shows and presenting a couple more. I hope you’ll check them out. And, if you have something awesome you want me to play on, don’t hesitate to ask…

April Shows

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The gigs keep coming! When is everyone going to realize how lame I am and stop calling?

In the jazz universe, the Rhythm Agents’ residency at the Exhibition Room in Long Beach continues on the 7th and 21st. Dave Williams, Patrick Butler, and myself, playing standards. 9:30PM-12:30AM. Reservations required.

As Bowie said, the European canon is here. Verdi’s Requiem on the 1st with the Santa Monica Symphony, Brahms and Tchaikovsky with the Palisades Symphony on the 9th.

Outward bound, JAB (with Anna Homler & Breeze Smith) is playing at The Battery Books and Music in Pasadena on the 6th at 8PM. The West Coast Chamber Jazz Trio (with Andrea Centazzo & Ellen Burr) is playing at Dave Williams’ Jazz at the Tithing Closet series on the 23rd around 7:30, and I may be in other bands on that bill as well. The Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble debuts Jack’s live score to the 1920 Douglas Fairbanks film The Mark of Zorro at the Santa Monica Public Library at 7:30 on the 27th, and a beautiful studio recording of that music will be available in iTunes and elsewhere.

And finally, I’m presenting Bonnie Barnett and her band (with Dan Clucas, Richard Wood, Hal Onersud, and Garth Powell) at the Santa Monica Public Library on the 19th. 7:30-8:30PM. Free admission.

More March

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This month is going out with a bang!
Tuesday the 21st I’ll be at Cal State Dominguez Hills opening Jonathon Grasse’s faculty recital in a set with Dave Williams, Tom Steck, and Dr. Grasse himself, invoking some revolutionary musical spirits to deal with the present situation. Archie Shepp might have called it Dumpster Fire Music. 7:30pm in the University Theater. $5-10.
Friday the 24th Dave and I are playing our usual gig at the Exhibition Room. Standards with Patrick Butler on guitar. 930-1230. Reservations required.
Saturday I am subbing in a 2 women (plus band) show about Patsy Cline in Garden Grove. Thanks to Rebecca Lynn for the hookup.
Sunday is a double-header. New Valley Symphony at Forest Lawn at 2, playing all your favorite bits from Carmen, Don Giovanni, and The Magic Flute, then Scrappers 6-9 at The Offbeat, in which Dan Clucas and I improvise with Joe Baiza and Brian Christopherson from Saccharine Trust.

Two albums are in the pipeline: Cello Pudding (with Vetza, Dave Travis, and Michael Intriere) is free improvisation for three cellos, bass, and voice. Great recording, mix, etc. by Mark Wheaton and cover art by Dean Westerfield. No release date set, but it’ll definitely be before we play the Eagle Rock/Open Gate series Aug. 6. That’ll be a CD. Zorro, by the Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble, is going to drop Apr. 27 as a download only. This is Jack’s music for the silent film The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks. The album is like one of those John Zorn Filmworks CDs, with like, 20 2-minute cues. I convinced him to record long Liberation Music Orchestra-style blowouts on a couple of the themes, but they didn’t make the cut. It’s a great-sounding product, recorded by former Sparks guitarist Earle Mankey. This version of the JCDE is Alicia Byer, Charles Sharp, Angelo Metz, Scott Dibble, “Slam” Nobles, and myself. Links to get these albums coming soon…

March 2017

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Quite a month ahead:

On the 5th I’m playing in the Open Gate Theatre 20th Anniversary Concert. For the past 20 years Will Salmon and Alex Cline have been presenting creative music on the first Sunday of the month. To celebrate their anniversary, they’ve invited an epic lineup of west coast free players for mix and match improvisations. String basses: Devin Hoff and myself, bass guitars: Steuart Liebig and Darryl Tewes, trumpets & cornets: Bobby Bradford, Dan Clucas, Daniel Rosenboom, and Bruce Friedman, etc. You get the idea. An honor to be in this company… Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock. 7PM https://www.facebook.com/events/409…

On the 10th and 24th I’m with Dave Williams and His Rhythm Agents at the Exhibition Room. 9:30PM-12:30AM. This is a trio (Dave on trumpet, Patrick Butler on guitar) playing jazz standards in a quasi-retro mode. This may be the end of our residency at the Exhibition Room so, if you’ve been waiting to check us out, now’s the time.

On the 15th I am presenting Michael Pisaro on my Soundwaves concert series at the Santa Monica Public Library. 7:30pm. free.

On the 21st I’ll be playing a set of improvised music to open Jonathon Grasse‘s  faculty recital at California State University, Dominguez Hills with Tom Steck, Dr. Grasse, and TBD. 7:30pm.

And the 26th is the long-awaited return of Scrappers, at The OffBeat – A Bar On York. 7pm. This is a free improvising unit convened by Dan Clucas, in which he and I are joined by Joe Baiza and Brian Christopherson from SST Records legends Saccharine Trust. This will make 3 1/2 gigs for us in about 10 years. I don’t know when the next one is going to come around…

Eagle Rock, Long Beach, Santa Monica, Compton, Long Beach, Highland Park! Dig it.

2017 Performances pt. 1

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I realize I have not yet plugged this year’s gigs here.

For classical music, I’m in the bass sections of the Santa Monica and Palisades symphonies. Many shows coming up, all free. Santa Monica is playing the Firebird Suite – I’m especially stoked about that.

For jazz, I’m playing every other Friday with Dave Williams and his Rhythm Agents at the Exhibition Room in Long Beach, 930pm- Call ahead.

and then there’s the unclassifiable creative stuff:

Soundwaves 2017 (updated)

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I’m happy to report I got funding for the Soundwaves concert series at the Santa Monica Public Library for the full year and have booked a killer lineup:

All shows are free and start at 7:30PM.