Displaying news from 1 June 2003 to 1 July 2003.

congrats jose! - Posted on 2003-06-22 14:15:48

congratulations to jose encarnacion who, yesterday, got married!

his party was a blast; music was provided by the latin vibes as well as caliente. in the process, i met this cool little guy named potento who helped me sing some of the choros.

congrats again jose!

joy - Posted on 2003-06-14 03:11:00

so much great stuff happening these days!

the stacked eastman jazz ensemble played a wonderful concert with maria schneider on sunday as part of the jazz fest. what a beautiful conductor (conductress?) she is! the way she is able to communicate her music through movements of her body is truly awe-inspiring. (interestingly enough, playing for maria sort of completes the bookends for me as the first concert that i played at eastman was with her. may the circle be unbroken!)

look for another music preview of mine in this week's city newspaper!

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fazz jest - Posted on 2003-06-07 21:33:00

the time has come for all rochesterians to put on their game faces and make their way downtown for the second annual rochester jazz festival. people who would normally rather stay home and watch tv the other 50 weeks of the year make the trek to catch the big name acts.

sigh...

no bitterness here.

seriously though, there's a great vibe downtown and a lot of music, which is good. stop by the eastman theater sunday and monday night if you get a chance!

consult the events page for more gig details!

swingin' d&b adventure - Posted on 2003-06-02 01:42:00

it's been a very fun weekend.

saturday morning, i was involved in a workshop for swingin' jazz vi which included clay jenkins, dave guidice, jay leonhart and rich thompson. the kids were so great! i always have fun at those things!

later that afternoon, it was off to the all-purpose room for some fantastic improvising with a new group called the wallpaper predicament (which includes red wierenga on accordion, eli asher on trumpet and kevin mcfarland on cello. though the audience was small and the weather was pretty terrible, the group sounded amazing.

saturday night, i played with caliente as we opened up for a very popular latin band aventura at water street music hall. the place was packed and the band sounded real nice!

after a full day of teaching sunday i decided to go back to club industry to hear some good drum n bass djs. (i had gone last sunday to hear tech-itch.) the djs included nyc's dj seoul and cali/uk's alley cat. very nice stuff.

i think my next update will regale you with my theories of drum n bass performance practice. until then, yahaha!

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