Playing tonight a Open Ears. Power quartet! The show is above the blue Nile on Frenchmen st. Starts around 10:15pm.
james singleton-bass
doug garrison-drums
ray Moore- Woodwinds
jonathan Freilich- guitar.
premier of a new piece tonight too!
Playing with Dave Capello Trio at Open Ears this Tuesday
Dave Capello, Helen Gillet, my Chip Wilson seven string at open ears
I'll be playing with the Dave Capello Trio this Tuesday the 14th of October at 10pm upstairs at The Blue Nile at 532 Frenchmen St. New Orleans. COME OUT AND CHECK IT OUT!
Dave Capello is one of the most unusual drummers in town. There is a reason; a background of very interesting radical theater and music situations in New York and Kansas City before his move to New Orleans 20 years ago. I interviewed Dave a few years ago. Surprising stuff. If you are interested in music ideas and where they come from and whether your ears are as open as you hoped you can check out the interview here...
Jeff Albert's Open Ears series has really become an event, over the years, for those still driven by music and sound. The fact that it goes on amidst the grotesque and never ending cheapening of Frenchmen St. makes it even more of a diamond in the rough.
This show will feature songs from the bassist, Cecile and Dave is trying to get me to do the same. She has a wild and varied background on the Chicago music scene including long stints with Fred Anderson and Famodou Don Moye (Legends everybody- google it- get involved in what goes in your ears! Ditch the complacent attitude!)) She sings really nice.
Oh yes- improvisation will occur for those of you enraptured by this central of all music language developments. There will be also elements of some other lines in music thinking.
Aliens and Immigrants: performance 7/20/2013 with artist, Jose Torres-Tama
Tomorrow evening, I am honored to be involved in a collaboration with all-around visual and performance artist, Jose Torres-Tama at Barristers Gallery, New Orleans. We will be performing selections from the Aliens Performance project. The theme is the ongoing difficulties of immigrant workers to gain a voice in the cultural landscape of New Orleans despite their massive contribution to the reconstruction and revivication of the city after hurricane Katrina and the injustices of identity manipulation from American ignorance. The performance will happen amidst the opening of Torres-Tama's gallery exhibit of his other related photographs, paintings and other artworks.