At Yuki with The Jackals

Tonight at Yuki at 525 Frenchmen St.- 8pm til

These days, The Jackals are rare.   Old friends, greater thanks than the sum of parts.  All that kind of thing.  A wild an unpredictable repertoire with great playing all around.

Alex Mcmurray-guitar,vocals
Joe Cabral-bass, vocals
Jonathan Freilich-guitar
Doug Garrison-drums

Come see the group that started that whole Bacchanal thing.  You might get an interesting new hang going.

We will answer the question- "Is a Jackal an Iguana?"

Two shows this week-trio at Yuki tonight; Maple Leaf with Mike Dillon Friday

Have two interesting hits this week:

Tonight with a Trio at Yuki on Frenchmen St at 8pm.

Joe Cabral-bass/vocals
Jonathan Freilich- guitar
Doug Garrison- drums

Expect a Jackal-ish guest and then expect the unexpected...


Friday will be at the Maple Leaf Bar on Oak St in Uptown New Orleans.  Show starts @10pm.

Mike Dillon is a fascinating multi instrumentalism who has some unbelievably exciting approaches to things like vibraphones and Marimbas.  There's a punk thing, a surf thing, a Jazz thang, a Metal thing, a Funk thang, a surf thing.  Lot's of things and thangs.  A good deal of tings, dings, damns and dangs.


at The Ogden after hours series

I'll be playing a set of originals with the quartet at The Ogden Museum on 925 Camp St. in the main hall.  The gig has an interesting format and, I will be interviewed halfway through so if you come and have pressing questions, we could get to them there.

You will at least witness Doug Garrison on drums and James Singleton on bass. 

Showtime is from 6-8pm.

For more information click here...

Tonight at Circle Bar- The Jackals 10pm

So good last week we got another shot.  Come out.  As Alex Mcmurray (there tonight!) says, it's ecumenical music.

last week's crowd

last week's crowd

The Jackals  are:

Doug Garrison- drums
Joe Cabral-bass
Jonathan Freilich-guitar
Alex Mcmurray-guitar

Oh yes...Alex and Joe sing songs too.  And not all in one language either.  Collectively we are unafraid of a multilingual universe. Lengue, eh? 

Doug Garrison

Doug Garrison

Joe Cabral

Joe Cabral

Gray Gankendorff and Alex Mcmurray  

Gray Gankendorff and Alex Mcmurray  

The Jackals ride again-Circle Bar Wed Aug 7-10pm(that's tonight!)

Hard as it's been to get some time where we can all make it, we finally did.  If you are unfamiliar with The Jackals, it was the sequel to 007 which became 00-Doug when drummer Jeffrey Clemens wasn't around.  Lip service had to be paid to those voices that attempt minor potential gains through strict name recognition, so we changed the name to The Jackals.  Now it is vastly distinguished from 007.  You'll see!

Anyway we are at The Circle bar this Wednesday at 10pm.  

Be there or don't. But...

As Louis Armstrong said "I never was born to be a Square about anything, no matter what it is..."   

How about you? 

The lineup is:

joe cabral

joe cabral

Alex Mcmurray

Alex Mcmurray

Alex Mcmurray-guitar, vocals
Jonathan Freilich- guitar
Joe Cabral-bass, vocals
Doug Garrison--drums

 

Circle Bar Show tonight

M'luds, Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm pausing the words on the death of the constitution and the snarky spy humor (see facebook) to bring the following announcement:

Tonight at the circle bar in New Orleans at 10:30pm I'll be performing withAlex McMurrayDoug Garrison and Bill Malchow. We will be engaging in everybody's favorite form of offline subversion- MUSIC! - the good kind. Cheaper than a Po' Boy (now a local designer sandwich). 
For those of you concerned with class and respectability, Mcmurray will be grass fed and fennel rubbed and rear gentrified
The great caroline valencia will be bartending. its the perfect midweek gateway to the rest of the week. Don't miss it!
See you tonight

Last few shows in New Orleans

joe cabral
doug garrisonmarcello bennetti
jimbo walsh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coming into my last three scheduled shows before heading out for quite a while.  It would be great to see you out there.  We guarantee the music whimsy, fun, and for those of you still hung up on the myth of respectability, standards!

Tonight (July 30)- at Bacchanal (8-10:30pm) with Marcello Bennetti-drums and Jimbo Walsh-bass.

Thursday August 2nd- at The Circle Bar (10-30pm) with The Jackals

Monday August 6th- at Bacchanal (8pm) with Doug Garrison-drums

Few shows just added

Check out-

Tonight at Blue Nile(New Orleans) and the open ears series- with Joe Cabral-Bari sax; Jeff Albert-trombone; Doug Garrison Drums

Tomorrow, July 4th 6pm-at DBA New Orleans with The Mirlitones- Washboard Chaz; Alex Mcmurray- gtr, voc

Friday 6th July 9:30pm- at Hermes Bar with Los Muertos featuring Rod Hodges (gtr) Doug Garrison-drums; Joe Cabral-bass

Saturday 7th July 10pm- at Tipitinas with Derrick Freeman presents Smoker's World- cavalcade of New Orleans musical personalities.

Come out for a great and varied week of music.

Big and interesting show lined up for Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans

This Sunday at 8pm, there will be a very interesting lineup for improvisational delight at Cafe Istanbul in the Healing Center in New Orleans.  The show is scheduled for 8 pm.

I foresee a sonic physick for renewed vigor brewing!


 

Jeff Albert-Trombone

Jesse Morrow-Bass

Jonathan Freilich- Guitar

Doug Garrison- drums

 

Presented by Benjamin Lyons and Valid.  

 

March Open Ears live performance posted

Check out the complete recent at the open ears music series performance of Jonathan Freilich & The Peaceful Revolution.

Jonathan Freilich- guitar

Aurora Nealand- Alto/ soprano sax

Dan Oestreicher- Baritone sax

Jeff Albert- Trombone

James Singleton- Bass

Doug garrison- Drums

 

Featuring all original compositions by Jonathan Freilich

WWOZ radio performance.

Yesterday, the quintet performed on WWOZ for their pledge drive. The group was:

Jonathan Freilich-guitar

Aurora Nealand-alto and soprano sax

Dan Oestreicher- sax

Joe Cabral- bass

Doug Garrison- drums

Energetically speaking, the performance went well; a crazy morning energy. Some precision elements flying out the window, sacrificing themselves for a rapid phoenix-like, burn up to get the energy to carry through the transmitters.

The state of recording

The quintet I'm writing for, Dan Oestreicher, Aurora Nealand, Joe Cabral, Doug Garrison, is doing some recording at Dave Pirner's new home studio. It's a bit of parallel guinea pigging; he's trying to get his new studio up and running while we are trying to troubleshoot arrangements with the slightly new sort of syntax I have been writing in.

The conversation turned to whether we are making a record and, it occurred to me that I don't even know what that means anymore. Dave concurred, "What does that mean anymore." We are, nonetheless, still in there recording amidst the building of a new studio. In this time we definitely are make recordings but not records in the old sense. The purpose is clearly different. We are probably moving towards purposelessness or a much more ephemeral, rapidly evaporating type of purpose. Ironically, both Dave and I were at the tail end of whatever that world was; of course, I believe his recording career was somewhat more successful, but in both cases, in those times, there were contracts for making a product, the record.

Now?...how do you even talk about it? We're sitting there talking about making a record (rabbit ears flying everywhere in the air), producer role (more rabbit ears) etc. Dave came to the good conclusion- that now things really are a labor of love; they have to be, or why would we do it?

I'm enjoying it. the guy is a pleasure to work with. I like the "idea" of Dave as a producer. His hearts in it and there's a lot to be excited about; his studio; talented engineer, George; this talented combo messing around with some unusual sounds in a new format with new ears. Creative possibility and outcome looming.

Looking forward to seeing what happens.