James Hall and Emily Ruth Hazel have worked together on a few spoken-word and jazz compositions in the last two years. I asked these two to do this interview ahead of their next installation of collaborative work that James presents Tuesday, June 25 at ...
Since writing my last post about the practice of “community building” in the arts as a more personally sustainable alternative to “self-promotion,” I’ve been thinking about ways to show how some artists have put this ...
John Sutton and Heather Mingo, the creators of the Bass Solo web series, are good friends of mine who are taking a risk and are in the process of doing something amazing. In what will eventually be a 10-episode web tv series, Bass Solo follows the ...
Interview with Nate Wooley Friday, March 4, 2011 Co-Presented with FONT Nate Wooley is among the most unique, creative and powerful trumpeters in the world today. He is a busy musician, with a full touring schedule, a steady stream of gigs in New ...
I had a gig in the summer of 2010 with Jeff Kaiser at the Jazz Station, a gem of a venue in Eugene, Oregon’s music scene. I played the first set, Jeff played the second and Brian McWhorter played the third, running into the venue directly after playing ...
Kelly Shaw Willman, a good friend of mine and a wonderful poet and performance artist, recently interviewed me for her blog. You can read the interview here. Kelly asked me about poetry, family, buddhism, poetry and many other random things. I really ...
Brian McWhorter, as well as being one of my greatest teachers, and who is responsible, quite seriously, for changing my life, is a tirelessly creative trumpet player whose activity in music is matched by few in the music world today. I asked Brian to ...