Sometimes you just get lucky. I was honored to interview the one and only Christian Wolff for Nate Wooley’s Sound American music journal. In all my experience with Christian, some of which I wrote about here, I’ve found him to be very ...
The word premiere of Sidney Marquez Boquiren’s Pax vobiscum on our concert tonight at the San Francisco Center for New Music makes this a special landmark for the group. This is the first piece that we’ve commissioned for the group since the early days of ...
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 ...
The results are in. Your intrepid blogger is, unfortunately, quite behind schedule with this post, but I got many fantastic responses and I’m very pleased to finally put them up here. The responses range from the sarcastic to the sublime, and this ...
To help commemorate the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center Attacks of September 11, 2001, WYNC and WQXR asked their listeners to offer their ideas for music they would like to hear broadcast on 9/11/2011. The resulting playlist is diverse, from ...
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 ...
Crowd Interview: 2010 in Music The results are in. I’m very glad so many friends, new and old, answered the survey. There is a great variety of answers here, and its been lots of fun to read them all, I hope you’ll agree. As for me, the first thing that ...
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 ...