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 ...
I recently completed a commission from the Machine Project for the Little William Theatre Festival of New Music at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. This project, a really exciting collaboration between over one hundred composers, was a thrill to ...
We recorded the first installment of what will become a series of EP recordings by the AnyWhen Ensemble, beginning with “Rivers Music”. Check the last entry in this blog for more about the piece. The series will include several short recordings of many ...
My chamber-jazz ensemble, Douglas Detrick’s AnyWhen Ensemble, will be embarking on a special group of performances in New York City and in Portland, Salem and Eugene, Oregon. We’re very excited to be making our New York City debut at avant-garde music ...
I wanted to take some time to write about the suite of new music for the AnyWhen Ensemble that we’ll be premiering in New York City at The Stone and in Oregon performances in Salem, Eugene and Portland. (Check the preceding blog entry for details.) In ...
On Sunday Dec 6, 2009 I joined forces for a show at the Jazz Station in Eugene, OR with the fantastic laptop musician He Can Jog, aka Erik Schoster, a friend of mine from Lawrence University who stopped through Eugene on his cross-country tour. Erik will ...