http://www.gamh.com/artist_pages/zu_mike_patton_031909.htm Excited to see these guys tonight. I'll make a comprehensive report.I'm also up here in the mix watching the new album for Nels Cline Singers getting made from scratch. More on that later, too. Quite an exciting week here in SF. Anyone else knows what's going on around here, I'd love to know about it.
Just saw this in the news page this morning :Musical taste "defines personality"Even without my non-direct disagreement, I'm still a little uneasy about the simplified CATEGORY of music presented there. Maybe it's just the Scottish's take of music genres and their interpretation of the correlation to human personality types?Survey is not too long, and it's anonymous. Survey Page
Not too many albums makes me cry, and for this one, I happily did.Briefest description = Feels truest to the moment, where the universe is in your soul.Even if, no, ESPECIALLY if you are new to jazz, This Album will be a nice easing you into it, straight away. John Ellis is one of the fixtures in the rejuvinated jazz sound currently getting noticed. He is in direct association with the Brooklyn...
Last Sunday April 13 2008, I was invited to be on his show - "twfps.com":twfps.We were just b.s.ing about all kinds of things, much of it was to do with the latest recording he did with his Black Gang last week (footage shown in my last post.) Check it out, if you care to know more about what this album means to him. And of course, discover some unknown bands from all over the place, while you ...
Last Thursday, on a last minute running-across-a-club show calendar, I noticed Carla Bozulich was scheduled to play at my local new favorite music venue Safari Sam's in Hollywood. No way I would miss that, I thought. I've heard of her intense music from different respected sources. Even though she's in the same circle of people I hang out with, this was still the first time I got to see her per...