8/16/10
Thanks to everyone who braved the heat and came out to the Jazz At Wisconsin Place series this summer. Hopefully we'll do it again next year, maybe a little earlier or later in the season. A little video of my group from 7/17 is at right.
I'm very excited to play with Mitch Treger and Jeff Reich this week at the Back Porch Cafe in Rehoboth Beach. Kind of a mini Emptys reunion. For more details, please see my calendar page. It would be great to get the full band together someday soon.
I'm finally getting around to booking some CD release dates for Organic Matter. First up will be in Baltimore at Caton's Castle on September 25th. I hope to have a solid DC date soon and will post updates here.
I'm pleased to announce that Organic Matter recently won the Washington Area Music Award (Wammie) for "best jazz recording" of 2009. This CD features some truly great playing by Greg Hatza, Mike Pavone and Marty Morrison on eight of my original tunes. I'm very proud of this project and hope you'll check it out. Click here for more info..
ONLINE STORE NOW OPEN! New release and catalog CD titles are now available, in addition to recordings of various projects and collaborations I have been privileged to to be a part of over the years. I will also be offering sheet music to over 100 of my tunes, available as collections in the Fraize Book volumes 1 & 2, individually, and as booklets by style, instrumentation and album. Sheet music for tunes from Organic Matter will be available soon. I hope to have Vol. 1 of the Fraize Book available by mid summer.
CLICK HERE for a free lead sheet to "Young One" from Organic Matter.
Now available for free exclusively on this site is Live In Lima, recorded in August '08 at the Jazz Zone club in Lima, Peru. I had the wonderful opportunity to play with the amazing musicians heard here, visit breathtaking (literally) Cusco and the Sacred Valley, and experience firsthand the incredible food (Ceviche! Lomo saltado! Cuy!) and people of a remarkable culture. To see a photo album of this trip on my facebook page, click here.
I have recently done some recording with the great Brazilian Jazz outfit Origem. The band is the remarkable brothers Alejandro and Leonardo Lucini on drums and bass, along with keyboardist Federico Peña. This is going to be a great record when it comes out!
Vocalist Bonnie Harris has released her CD. It is called Listen Here and it features the Larry Brown Quintet (with yours truly) on about half of it. It sounds great. When she gets it online, I'll post a link here.
There are two additional releases I'm working on: Pierce, Putter, and Rumble, live recordings of free-improvised music featuring myself, pianist Jim Levy, and electronicist Steve Hilmy; and Post-Deconstruction Redux, unreleased live tracks with italian trombonist Giancarlo Schiaffini from the same concert at DC's fabled One Step Down club that resulted in our Post-Deconstruction CD on Cadence Jazz Records.
Thanks again for stopping by. Please check back often for updates on performances, recordings, teaching, and other activities. I hope you will feel free to contact me with any comments, suggestions, or just to say hello.
Cheers,
PF