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@oliebrice Nice! That’s an interesting lineup with no chordal instrument, but with the three horns that can provide some harmonic context on the heads. After that it becomes the sort of chordless bass/drum/horn trio I cut my teeth on for 12 years every Wednesday night.
Thanks Chris - I really like that combination, the freedom of a piano-less group but with the additional options of multiple horns, I've led both an Octet and a Quintet over the years put together that way...
Here's another piece from the same gig (this band mostly plays Andrew Hill and Booker Little tunes) -
I started playing for my former college again, as they needed a bassist. Luckily, the (very silly) Halloween concert was caught on video, in which you can see me in the back dressed like I stepped in from tenth century Scandinavia.
You can also, if you look closely enough, see as my right hand and wrist start succumbing to nerve damage and forget how to work properly. Don't go breaking your wrists, people, you'll keep having issues twelve years later.
Okay, sorry to flood the thread but some other recordings of my quintet playing the other day surfaced. Just audio. I am so lucky to get to play this music with these people.
Here’s a nice clip from our performance at the Detroit Jazz Festival 2022. It’s just the guitar solo from my tune, Some Old Light. The clip ends right at the beginning of the bass solo, lol… I’ll go back through it all eventually and maybe put up the whole song (I’m a bit technologically challenged…). It was great to be there, but our drummer got Covid and Rob Avsharian (a great player and a great friend) was a last minute sub so we haven’t really posted much of the footage. Enjoy.
This is a cell phone video of about a third my set with Roscoe Mitchell last month. A hi res video is coming. The only horn he brought was the bass saxophone. It was an incredible experience to be on stage with him playing that horn!
Dear friends,
Here my last composition/improvisation, "drums etude" ; it is a sempiternal idea, on 4 notes, that i had for a long time, and it went out this way . To be listened with earphones and loud !!