Shows (4/23 - 4/29)

A few shows I'm either attending or sadly missing:


Snuff Jazz with Hermon Mehari
Thursday, April 26 at 10:00pm at Grunauer in Kansas City

Devin Phillips Quartet
Saturday, April 28 at 12:00am at Wilf's in Portland

Han Bennink with Tobias Delius Quartet
April 28th Brugge at de Werf in Brugge, Belgium

Michalangela with Ben Darwish, Devin Phillips, Kevin Deitz
Sunday, April 29 at 6:00pm at Andina in Portland

On Han Bennink

(Han Bennink, HBM Trio, Dixon Place, April 18, 2012, 2012 © Peter Gannushkin)

I recently heard that Han Bennink made an appearance in the US, doing an interview stop on NPR's Fresh Air, in addition to a 5-day marathon radio broadcast on WKCR out of New York in honor of his birthday. Bennink also played a concert on 2/21/2012 in celebration of his April 17th birthday with Richard Teitelbaum (keys), Ray Anderson (t-bone), Uri Caine (drums), Mark Dresser (bass), Mary Oliver (poet), Thomas Heberer (tpt), and Michael Moore (sax/clnt). Hopefully some audio or video will emerge.

I first heard of Bennink in 2002 after I scored a disk by the Clusone Trio titled "I Am an Indian." It also features Michael Moore on alto sax, clarinet, and melodica and Ernst Reijziger on cello. It was my first exposure to the kind of frenetic, left-of-center jazz that I would eventually come to fully embrace and seek out. The following is a cut from the disk titled "Sonoroso."

Inaugural Post

Hi, and welcome to a jazz blog. I live in Portland, Oregon where I currently live, listen, and love. I hope to update at least once a week with reviews of various concerts, albums, and other jazz gems.

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