Ordinary Fanfares

Friday, May 5, 2017

May Flowers

5/20/17 @ Cafe Racer, Seattle WA Group w Wilson Shook/Dave Abramson, also This Saxophone Kills Fascists (Arrington de Dionyso), Finger, Blessed Blood

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5/6/17 @ Debacle Fest, Columbia City Theater & The Royal Room, Seattle WA Solo, also many many others

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Tuesday, April 4, 2017

March, April

4/28/17 @ Good Shepherd Chapel, Seattle WA w/ Eveline Müller's "Song of the Ice Flow" (EM, GK, Lori Goldston, Patrick Neill Gundran, Steve Peters, Amber West, Austin Larkin), also Klang Quintet

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4/20/17 @ Fremont Abbey Arts Center, Seattle WA w/ Lori Goldston, also Bing & Ruth, Zen Mother
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4/14/17 @ Good Shepherd Chapel, Seattle WA w/ Rob Millis, also Jim Haynes, Ensemble Economique

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4/7/17 @ Good Shepherd Chapel, Seattle WA Solo, also C. Spencer Yeh, John Krausbauer

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4/6/17 @ Disjecta, Portland OR Solo, also C. Spencer Yeh, John Krausbauer, Witscher/Siever

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3/26/17 @ Beacon Radio 1, Seattle WA Solo, also Naomi Moon Siegel/Sean Woolstenhulme

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3/2/17 @ Barboza, Seattle WA w/ Lori Goldston, also Shitty Person, The Spoils of Seattle

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Thursday, February 9, 2017

January, February

2/18/17 @ MiMoDa Studio, Los Angeles CA Solos & Group sets with Eyvind Kang & Bill Orcutt
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2/9/17 @ Obsidian, Olympia WA w/ This Saxophone Kills Fascists

I will be sitting in with Arrington de Dionyso's Spiritual Free Jazz protest band.

also Plankton Wat, Erin Durant, Rachel Carns/Dave Harvey

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2/7/17 @ Royal Room, Seattle WA Trio with Uneasy Chairs (Patrick Neill Gundran) + Eveline Müller

Trumpet, mini-amp; electric guitar; metal percussion

also Nital Etch, FHTAGN & Forrest Friends

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1/19/17 @ Good Shepherd Chapel, Seattle WA w/ Seattle Phonographers Union + Tom Varner

Seattle Phonographers Union – a collective of artists improvising with unprocessed field recordings – perform one of their infrequent “ambient” sets, with group members dispersed around the space and playing through an array of individual sound systems. Even more unusual, tonight they break one of their own rules and are joined by instrumentalists Greg Kelley (trumpet) and Tom Varner (French horn).

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Monday, December 5, 2016

New releases: Kelley/Nace; Damon & Naomi...

GREG KELLEY/BILL NACE: Live at Disjecta LP

This past March (2016), Bill Nace and I toured the West Coast of these United States of America performing in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Corvallis OR, Portland, Olympia, Seattle and Vancouver BC. We recorded most of the sets and Daniel Menche was kind enough to record the Portland show. That recording stood out from the rest and Bill has released it as part of the "Live at..." series on his Open Mouth imprint.

Information here.

DAMON & NAOMI: Spirit of Love (B-sides, bonuses, and soundtracks) download

Per Naomi, "Seems we're all in need of the Spirit of Love, so we're making this new comp free (or pay what you wish) via Bandcamp:"

The nmperign horn section makes appearances here on covers of Scott Walker's "The World's Strongest Man" and Irving Berlin's "White Christmas," both of which also feature the wonderful guitar work of Michio Kurihara.

Pay what you will here.

GREG KELLEY: Sonarchy Live stream

In August of this year, I recorded a "live" solo set for Doug Haire's Sonarchy radio show on KEXP, which is available streaming here or via iTunes. This is Doug's live mix, but I also have all the raw tracks should anyone be interested in re-mixing/re-composing/etc.

Seattle shows past & present, November, December...

On Monday, December 5th at 8pm (tonight!), I'll be playing in a trio with percussionist Chris Cogburn (of Austin TX and now Mexico City) and violinist Austin Larkin at Hollow Earth Radio. Lori Goldston will also be performing solo.

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On 11/28/16, I played a duo with Bryan Eubanks at Teatro de la Psychomachia. Bryan played soprano saxophone and feedback plate. James Falzone & Wilson Shook also performed.

Here's a clip.

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On 11/19/16, I performed at Town Hall as part of John Cage's Musicircus. I did a solo realization of Cage's Variations III and as part of a quartet with composer Jacob Mashak and two students performing a realization of Four6.

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On 11/17/16, I sat in with Hound Dog Taylor's Hand (Jeffrey Taylor, Mark Ostrowski, John Seman) for their record release show at the The Blue Moon. Kate Olson, Neil Welch & Steve O'Brien also joined in.

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