The weekend came and went with a dinner here for guests, a birthday party for Tin’s classmate, a dash to Spotted Cat, a costume affair at the Pussyfooter’s Blush Ball, a Jazz Brunch with Evan Christopher, James Singleton, and Steve Masakowski, and the drummer whose name I can’t remember, then there was the PROJECT (putting up the Nolli Plan), and then dinner at Three Muses and Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue. Whew! And…
Evan Christopher put together a pop up jazz brunch at Clever today and maybe because he’s Tin’s godfather, he also made it a family friendly one. Playing with Evan was James Singleton on bass, Herman Lebeaux on drums, and Matt Lemmler on keyboards and when I say the joint was jumpin’ I mean it was on fyyyy ahhh. No where in the world was there a jazz brunch like this one for the kind of…
Hello all, this sunday june 12th I am playing sets at SNUG HARBOR (8 and 10pm) with an all-star quartet: TIM GREEN sax, LARRY SIEBERTH piano, and MIKE DILLON drums, vibes, tabla, efx. rara avis indeed. check us out, or if you are sensibly out of town (or not) alert others that might benefit from this focussed madness. love, james s.
Offbeat is running their best of the best award and it’s time for everyone to vote. You have to shake your head at this list – it’s like an embarrassment of riches and so many that are still not even on here – no brainers are James Singleton, Trombone Shorty and his Bacca Town album – I even voted him best trumpet player for that solo he does on St. James Infirmary, best clarinetist –…
The stars aligned last night as Mother Nature whipped large trees like buggy whips and rain came down the better part of the day and without asking, a babysitter came to watch Tin so we could go to Snug Harbor. We sat at a small table for two in front of the stage, spitting distance as we say around here, and the show began. Tom McDermott on piano, smiling a goofy smile as if it…