gigs update

several cool things coming up, gig wise. to wit:

2/6 - Philadelphia, PA - Ortlieb's with Doug Hirlinger, Tarus Mateen, and Darius Jones.

We're stoked to add Darius to the trio.

2/26 - Bloomington, IN at IU Jacobs School of Music - clinic and concert with Brad Shepik's Human Activity Quintet

For this concert Human Activity will be Brad Shepik, Ralph Alessi, Matt Pavolka, Mike Sarin, and myself.

IU is one of my alma maters - I'm really excited to go back and play there, I haven't been to Bloomington since 1996!

3/4-12 - Europe tour with John Hollenbeck's Claudia Quintet.

3/5 - Antwerpen, Belgium - De Singel
3/6 - Braga, Portugal - Teatro Circo
3/9 - Vienna, Austria - Porgy and Bess
3/10 - London, UK - The Vortex
3/12 - Birmingham, UK - Harmonic Festival

Claudia for this tour is John Hollenbeck, Drew Gress, Ted Reichman, Chris Speed, and Tim Collins. plus me.

4/13 - Philadelphia, PA - The Philadelphia Art Alliance - Matt Mitchell's Central Chain.

this is the band of mine I've been talking about: Tim Berne, Oscar Noriega, Mary Halvorson, John Hebert, and Tomas Fujiwara. Rehearsals have been going great so far, I'm feeling great about it. I've been allowing myself to write some crazy music and everyone's nailing it! This will be part of the Ars Nova Workshop series.

4/28 - Philadelphia, PA - The Rotunda - with Inzinzac, performing to Melies short movies.

This may be the first time I've played live music for a film, so this should be a treat, not least because I'll be playing with these great musicians - Inzinzac is Alban Bailly, Dan Scofield, and Eli Litwin.


5/5-12 - Australia tour with the Claudia Quintet

5/6 and 8 - Melbourne, AU - Melbourne Jazz Festival
5/10 and 12 - Sydney, AU

I'm extremely excited to go to Australia with Claudia. For this tour Claudia will be John Hollenbeck, Drew Gress, Ted Reichman, Chris Speed, and me.

Last but not least - head on over, if you're so inclined, to www.screwgunrecords.com to hear 3 new, long audio chunks of me playing piano with Tim Berne's Los Totopos, taken from several of our gigs this past fall.

I think that's it for the moment, so for the moment, good day.

-mm