Gig with Rich Halley TONIGHT

I'm playing tonight at presentation House Studio with the great tenor player, Rich Halley.  Rich is based in Portland and is one of the great lights of the West Coast scene.  Bill Milkowski of the Jazz Times says, "A free rider from the Left Coast, tenor saxophonist-composer Rich Halley is a powerful player with one foot in the Coleman Hawkins-Don Byas camp and the other confidently striding into the edgier realms of such ferocious players as David S. Ware and, at his most intense, Peter Brötzmann or Albert Ayler... In New York, he’d be a star on the avant-garde scene; but for now, you have to fly to Portland to see this tenor titan perform."  Well tonight you don't even have to go to Portland because he is here playing with me, Clyde Reed (bass) and Joe Poole (drums).

Our rehearsal yesterday promises some very exciting music this evening.  Rich has an amazing sound and energy.  Above all, I would say he is a truly authentic player that plays with a lot of honesty and emotional intensity.  No canned licks, no showing off, no pretense -  just playing from the heart.  I'm really excited about this one. Clyde and Joe will be their usual wonderfully creative selves, swinging like mad and instigating all kinds of musical twists and turns. We'll do some of my tunes and some of Rich's.
Come on out and hear for yourself!

Wednesday, April 17
8:00pm
333 Chesterfield, North Vancouver
$10 at the door
Free tea and cookies