The evening was a great success & made the expense of bringing Jeff & Marty down from San Francisco worthwhile. I want to say a big thank you to those who attended the Trio concert at Old Town Music Hall. Here's wishing a Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays to all who take the time to visit this page. Happy New Year to all! A couple of recent side-man gigging highlights from recently at the Ventura Beach Club organized by Hi-Hat Entertainment. Louis seems to be really thriving & I heard a number of young musicians really excelling with jazz & blues.Ī recent festival appearance with my trio in Monterey, CA also included special duet sets with Jeff Barnhart & Stephanie Trick. I cannot speak highly enough of Ethan not just for his playing but his dedication to making good things happen for the St. Louis where I was hosted by Ethan Leinwand, a young man who specializes in early & obscure blues styles. I was fortunate to be hired again at the Scott Joplin festival in Sedalia where I was in the company of many wonderful piano players. For the last few jam tunes we were joined by another great boogie man, Stefan Ulbricht.Įarly June was spent in Missouri. I'm not sure when the place dates from but I would guess a few centuries ago. The concert took place in a historic location, Haus Opherdicke. I played a wonderful duet concert in Germany with Joerg Hegamen who is a specialist in Albert Ammons' boogie style. The tune is called Hammerhead & Barron will be streaming the recording on Facebook. We played together for Kansas City's Ragtime Revelry group on two very fine grand pianos at Schmidt Music.Ī talented young piano man named Barron Ryan is recording one of my early boogie compositions from my Solo Art CD. I have head a great deal of help there from a fabulous young pianist named Ethan Leinwand. Louis is a heck of a good place for our kind of music. I also perform one show with a group (Marty Eggers, David Gomez & Dan Connor) at Blues City Deli. I played a number of listening rooms including a rough & ready bar room where I was surprised & pleased to find an appreciative & attentive audience. Just got back from a nice little tour of St. I continue to do my Rhythm Retrospective radio show for KCSM San Mateo & KCBX San Luis Obispo. Some European work has been offered & I will be making trips to Denmark, Italy & Spin this year. I'll be adding those events to the calendar page asap. I have various festivals booked for 2018 as a soloist & with my trio (Marty Eggers - bass & Jeff Hamilton - drums. 2017 turned out the be the year of the duet as I also recorded a cd with Brian Holland (plus Danny Coots on drums). The disc will become available within the next two months, I think. I was in Barcelona, Spain to record a duet cd with Lluis Coloma.
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