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 |  | Great Weekend in Philly +...
| 3/3/2012 - I just finished a really fun weekend in Philadelphia with two great bands. Friday night, March 2nd, Steve Wilson and I played with the Josh Richman trio at Cris' Jazz Cafe. Steve's one of the most accomplished and successful alto and soprano players of the last twenty plus years. We've been good friends and played in a number of contexts together over that time, including once leading a band together at the Savannah Jazz Festival. And it's always a treat to get to hang and play music with Steve. He sounded great as always. And he also happens to be one of the nicest guys I know. Hope we get to do it again soon. And Josh's trio sounded terrific too. Hope to make another hit there some time soon with them.
Saturday night I played with Alexis Cuadrado's Noneto Iberico at The Painted Bride in Philly, a very nice performance space and art gallery. It was a great band with Taylor Haskins, Alan Ferber, Loren Stillman, Brad Shepik and Mark Ferber. Alexis is a great bass player and composer, and has written a number of pieces for this context based around traditional Spanish rythyms. Some very challenging music, but well worth it! We also had a great weekend playing this music last year at the Jazz Gallery.
Last Monday I had a really fun gig at Smoke with the Bill Mobley big band. This Monday March 5th I'll be playing at the Brooklyn Tea Lounge with Scott Reeves' big band. Next Monday the 12th I'll be performing at the 55 Bar with Sean Wayland. Then I'll be back at Smoke for the rest of the Mondays this month, doing my regular teaching at Purchase, plus some other teaching and adjudicating in the NY area.
Lastly, I've finished a first draft of a memoir. I began it last Fall after taking a writing class to finish a degree. The beginning of the book deals with my mother's early life and her time married to the great west coast Baritone saxophonist Bob Gordon. She had a lot of great stories about the L.A. jazz and studio scene from the late 40's- mid 50's. I hope to publish it in some form later this year and will keep folks posted on that. Thanks for checking in...
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| |  | Steve Gordon | | My brother Steve Gordon passed away today. He was 60. He was an incredibly blessed and successful man, overcoming an extremely difficult... | | |
|  | Happy 2012! | | 2011 was a great year. I was busy with various projects of my own, as well as gigs with Kenny Wheeler, John Hollenbeck, Alexis Cuadrado,... | | |
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