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Marches Ivy Room 8-24-2009
Last night I played at the Ivy Room with Marches, it was our first show with the lineup of myself on alto & tenor, Cory Wright on tenor and baritone, Nate Brenner on bass and Jordan Glenn on drums. This was the original lineup I had in mind when getting the gorup together, but I’m [...]
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Shelton Perkis Smith Glenn Uptown 8-18-09
A really great show last night at the Uptown in Oakland. It’s part of their “Avant-Garde” Tuesday series, one show a month with no cover charge, but with donations asked for inside the main room. It’s really a good space – super high ceilings, dark and almost cavernous. This month the lineup was three sets, [...]
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Bennett Shelton Flux Theatre 8-14-2009
Tonight played in east Oakland with Aaron Bennett at the Flux Theater. It’s a relatively new space in a tough stretch of Foothill Blvd out in the general Mills area. We got added to the show this week – Aaron asked me to play some duo music, I thought, yes. A few years back I [...]
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Marches Blue Six 8-12-2009
My new group is called Marches. I’m thinking of it as a compartmentalized group where the music can be played as a trio, quartet, quintet or larger. The music has been on my mind for a bit now – I played some of it back in April with Bauder, Ajemian and Eisestadt when I was [...]
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Gogo Fightmaster Ivy Room 8-10-2009
Played at the Ivy Room this past Monday with Aaron Bennett’s Gogo Fightmaster. Aaron’s a great tenor player and the first time I saw this group a few years ago I really liked what I heard. Aaron and I have done some playing together mainly with Weasel Walter, and our playing styles, though different go [...]
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Shelton Baker Glenn 7-29-2009
Last night played at the Climate Theater in SF with Jordan Glenn and Gene Baker. Michael Coleman had asked me to bring a group for the night, he was playing in his trio Beep with Nate Brenner on bass and Jordan on drums. Our original plan was to improvise, but last minute I thought of [...]
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It’s been a while! Europe in May
Okay, it’s been waaaay too long since I last posted. Seeing as it’s July and the last post was in mid-April, that means somehow 3 months have passed without a post. This includes trips to France, Poland, Serbia, Chicago and Los Angeles and about 20 shows. So, I’ve alot to catch up for…. I’ll start [...]
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March & April 2009
Quite a bite has been going on the last month or so and I just haven’t been writing about it. It’s spring in California, and though I’m sure to those of you in other parts of the country that can be a struggle, out here it’s generally good. For me it’s been good as I’ve [...]
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Out Today: Ton Trio’s The Way
Glad to announce the release of The Way, the debut album by Ton Trio: The Oakland based Ton Trio is made up of Aram Shelton on alto saxophone and bass clarinet, Kurt Kotheimer on bass, and Sam Ospovat on drums. All three found their way to the San Francisco area after time in the Midwest, [...]
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Shelton / Healy 2-13-2009
Friday the 13th! Scary! Not really. Freddy vs Jason? Alien vs Predator? Terrible movies definitely, but before this show started I had a pretty long talk with these flicks with Jordan Glenn, Chuck Johnson and Ben Bracken, all of whom also played this night at the Totally Intense Fractal MindGaze Hut in Oakland. The first [...]