Hey Everybody! Thanks for checking in!


The Seasonal Update:

Fall has been amazing for me! I had two awesome tours in Europe with John Gros, Jirka Hala and my dear friends in the Czech Republic and with Cindy Scott and my European Organ trio (Jean-Yves Jung and Paul Wiltgen) in Luxembourg, Germany and Switzerland. It was great to get to hang with old friends and make some new ones, all the while playing deep and joyful music for nice audiences. What more could you ask for?

I did a cool little tour in Texas with the Wee Trio and Cindy which was great. Those guys have such a vibe, and it is inspiring to interact with a group of people that are so on the same page, and are pushing the music forward. Thanks Dan, Jared and James!

My travels have also brought me to New York a bunch. I did a really sweet gig with Alex Bosworth in Brooklyn. It’s been a pleasure working with her recently. She is certainly a rising star on the New Orleans scene, bringing some really fresh compositions to the table, and a lot of soul. I also played at the Lincoln Center which was cool - such a nice room.

In January I will be doing a series of presentations at the APAP conference and some other dates in NYC with Cindy Scott and Martin Urbach. I’m also working on some shows and clinics in Puerto Rico which should be killing. Hopefully I’ll also be getting the Europe Organ Trio CD finished. Wish me luck!

Bryan Galloup, God’s personal luthier, has made me a new acoustic guitar which is the bomb. It is truly inspiring to play, one of the nicest things to come into my life in quite a while. Thanks Bryan! If you are a picker, I seriously recommend that you check out his work. You can occasionally find instruments of his at the Guitar Gallery outside of Nashville, and at Mandolin Brothers on Staten Island.

Just so you know: Cindy Scott’s CD - Let the Devil Take Tomorrow - which I produced and played on, won the OffBeat award for “Best Contemporary Jazz CD” of 2010. Camile Baudoin’s Threadhead Records debut, Old Bayou Blues, which I worked on in a variety of capacities, is about to go to press and should be out in August. It’s a very sweet window into Camile’s musical heritage and will be a surprise, I think, to many people. BeauSoleil’s super-bad David Doucet puts in ample amounts of first-class swamp-shred. Vadim Neselovskyi’s set of improvisations on Russian movie themes I think might be finished. Vadim’s a very intense cat, and it was a blast getting consumed by his music. I’ll let you know the release details when I have them.

I’ve updated a couple of charts recently and have a couple of more to put up, so if you’re a fan of the Seeger songbook, check out the leadsheets section.

That’s all for now,
peace,
B




That’s all for now - Peace & Funkiness!



ps: I started an email list thing a while ago, the big plan being to send out my news and my gig list about once a month. So far I’ve sent out exactly one mailing! I swear I will get it together eventually. So, if you want to take the chance that one day you might get something, click these words. If, at some point, you become terminally swamped by electronic correspondences (which at the rate I’m going could never happen!), you can un-sign up too, the convenient and automatic disconnect link comes with every email! Also, you have the option of letting me know where you are, so I won't bother you with gig notices for stuff nowhere near you.



STUFF TO CHECK OUT!!

Paul Wiltgen & The Paislies
Martin Urbach’s Free Will
Cindy Scott’s Let the Devil Take Tomorrow
Jirka Hala’s Make You Wanna Hala