Lester Young Live and Private Recordings

ubu roi, one of my favorite music blogs has posted what is almost all of the existing live recordings of Lester Young.

http://ubu-space.blogspot.com/2011/02/lester-young-live-and-in-chronological.h

Highly Recommended. Lester Young is one of my favorite musicians of all time. Something about his sound is totally captivating to me. Even when he was playing a busy solo over a fast tempo, there was still a certain of inward-looking wistfulness to his playing. There a appearances by many other great players here, Sweets Edison, Teddy Wilson, Hank Jones, Barney Kessel and others. I do hope you get the chance to hear some of this great music.

Concert 3/19/11

On the 19th of March ( a week from today) I will be performing with a new project that began this winter, a trio with Danny Kamins on reeds and Ian Mccolm on drums. While I've played with Ian a lot before, working with Danny is new and this has been an exciting group so far. We will also be joined by Alex Cohen on guitar for part of the set, and percussionist Ryan Packard will be playing a set before ours. Show starts at 9:30 p.m. Expect awesome.