The author of Centennial Grand March and arranger of Celebrated Shoo Fly Galop and Must I, Then turns out to have been a music teacher and equipment dealer in Boston.
What catches my eye is that he was both a musician and a businessman in the music industry, selling instruments and equipment but also composing and [...]
On June 21 I’ll be sitting in with Girlz of Zaetar. It’ll be a psycho freakout rather than my normal sedate instrumentals. Should be chaotic and messy in a fun way.
Sun Ra and Funkadelic Intriguing sprawl of free jazz, religious ecstasy, and entertainingly devolved ideas about sound, rhythm, tempo, and togetherness. - A [...]
Mixtape Mixtape has done a single combo MP3 of my Vess Ossman playlist with all the songs together and with DJ trimmings like no gaps between songs, fading songs together, and normalized volume, so that you can easily download all the songs to your portable and listen to them in one shot.
Check it out: Vess [...]
This is a recording of an 1876 tune called “Centennial Grand March”. It’s a bit tricky, and when I first tried it on stage about a year ago it scared the hell out of me. Now that I’ve got it down it’s a lot of fun to play. I love the chromatic [...]
Next Thursday, June 12, I’ll be playing on a bus –
This is the Hippodrome, the official free shuttle of downtown’s Art Walk, running every second Thursday from 6-10pm. … Art Walk’s Hippodrome will serve this popular monthly event as a floating salon, featuring live music, art happenings, readings and curated conversations.
Per [...]
My first YouTube — a version of Blind Willie McTell’s “Your Southern Can Belongs to Me:”
Lots of caveats for this song, because it’s my first try at video and I don’t have my chops together yet. There’s some high-pitched noise that I couldn’t get rid of, it’s just a short clip, I didn’t [...]
I’ll do a 10PM set this Thursday at all-acoustic night at Hyperion Tavern:
This night is dedicated to creating a community of artists and musicians who don’t need the use of flashy lights, amps or mics. Our grandpappies didn’t need it so why do we?
The Hyperion Tavern is located at 1941 Hyperion Ave in Silverlake between [...]