So the information below is riven with inaccuracies, but the part about this weblog being more or less kaput remains more or less correct. Some errata:
1. I was on 2 rasbliutto discs this year: Jean-Paul Jenkins and Joseph Foster - Duos 2004 and Jean-Paul Jenkins, Joseph Foster, K.Scott Handley, Mark Kaylor - Trios 2004. The former is all acoustic, the latter is acoustic and electronic and has two trios, both of which include JP & me.
2. That tour sched is totally crazy all kinds of wrong. No Selah gig, the PDX shows info is off, gig at Phillip Greenlief's Improv Garage. Doesn't matter, long gone. Either way the tour ruled and Bonnie played out of her fucking head. She surprised and interested me with impressive consistency on tour.
Also, I played Otomo Yoshihide's Asian Music Meeting at Shinjuku Pit Inn in Tokyo in Sept. 3 days, 4 shows. Solo, some trios, and several sets with his super-expanded Otomo's New Jazz Orchestra. Also featured were the awesome Shinjuku Philharmonic Orchestra, an amateur add-on of 30-some odd otomo fans with instruments. I christened them, and I'm glad the name stuck. THey fully ruled all and killed ears dead. Dueling gesticulating conductionists didn't hurt either. Many props to Otomo who was an amazing and easy host who took unreasonably good care of us and repeatedly slayed with the slightest provocation. Awesome.
