Take Magazine ran a profile of the noise jazz group I play in, Threes. Dewald says Threes “were looking at the current climate of people being separated from one another, staring at screens.” In response, “we decided to focus on a type of music as a band that is best experienced live.” Read the full […]

Sevendays has a nice writeup on the le duo’s 10th Birthday bash. ” Through improvisation and absurdity, the le duo endeavors to break down the barrier between performer and audience by destroying expectations of what is art/music, and allowing for the re-imagining of the spiritual/artistic connection. — JB Ledoux

Contrabass Conversations is one of the great podcasts about my instrument, the double bass. There are hundreds of informal, informative conversations between host Jason Heath and practitioners of bass art engaged in all corners of our instrument. I was honored to become interview 370 in the series. Also, if you’d like to download a recording […]

Videographer and design junkie Jay Blanchard is quickly becoming indispensable for documenting interesting music in my town. Here’s his footage from the Threes performance on May 1 at Light Club. Get your noise jazz right here. Hear Threes play live. Hear Threes play on cassette.

First half of the year has been full. Let’s do the rundown in no particular order: Performance Lots of performance. Never feels that way when it’s happening but looking back over it, a bunch of fun work. A nice mix of electric bass, upright bass, free improvisation, notey music, lots of ensemble work. Solo PaBU: A […]

My friend Jay has been making a bunch of videos of interesting music in Burlington. This video of the le duo performing among the beer vats of Four Quarters Brewing at Waking Windows 2017 is one of them. Thanks much to Quiltro for back lining this gig so I didn’t have to haul a bass […]