Recently I got the chance to see Steve Lehman's octet at the vortex in London, not only that, they gave us the seats right in the front! The band that played on the night was the same as on Lehman's recent record "Travail, Transformation and Flow", except Jose Davila was replaced by Dan Peck on Tuba. I was incredibly excited to be attending this gig, as it was my first visit to the legendary vortex in Dalston (as well as Steve Lehman) and also I was about to see one of my bass heroes, Drew Gress (I was so excited, I was by the doors about half an hour before they opened). All in all, this gig was insane, especially Tyshawn Sorey's drumming, so many gospel chops. Check out this link to Josselin Carré's film on Lehman's octet ........
I've been really fascinated by blogs for a while, but I've only been brave enough to start one now. Anyways, here are some of the blogs I've been checking out.....
http://dothemath.typepad.com/ This is the blog of Ethan Iverson, New York piano player and member of the bad plus. It's absoloutley insane, so many things on there for anyone who's interested in jazz, tonnes of interviews with some of the living jazz legends, well worth checking out.
http://kitdownes.wordpress.com/ Is a blog from London based musician, Kit Downes (another ridiculously talented piano player). As well as interesting things about music he's posted a lot of odd but wonderful animations and things about quantum physics (always a good laugh).
http://davidvaldez.blogspot.com/ This blog is incredible for some jazz resources and general saxophone things. It's ran by an american sax player called David Valdez, he's got a load of great jazz robot videos up there as well, amazing tristano-ite ones there as well.
