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Shows
Friday 6/26/09
Akashic Record
Waterfront
Tavern - Holyoke, MA
INFO: Hammond Organ Driven Funk. 10pm
Thursday
7/2/09
B3 Kings
House Of Blues Lounge - Boston, MA
INFO: Boogaloo organ grooves.
Lessons
The
key to successful lessons is to motivate the student with positive
feedback, discipline, variety of styles of music, and FUN!! I have
been providing this encouraging and nurturing setting to brass students
for over 15 years. I have successfully help prepare students for
district festivals, recitals, BYSO auditions, and college auditions.
Lessons focus on classical technique, jazz and rock styles, composition,
and improvisation.
I am currently
filling in my Saturday schedule for appointments at my studio in
Milford, MA. Contact me at
to schedule an appointment.
I am also teaching
on Tuesday afternoons this summer in Franklin, MA through
the Life Long Learning program. Call 508 541 2100 x 3178
to schedule a lesson.
News
5/28/09
For
all you FaceBook folks: There is a cool video of the Dueling
B3's from the Dive
Bar in Worcester recorded last weekend. The band features
Beau Sasser
and Eli
Winderman on organs, Steve
Fell on guitar, Bill
Connor on drums (who also built both organs) and me on trombone.
Click
here to check it out.
I also just
stumbled upon some old footage of the BTG from the Tazza jam session.
The clips feature Ben
Zecker on organ and Tom
Arey on drums. Click
here to visit youtube to check them out. It will send you
to the first one and I am sure you can find the other two. Good
times with that trio. Good times!
3/11/09
Akashic Record
just
added a few new dates!! We have had the pleasure to be joined by
saxophonist
Jared Sims
while
Timo has been on the road. Check out the
dates
page
for more exciting shows in Boston, Western Mass, Dover, and Providence.
Also look for the return of
Mike Tucker
for
a few shows in April!!
1/20/09
Pressure
Cooker is pleased to partner with Chicago's famous ska label
Jump Up Records to release the brand new album - "WHAT SHE
WANTS".
"WHAT
SHE WANTS" is Pressure
Cooker's sixth full-length album of new original reggae songs
for 2008, culminating a year and a half of studio recording sessions
held in the Brighton & Allston neighborhoods of Boston. Craig
Akira Fujita, Pressure Cooker's unique frontman leads the nine piece
band through a versatile array of 70's style reggae, rocksteady
and ska music, skillfully mixed by the group's renowned sound engineer
Craig "Dubfader" Welsch. The result is a fresh set of
fifteen songs exploring themes on love, good times and hard times,
all the while keeping the sound and spirit on a lively, upbeat vibe.
Highlights include "Can't Stop Thinkin'," "Hold
On," "One Kind of Love," "Higher Than High,"
"Without Purpose," "Darkest Hour," and the
instrumental jam "Rocker's Delight." Once again,
Pressure
Cooker delivers a unique set of songs that stay faithful to
the roots of reggae music but have some new things to say -- and
can be appreciated by fans both inside and beyond the genre.
1/10/09
Happy New Year!! Blessings to you and your family in 2009.
Akashic
Record, The B3 Kings, Brian Thomas Group, Pressure
Cooker, Brass Force, and many other various projects will be
plugging along in 2009. Stay tuned for new recordings, venues, and,
musical collaborations this year. Continue to check the dates page
for all current shows.
www.myspace.com/btgroup
is also a great place to check out for new videos, music, and photos.
I have started
graduate studies at UMASS Amherst where I have the pleasure to be
studying with jazz composition with Jeff Holmes and trombone with
Norman Bolter. I am looking forward to starting my second semester
this month. I will also have the honor of directing the UMASS Jazz
Lab this semester.
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