We play outside the home plate entrance!
Please stop by and say hi and drop a buck or two into the tip jar. And if you’d like to join us for the game afterward there’s a link here to purchase tickets. You’ll be seated in the same section as all the bands playing and $10 from your ticket purchase will go straight to OSL.
Hope to see you there!
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Photo by Darrah Parker Photography - www.DarrahParker.com
Josh, Evan, D’Vonne and I were joined by our dear friends Cynthia Mullis on tenor and Michele Khazak on vocals. I’m so thrilled how excited everyone was to play this music, and the arrangements worked out beautifully. I knew that this music was perfectly suited for this collection of musicians, and they proved me right yet again!
We played to a standing-room-only crowd at Lucid Jazz Lounge and even signed a bunch of CDs during the set breaks! The music was received so well and the whole night was truly magical. After so much thought and hard work it was truly gratifying to see it all come to fruition so perfectly.
I’ve put together a video montage of clips from many of the songs we played, including “Three Hours”, “Cello Song”, “Day Is Done”, “Time Has Told Me” and “River Man”. I hope you dig it!
My lovely wife took some amazing photos at the show, which are posted here.
We will be recording this material sometime before the end of the year and will have a new album out in 2011 called “Five Leaves Left: A Jazz Tribute To Nick Drake”. I’ll keep you posted on our progress. We’ll definitely play this music live a few times before then, so if you missed the debut never fear, you’ll have more chances to hear this gorgeous music live soon.
Here’s a review of the night and of Lucid that was written by a new friend of mine: “A Lucid Night of Jazz”. Thanks Michelle!
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This Friday!
Today we rehearsed with Michele Khazak, who will be singing with us on a few tunes. Michele is one of my favorite vocalists in town and when I decided to remake “Five Leaves Left” she was the one and only singer I wanted to work with. Her voice, her commitment, her passion are all perfectly suited to this material and to the JPQ. Today, she proved that to be true and then some!
I fired up the video camera at rehearsal today and got some nice footage. I haven’t been able to get through all of it, but I wanted to give you a little taste of what you’ll experience if you come out to Lucid Jazz Lounge on Friday. I can tell you right now that you won’t be disappointed!
So here is the last couple minutes of our run-through of “Day Is Done”:
Hope you dug it! And I would love to see you Friday night. I can promise you an amazing night of music, a wonderful atmosphere in which to hang, and I’ll even introduce you to my parents who’ll be in town for the show! How can you pass that up???
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JPQ at The Marty Riemer Show
If you missed the live broadcast, here it is in all it’s glory. If you can make it through all the jokes and laughter you’ll see the JPQ play two of our favorite songs from “No More, No Less”: “Bashert” and “Three Hours”.
And here’s a few more pictures taken by MRS staffer Yas:
Playing Bashert
Josh doin' his thang!
Evan and D'Vonne gettin' down
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Weekdays at 9:30am
I used to work with Marty at a radio station in Seattle and he was always one of my favorite people in the business. He and I have both moved on from that station, and now he continues to broadcast his show from his basement every morning at 9:30am. He asked the JPQ to be part of Operation Sack Lunch’s “Hungry, Will Sing For Food” campaign at the Mariners game next week and we’re thrilled to help!
To further help promote the event Marty asked us to come on his show tomorrow to talk about it and play some tunes. I’m excited to be reunited with my old radio pal and hope you can tune in. The broadcast begins at 9:30am and you can find it here: The Marty Riemer Show.
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