Twigs ~ Brown and white ~ Straight ~ Narrow ~ Against the ground ~ Pushing up stones ~ To lift and point ~ Twigs back ~ Up ~~ G. Stevens Here is a new Jazz Folks piece called “Twigs and Stones”. Another tune preparing for the vesper service this coming March. Melvana Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) [...]
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Twigs and Stones
Posted in Notes on gigs and recordings, Random poetic nonsense, Uncategorized, tagged Twig on January 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Still Playing, just not writing.
Posted in Notes on gigs and recordings, Uncategorized on December 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Something new? Here is some new material: Holy Crap! It has been a long time since I visited let alone wrote something for this site. So in lieu of a thoughtful insightful post here are a couple of new songs that I have been working on. Enjoy! Glenn “Reflections” is an instrumental piece I wrote anticipating my next [...]
Bill Frisell plays jazz?
Posted in Live Music Musings, Uncategorized, tagged Bill Frisell, Folk music, Jazz, jazz folks, Music, New York City, Piano, Saxophone, Thelonious Monk, Village Vanguard on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I have been listening to Bill Frisell for quite a few years now. What the heck kind of music does he play? I really like most of what I have heard, especially his interpretations of folk and traditional music. I never thought to much about what to call his unique type of music, mostly because [...]
Koto, guitar and percussion at the Stone
Posted in Live Music Musings, Uncategorized, tagged Arts, Arts and Entertainment, Jazz, Music, New York, New York City on August 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I went to the first set at The Stone on Sunday the 22nd. The set was with Miya Masaoka (koto, electronics) Mary Halvorson (guitar) Satoshi Takeshi (percussion). It was my first time to The Stone. It is a small club on the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street. It was a rainy soggy day and [...]
August 1
Posted in Uncategorized on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We played at the Kasbah Friday August 1st. Dan Brownell a young flute player studying music at Ithaca College sat in with us. Here is a rough recording of a tune from our set with Dan. Fly Me To The Moon (If you are reading this on the Jazz Folks web site you need to [...]
New Jazz Folks web site is up and running.
Posted in Uncategorized on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I finally got the new web site up. I spent most of July writing and tweaking the new site and I really like how it looks. Lots of information and a feed from this blog. We should have plenty of news about the band coming through the site on a regular basis so keep coming [...]
First Post
Posted in Uncategorized on July 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well this is a little test run. I am not sure if this is the right idea or not but here it goes. Jazz Folks and what we have played and heard and thought about, and other miscellaneous things. We will be playing at the Kasbah Garden in New Haven CT. this Friday night from [...]
