The Hat! [photo courtesy of Peak]
He recently celebrated a triumphant mini-tour commemorating the 10th Anniversary of Cryptogramophone Records, performed the epic 12-suite "Images of Los Angeles" at the Jazz Bakery with Motoko Honda's Sound Escape Project AND bought a nifty and hip new jazz hat. Now our label head Jeff Gauthier now has taken it upon hisself to get involved in some cool new activities: co-curating the 2nd Annual Angel City Jazz Festival with our pal Rocco Somazzi. (Check out the tentative bill of oft-killer performers they've come up with here.) He also pops up on a bewitching new CD by vocalist Takako Uemura called Reminiscence, a supple collection of traditional Japanese lullabies performed with an extended Crypto famdamily of Alex Cline, Joel Hamilton, Dan Morris, Will Salmon, Sara Schoenbeck and David Witham. Many of the same players will be performing at Alex Cline and Will Salmon's new Open Gate Theatre series called Flicked – showing old silent movies with new live music. This month's flick is Fritz Lang's ultimate worker-revolt tale Metropolis and will be screened at the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts at 7pm on April 19 with improvisational music by Will, Alex, Jeff, Bill Casale and G.E. Stinson. For $5 bucks, easily the deal of this, the cruelest month!
REST IN TEMPO:
Snooks Eaglin
John "Jack" Fragomeni Jr.
Duane Jarvis
Ralph Mercado
Manny Oquendo
Harrison Ridley, Jr.
Bud Shank
Lyman Woodard
