Cameron is back from NYC and I’m back from Greensboro (details to follow) so I suppose Ombak should play its gig this Wednesday. We’ll be doing some new and very recent tunes as well as the platinum hits. Here’s a link to the facebook event. You can also follow us on twitter. Wednesday, September 30 Cous [...]
Entries from September 2009
September 17, 2009
Ombak on NPR’s Jazz Now
In response to Terry Teachout’s proclamation that jazz is dying because young audiences don’t dig it, Patrick over at NPR’s A Blog Supreme called out to a handful of jazz bloggers with this directive: Name five albums you would recommend to somebody looking to get into modern jazz — within the last 10 or so [...]
September 15, 2009
Brian Jones’ Guitar Quartet tonight at The Camel
Drummer Brian Jones, of Ombak and a plethora of his own projects, is celebrating the release of his new Guitar Quartet album tonight at The Camel in Richmond, VA. The album features Ombak members Trey Pollard on guitar and Cameron Ralston on bass as well as Charles Arthur on guitar. Dean, over at RVAjazz did [...]
September 4, 2009
Bryan Hooten’s faculty recital at VCU
I’m excited to announce my faculty jazz trombone recital for Tuesday, September 8th 2009 at 8pm in the Sonia Vlahcevic Concert Hall inside the Singleton Center for the Performing Arts at 922 Park Avenue in Richmond, VA. The recital will feature the music of Verbatim, an experimental duo comprised of myself and drummer Dean Christesen. [...]
