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Wow…. summer’s on its last breaths… oh well, fall looks like it’s gonna be pretty fun. Next few upcoming:
TONIGHT: me, Ali Siadat from Mother Mother and Derek DiFillipo at Guilt and Company. 9:30-12:30, no cover, all improvised, expected to groove hard.
NEXT WEEKEND: THE UNSUPERVISED has our first gig since Halifax, at 1067 on Friday Sept 2. Really (x10) looking forward to getting back at it with the boys. Saturday Sept 3 finds me playing in Stefan Smulovitz’s Eye of Newt for the Radix theatre company fundraiser at The Russian Hall. We’ll be performing an improvised score to Tarkovski’s film Stalker. Hope to see you round, and keep your ears open: big news coming… Thanks! JEff

Hey Everyone! Well, The Unsupervised’s tour could not have been much cooler… great gigs, great audiences, great people, tons of laughs and soooo many cool memories. I’ve been in regroup mode since we got back, taking care of the most important things from the top of the list on down, and am now ready to start writing the new double string quartet for choreographer Donald Sales. It’ll be a meaty project, but there have been and will continue to be some very cool gigs while I’m in composition mode, including a METAMORPHOSIS of THE FAMILY STUMP! I’ve decided to scale it down, make it more intimate and twisted in a different way… you can catch the first reformed work in progress at this month’s JYPresents @ The Railway on TUES AUG 16!! Also on the bill are The Furniture and Velvet Bulldozer. More excitingly, we’ll be co-celebrating the birthdays of Johnny Wildkatt and Juhli Conlinn… it’s gonna be a code red level of good times! Check the GIGS page for more info on this and the other cool shows comin’ up. Also stoked to be close to posting the mass of video and photos that captured The Unsupervised tour – tons of cool stuff, so stay tuned!!!!!

Cheers and thanks,

JEff

Hey folks. We made it safe and sound to Halifax after playing Fredericton and Moncton, getting set to play our last gig of the tour tomorrow night at 1313 for the Halifax Jazz Festival. We’ve had a blast, man. Really, really fun, GREAT gigs, and the joyous fatigue of road adventure… we’ll have lots of audio and video to put up on the site. Musical goodies coming soon. Cheers!! JEff

Hey folks. We’re in Montreal and had an abslutely killer gig on the main stage last night. Tons of people, lots of yelling, giant video screens, and the boys absolutely destroyed it… doesn’t get much better than that. We’ve got a few days to hang in Montreal before heading to Fredericton, Moncton, and 5 nights at the Halifax Jazz Festival. Cheers to you all from Montreal! JEff

THE UNSUPERVISED has been nominated for the Grand Prix du Jazz Award and Galaxie Award for Composition at the 2011 Montreal International Jazz Festival.   We’ve also made ELEVATOR, a totally slamming, limited edition cd to take with us on tour.  We kick things off at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival on June 26, and we’ll be riding the shark all the way to The Halifax Jazz Festival, doing a 2 night residency at The Tranzac in Toronto, playing the Ottawa Jazz Festival, and doing shows in Fredericton and Moncton.  6 nights in Montreal and 5 in Halifax… might be just a little bit of fun??  Hope to see you at a show, so come say “Hi” if you happen to find us on tour!  And, oh yeah, you’re visiting the brand new website!  Hope you like it and leave a note to let me know you paid a visit.

Cheers and thanks, everyone!