Two new reviews from DOWNTOWN MUSIC GALLERY… DMG Newsletter for November 16, 2012 http://www.downtownmusicgallery.com/Main/index.htm ENDLESS PIE [JEFF KAISER/PHIL SKALLER] – Endless Pie [2 CD set] (pfMentum 072; USA) Jeff Kaiser on trumpet, flugelhorn and electronics and …
Accidental Wine Tasting: with Burton Greene and Raoul van der Weide
One of the many fantastic things about this time of the year in Amsterdam: The sun stays in the sky so late. I woke up early and went to work in the studio until 4pm when …
Douglas Detrick: Interview with Jeff Kaiser
From Douglas Detrick I had a gig in the summer of 2010 with Jeff Kaiser at the Jazz Station, a gem of a venue in Eugene, Oregon’s music scene. I played the first set, Jeff played …
Maria with Jürg Bariletti and Phil Skaller
I really feel lucky sometimes, to do interesting gigs in equally interesting venues. Life can be so rich, varied and wonderfully surprising. When Phil told me we would be doing a gig in a cargo container …
Amsterdam: July 17-19, 2010
Ahhhh…So good to be back in Amsterdam! I’ll be here for the next three weeks. The first two are a “vacation” as a bit of a self-reward for making it through my PhD qualifying exams and …
Dad’s 1966 Porsche 912
My father, Chuck Kaiser, has a habit (along with my mother) of taking old beat-up things and making them into something amazing. Ten years ago he purchased a trailer of rusty steel for a pittance….he saw …
Boise Creative and Improvised Music Festival 2010 Day 2…..
Just had coffee with the wonderful vocalist Laurie Amat…now at the Boise Airport waiting for my flight…what a great festival, again. Thanks Krispen Hartung! Maybe I’ll say more later….but here are some pics of the final …
Amsterdam 2009, Day 1 and 2
On Herengracht, walking around the corner from the STEIM’s guest house to the studios.(Click any image to enlarge.) I made it to Amsterdam, quite comfortably, actually. First class is even different in the trains…it was on …
KaiBorg enters the studio…
David Borgo and I (KaiBorg, btw, audio file now on the website) have entered the studio…Studio A, that is, at the University of California, San Diego campus…accompanied by the wonderful audio/software engineer Tom Erbe (be sure …