Review – 132350

Love it: Then to a pitifully singing saw and a sad organ Why does the sun go on shining? / Why does the sea rush to shore? / Don’t they know it’s the end of the …

The Jeff Kaiser Ockodektet – 132350

The Jeff Kaiser Ockodektet

The Jeff Kaiser Ockodektet – 132350. Recorded for my 50th birthday, released for my 60th! Pay-what-you-want high quality download files starting at $0.00. (Happy Birthday!) Featuring amazing performers! CDs also available for $9.99 PLUS: Bonus material …

The Jeff Kaiser Ockodektet

The Jeff Kaiser OckodektetThis is exciting music ranging from almost silence to tutti passages, from intricate suspenseful passages formed by repeated sixteenth notes to forming a tapestry on which the soprano sax can solo. It’s a …

Selected Press: 1996-2006

Zugzwang (with Tom McNalley) Sinister, strident and glacial sounds emanating from sunny Ventura, California. Kaiser uses quartertone trumpet, McNalley electric guitar. Both add electronics to distort, extend and transmute their instruments. Zugzwang communicates a taste for …

Alpine to Bakersfield to Berkeley…a beautiful drive…

I’m guest lecturing at The Jazzschool in Berkeley, California this coming week…and decided to make a bit of a Spring Break trip out of it. Spent time with Nicholas Deyoe, Tom McNalley and Frannie Garretson at …

Ockodektet Rehearsal photos….

RehearsalWoodwinds:David BorgoVinny GoliaEmily HayAndrew PaskTracy McMullen Trumpets:Dan ClucasJohn FumoBrad HenkelDaniel RosenboomKris Tiner Trombones:Michael DessenMichael Vlatkovich Tuba and more:Jonathan PiperWilliam Roper Piano, Keyboards, Theremin:Wayne Peet Acoustic Guitars:Tom McNalley Electric Contrabass Guitar;Steuart Liebig Contrabasses:Jim Connolly (also: musical saw)Mark …

Dangers of asking a stranger to take your photograph

Steuart Liebig, Jeff Kaiser, Kris Tiner at Influx Cafe Coffee Pre-Kris Tiner Quintet gig…I asked a guy to take our pic, every one had his finger in it and was blurry. Every one. That IS a …

Analog/Digital: Multi-media in Bakersfield…

KaiBorg had a great time last night in Bakersfield. Opening set was Kris Tiner on acoustic trumpet with two 16mm (simultaneous) film projections by Allen Glass…wonderful stuff. We then followed and were joined by video artist …