The experimental jazz ensemble Strange Meeting has been having a regular practice meet up on Tuesdays at the Basement — when the joint is closed — for some time now. This has allowed the trumpeter Nicholas Talvola, sax player Russ Thallheimer, key-man Alex Espe and bassist/drummer rhythm section duo Ian Taylor and Shane Fox to […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Aug. 16
There’s a very special event happening at the Arcata Playhouse tonight at 7 p.m. that has been a long time in the making. Some of the most skilled jazz musicians in our community are gathering for an evening of improvisation and live compositional recitation after many months of practice and development. Trumpet player Nicholas Talvola, […]
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The Pavilion of Dreams
Thousands of nights have elapsed since I was a little boy, but I still have traces of that era, the intensity of my brain experiencing the sensations of the world for the first time, and meanwhile learning to communicate with itself, my body and spirit in the process. Much of what unfolds in our early […]
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Big Beat Bonanza
It occurred to me during this year’s Best of Humboldt voteing that I hadn’t been putting enough thought into the trending directions of our local music scene. Blame it on the pandemic’s flattening effect, as well as a year of distractions in my private life, most of them gloomy and bad. It seems silly in […]