Announcements: CD Release Party, 1/24/06

Well, a short four and a half months after my compadres and I crowded into a two-room studio for eight hours on the hottest day of the summer, the Ian Carey Quintet's first CD is finally here. It's now available to be purchased online at our CDBaby page (reasonably priced at $12.97), and will be available for even less--ten bucks! that's hardly the price of a couple of cosmopolitans!--at our official CD Release Party next week.

If you've been meaning to come out and hear us lately, this is the gig you should make it to. And bring friends! Or enemies!

WHAT: The Ian Carey Quintet, performing in commemoration of the release of their new album, Sink/Swim, on Kabocha Records

WHO: Ian Carey, trumpet; Adam Shulman, piano; Fred Randolph, bass; Evan Francis, saxophone; and special guest Tim Bulkley, drums

WHEN: Tuesday, January 24, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

WHERE: The House of Shields, 39 New Montgomery St., San Francisco

HOW MUCH: Free.

Announcements: Quintet, 1/10/06

Twelve Exclamations Likely to Be Heard at My Gig Tuesday

• "Yowzah!"
  
• "Shazam!"
  
• "Boo-yah!"
  
• "Boo!" (no 'yah')
  
• "BART sucks almost as much as you guys are awesome!"
  
• "Thelonious Monk on a cracker!"
  
• "Great Googly-Jazzlies!"
  
• "Holy Missing Saxophonist!" [Update: "Holy Special Guest Saxophonist!"--See below.]
  
• "Woo-hoo!--and, kind sirs, I differentiate this woo-hoo, which expresses admiration and enjoyment, from the woo-hoo of drunken partygoers on fake cable-car buses, which expresses only the need to fit in with the other people shouting 'Woo-hoo.'"
  
• "Turn that crap down so I can hear what my drunk friend is shouting! Oh, never mind, it was just 'Woo-hoo!'"
  
• "Play Puttin' on the Ritz!"
  
• "I just gave the band a big tip, and you know what? I feel great!"

WHAT: The Ian Carey Quintet

WHO: Ian Carey, trumpet;
Adam Shulman, piano;
Jon Arkin, drums;
Fred Randolph, bass; and, from NYC,
Special Guest Dayna Stephens, saxophone.

WHEN: Tuesday, January 10, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

WHERE: The House of Shields, 39 Montgomery St., S.F.

HOW MUCH: Less than it takes to put shoes on this starving child.

ALSO: My friend and former bandmate Dan Shuman, an excellent Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter, is playing the following night (Weds. 1/11) at The Brainwash (1122 Folsom Street, SF) at 7:30 pm. Be sure to go if you enjoy good music and your brain is in need of a washing.