Announcements: All About Jazz Featured Download

All About Jazz, which is an excellent home for jazz reviews, profiles, and articles on the web, has selected "Thirteen," the first track from our album, Sink/Swim, as its Featured Download for today. Click here to listen or download the complete song. (The song will be archived and available permanently at that location.)

Also, for those of you in the Bay Area, I'll be performing tomorrow, Monday the 17th, with the Contemporary Jazz Orchestra at Jazz at Pearl's. The CJO is led by Alex Budman, who sat in with my quintet recently, and on any given Monday, the Orchestra features some of the area's best improvisers, not to mention phenomenal sight-readers. Stop by and soak up some rollicking big band sounds.

Starting in a few weeks, I'll be posting some more highlights from our several-year run at the House of Shields--there may even be a "Best of" live CD-R available if anyone's interested.

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Thanks for listening!

Announcements: Last Dance at the House of Shields, 4/11/06

UPDATE: Since posting yesterday's announcement, I've been informed that the House of Shields has decided to cut us loose for the time being, so tomorrow will be our LAST performance there for the foreseeable future. You'll definitely have more opportunities to hear the Quintet, but it may take a while to cultivate new venues, so it'd be nice to have a good crowd tomorrow for our farewell gig, and maybe to demonstrate to the owners that people do appreciate this kind of music.

Anyway, thanks for listening during this three-hour tour that became a three-year mission.

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Dear Friends and Listeners:

I recently discovered that April is the nationally-decreed Jazz Appreciation Month, or "JAM" (Get it?), and some research led me to this information on the subject:

On August 18, 2003, President George W. Bush signed Public Law 108-72, which includes language strongly endorsing jazz and urging that 'musicians, schools, colleges, libraries, concert halls, museums, radio and television stations, and other organizations should develop programs to explore, perpetuate, and honor jazz as a national and world treasure.'

Since I would hate for any of you to run afoul of Public Law 108-72 and possibly end up taking an unwanted vacation to, say, Guantanamo Bay, I'd like to provide an opportunity for you to fulfill your presidentially-mandated Jazz Appreciation Requirement (JAR) by coming down to the House of Shields—a federally recognized Jazz Endorsement
Establishment (JEE)—this Tuesday, where my quintet, a certified Jazz Delivery System (JDS), will be offering actual jazz music for you to "Explore" (but remember, you explore with your ears, not your hands), "Perpetuate" (until 8:30, anyway), and "Honor as a National and World Treasure" (tip jar's on the bar).

Anyway, you don't have to thank me for calling your attention to this—it's all part of my duty as a practitioner of this National and World Treasure, which, it turns out, is a metaphor—there's no actual treasure. That information would've come in handy about fifteen years ago.

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WHAT: The Ian Carey Quintet

WHO: Ian Carey, trumpet; Jon Arkin, drums; Adam Shulman, piano; Fred Randolph, bass, Evan Francis, saxophone.

WHEN: Tuesday, April 11, 5:30-8:30 pm

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

HOW MUCH: Nuthin'.