The Outpost Chronology was a hit and now I'm looking over web video snippets for other area notables.
Forbes Graham is engaging in a run of performances over the course of December at the Outpost and he was recently featured in a piece by Gordon Marshall at All About Jazz. In many ways Mr. Graham is a consummate participant. He explores possibilities in situations from noise bands to big bands.
We begin with a St. Louis Kayo Dot outing in September of 2006 as I was crossing the country to New England in a train from Seattle and follow with Dennis Warren collaborations in December and then in February of 2007.
2008 was a day old when Forbes created Courtesan Dance and it was winding down when he participated in a tribute to Raphe Malik along with Ras Moshe and our own Mr. Lavelle.
Goodbye Blue Monday is from March of 2008 and involved a robust collaboration with Darius Jones and Shayna Dulberger and the following month found him in Attleboro with Kevin Frenette. At the onset of summer he joined Jim Hobbs and the Brothers of Heliopolis for a Jazz Week event at Roxbury Community College.
He made a trip to Dover New Hampshire in the depths of March 2009 to play with Equal Time. A Baltimore solo arose in the early summer. October found him working again with Dennis Warren in a Full Metal Revolutionary experience enhanced by Dr. T live video using plenty of striking still shots from Lillian Helen Graham. He was also there for the convening of the Citizens Orchestra with participation and guidance from Bill Dixon in early November.
On Christmas night last year he joined the Jazz Composers Alliance at Johnny Dee's in Somerville for a rendition of I Like The Sunshine. By the end of January 2010 he was at the Knitting Factory with a Marc Edwards/Weasel Walter ensemble April of 2010 brought him to Amherst for a duet with percussionist Johan Nystrom and May found him in New York for studio work with Marc Edwards and Weasel Walter. With late summer, he was at Weird Stalk Too in Jamaica Plain.
And now, with the year waning, Forbes is joined by Luther Gray with a sense of the year to come.
Forbes Graham is engaging in a run of performances over the course of December at the Outpost and he was recently featured in a piece by Gordon Marshall at All About Jazz. In many ways Mr. Graham is a consummate participant. He explores possibilities in situations from noise bands to big bands.
We begin with a St. Louis Kayo Dot outing in September of 2006 as I was crossing the country to New England in a train from Seattle and follow with Dennis Warren collaborations in December and then in February of 2007.
2008 was a day old when Forbes created Courtesan Dance and it was winding down when he participated in a tribute to Raphe Malik along with Ras Moshe and our own Mr. Lavelle.
Goodbye Blue Monday is from March of 2008 and involved a robust collaboration with Darius Jones and Shayna Dulberger and the following month found him in Attleboro with Kevin Frenette. At the onset of summer he joined Jim Hobbs and the Brothers of Heliopolis for a Jazz Week event at Roxbury Community College.
He made a trip to Dover New Hampshire in the depths of March 2009 to play with Equal Time. A Baltimore solo arose in the early summer. October found him working again with Dennis Warren in a Full Metal Revolutionary experience enhanced by Dr. T live video using plenty of striking still shots from Lillian Helen Graham. He was also there for the convening of the Citizens Orchestra with participation and guidance from Bill Dixon in early November.
On Christmas night last year he joined the Jazz Composers Alliance at Johnny Dee's in Somerville for a rendition of I Like The Sunshine. By the end of January 2010 he was at the Knitting Factory with a Marc Edwards/Weasel Walter ensemble April of 2010 brought him to Amherst for a duet with percussionist Johan Nystrom and May found him in New York for studio work with Marc Edwards and Weasel Walter. With late summer, he was at Weird Stalk Too in Jamaica Plain.
And now, with the year waning, Forbes is joined by Luther Gray with a sense of the year to come.
Photo Courtesy of Stephen Haynes.
