A quick update: I’ll be at the Blue Room at 18th & Vine in Kansas City, MO this Friday May 20 (8:30) with Gerald Dunn, Everette Freeman and Mike Warren. Saturday, May 21(6:00), I’ll be in Marshall, MO at the Inaugural Bob James Jazz Festival with Joe Athon, Will Matthews, Ryan Howard and Clarence Smith. [...]

I’ve had a fantastic first year teaching at Ottawa University. The spring semester is wrapping up with a Concert by all the campus jazz groups and the OU Faculty Jazz Quintet. The concert is Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. in the Chapel on the OU campus. The faculty group will be playing compositions [...]

Please join us for an evening of rare grooves and great improvisation at Kansas City’s beautiful and unique R Bar. Special guest master percussionist Sait Arat. Mark Southerland on tenor and unique wind instruments of his own design. Bill McKemy on Bass and Kent Burnham on Drums. Thursday, 10/14/2010, 9:00p.m.

T.J. Martley is a pianist I met a few months back while doing a “Charlie Parker” themed event with Clarence Smith’s group.  We have played a few times since then and have a few more dates that are approaching.  He will be with my trio (with drummer Zach Albetta) at the Columbia Regional Medical Center [...]