The Next Phase… I’ve since done some tweaking of the standard quartet orchestration (Sax-Chords-Bass-Drums). At first I added a second Chordal instrument. Playing once, at the end of September ’08 at the Ivy Room in Albany, with vibes and guitar. A week later, I used guitar and keys at Linden Street. Then I got an [...]
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Group: The Next Phase
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CG4: Fall ’08: Silk Road Lounge
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Phase 5 was a month and a half affair at the Silk Road Lounge. The gig showed some promise, but it also had some funky backroom stuff going on, so it played itself out fairly quick. But in the meantime, I went through a huge phase of bringing in as many different players, in as [...]
CG+: Summer ’08: Linden Brewery
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Phase 4 introduced us all to the Linden Brewery. Adam and Carey are two dudes with a dream… bring beer back to Oaktown! Brewing was THE biggest economy of Oakland in the 1800′s. Turns out the 49′ers loved to drink, go figure! After prohibition, the East Bay took some time off. Linden Brewery, located in [...]
CG3: Spring, Summer ’08: Zza’s Winebar
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The big question of this process turned up during Phase 3. A friend of mine works at a local Italian restaurant (Zza’s) and it’s connected winebar. They were starting up a weekly Thursday musicnight. It was most definitely NOT the right venue for my funk-jazz vamp quartet. But I missed the straight-ahead fix that I [...]
CG4: Winter ’07: Cafe Van Kleef
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Phase 2 was Cafe Van Kleef. I had played 200 shows there with a band called Sonic Camouflage, a straight-ahead jazz outfit with the “Kind of Blue” orchestration. We were the first band to play at Van Kleef’s, and were the house band on Wednesdays and Fridays for years. After 3 years and 9 months, [...]
CG3: Summer, Fall ’07: Coffee With A Beat
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The Colin Gleason Group has been around for about a year now. I guess it depends on when the stopwatch started. It has been a great first year: it has renewed my energy, my faith in myself, and my faith in music. The band has gone through many phases, roughly coinciding with various residencies at [...]
