Old Time Musketry Album Release Concert Tomorrow!!

It's happening! Tomorrow, Sunday April 5th at Cornelia St Cafe, sets at 8:30 and 10pm. We will be celebrating the release of our new album, "Drifter". We've been working diligently and are so excited to share the music with you! We'll be playing selections from the album and a lot of new material as well. We hope you can join us!

Old Time Musketry is:

Adam Schneit - Saxophone and Clarinet

JP Schlegelmilch - Piano and Accordion

Phil Rowan - Bass

Max Goldman - Drums and Melodica

Old Time Musketry releasing 2nd Album "Drifter" on NCM East Records!

I'm very excited to announce the upcoming release of Old Time Musketry's long-awaited second album, "Drifter" on NCM East Records! We recorded it back in December 2013 and are finally ready to share it with you all. I'm very proud of how it came out, and it features some amazing playing from everyone in the band:

Adam Schneit - Saxophone and Clarinet
JP Schlegelmilch - Piano and Accordion
Phil Rowan - Bass
Max Goldman - Drums and melodica

The official release date is March 31st, but we'll be celebrating with a performance at the Cornelia Street Cafe on Sunday, April 5th at 8:30 PM. We hope you can join us if you're in town! We'll be playing two sets, $10 cover / $10 minimum. 

www.corneliastreetcafe.com

If you live out of town or can't make it to the show, the album should be available on March 31st at the NCM East site, CD Baby, Amazon, Itunes, Bandcamp, and many more. Currently, you can pre-order a digital download of the album at Bandcamp and Amazon:

oldtimemusketry.bandcamp.com/releases

Thanks so much for your support and we hope to see you on the 5th!

Love, 

OTM (Phil, Max, Adam, & JP)
www.oldtimemusketry.com
www.ncmeast.com

Throughout CD Release Show at Cornelia St Cafe!

I sincerely hope you can join me tomorrow night to celebrate the release of my first solo piano CD, Throughout: The Music of Bill Frisell. I recorded the music over a year ago and it's finally out this month on the SteepleChase LookOut label. It's been interesting to revisit this material after such a long time away. I'm playing things a lot differently now, and hopefully better, too.

Thursday, March 28th at 10pm
Cornelia St Cafe
$20 cover (includes a drink)

Time Out NY says:

"Progressive-jazz pianist JP Schlegelmilch celebrates Throughout, a warm and elegant new solo effort devoted to the works of guitarist Bill Frisell."

You can hear some clips of the music and read about the concept of the recording here.

If you can't make the show, Throughout is now available on Amazon and ITunes!

Minerva CD release concert at Cornelia St Cafe

Last Tuesday Minerva celebrated the release of our first CD, "Saturnismo" at Cornelia St Cafe. The whole concert is now up on YouTube, so you can check it out at your leisure. The music has evolved a lot since we recorded these pieces last summer!
Here's our performance of a composition of mine called "The Valenti", named after an ugly painting.
Saturnismo is available for purchase through Carlo's website.

Jesse Stacken and Kirk Knuffke at Cornelia St Cafe

On Sunday I heard pianist Jesse Stacken and cornetist Kirk Knuffke at Cornelia St, who were celebrating the release of their latest album of duets, "Orange was the Color." The new album focuses on the music of Charles Mingus, and they picked some great tunes from the vast body of work of a master composer. Indeed, they played some of my personal favorites, like "Duke Ellington's Sound of Love", and "Peggy's Blue Skylight."
The duo didn't exclusively play the Mingus songbook on the gig, and it was interesting to see the interconnectedness of their repertoire choices. There were two Steve Lacy pieces, who was also a great admirer of Mingus, and who also recorded some Mingus tunes in his duet albums with Mal Waldron. There was also "Such Sweet Thunder" by Duke Ellington, perhaps Mingus' greatest influence. This is from one of my favorite Duke records, also called "Such Sweet Thunder". I did an arrangement of a piece called "Sonnet for Caesar" from that record for Old Time Musketry, you can listen here.

Find more Old Time Musketry songs at Myspace Music

Here's a short clip of Jesse and Kirk's rendition of "Such Sweet Thunder"






There were also pieces by Carla Bley, Misha Mengleberg, and Albert Ayler. Jesse and Kirk have a really deep rapport that can only come from years of playing together, and they kept a really nice rhythmic intensity on the swinging tunes which is not easy to do in a piano/horn duo setting! I also always enjoy seeing musicians taking on a repertoire project, hearing them interpret music that they connect with.