Old Time Musketry August tour dates!

So excited to take to the road with Old Time Musketry this week on our east coast/midwest tour! Please help us spread the word if you have friends in any of these cities who would like to hear some indie/folk/jazz from Brooklyn!

More about the band here: www.oldtimemusketry.com


August 8th: The Windup Space, Baltimore, MD w/ Snail Knights and Talking Points.

August 9th: The Electric Maid, Washington, DC

August 10th: Private Event, Huntingdon, PA

August 11th: Merrimans’ Playhouse, South Bend, IN

August 12th: The Black Sparrow, Lafayette, IN.

August 13th: The Whistler, Chicago, IL

August 14th: The Garden Theatre, Columbus, OH

We've got some new music in the works, preparing to record a second album....

Pandora's Box

I've been reading up on the unfolding saga of Pandora's fight to decrease royalty payments to artists. Pandora is currently in the process of lobbying congress to lower their already absurdly low royalty rates by 85%. The singer David Lowery recently wrote in a blog post about being paid $16.89 for over 1 million plays on Pandora of the hit song "Low".

He was also interviewed on NPR's Studio 360.

Many other artists, including Pink Floyd have been speaking out about this issue, and also about Pandora's attempt to get artists behind them by writing "letters of support" for internet radio.

Pandora's founder Tim Westergen claims that the 85% royalty cut is "misinformation", but doesn't really address what they're hoping to achieve in their negotiations with Congress.

Internet radio streaming services like Pandora and Spotify offer an incredible experience for listeners, but the fact is that they make no sense as business models. Both of them lose money every year and they'd prefer to find ways to pay artists less rather than improving their business models. At least Spotify has a subscription plan! It will be interesting to see what becomes of these companies in the near future.

Minerva at Spectrum tonight!

Minerva is playing at Spectrum in the Lower East Side tonight. I'm excited to play the Steinway grand!
This is the 2nd installment of the Canyons music series, here's tonight's lineup:

Tuesday, July 2

@ Spectrum (121 Rivington)
Admission: 10 bucks (suggested)

8pm, Minerva:
Carlo Costa
JP Schlegelmilch
Pascal Niggenkemper


9pm,
Ben Gerstein, trombone
Gian Luigi Diana, laptop/live electronics
Morgan O'Hara, pencils/live transmission drawing

Free-improvisation for trombone and live electronics with attention and performative drawing.

10pm,
Todd Neufeld
Eivind Opsvik
Flin van Hemmen

Flin will be premiering a brand new piece in which preconceived sound meditations and improvisations will be in close dialogue. Possibly these lines will be blurred until one is not sure which is which, for life is a composition. Eivind plays bass, Todd the acoustic guitar, and Flin will play piano as well as drums.

Solo show at the Lily Pad tomorrow

I'll be heading to Cambridge, MA tomorrow to play a solo set at the Lily Pad. I'll be sharing the bill with two great singer-songwriters, Abby Payne and Erik White. I'll be playing some new music for piano and electronics. I've been exploring playing piano along with loops of electronic sounds and pre-recorded samples, getting into some real mad scientist territory. The show info is here.

Minerva Midwest Tour!

Tomorrow I take to the road with the collaborative trio Minerva for seven straight nights of concerts, followed by a recording when we return to New York. It's the first time that this group has played outside of NYC, and we're excited to get to do so much consistent playing to develop the new music we're going to record.

The band is:

Carlo Costa - Drums
Pascal Niggenkemper - Bass
JP Schlegelmilch - Piano

Here are the dates!

May 16th: Minerva at Mahall's, 13200 Madison Ave, Lakewood, OH - 8pm
May 17th: Minerva at Trinosophes, 1464 Gratiot Ave, Detroit, MI - 8pm
May 18th: Minerva at Heaven Gallery, 1550 North Milwaukee, 2nd floor Chicago, IL - 8pm
May 19th: Minerva at Hungry Brain, 2319 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL - 8pm
May 20th: Minerva at Merriman’s Playhouse, 1211 Mishawaka Ave, South Bend, IN - 8pm
May 21st: Minerva at Black Sparrow, 223 Main Street, Lafayette, IN - 8pm
May 22nd: Minerva at the Garden Theater, 1187 North High St Columbus OH, 8pm

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!

Gutai: Splendid Playground

The Guggenheim Museum used an electronic piece I composed in a promo video for a piece called "Water" by Motonaga Sadamasa which is currently installed in the museum's rotunda. I saw it in person last week, it looks amazing!