October 15, 2015 - The UAB Jazz Faculty Quintet visited three area high schools today to play for the students and teach some classes. Between the three schools we did four sets today! Thanks to Hoover High School, Vestavia High School, and the Alabama School Of Fine Arts.
July 2015 - Get your DVD / CD of the Jason Bailey Band Live At Dugger Mountain Music Hall! Both formats in one package - listen & buy HERE!
May 2015 - Recorded Rob Alley's Alabama Songbook (selections from Byron Arnold's Folk Songs of Alabama, arranged by Rob) in one long session in Tuscaloosa. It was incredible to work with engineer Jamie Tagg - he had us all in one room: vocals, mandolin, trumpet, sax, keys, upright bass, drums, and we got a sweet sound tracking live together, without headphones, even! Very excited about what went down- look for the CD later in the year.
March 2015 - Great show at a great venue: Chad Fisher's new afrobeat / country / rock project at Huntsville's Tangled String Studios! The room has a super sound and the crowd is there to listen - we appreciated their hospitality & look forward to playing there again!
February 2015 - The new album by The Birmingham Seven is out NOW! Get a copy for everyone you know at CD Baby or iTunes! We loved making it and you will love listening to it! UAB Jazz Summit 2015 was incredible! UAB Jazz faculty get to lead area high-schoolers in big bands or small groups, and it's always great to see what the students and teachers can accomplish after just two rehearsal-filled days (less than 24 hours this year!). My sextet did tunes by Horace Silver, Chick Corea, and Ornette Coleman. Branford Marsalis did a Q&A session that was inspiring and made us all want to practice, and of course his quartet concert later that night had the same effect.
January 2015 - Happy New Year!!! My Dugger Mountain Music Hall session drumming for Jason Bailey airs this month on Alabama Public Television (Tues, January 13 at 10 PM) and the Heartland network!
Had a great time Jan 9-10 with the Grissom High School Jazz Band in Huntsville, helping them prepare for Swing Central 2015 & the Savannah Music Festival! Congratulations to director Theo Vernon and the band for being invited to participate in this year's festival!
November 22, 2014 - Just returned from 10 days in Colombia with folks from the UAB Jazz faculty. We did concerts, master classes, and jam sessions; about 15 performances in all!
September 7, 2014 - Thanks to writer Brett Levine, photographer Jerry Siegel, and B-Metro Magazine for featuring me in this month's Studio column, right HERE!
August 2, 2014 - Check out my Downright / UAB Jazz Europe 2014 photos HERE! Thanks to Downright for the opportunity to play an international festival in Lucerne, Switzerland (video highlights from the Downright show right HERE), and thanks to UAB Jazz for taking our American jazz sounds to Germany for several amazing days!