Summer 2024 into fall

Happy mid-summer everyone…

Writing to you from beautiful Oakland CA on a west coast run with the STEVE GADD BAND (heard of him??)— first show here at Yoshi’s was phenomenal!

and catch us in the fall with Steve Martin and Martin Short on the “Dukes of Funnytown” tour… if ya can!

9/19/2024Nashville, TNGrand Ole Opry House

9/20/2024 Louisville, KY Louisville Palace

9/21/2024 Spartanburg, SC Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium

10/4/2024 Saginaw, MI Temple Theatre

10/5/2024 Rosemont, IL Rosemont Theatre

10/6/2024 Madison, WI Overture Center for the Arts

10/18/2024 Oxon Hill, MD The Theater at MGM National Harbor

10/19/2024 Brookville, NY Tilles Center for the Performing Arts

11/1/2024Columbus, OH Mershon Auditorium

11/2/2024Detroit, MI Fox Theatre

11/15/2024Mashantucket, CTFoxwoods Resort Casino - Premier Theater

11/16/2024Mashantucket, CTFoxwoods Resort Casino - Premier Theater

Finally (for now)… the BAND OF OTHER BROTHERS with Will Lee, Jeff Coffin, Keith Carlock, Nir Felder and myself is finishing up overdubs, vocals, and mixes on our upcoming holiday album! And we’re PUMPED! It’s sounding really great. Half re-imagined holiday chestnuts and half new original songs, lots of fun vocals from Will (with a guest vocal from Lucy Woodward), this going to be a fun one. Chris Allen is handling the engineering on this one and doing a stellar job— this guy is a supreme wrangler of tones! So stay tuned and leave room in your stockings for this one…

That’s all for now!

we're well into 2024...

Amazing to have just participated in LOVE ROCKS NYC at the Beacon Theatre with music director guru WILL LEE and an all star band (Shawn Pelton, Steve Gadd, Eric Krasnow, Larry Campbell, Michael Bearden, Pedrito Martinez, horns & singers) backing up Dave Grohl, Larkin Poe, Nile Rodgers & CHIC, Lucius, Allison Russell, Marcus King, Don Felder, Black Keys, Joss Stone, Bettye Lavette and more. Videos and pictures will be posted onto the vids and pix links on this website— woohoo!

Also been in and out stepping in for the incredible and incomparable Jim Beard with Steely Dan, a momentous experience for me. Thank you to my old friend Mike Leonhart and Jon Herington for helping me through. And to Keith Carlock for the call. But mostly, our hearts go out to Jim Beard who we lost during my recent tenure with the band. No words can express the stamp he had on modern jazz music and also in the Steely Dan organization, and his loss is felt far and wide.