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About Me

I'm a crazy character that deejays the hottest plates from the coolest gators ever to wax a disc. I'm keen on the red-hot jazz, blues, rags, barrelhouse, torch-songs, and other smokin' tunes with enough chops that comes on from the era of speakeasies, fly flappers, petting parties, charlestons, bunny-hugs, shimmies, and free-flowin' jittersauce. Them cats that laid down those tracks are all wearing wooden kiminos now, but what they left behind has enough to still get the joint jumpin'!
I tip along the Stroll looking to score gigs at any local speakeasy, tearoom, gutbucket, or anyplace else with enough room to cut a rug by those cats wanting to get their kicks from a deejay that has his boots on.
I am a regular at the Rosebud joint on E. Pike--every Tuesday night there you can cool your heels or heat them up. Check my flyer below for the full skinny.
And I also pop up every month to swing the hepcats at Dark Avenue inside the Funhouse dive. Slip on the gumshoes for an evening of cabaret-noir full of mystery, intrigue, and swingin' tunes.
I used to sling the sounds of the shellac at an actual speakeasy called Cafe Corsair--it had to throw in the cards before it got too hot, but they're looking at other digs elsewhere. Stay tuned!
Plant you now and dig you later!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Vamps, tramps, flappers, dandies, hipsters, swing kids, and cats draping dapper dry goods and collars all the jive. If you'd like to skin me and head to the blind pig to see a man about a dog, that'll be Jake to me.

So, daddy-o, are you booted?

I just fell out over:

My Blog

SPEAKEASY is getting the heat!

Greetings vixens and vipers!For over a year, the Speakeasy has been bringing the heat to Seattle, providing an atmosphere of breezy decadence and the joys of a period steeped in vision and vice. But ...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:11:00 GMT

[06/17] Dark Avenue with the Bakelite 78s

Greetings all you vixens and vipers! It's time once again for Dark Avenue, the dark-noir cabaret in the seedy underbelly of Seattle. And this time the featured entertainment will be Robert Rial and th...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:07:00 GMT

Speakeasy One-Year Anniversary tomorrow night!

Greetings all you vamps, tramps, flapper and philosophers! For the past year, the Speakeasy has been bringing you back in time to an era of vision and vice, prohibition and progress, crime and creativ...
Posted by on Mon, 11 May 2009 16:36:00 GMT

The Blue Hour @ Speakeasy

Tonight's Speakeasy will debut a new occasional feature:THE BLUE HOURWhen both hands are at the top of the clock, you may want to put both your hands around your ears...Ever since the first discs were...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:43:00 GMT

[04/15] Tax Day edition of Dark Avenue

That's right, all you swing kids and hepcats--it's an all new edition of DarkAvenue, featuring the good tunes from The Bad Things!And since it all goes down on April 15, the tales of mystery and intri...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:55:00 GMT

March playlists

A few more from Speakeasy as well as last month's Dark Avenue. Spring is in the air, and people are feeling good!(r)request(i) inquiry(78) played off the original 78rpm shellac recordMarch 17, 2009 @ ...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:25:00 GMT

[03/18] Dark Avenue film-noir cabaret

Calling all hepcats and vixens! Coming up on Wednesday March 18 will be another edition of Dark Avenue, Seattle's only film-noir cabaret.Join us for an evening of mystery and intrigue, shadows and swi...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:19:00 GMT

February playlists

Here's a couple more from the Speakeasy for the archives. February marked the debut of Dark Avenue, a film-noir cabaret, for which I had been invited as a regular weaver of the swanky ambiance and gri...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:39:00 GMT

January playlists

January marked the end of Cafe Corsair, an actual illicit underground speakeasy, but it was a whole lotta fun while it lasted. Those folks who ran it may open up elsewhere, so keep your eyes peeled! T...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:34:00 GMT

Dark Avenue: A new night of cabaret noir

Dark Avenue is a monthly night of live music and cabaret performance based on film noir and flavored with slinky, gritty 1940s style.Every second Wednesday at the FUNHOUSE 206 5th Ave NDoors at 9, sho...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:38:00 GMT