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jt bates

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About Me

bands- fat kid wednesdays, alpha consumer, carbon carousel, dean magraw trio, the pines, james buckley trio, face candy, dubsack, regional jazz trio, low blows. sometimes seen w: prairie home companion guy's all star shoe band, francois corneloup, tony hymas, greg brown, bo ramsey, chris thomson, dosh band, pieta brown, dominique pifarely, robert skoro, john gorka, michel portal, and the dolly's.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/24/2006
Influences: i think "inspiration" would be a better name for this section of my personal myspace website page here. um, lately i'm listening to : karl berger "crystal fire", autechre "tri repetae", bob dylan "desire", pieta brown "remember the sun", soul jazz "studio one dj's", miles davis "miles smiles", paul motian "on broadway vol iii", chris whitley/jeff lang "dislocation blues" ed blackwell, rob brown/sean booth, howard wyeth, chad cromwell, tony williams, paul motian, ashley davies.
Sounds Like: face candy at the artists quarter
Record Label: hope street. mary ellen. rhymesayers. red house
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

new lesson spot

Hi there. if anyone is interested, i'm now teaching at the new Ellis Drum shop location in richfield. 75th and Lyndale. Monday and Tuesday afternoons. anyone welcome. message me here if you're int...
Posted by jt bates on Tue, 08 May 2007 04:30:00 PST

french television w/ michel portal

i recently played in paris with michel portal's group for the release of "birdwatcher" his latest record on universal jazz france. produced by jean rochard, this recording features a lot of great mus...
Posted by jt bates on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:47:00 PST

clown lodge

music happens to people
Posted by jt bates on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:11:00 PST