A poem from Lucille Clifton

Lucille Clifton - one of Maryland's finest!

Rehearsal with Luther

Luther and I are playing next Tuesday (the 16th) at Outpost. Here's a clip from rehearsal.

Forbes Graham + Luther Gray rehearsal 11/8/10 from Forbes Graham on Vimeo.

Ellie Goulding "Lights" dubstep remix

I'm way way way behind on the whole dubstep bandwagon. Honestly, most of it is way too slow for my taste. But for some reason I've got into dubstep remixes of pop songs, and this is one of my favorites.

Para Quintet at Zeitgeist Outpost

Thoughts

Bill Dixon passed away in his sleep on Tuesday. I was blessed with the opportunity to spend some time with him these past couple of years. I don't feel that I could really pay him any real tribute in my own writing. So I won't. But I feel that I must take a moment to editorialize a bit. If every musician playing modern improvised music would approach their work with HALF, even HALF the integrity that Bill approached his music with..well, there'd probably be a lot less music. Coming from us at least.

But the music that would be there, would be a lot better.

That's just my opinion anyway.

Rest in peace, Bill. I don't want to admit that you have died, but I guess I have to. You have died, but you have not gone.

Marc Edwards/Weasel Walter group - "Blood of the Earth"

Coming to a theatre near you on June 1!

Mobius Artrages

Last Saturday Grizzler participated in ArtRages, an event put on by Mobius. The party took place in an office building near the airport. Lily and I went to Atlantic Works Gallery and then headed on up to this. I'm enjoying going to East Boston more these days.

Here's a compilation of sorts from ArtRages.