ET Collective will be back at The Elephant Room tomorrow night to play (mostly) original music. The usual suspects will be on hand:
Marcus Cardwell – sax
Danny Anderson – guitar
Kris Afflerbaugh – bass
Andy Beaudoin – drums
Todd Jenkins – percussion
and, our first set will feature Akina Adderley!
We play from 9:30p to 1:30a and it’s FREE to get in. The Elephant Room is located at 315 Congress Avenue.
We’ve completed our last rehearsal for the short northeast tour in a couple of weeks. We’ll be playing 3 dates on the trip. The first is on Monday, June 14th at the Iridium in New York. Then we head west to play the Rochester International Jazz Festival on Thursday, June 17th. We finish up the trip in Philadelphia on Friday, June 18th where we’ll play Chris’ Jazz Cafe. Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey plays before so that should be a particularly fun gig.
To give you a taste of what we’ve been working on, here’s a recording from our rehearsal today. The quality is bootleg quality, but I hope you enjoy it and can hear through the rough recording.
Horizon Problem
Personnel: ET, Trumpet; Marcus Cardwell, Saxophone; Danny Anderson, Guitar; Kris Afflerbaugh, Bass; Wayne Salzmann, Drums; Todd Jenkins, Percussion
I had wanted to release this website overhaul before all of the traveling me and the family did this past month, but I wasn’t able to get to it. Better now than never.
I’ve rebuilt every aspect of the site on both the front and back ends. Now the entire site uses WordPress, a handrolled theme, and a couple of handy plugins that let this function more like a MVC environment than WordPress is out of the box. In the past couple of months I’ve been exploring using WordPress as a CMS and have had a few clients to try it out on recently. The flexibility is impressive and development is rapid. Most of my past development has been with ColdFusion, but I’m using PHP for most of my projects now.
Each post will have its own unique background image that may or may not directly relate to the post content. Where it doesn’t relate, it’ll be just an image taken that day that gives you a small snapshot of how my day was spent. If you click on the title of the post you’re reading, you’ll see a picture that’s part of a panoramic I took in Paris this past week. Feel free to download the full image.
Because of the overhaul I’ll be able to more easily update the site with current news and upcoming events. I plan on adding music transcriptions, sneak peeks of works in progress, rehearsal audio and video, and more. You can also subscribe to the RSS Feed if you’re hip to that.
To the right you’ll see a place to enter your email address and subscribe to my mailing list. From time to time I send out messages containing the latest news about my music, tour dates posted, etc. I won’t publish or give away your email address to anyone and you can unsubscribe at any time!
In the future I plan on adding a section for photos from rehearsals and shows, a storefront for selling things like CDs, DVDs, t-shirts, unitards…whatever. I’m also going to work on overhauling the Audio and Video pages, adding more content and making them a more engaging.
I’m happy to announce that Kinetic is officially available. You can purchase it directly from iTunes, Amazon.com, or CD Baby.
Kinetic features all original music that I wrote over about a 10 year period. It was recorded over two days in 2008 at Lava Studios in Austin. Special thanks goes out to all the musicians who played on the album (Matt, Angelo, Swift, Nick, John, Devon, Ulrican, Marcus, and Danny). Also, to Jose Alcantar who mixed everything and Jason Crane of The Jazz Session who wrote the liner notes.
“‘Kinetic’ represents everything that is right with contemporary jazz…Telford announces himself as a vehemently original voice.”
« Steve Greenlee, The Boston Globe
“Rather than attempt to re-create Davis’ ‘Aghartha,’…Telford brings his own twist to the tale on ‘Kinetic,’ by blending straight-up funk workouts with sparse, lyrical ballads and tunes that blend well-arranged horn charts with a loose, swanky ‘jam-band’ feel.”
« Jeff Miers, The Buffalo News
“Wow! I’m truly blown away by this CD. Wonderful tunes and slamming horn charts. And the playing! Erik’s such a beautiful trumpeter/soloist. I especially love ‘Death Trap’ and the last three minutes of ‘Horizon Problem’ KILLED me!”
« Nat Adderley, Jr.
“‘Kinetic’ invokes the spirit of Herbie Hancock’s electrically organic Mwandishi band of the early 70’s while creating his own pulse and sound for the world of tomorrow.”
« Derrick Lucas, Program Coordinator for WGMC Jazz 90.1
January’s going to be an exciting month! First of all, the release date of my debut album, Kinetic, is fast approaching. Mark your calendar for Tuesday, January 26th. You’ll be able to download it direct from iTunes or Amazon. Or, pick up a physical copy from CD Baby, directly from this site, and independent record stores.
Next, my Quartet+1 will be performing at the end of the month at The Elephant Room. The group will feature Monique French on vocals, Kris Afflerbaugh on bass, Angelo Lembesis on piano, and David Sierra on drums. We’ll be performing mostly original music featuring my compositions from Kinetic and great music by Kris.
To promote the concert and the CD release, we’ll be performing on Good Day Austin on the morning of Monday, January 25th. We’ll play around 7am so set your alarm clock!
Finally, I’m working on some performances in the northeast that will be coming up this Summer. There are some very exciting things happening so stay tuned!
