Another rant from Dred Scott-
last weekend was kind of a blur. me and mc extra cheese drove up from nyc friday nite because our set was at 11am saturday morning. i remember hitting the pillow about midnight and waking what seemed like ten minutes later at 6am. time to pick up tony at the train station. he had a gig the night before in philly and took the midnight train up to kingston where at 7am i found him sleeping under an oak tree. breakfast in the too quaint town of newport was had and we pulled into the venue at about 9am. we dropped off our merch and hung around the stage waiting and trying not to sit down. shark mode, i call it. if you stop moving you die. or in our case, fall asleep. so we hit the stage at about 11:10 to a good size audience. half of which disappeared at about 11:30 to go see dave holland. at the time i thought it was because we had just played a rousing version of ‘mojo rhythm’ and had turned some people off. thanks to ben’s small army of
family members, it still sounded like a whole crowd from the stage. i think i can say with relative confidence that we made newport jazz history by combining free jazz, suit jazz, blue oyster cult and rapping into a 50 minute set. i had programmed a standard but that got cut in a game time decision. after, we did some interviews (watch for a travel channel documentary on the festival) got some food and hung out in the press tent.
and oh my god, saw wayne. he was just amazing. i mean other worldly.
also saw brian blade’s band. awesome. and ethan iverson with charlie haden and bill frisell. also awesome. we also saw a virtuosic ukelele dude from hawaii. tony thought he was ready to graduate to guitar.
smoked some weed with some fat hippie chicks i think had been there since last weeks folk festival. at least that was the last time i think they had been indoors. didn’t get to meet chris botti. a disappointment, for sure. we recorded the set so we might get a live at newport album out of it. and they asked us back for next year. sweet.
so we are feeling very energized. i think tonight’s set will be a good one. come and see for yourself. straight from the newport jazz
festival…
click here to see video from one song:
Ourstage
THE DRED SCOTT TRIO
TONIGHT
MIDNIGHT
ROCKWOOD MUSIC HALL
W/ BEN RUBIN, BASS
TONY MASON, DRUMS
ALSOALSOALSOALSO
FOR THOSE OF YOU EARLY RISERS, WORKER BEES AND BREEDERS
MONDAY AUGUST 18
THE DRED SCOTT TRIO
SMALL’S
7:30 and 9pm
check out live at the rockwood for free -Rockwood
‘this disc (live at rockwood) demonstrates that scott’s vision of bop is a deeply personal one, which can be either cozily swinging or devilishly tricky.’ time out, ny
‘Live at the Rockwood Music Hall is a beautiful showcase of this dynamic piano trio.’ allaboutjazz-newyork
‘a restless trio.’ ny times
