Podcast appearances and mentions of andrew durkin

We’re not at Artichoke Music this week or next. The store is open and doing well, but since I have all the right things wrong with me, I’m going to wait for the vaccine to arrive before I start recording there again. This is a week I’ve been waiting for...literally, years. Composer Andrew Durkin and Mary-Sue Tobin are Skyping with me because after a four-year wait, Five Pointed Star, the collaboration between Andrew and the Quadraphonnes, Oregon’s all-female saxophone quartet, is about to be released…and it’s very special. It’s unique, as you might expect, reflecting the unique personalities and talents of all involved.

This is another OMN Coffeshop Conversation at Artichoke Music. The final one for 2020. The next two weeks you’ll find our best two conversations of what has been an awful year. I’d like to thank everyone who as been a guest on the podcast. It hasn’t been easy, but it sure has been worth it. January we will return with a couple of interesting episodes including Ben Landsverk and Andrew Durkin. But to wrap up the year I wanted to sit down with a guy who has helped facilitate every episode we’ve recorded here, Artichoke’s store manager Jason Alberger. He’s also a guitarist and composer and I don’t know what we’d do without him.

We’re back at Catfish Lou’s at 2460 NW 24th for another Coffeeshop Conversation. We’re coming full circle today because with Michelle Medler, we have now had all four of the Quadraphonnes on the podcast. Of course, we’ll talk about them but Michelle is here to talk about her new album Pink Sky. Some funky Jazz with husband Ben on bass, Dan Gildea on guitar and the ubiquitous drummer du jour Edwin Coleman III. Yes, we’ll try to find out when the Quadraphonnes album of Andrew Durkin music is coming out and we’ll probably fail. Has there ever been a longer-awaited Jazz album around here? I don’t think so. Nevertheless, Michelle Medler persisted.

Welcome back to World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. Let’s go back to the first week of December in 2014, the premiere of Coffeeshop Conversations. This is number 109 of them, but number one was with saxophonist Mary-Sue Tobin, she of the Quadraphonnes and many many other bands and every kind of saxophone imaginable. When we passed number 100 a couple of months ago, I wanted to come back to her. Boy was that the right decision. She’s smart, funny and bursting with ideas. And we share an obsession about a certain pop tune. You’ll find out. She’s got so many things going on these days, including a Quadraphonnes gig playing the music of Andrew Durkin coming up. Let’s just dive in. p.s. She sent me a track from Paxselin called "Death and the Child" from A Guide To Desolation Wilderness to end things.

December 1, 2016 Welcome to World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan for another Oregon Music News Coffeeshop Conversation. Joining me is one of those people who is hard to categorize…as if we needed categorization. That’s another topic. The topic today is Andrew Durkin, who is generally lumped into the Jazz category, but he’s much more than that. He has a new album, his first in a long time. It’s called Breath of Fire and we’ll find out why. We’ll also find out about humor in music, something Zappa used to talk about, and Andrew’s music has been compared to Frank’s I have found Andrew’s new album to be a welcome respite to the awfulness of our current situation in this country. He didn’t plan it that way, but…….

In the first episode of the PJCE's new podcast Beyond Category, Andrew Durkin reveals his own personal coffee ceremony, and the traditional ceremony of Ethipoia that he learned about from his daughter's second grade report, that inspired his newest work for the PJCE Sextet.

Mike explores the wonderful world of Andrew Durkin's left coast ensemble The Industrial Jazz Group. Meanwhile, Pat grumbles in the corner. What a bastard. Industrial Jazz Group - HARDCORE, CITY OF ANGLES, STAR CHAMBER, INDUSTRIAL JAZZ A GO-GO, LEEF.

The Industrial Jazz Group is a 15-ish-piece large ensemble that plays the inventive, challenging and often hilarious music of composer Andrew Durkin. That sentence, though, doesn't come close to doing them justice. The band, made up of musicians fluent in jazz, classical and rock -- and inspired by the free-for-all spirit of Frank Zappa -- is a force of nature, slinking, striding and crashing through Durkin's charts with an obvious love for the group's collective sound. In this interview, Durkin talks about how the band grew from its original trio formation; how comedy works to the group's advantage; and how he's used social networking sites to expand the band's audience. The Industrial Jazz Group is on an East Coast tour through 10/24. Dates and locations are available at IndustrialJazzGroup.com. For more on the IJG, head over to Popdose and read my review of their show in Pittsfield, MA. If you'd like to buy their album, Leef (Evander, 2008), you can support The Jazz Session by purchasing it via the link below: