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Set List, Eric Ottem Jazz Unit at Dry Land 7th Anniversary

Dry Land Distillers, Friday August 8th, 6-8:30 p.m.

Set One

  1. Work Song (with Joseph Andrews on Sax)
  2. Blue Bossa (with Joseph Andrews on Sax)
  3. Footprints
  4. Comin’ Home Baby
  5. Azul Serape
  6. Samba De Orfeu
  7. Why Does The Wind Blow? (with Joseph Andrews on Sax)
  8. So What (with Joseph Andrews on Sax)
  9. Cantaloupe Island (with Joseph Andrews on Sax)

Set Two

  1. All Blues
  2. Love For Sale
  3. Moanin’
  4. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
  5. Wives & Lovers
  6. Nutville (with Joseph Andrews on Sax)
  7. Mercy Mercy Mercy (with Joseph Andrews on Sax)

New Album: “Twelve and Twenty”

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“Twelve and Twenty”, my latest solo improvisation album, is out now! It’s a bit special, as it marks a couple personal milestones: twenty years of full-time employment in music and my twelfth solo improvisation album.

Check it out in any of the usual places and, as always, thanks for listening.
-Vic

100 Subscribers on YouTube

My 15 year old Youtube Channel hit 100 subscribers. There’s a bunch of music (live and otherwise) for your listening enjoyment, go check it out!

“Lullaby of Birdland” with the Vic and Doug Jazz Duo

Doug and I playing George Shearing’s “Lullaby of Birdland” at Dry Land Distillers’ First Wednesday Jazz in February.

“Kisah Lelly Sang Pengulik dan Laskar Penyelamat Bumi” (Director Joaquim Baeta)

My tune “The Chaff Can Catch the Light” shows up in Joaquim Baeta‘s short Kisah Lelly Sang Pengulik dan Laskar Penyelamat Bumi.

About the Film, from Internet Archive:

In ‘Kisah Lelly Sang Pengulik dan Laskar Penyelamat Bumi’ (Lelly the Investigator and the Wayfaring Rangers of the Enigmatic Earth), we are introduced to a mysterious figure (Lelly), who works in the dark depths of a university building, and her army of soldiers (students), commissioned to protect and save the Earth. These young warriors discuss their approaches, while their leader reveals how she deploys her various kinds of carrots and (drum)sticks to motivate and encourage them. Will she succeed in her mission? I have no idea.

Silliness aside, this short film melds an introduction (in Bahasa Indonesia) to Lelly and the work of her students, along with the accoutrements that encompass being her supervisee, including her so-called 24-hour service, life-time consultation, and ‘free gym,’ all with humourous terms and conditions. Meanwhile, the work described runs the gamut of her expertise: plant and wildlife ecology, the intersections of humans and nature, and habitat modelling.

“Dunlewey” is one of AllAboutJazz’s Most Popular Jazz Songs of 2024

screenshot of the "Most Popular Jazz Songs 2024" article at AllAboutJazz

My tune Dunlewey made AllAboutJazz’s list of the most popular jazz songs of 2024, with 3,653 listens in November and December. It’s still free to stream or download it AllAboutJazz.

“The Silliest” EP by Kosnoco (Produced by Vic)

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Curious Automata label-mate Kosnoco returns with yet another genre-defying release. It’s kinda idm, kinda djent, kinda an indescribable mashup of styles that makes you both confused and dance-y.

I dig it, you have to hear it.