Jim Alfredson

What an amazing day. The Dirty Fingers show was so much fun, we had trouble stopping (and got in trouble for it!) I could've played all night with that band. A huge thanks to my organ brother from another mother, Brian Charette for his musicianship and grace. And thank you to Fareed Haque for sitting in and putting on a clinic! Michael Dease, you were blowing some serious stuff on that trombone! Wow! Jordan Young sat in on drums and put the stank on that blues. Also Lawrence Barris and Ralph...

Ok, friends. This weekend are two killer shows at the Old Town Jazz Festival in Lansing featuring your's truly. Friday night is Glenn Brown & Intergalactic Spiral + "exp". This is improvised alien space jazz from the nearest cluster of dark matter, beamed in via photon pulses directly to the hosts' brain matter (the hosts being Glenn Brown, myself, Robert Tye, Mark Kieme, David Taylor, and special guest Rodney Whitaker). I will be relaying telekinetic alien desires via Hammond, Rhodes, Andr...

I'm playing with Lawrence Barris and Sean Dobbins at Andiamo in Bloomfield Township tonight starting at 7:30pm. Last minute gig.

Anyone in Lansing or Grand Rapids have access to a set of tubular bells?

Question: What do these things have in common? 1) 1954 Hammond C2 2) Hammond Organ USA SK2 3) Casio Music Gear Privia PX5s 4) 1975 Rhodes Seventy-Three 5) Alesis Andromeda 6) Moog Music Inc. Minimoog Voyager 7) Dave Smith Instruments Mopho Keyboard 8) Camel Audio Alchemy VST 9) Steinberg HALion Sonic VST 10) Steinberg Retrologue VST 11) Pianoteq VST (soon to be replaced by real piano) 12) 1927 E.M. Skinner pipe organ 13) KORG Monopoly VST 14) u-he Diva VST 15) u-he Zebra VST 16) Sythesize...

So I've read three books (and finished another I had started) on this twelve day trip. I need something else to read. I have a huge wish-list on Amazon but nothing is appealing at the moment. Suggestions?

Yes is playing tonight at Meadowbrook. Anyone going? I'll be living large at the Las Vegas airport so I can't go. Bummer.

All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

Alberta Rose Theater in Portland OR tonight!

Are any of my cool friends also masters at custom Wordpress templates?

Life begins at incorporation.

Hello, LAX.

As I was sitting in Greenfield Village with the girls and my wife, the five of us enjoying copious amounts of frozen custard, and thinking about how things were for women back in those days (around 1850 or so), I had the following thought: How much further along would the human race be if the majority of societies were not as ruthlessly patriarchal? How many potential Einsteins/Newtons/Edisons/Teslas/Darwins/Platos/etc. did we lose due to the misogyny inherent in the most successful civilizat...

At Greenfield Village with the family. So much fun. Haven't been here since I was in fifth grade.

“Unless you become more watchful in your States and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges, you will in the end find that the most important powers of Government have been given or bartered away, and the control of your dearest interests have been passed into the hands of these corporations.” ~ Andrew Jackson “Slavery is the legal fiction that a person is property. Corporate personhood is the legal fiction that property is a person.” - Dav...

Any of my Lansing friends have a good USB audio interface with at least four input channels I can borrow for a day?

Any of my German or Swedish friends have advice on where to live in those countries?

Oh, so now you can get Coke with your name printed on the label. Will they also send you a personalized Get Well card when you contract diabetes?

Heading home.

The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano tonight. Guitar Shorty is also on the bill. What?!? Gonna be a good one. 8pm!

Levitt Pavillion in Pasadena, CA with Janiva Magness tonight! 8pm. She'll have the new CD on hand so come see a FREE show and grab the new album.

Hey Hammond friends, my bud Steve Force is selling his like-new Hammond XK1c. I can vouch for Steve, he's a great guy. Anyone looking for the latest and greatest Hammond, send Steve a message!

Ever hear Jimmy Smith's Root Down on a Farfisa accordion? No? That's because you're not cool enough.

Stella (6 years old) from the bathroom: "Whoa!" Starts giggling. I walk in and she's on the pot. "Dad look!" In the bowl is a man-sized number two. "It's as long as Herman's tail! I can't believe it didn't break!" That's my girl.

Heading home from a wonderful four days in NYC. Made music with friends, saw some old friends, some new friends, and capped it off with a stunning show by Brian Charette and his trio last night at the 55 Bar. One of the most creative organ trios I've ever witnessed. Home bound to my girls!