Check out the following events featuring drummer Tim DuRoche:




Read the rest of the press release after the jump:
Better Homes & Gardens Live on the Air on KMHD
Saturday, February 2 at 2 pm Better Homes and Gardens kick off the 2008 live-on-the-air season for KMHD 89.1FM’s Home Grown Live hosted by Mary Burlingame. Enjoy an hour of music and conversation with Reed Wallsmith, Sly Pig (the saxophonist formerly known as Joe Cunningham ), Bob Jones and Tim DuRoche . Rich chemistry, freewheeling jazz in the tradition of the 1960s “new thing” —think Ornette, Charles Brackeen, Dewey Redman, with a cinematic twist.

The group then takes the stage the following Tuesday, February 5 on the KMHD/Jimmy Mak’s series Partners in Jazz, opening from 6:30-7:30 pm in front of the Mel Brown Septet.

WHAT WE PLAY

In the tradition of innovators like Coleman Hawkins, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, and Ornette Coleman, Better Homes & Gardens perform improvised music that suspends the rules and eschews the okey-doke—freely embracing the jazz continuum from ragtime to no time. Cinematic, cathartic, playful and slyly beautiful.

WHO WE ARE

Better Homes & Gardens is an all-star cooperative of Portland, OR-based indie jazz and free-improv knockabouts, featuring saxophonists REED WALLSMITH (Blue Cranes) and SLY PIG, the saxophonist formerly known as Joe Cunningham (Blue Cranes, Decemberists, Charlie Hunter), bassist BOB JONES (Evolutionary Jass Band) and drummer TIM DuROCHE (Resolution 57, Tiny Tim, Jack McDuff, Wally Shoup).

WHAT WE DO

Occasionally they add bassist FRED CHALENOR (Robert Fripp, Elliott Sharp, Wayne Horvitz) and revv-up an all-Ornette Coleman project that swings like mad with its two-bass/two-horn lineup. Intrepid and brave, the group’s tackled an original evening-length score for Tere Mathern Dance, performed 23 Anthems for the So. Waterfront, and appeared at Someday Lounge, the Paxselin presents series at Red & Black Cafe, Tugboat Brewing Co., Mississippi Studios, and at Holocene to commemorate the 135th birthday of Calvin “Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still” Coolidge!

Plus:
Chamber Comprovisation: Battle Hymns & Gardens

Sunday, February 3, Reed Wallsmith and I join together with sometime BH&G second bassman Fred Chalenor and clarinetist Jonathan Sielaff (of AU) for an evening of freely improvised music that might put one in the mood of Jimmy Giuffre, Prince Lasha/Sonny Simmons, or some other sweet poison of your own choosing. [. . .]