Some summer dates

· Sextet with Ryan Shultz (b. trumpet), Tim Davis (drums), Michael Hudson-Casanova (alto saxophone), John Kregor (guitar), and led by Daniel Thatcher (bass), at Phyllis’s on various Mondays in the summer, including some new compositions by PH: next hit, July 22, 6:30-9 pm, 1800 W. Division St., Chicago

· Saturday, July 27, 8pm, Jazz Central Studios, 407 Central Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN: Art Crimes Trio: music of David Lynch, David Bowie, and Angelo Badalamenti, with Graydon Peterson, bass, and Pete James Johnson, drums

· Saturday, August 3, 7-10 pm, The Lakely, Oxbow Hotel, 516 Galloway St., Eau Claire, WI, trio with Jeremy Boettcher, bass, and Tim Sullivan, saxophones

· Saturday, August 17, 9:30pm–12:30am, Volstead’s Emporium, 711 W Lake Street, Minneapolis, with Dan Carpel, bass, and Pete James Johnson, drums

· August 22-24: dense weekend of stuff in Eau Claire: Thursday Aug 22, 6:30-9:30 pm solo piano at 2 Roots Art & Wine Gallery, 214 S. Barstow St.; Friday Aug 23, 7-10 pm, The Lakely, Oxbow Hotel, 516 Galloway St., duo with Kat Sherman; and Saturday, Aug 24, 7-8 pm, the Patio, as part of the Clearwater Jazz and Art Festival, at the Brewing Projekt, 1807 N. Oxford Ave, with Kat Sherman, as well as Jeremy Boettcher and Pete James Johnson!

· Wednesday, August 28, 7-10 pm, Berlin, 204 N. First St., Minneapolis, Boettcher Hecht Quartet with Jeremy Boettcher, bass, Aaron Hedenstrom, tenor saxophone, and Pete James Johnson, drums