Author: pauljhecht

Saturday, October 16 Paul Hecht Trio with Jeremy Boettcher, bass, and North Skager, drums, at The Lakely, 8:30-11pm. Tuesday, October 26 New Date! Tues, December 28 JRAC Abercrombie Quartet with Sam Peters, bass, James Sims, drums, and Harry Tonchev, guitar, at the Fulton Street Collective, 8-9:30 pm, also including special guest Mark Feldman, violin Wednesday,…

Saturday, October 16 Paul Hecht Trio with Jeremy Boettcher, bass, and North Skager, drums, at The Lakely, 8:30-11pm. Tuesday, October 26 JRAC Abercrombie Quartet with Sam Peters, bass, James Sims, drums, and Harry Tonchev, guitar, at the Fulton Street Collective, 8-9:30 pm, also including special guest Mark Feldman, violin Wednesday, October 27 Paul Hecht Trio…

I’m very excited to announce this show coming up in October, Tuesday, October 26 to be exact. We’ll be performing the music of John Abercrombie and Richie Beirach as part of the Jazz Record Art Collective, a fantastic series of performances hosted at the Fulton Street Collective, 1821 W Hubbard Street in Chicago. The JRAC…

There have been big developments recently with this project, the biggest being that the book is now under contract with Oxford University Press. I should know more about a release date in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!

I’m thrilled to be performing in Eau Claire, WI, at the Lakely on Saturday, July 31. I’ll post more about this performance as it approaches. My collaborators are Jeremy Boettcher on bass and North Skager on drums. It will be a relaxed evening with three sets between 8:30 and 11:30, but we are very excited…

Spenser in the Moment will be reissued in paperback later this year! We’re hearing May at this point. More details to follow.

The big news is that Edmund Spenser in Context, edited by Andrew Escobedo, is just out from Cambridge University Press. I have an essay on prosody here, and I am thrilled and humbled to be in the company of a host of wonderful scholars.

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