Author Archives: Nathan

2012: past & future

Greetings, people of the future (I am assuming you are not currently reading over my shoulder as I type).
I am striving to provide more frequent website updates this year (please note that the Gig page is always up-to-date – don’t let the occasionally moldy nature of the main page news fool you), so here are [...]

First Gig of the New Year

It is hard to believe that 2011 is already over, but the good news is that we are now mere weeks away from our annual Holiday double-bill with bassist/composer Lisa Mezzacappa’s crack Bait and Switch Ensemble. We will be playing on Thursday, January 19 at Viracocha in San Francisco (the Mission, 998 Valencia St, to [...]

The Nathan Clevenger Group Turns 40

40 gigs, that is.
Yes, dear friends and statistical enthusiasts/anomalies, according to the very official-looking memo I recently received from the crack NCG Statistical Analysis Team, our gig this Sunday (March 20th) will be our 40th. What better place to celebrate this milestone than the site of 10 of our 40 gigs, the lovely Café Royale?
I’m [...]

New Review & March gigs

Local scribe Craig Matsumoto maintains Memory Select, a wonderful blog dedicated to (rare) coverage of the Bay Area creative music scene. It was my pleasure to receive a very interesting review on Craig’s site, which you can check out here: http://wedgeradio.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/nathan-clevenger/. Memory Select is filled with posts dedicated to some of my favorite musicians, and [...]

2010

In the spirit of never burying the lead under a mountain of prattle, I want to start by announcing that the Nathan Clevenger Group is ending our 3 month gig-hiatus with the 2nd Para-annual Free Jazz Holiday Office Party on Friday, December 17th. The gig is a double bill with friend/colleague/brilliant bassist Lisa Mezzacappa and [...]

And we’re off…

Hey, thanks for stopping by. The editorial We are slowly but surely getting this site populated with some basic info and assorted ephemera. I am confident that my natural inclination — nay — gift for clutter will eventually overwhelm my lack of tech savvy and this will be a hopping site. For the moment, you’ll [...]

Coming Soon

COMING SOON! Official website of composer/guitarist Nathan Clevenger.