jazz for the 21st century
After yet another highly enjoyable gig at FireWorks Restaurant, something’s gone strange. They’ve invited us back. To misquote the Paul Atreides:
The Jazz Must Flow!
Come enjoy some truly wonderful food and good cheer along with some infallibly collectible (collect all 6!) jazz on Thursday, 17 December, starting with startling punctiliousness at 7 PM.
And if you can’t make it, do make sure to check out the live streaming audio from the FireWorks website!
Coffee. It makes you regular. It gets your groove going. It’s a great way to start the day. And get on with the day. And finish the day. It can get you in the mood. It can make you wonder what the mood is.
In so many ways, coffee is just like jazz.
Thus, the perfect pairing of the infallible collective and Charlie’s Rhythm & Brews in downtown Albany. We’ve done it before and now we’re doing it regularly. What’s more, it’s even legal in this state. It’s the infallible collective, now regularly appearing at Charlie’s! Look for us Friday mornings or anytime you need a pick-me-up. Drop in for some live coffee and music to sip some jazz and listen to a sweet bean.
Our next gig is this week on Thursday evening at Fireworks in southtown Corvallis from 7-9PM. We’ll be featuring our new vocalist Jessica Robillard again along with our new drummer Kevin Ronkko. We’ll have two cookin’ sets so make sure you come out and enjoy our fine music! There will be a suggested $5 donation at the door for the band.
Well, June is already here, the weather has been beautiful and jazz demands to be heard. That’s where we come in!! Your regional jazzheads The Infallible Collective will again be performing our usual monthly residency at Charlies’s Rhythm & Blues in downtown Albany (229 SW 3rd). Showtime starts at 6:30 PM. The band has been performing with an absolutely stellar keyboardist whose musical contribution has been nothing short of amazing, so come by and enjoy some musical adventure that seems to be lacking in todays increasingly plastic music world. . .
Hey There Jazz Kids!! Just a post-show commentary regarding The Infallible Collective’s April 23 show at Charlie’s Rhythm & Brews. The performance went well with another great turnout; the joint was literally packed! A thanks to all of you who attended or saw/heard the musical happenings from the sidewalk and stepped in. Thanks of course to Charlie for enthusiastically opening his venue for our performance. Portions of the show were recorded, both audio and video, and clips sill soon be available for hearing/viewing on the site.
The band would also like to thank Jacob (Marley) Williams for sitting in on congas. His groovy rhythms added a funky edge to the music.
We hope you will continue supporting The Infallible Collective and allowing us to introduce our version of jazz for the 21st Century.
Get your Collective Booty down to Charlie’s Rhythm & Brews (229 SW 3rd Avenue in Albany) for the band’s new gig!! Showtime is 6:30-8:00 PM so all you work folks can swig some fine drinks, groove to the new jazz sounds of the Infallible Collective, and be home in time to go to bed at a reasonable hour. Weekend Eve shows are a great way to end your week so you have no excuses. Come join Baby Doll, DJ Lizard, and Jacob Marley for a slew of new tunes and some of your favs.
And that means that The Infallible Collective will soon be gigging again. We have a tentative date of the middle or end of April (we will of course post the specific date as it arrives) at Charlie’s Rhythm & Brews, located on 3rd ave in downtown Albany. Charlie’s hosted our first show back in January and the standing room only crowd was a pleasant surprise to all. Keep checking back and be on the lookout for our mailing list which will keep you kids informed regarding all Infallible Collective business.
. . .since we last posted any kind of communication to you readers and purveyors of online Jazz information that is InfallibleCollective.com. Apologies for our lack of sensitivity. Rest assured that the band is alive & well and rehearsing as consistently & efficiently as is possible with everyones’ foolishly busy schedules. The band is always exploring new and original compositions as well as the occasional bop-era standard; currently we have been arranging Herbie Hancock’s 1964 soul-jazz groover Cantaloupe Island, and his pre-Headhunters 1962 version of Watermelon Man with a funky interlude so deliciously sick it’s like enjoying thick chocolate fudge cake and a glass of frosty milk with that sexy ex you can’t get out of your mind. The tune is tentatively titled Funky Melons and as it becomes more concrete we will post it on the music page. The band has also been fine-tuning a number that never made it to our first show, Dr. Cratchet’s Ratchet and Doug has composed a beautiful ballad dedicated to his lovely wife entitled Julie’s Calm. If that makes you well up with tears of sensitivity, wait till you see Doug perform it!! Additionally, we have re-vamped the pulse-beating Last Chance to better reflect its bop sensibilities and are currently constructing two new groovers, Super Bad Mode 2000; so-titled for its nod to ’80s fav “Knight Rider”, and Groove Stew; which is best served with a side of freshly baked biscuits. Yes indeed kids, jazz is alive and well, and we invite you all along for the ride.
We are pleased to invite you all and sundry to the debut gig of our jazz band, The Infallible Collective! We will be playing at Charlie’s Rhythm & Brews on Tuesday, 27 January beginning 6:37 PM sharp! For the uninitiated, Charlie’s is located at 229 3rd Ave. SW in Albany. 
The Infallible Collective is composed of Lance Albertson on trumpet, Doug Meyers on guitar, w.g. “Malkiel” davies on electric upright bass, and Van Walk on drums. We play a variety of styles, ranging from ’50s & ’60s bop to Latin Swing & Bossa Nova to modern trip-hop and jams.
This band has been a real treat for us and we hope you can come and enjoy!