Tierra Studios just released my new jazz album "Slide Side," and here are the links to purchase it. Buy one, five, or however many your heart desires. Shipping to Europe takes about a week, a bit faster in the US. Hope you enjoy! And please let me know what you think. Buy Slide Side on iTunes  |
We’re just starting the 2011-2012 season at the Wortham Center with the Houston Ballet and the Houston Grand Opera. Tonight we’ll open with a very unusual ballet piece, Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth). Based on Japanese poems, it’s basically a symphony with tenor and alto soloists. Mahler wrote [...]
On Friday, July 9 2010 Dr. Bob Linder and Thomas Hultén will be interviewed on Houston’s “The Front Row” – KUHF 90.1. The show starts at noon and goes til 1pm. Topics of discussion will be Thomas’ album “Slide Side” as well as our new Texas Jazz Masters series.
This upcoming weekend, May 14-16, I’m going to Charlotte, North Carolina, to participate in the Salvation Army Brass Spectacular. It was started a few years ago here in Houston when Jamie Hood, trumpeter extra-ordinaire and Salvationist, brought together a “dream-team” of a brass-band, mainly with players from the Houston orchestras, some guys from the New [...]
Ok, I know I should have written this earlier, we’re already done with Houston Ballet’s new production of “La Bayadère – the Temple Dancer”, music by Leopold Minkus. (No relation to Charlie Mingus….) But, it’s not that often we’re having four live snakes on stage! I got to pet one of them on the cast-party [...]
I’m continuing my somewhat schizophrenic musical journey with going straight from Chorus Line to playing Tosca with the Houston Grand Opera. We had opening night a few days ago, and you know people like it when there’s that roar coming from the audience at the end! Patricia Racette debuts in the role of Tosca, and [...]
After playing 32 Nutcrackers in December plus all the Christmas gigs, and then having a nice week off with my family, I’m now in the second week of playing “A Chorus Line” at the Hobby Center here in Houston. I saw the movie years ago, but never played the show until now, and I gotta [...]
Are you tired of hearing the same Muzak in every store you go into while you do your holiday gift shopping???? Well, allow me to offer a respite in your present collections. Come by Cactus Music, located at 2110 Portsmouth Street Houston, TX 77098 (713) 526-9272 this Saturday, December 19th from 12:00pm to 1:00 pm [...]
The holiday season is here, and for me that means 35 performances of Tjaikovskij’s classic The Nutcracker with the Houston Ballet. I’ve played it several times before, but only for about a week at a time. From Thanksgiving up until the New Year is a different story! Our Principal trumpet Jim Vassallo figured he has played [...]
The last time the Houston Grand Opera presented a Wagner-opera was Tannhäuser in 2001. Now, finally, Wagner is back, with a spectacular production of Lohengrin in a co-production with the Grand Théatre de Genève in Switzerland. Simon O’Neill sings Lohengrin, Adrianne Pieczonka Elsa, and Maestro Patrick Summers makes it all come together. [...]
We’re just starting the 2011-2012 season at the Wortham Center with the Houston Ballet and the
Are you tired of hearing the same Muzak in every store you go into while you do your holiday gift sh
On Friday, July 9 2010 Dr. Bob Linder and Thomas Hultén will be interviewed on Houston’s R
Thomas visited Tierra Studios in May to listen to tracks, do some editing, and record a few extra tr