Man, this day — meetings and then scrambling on reporting stuff. All will be made clear soon.

But until then, my friend Kriston Capps’ excellent and innovative no-jazz band Gestures — what’s no-jazz? It didn’t exist before Gestures — releases its EP, Nice, today. You can get Nice from — and I can’t believe I’m writing this; bursting with both pride in Capps and envy — Dischord Records. Or, you can come to the Big Bear Cafe in Bloomingdale, the Only Cafe That Matters, tonight at 8:00 to see Gestures demonstrate its no-jazz style at the record release party. Imagine punk rock as interpreted entirely through brass, woodwind and percussion.