Trio Flux

Tonight’s the night!

After months of recording, mixing, planning, remembering, and celebrating, we finally get to share Zwyze with you — live, on stage, in community. This concert is a tribute to Adam’s imagination, joy, and the spirit he brought to every note and every friendship.

We can’t wait to see you.

Zwyze: Album Release Concert
Tonight — Monday, November 17, 2025
Alberta Rose Theatre
Doors at 6:00 PM · Show at 7:00 PM

Tonight brings together the full cast of musicians who created Zwyze.

At the center are Neil Mattson (guitar) and Julio Appling (bass), whose musical partnership shaped every piece on the album.

Our three drummers — Tyrone Hendrix, Brent Follis, and Micah Hummel — each bring their unique feel and musical voice to Adam’s compositions, reflecting the variety, energy, and rhythmic imagination at the heart of this project.

On keyboards, Mike Elson adds layers of organ and Rhodes — and while he plays the Juno synth on the record, he may enlist producer Steve Watkins to bring that part to life onstage.

Jake Savage joins on Rhodes with his warm, harmonic sensibility, and Jeff Gordon brings expressive percussion work, including the ceramic drum Adam gave him years ago.

We are also joined by a cello section of Diane Chaplin, Katherine Schultz, Mario Bastea-Forte, and Valdine Ritchie Mishkin whose sound adds a resonant, orchestral richness to the music.

This is a rare gathering — the first time this entire group has shared a stage — a night filled with community, collaboration, and the spirit of Adam himself.

Huge thanks to Regional Arts & Culture Council for their support of this project.
🎨: Spencer Bonnell

With the Zwyze album release concert just days away, we wanted to share the origin of the name:

Zwyze was a name Adam first claimed in childhood, writing a formal letter to his mother to announce he would no longer need his given name. In high school, it became his Dungeons & Dragons persona — its letters chosen for the highest possible Scrabble score, "maximum XP," as he called it.

Over time, Zwyze transcended any fixed character and came to embody the irrepressible spirit of our friend: an adventurer of limitless vigor, a brilliantly stubborn and staggeringly intelligent debater of matters both cosmically vast and comically minuscule, and a laugher of prodigious decibel levels.
This album is in his honor.

As we’ve worked on this project, we’ve found ourselves reconnecting with Adam’s spirit — his belief in music as a way to bring people together, his joy in every creative moment, and his deep love for life, family, and his friends. We hope the music carries some of that same feeling to you.

We can’t wait to share it with you live on Monday night.

📷: Tim Denison

Zwyze would not be complete without Jake Savage (keys on “Trenchant”) and Jeff Gordon (ceramic drum on “New Love”), and the expert work of Slater Swan at Anjuna Recording Studio and Dana White at Specialized Mastering, whose touch gave the final mixes their balance, clarity, and warmth.

This project is a true community effort — a shared act of love and craft built around Adam’s enduring influence.
📷s by Philip Hatton

To close the show on 11/17, we’re thrilled to welcome Outer Orbit, Portland’s powerhouse funk-soul collective led by Galen Clark and Sarah Clarke, to The Alberta Rose Theatre!

On Monday, November 17th, we'll perform the new album, Zwyze, in full with an incredible lineup of Portland musicians to honor Adam's spirit:
Brent Follis, Micah Hummel, and Tyrone Hendrix on drums,
Mike Elson and Jake Savage on keys,
Jeff Gordon on percussion, and
Diane Chaplin, Katherine Schultz, Mario Bastea-Forte, and Valdine Ritchie Mishkin on cello.
Trio Flux at The Goodfoot. 📷 by Tim Denison.