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08/05 Sunday

8:00 PM Michael McNeill

$10 donation

Michael McNeill, piano
Ken Filiano, bass
Phil Haynes, drums

Pianist Michael McNeill has cultivated a unique style rooted not only in the jazz music of Paul Bley, Hampton Hawes, Thelonious Monk, and Chick Corea but also in the modern classical music of Arnold Schönberg and Karlheinz Stockhausen. His trio with trumpeter Paul Smoker and drummer Phil Haynes toured the northeast in October, 2005 and performed at Baltimore’s An Die Musik and at New York’s Tonic, among other venues. McNeill has also led groups in Boston and his native Rochester, NY, performing his original music as well as creative restructurings of standards. On the Boston scene, he has also been involved in projects ranging from modern chamber music to pop.

Noted for his accomplishments in jazz, spontaneous improvisation, classical, and inter-disciplinary performance with dance and spoken word, Ken Filiano fuses the rich traditions of the double bass with his own seemingly limitless, often astonishing, inventiveness. Ken's solo bass CD Subvenire received unanimous critical praise, and a first place mention in Cadence Magazine's poll of top releases of 2003. For this and numerous other recordings, critics have called Ken a "creative virtuoso," a "master of technique”.

Filiano’s prolific output includes performances and/or recordings with Nels Cline, Vinny Golia, Phil Haynes, Joseph Jarman, Sheila Jordan (with the Aardvark Orchestra), Joe Labarbera, Joelle Leandre, Tony Malaby, Warne Marsh, Dom Minasi, Butch Morris, Barre Phillips, Roberta Piket, Roswell Rudd, ROVA Saxophone Quartet, Paul Smoker, Kenny Wessel, and many others.

Phil Haynes made his recording debut with the Paul Smoker Trio’s QB, which was named the Number One Jazz Album of 1985 in Coda Magazine. He has 10 recordings as a leader, including Continuum with violinist Mark Feldman, The Hammond Insurgency with organist Jeff Palmer, Free Country with cellist Hank Roberts, and the new solo percussion recording Sanctuary. He was also a co-leader of the cooperative quartet Joint Venture, which included Ellery Eskelin, Drew Gress, and Paul Smoker. Critics have compared his drumming to the masters Jack DeJohnette, Roy Haynes, and Elvin Jones, and his compositions to those of Ives, Mingus, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

Haynes’ varied professional associations also include Tim Berne, Anthony Braxton, Don Byron, Marilyn Crispell, Joe Daley, Mark Dresser, Marty Ehrlich, Ken Filiano, Charles Gayle, Vinny Golia, Mark Helias, Lindsay Horner, Ingrid Jensen, Frank Lacy, David Liebman, Michele Rosewoman, Ed Schuller, Louis Sclavis, John Tchicai, Gebhard Ullmann, and Tom Varner.

For more information:
www.michaelmcneill.tk
myspace.com/mgmcneill