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03/01 Saturday
7:30 PM Open Letters Monthly: One Year Anniversary Reading
Open Letters, the new arts review magazine, is celebrating it's twelfth issue and first full year of online publication on March First, 2008 with readings by three brilliant young writers: Joshua Harmon, author of the haunting novel Quinnehtukqut, accompanied by up-and-coming poet Sommer Browning and Adam Golaski, whose groundbreaking translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, is making its serial appearance in Open Letters throughout 2008. Come meet the staff and friends of Open Letters Monthly, enjoy refreshments, collect books and chapbooks and discover astonishing new talent.
Readings by
Joshua Harmon, Sommer Browning, Adam Golaski
www.openlettersmonthly.com
10:00 PM LISA FORKISH CD RELEASE CONCERT
Described as performing with her "heart in her mouth," Lisa Forkish writes honest, soulful, and passionate songs that combine elements of folk, jazz, and musical theatre --
Lisa Forkish - vocals, piano
Josh Cuadra - drums
Caleb Herring - acoustic bass
03/02 Sunday
10:00 PM Gill Aharon Trio
03/03 Monday
10:00 PM The Fringe
03/04 Tuesday
7:00 PM The Odd Tuesday Milonga
7 - 8 Beginner Lesson
8 - 9 Practica
9 - 12 Milonga (Dance)
Cost: $5 for any two; $10 for all three.
03/05 Wednesday
7:00 PM Colin Cannon Quartet
10:00 PM KGBG
Kaufman/Gertz/Bergonzi/Guerrero
Jerry Bergonzi sax
Gabriel Guerrero piano
Bruce Gertz bass
Bob Kaufman drums
03/06 Thursday
7:00 PM Nando Michelin
10:00 PM Christopher Barnes
03/07 Friday
7:00 PM ROMAN(US)
The debut release, The Secret Lives of Trees, from Roman(us) is an innovative, eclectic and impressively cohesive collection of tracks that leaves listeners feeling deeply satisfied ear to ear, head to toe. This well-balanced team of two has generated 13 mood-inducing tracks; each one distinct and engaging -some pulsing with purpose and very bold and animate; some are more dark and earthy; and some are fluid even vaporous in feel. All have a sound so rich and emotive that it becomes an almost visual experience. This is not a surprising quality coming from two film-loving artists! In fact one of the tracks is included in an artistically motivated documentary, Landscapes in a Truck -a film by Andres Duque. Taking advantage of technology and timing, J and F Roman finally joined forces as ROMAN(US) to bring The Secret Lives of Trees to life.
7:00 PM IMC
1. Marc Zegans http://www.myspace.com/marczegans
2. Brown Bird http://brownbird.net/home.php
3. Most Bitter http://www.myspace.com/mostbitter
03/08 Saturday
7:00 PM The Full Speed Tea Offering
www.myspace.com/jeffstevensonmusic
Lovejazz-flavored bhikkhu beats from a septet of unapologetic spiritual pamphleteers.
Greg Albert-bass
Jeremy Vovcsko-saxophone
Cole DeGenova-keyboards
Jon Bailey-drums
Nick K Sweet-trombone
Andrew Plourd-trumpet
Jeff Stevenson-guitar
10:00 PM The Outlaw Collective
http;//www.cameronoutlaw.com
03/09 Sunday
7:00 PM Rhombus and Industrious Noise
Rhombus:
www.myspace.com/brianfriedland82
Brian Friedland, Piano
Aubrey Johnson, Voice
Sean Berry, Saxaphone
Phil Sargent, Guitar
Greg Loughman, Bass
Mike Conners, Drums
A rhombus is an equilateral quadrilateral shape that is often casually
referred to as a diamond. Rhombus is a group of six Boston based
musicians playing creative original music which one could casually
compare to a diamond. Like the polished gem, their music is
meticulously crafted and multifaceted. Its intricate geometry has
remained long buried underground (where it has hardened under great
pressure), but Rhombus has now arisen from the steaming earth, like a
point of stellar light against the night sky, to be coveted for its
unparalleled beauty, its tendency to make its recipients erupt with
tearful joy, and its amazing cutting abilities.
Each member of Rhombus brings to the table a rich history of
experience and influences, both personal and musical. Hailing from
diverse regions of North America, they have played with many of the
most renowned innovators and icons in jazz; they have been schooled in
some of its most prestigious institutions; and they have made myriad
worldly and inward travels. The consistent creativity and virtuosity
of their work as performers, composers, and educators has earned them
many awards and broad praise.
Industrious Noise:
http://www.myspace.com/industriousnoise
Chris Veilleux- saxophones, Phil Sargent- guitar, Mike Connors- drum set, saw blade
Industrious Noise is a Boston-based creative music ensemble that focuses on creating smooth and seamless transitions between composition and free improvisation. The original compositions draw from a variety of influences, most prominently the odd meters and eastern tonalities of ethnic Balkan music, modern jazz and rock.
10:00 PM Gill Aharon Trio
03/10 Monday
10:00 PM The Fringe
03/11 Tuesday
10:00 PM Longy Jazz
03/12 Wednesday
7:00 PM Closed for Private Function
10:00 PM KGBG
Kaufman/Gertz/Bergonzi/Guerrero
Jerry Bergonzi sax
Gabriel Guerrero piano
Bruce Gertz bass
Bob Kaufman drums
03/13 Thursday
8:00 PM Tom Arabia
For the Love of Goddess!
A concert in dedication to my mother, Regina Arabia, on her 50th birthday. As every woman, but most especially as my mother, she is the Logos of the Divine Mother Herself, the everywhere present Womb-Source of All That Is. Thus, we play for the Mother in and of all of us.
May the Blessings Be
Om-Mudra (Tom Arabia), saxophones
Leo Genovese, piano
Justin Purtill, bass
Nat Mugavero, drums
Dave Flaherty, drums
03/14 Friday
10:00 PM Goosepimp Orchestra
Pi Funk! Goosepimp brings epic funk back to the Lily Pad with
avant-dance trio Lowercase P. Continuing in their quest to be the
leaders in 'environmental funk' Goosepimp is offering anyone riding
their bike or carpooling to the show a special discount at the door.
$5 for cyclists
$7 for carpoolers
$8 for everyone else
Take the funktastic voyage to the Lily Pad and hear these bands that
are taking jazz and dance music to new places.
Musicians:
Jon Albertelly-trumpet
Joe Calabrese-drums
Mike Cantor-guitar
Gabriel Cruser-drums
Brandon Downs-bass
Josh Filgate-trombone
Bob Greel-percussion
Adam Pelletier-guitar
Dave Pelletier-bass
Phill Reese-keyboards
03/15 Saturday
7:00 PM Truman Peyote, Guatemala City, Max Alper
Truman Peyote (www.myspace.com/trumanpeyotemusic) <- headliner
Guatemala City (www.myspace.com/guatemalacity) < - plays before truman
Max Alper (www.myspace.com/maxalpermusic) < - opening w/ a special into by Jordan Schnee
03/16 Sunday
7:00 PM Darfur Benefit
Museaid.org and the Lily Pad present music from:
Gary Fieldman and Gill Aharon, and more.
10:00 PM Gill Aharon Trio
03/17 Monday
7:00 PM The Austin McMahon Group
Primarily known as a drummer, Austin McMahon is also
an inventive composer. Leading a quartet in
performance of his original music for the first time,
Austin will be playing drums, percussion, melodica and
glockenspiel. You will hear many pieces, new and
old, big and small played by an outstanding group of
musicians including: Alec Spiegelman; clarinet, bass
clarinet, Carmen Staaf; piano, and Kendall Eddy; bass.
For more information and mp3 samples of tunes you will
hear, visit: www.austinmcmahon.com
10:00 PM The Fringe
03/18 Tuesday
7:00 PM The Odd Tuesday Milonga
03/19 Wednesday
7:00 PM OKKYUNG LEE, STEVE BERESFORD, and PETER EVANS
with special guest
Skinny Vinny (Josh Jefferson & Andrew Eisenberg)
About the artists:
A native of Korea, classically trained cellist OKKYUNG LEE combines elements of jazz, traditional Korean music, found sounds, and noise with extended techniques. Since moving to New York in 2000, she has performed and recorded with artists such as Laurie Anderson, Derek Bailey, Nels Cline, Chris Corsano, Sylvie Courvoisier, Thurston Moore, Jim O'rourke, Zeena Parkins, Marc Ribot, and John Zorn.
Internationally known as a free improviser on piano and electronics, STEVE BERESFORD has also composed scores for three feature films, numerous television shows and various commercials. Amongst the other genres he has delved into, often in partnership with leading practitioners, are: Bollywood, electronica, Jazz, African music, lower case, Japanese pop, hip hop, MOR, string quartets, fanfare bands, French chanson, cheesy pop and, especially, free improvisation. Last year he found himself playing piano for Grace Jones at The Royal Festival Hall and acting as Ray Davies's musical director.
Trumpet player PETER EVANS has been a member of the New York musical community since 2003, when he moved to the city after graduating Oberlin Conservatory. Peter currently works in a wide variety of areas, including solo performance, chamber orchestras, performance art, free improvised settings, electro-acoustic music and composition. As a performer, he has been working to break through the technical barriers of his instrument and enjoys playing with steady configurations of improvisers; each band explores a specific concept or style as much as possible.
This concert is supported in part by a grant from the LEF Foundation.
10:00 PM KGBG
Kaufman/Gertz/Bergonzi/Guerrero
Jerry Bergonzi sax
Gabriel Guerrero piano
Bruce Gertz bass
Bob Kaufman drums
03/20 Thursday
7:00 PM IMC
1. Marc Zegans http://www.myspace.com/marczegans
2. Brown Bird http://brownbird.net/home.php
3. Most Bitter http://www.myspace.com/mostbitter
10:00 PM Michael McNeill
03/21 Friday
7:00 PM Lucid Film Productions Benefit
www.lucidfilmproductions.com
10:00 PM The Low Anthem, Chuck Costa, and The Mighty Purple
$6 cover
03/22 Saturday
7:00 PM RAmadeus/Jacques Pleasurecruise/Scott Beowulf
ambient/electro/sway-knit FUN!
come all!
10:00 PM Tom Thumb
http://myspace.com/tomthumb
03/23 Sunday
7:00 PM Nick Jaina/Lindsey Vandermark
10:00 PM Natti Vogel
11:00 PM Gill Aharon Trio
03/24 Monday
7:00 PM The inaugural Boston Poetry Collective reading!
Josh Bell * Ashley Capps * Noah Eli Gordon * Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Josh Bell's first book is No Planets Strike, Zoo Press/University of Nebraska Press, 2005. He received his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was a Teaching-Writing Fellow and Paul Engle Postgraduate Fellow. He was the Diane Middlebrook Fellow at the University of Wisconsin's Creative Writing Institute, 2003-04, and in the Summer of 2006 was a Walter Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writer's Conference. His poems have appeared in such magazines as 9th Letter, Boston Review, Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review, Triquarterly, Verse, and Volt. He is currently an instructor at Columbia University and is finishing his doctoral dissertation for the University of Cincinnati, where he was University Distinguished Graduate Fellow.
Ashley Capps received her MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2006. Her first book of poems, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields, was also published in 2006. New poems appear in the current issues of Granta and Black Warrior Review, and are forthcoming in H_NGM_N and Columbia Poetry Review. She is working on a second collection of poems entitled Then Self.
Noah Eli Gordon is the author of six collections, including Novel Pictorial Noise, selected by John Ashbery for the Nation Poetry Series. He teaches at the University of Colorado at Denver, and worked in Boston for a few years in the '90s selling jewelry from a cart at Downtown Crossing.
Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of three books, including Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk (Iowa) and Figures for a Darkroom Voice (with Noah Eli Gordon, Tarpaulin Sky). Next Spring two new books are due out: The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth (Tupelo) and 12x12: Conversations in Poetry and Poetics, an anthology of younger poets in conversation with their mentors (Iowa). After growing up in Seattle, he lived in Turkey, Slovakia, Arizona, Ireland, and Colorado, and he's recently settled in Chicago to teach at Loyola University.
10:00 PM The Fringe
03/25 Tuesday
7:00 PM Garth Stevenson and John Shannon
10:00 PM Peter Cassino Group
03/26 Wednesday
7:00 PM Closed for Private Function
10:00 PM KGBG
Kaufman/Gertz/Bergonzi/Guerrero
Jerry Bergonzi sax
Gabriel Guerrero piano
Bruce Gertz bass
Bob Kaufman drums
03/27 Thursday
7:00 PM E.B.B. & F.L.O.W. and SOL MELODIQ
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.
Show begins promptly at 7:45 pm (ends at 9:45 p.m.)
All ages
$6 Admission (free cd with admission)
Featuring live hip-hop, funk, classic soul, and jazz from Boston’s premiere hip-hop group, E.B.B. & F.L.O.W. (www.myspace.com/demoandinf), and Berklee’s own SOL MELODIQ (www.myspace.com/solmelodiq).
Biographies
E.B.B. & F.L.O.W.
The hip-hop tandem E.B.B. & F.L.O.W. characterizes the revitalization of early hip-hop elements during a time when many have said hip-hop is dying. As artists E.B.B. & F.L.O.W. have been able to remain commercially relevant while being musically innovative, a fact that sets them apart from any other group in the industry today.
The group is comprised of producer - DeMo (Every Beat Bangs), a Boston, MA native whose production style is refreshingly authentic, innovative, and versatile, and emcee - PyInfamous (Fresh Lyrics On Wax), a Mississippi artist whose unparalleled lyricism and distinct voice set him apart from his peers in the hip-hop genre. Performances at several prominent venues in the Boston area, including Great Scott, the Bulfinch Yacht Club, the BeeHive, and the Lizard Lounge, has providied crowds with a riveting experience each and every time. To listen to some of E.B.B. & F.L.O.W.’s music, visit their MySpace page at www.myspace.com/demoandinf.
SOL MELODIQ
SOL MELODIQ (www.myspace.com/solmelodiq) is by far one of the most promising new bands to emerge in the Boston area, with aspirations to create new sounds in music that touches, examines, and uplifts the soul. Sol' Melodiq is comprised of skilled musicians fluent in many styles including jazz, rock, hip-hop, funk, classic soul, and world music.
The band is based in the Boston area, formed in the world-reknowned Berklee College of Music. Stacey Wade (keyboardist and organist for Al Green), James Richardson (keyboardist and synthesist), and Jamaal Moore (saxophonist and percussionist) makes the central core of the band, as well as the addition to the band with Berklee students Gabe Jones (drums/vocals), Clynton Cox (guitar/vocals), and Freddy DeBoe (tenor saxophone).
10:00 PM Output
Scott Halligan, cello
Laura Heinrichs, flute
Dan VanHassel, guitar/electronics
www.myspace.com/outputboston
Output is a Boston-based band that explores the gaps between composition and improvisation, along with a prominent use of live electronics. Coming from diverse backgrounds, the group is influenced by all variety of musical genres. Their music can range from the noisiest sounds of the avant-garde, to ambient electronic textures, to all-out rock grooves, sometimes within the same piece
03/28 Friday
7:00 PM D trio and D quartet
$5
D Quartet
Donghee kim and his friends who are great players; patrick mckee(bass), Ryoske Wakabayashi(drum),
Lucas Ellman(sax). they will present some jazz standards with various style ;latin,swing,bab etc.
Donghee kim will present D trio and D quartet.
10:45 PM "Reality Cocktail"
http://realitycocktail.ivankorn.com
Reality Cocktail, a progressive rock ensemble with touch of contemporary classical music, involving dancers of Zoe dance troupe, and poetry in English, Spanish and German.
suggested donation 5 - 10 dollars
03/29 Saturday
7:00 PM Big Fuzzy and the Jake Sherman Organ Trio
Big Fuzzy
Max Kennedy - Guitar
Anneke Reich - Voice
www.myspace.com/maxandanni
Jake Sherman Organ Trio
Jake Sherman- Hammond B3 Organ
Greg Chaplin- Guitar
Dan Nadeau- Drums
www.jakeshermanmusic.com
03/30 Sunday
4:00 PM Impetus Rectial Series
7:30 PM Jazz and Tap: A Musical Conversation
An evening of improvisation, combining tap dance and jazz music.
Featuring some of Boston's top talent, including dancers Suzanne Bouffard, Aaron Tolson, Jill Braverman, Stefanie Weber, and many others, along with:
Kevin Harris on piano
Kendall Eddy on bass
Jorge Perez-Albela on percussion
Advanced dancers welcome to dance. Musicians welcome to sit in.
Suggested donation: $10 ($15 suggested for dancers)