« May 17, 2008 | Home | May 19, 2008 »
05/18 Sunday
7:00 PM Joe Berkovitz and Allan Chase Quintet
Joe Berkovitz - piano
Allan Chase - soprano and alto saxophone
Dan Rosenthal - trumpet
Austin McMahon - drums
Kendall Eddy - bass
Joe Berkovitz and Allan Chase will perform an evening of original
compositions and improvisations, touching on many flavors and tangents
of the jazz idiom.
Joe Berkovitz is a Boston-based pianist, composer and teacher with a
style spanning many genres, from jazz to medieval music to funk. He
attended New England Conservatory, where he studied with Jaki Byard,
Ran Blake and George Russell among others. He has performed live with
clarinetist Don Byron, and appears on Byron's Elektra/Nonesuch
recording "The Tuskegee Experiments". He is also a co-founder of the
Boston Improvisors' Group.
Jazz and classical saxophonist Allan Chase has performed with Alan
Dawson, Teddy Kotick, Mick Goodrick, Lewis Nash, Fred Hersch, and
Andrew Cyrille. Chase's debut recording with his own quartet, Dark
Clouds with Silver Linings, was chosen as one of the top ten jazz CDs
of 1995 by critics for the Boston Globe, Jazziz, and the Boston
Phoenix. Since 1992, Chase has been a member of Rashied Ali's quintet,
Prima Materia, and has recorded four CDs with him. He has also
performed chamber music with Marimolin and the Princeton Composers'
Ensemble. Chase has recorded with his own quartet and with Gunther
Schuller, John Zorn, Dominique Eade, and Stanley Cowell.