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06/01 Sunday
4:30 PM Seventh Seal
www.myspace.com/se7enthseal
www.seventhsealband.com
7:00 PM Pandelis Karayorgis Quartet
Daniel Levin, cello
Pandelis Karayorgis, piano
Jef Charland, bass
Curt Newton, drums
http://karayorgis.com
$10 suggested donation
New York-based cellist Daniel Levin from, joins one of Boston's most adventurous trios for two sets of improvised/jazz music. The first set will feature the full quartet, while the second set will be a trio, without the bass. Levin and Karayorgis recently collaborated in a group featuring Ken Vandermark, Frank Rosaly and Nate McBride in Chicago, while Charland and Newton are regular members of the Pandelis Karayorgis Trio. Newton and Karayorgis are also two-thirds of the mi3, a trio that has just released a new CD on Clean Feed and has one more coming up on HatOlogy this summer.
Bios:
Daniel Levin:
Daniel Levin was born in 1974 in Burlington, Vermont. He began playing the cello at age six. He has performed and/or recorded with Billy Bang, Borah Bergman, Tim Berne, Anthony Braxton, Rob Brown, Whit Dickey, Mark Dresser, Joe Morris, Joe McPhee, William Parker, Warren Smith, and others. Daniel has recorded as a sideman for Clean Feed, EMANEM, Not Two, and RogueART, and as a leader, for Riti Records, HatHut, and Clean Feed.
"Levin has a sound that ranges from subtle and understated to aggressive; with admirable technique as a performer and a compositional concept that blends structure with freewheeling exploration, he deserves to have his name added to the short list of cellists who are making a mark in improvisational music."
--John Kelman, All About Jazz Magazine
http://www.daniel-levin.com
Pandelis Karayorgis:
Born in Athens, Greece in 1962. Prior to moving to the U.S. in 1985, performed in small jazz groups while pursuing a degree in Economics. Earned BM and MM degrees in music from Boston's New England Conservatory while studying with Paul Bley, Jimmy Giuffre, George Russell, Dave Holland and Joe Maneri (composition) among others. Studied and performed extensively the music of Thelonious Monk and Lennie Tristano and in 1991 compiled a collection of all of Monk's compositions.
In the last twenty years mostly led or co-led groups whose recordings have often been voted into reviewers' top-10 lists in magazines such as Coda, Cadence, Jazz Times and Jazziz. Performed and recorded with Mat Maneri, Joe Maneri, Ken Vandermark, Tony Malaby, Michael Formanek, John Lockwood, Randy Peterson and Guillermo Gregorio among many others. Numerous performances at festivals and clubs in Europe and the United States. Recordings appear on labels such as Leo Records, Hat Art, Clean Feed, Nuscope, Boxholder, Okkadisk, Cadence, Accurate, Leo Lab, Ayler and HatOLOGY among others.
In the nineties worked closely with violinist Mat Maneri producing several recordings on Leo Records mostly in duo format, but also featuring Tony Malaby, Michael Formanek, Joe Maneri, John Lockwood and Randy Peterson. During the same time also co-led a group featuring much of the Tristano repertoire and originals with which two CDs were made and a trip to Europe in 1997 as well. Also, in 1998 released first trio CD "Heart And Sack" to wide critical acclaim (among others it was featured on National Public Radio's program Fresh Air).
In the past couple of years toured and recorded in duo format with Ken Vandermark (there is also a 2001 trio CD with Vandermark and McBride) and also with Guillermo Gregorio (with whom there are two previous HatArt collaborations). Performed recently with Dave Rempis, Josh Abrams, Jeff Parker, Jeb Bishop, Tim Daisy, Jason Stein, Mike Reed, Josh Berman, Keefe Jackson, Nori Tanaka, Daniel Levin, Frank Rosaly, Charlie Kohlase, Luther Gray, Jef Charland, Forbes Graham, Matt Langley, Jeff Galindo, Charles Waters and the TILT Brass band.
Lately working on composing and arranging for a quintet formation. Presented two such concerts in Chicago and one in Boston during the last year. The latest CD is "Free Advice" (Clean Feed, 2007) with Curt Newton and Nate McBride and “Betwixt” with the same group is expected to be released by HatOLOGY in June 2008.
"Over the course of nearly 20 years and approximately that many recordings, Karayorgis has established himself as one of the singular, and significant, pianists of his generation."
Art Lange
" ... by this stage, Karayorgis has developed a powerful piano language of his own and this is its definitive statement to date."
The Penguin Guide To Jazz Recordings, (8th Edition) in reference to solo piano CD "Seventeen Pieces" (2004).
Discography: http://karayorgis.com/Pages/recordings.html
Jef Charland:
A native of Gardner MA., Jef’s first instrument was trumpet. Later he studied guitar at Berklee with Jon Damian and played in the house band at Wally’s in Boston. After graduating from Berklee he picked up the bass and has become a fixture on the jazz scene playing regularly with the Masked Marvels, the Andy Voelker Trio, Gypsy Schaeffer and at jazz jams at the Center for Arts in Natick, Costello’s and Matt Murphy’s Pub.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=101776359
Curt Newton:
Boston-based drummer and percussionist Curt Newton has been playing uncompromising original music since 1986. A highly versatile ensemble player and soloist, he integrates innovative sounds and extended techniques with the jazz and rock drumset traditions. He has worked with Ken Vandermark, Joe Morris, Nate McBride, Pandelis Karayorgis, Charlie Kohlhase, and Debris; performed across the United States, Canada, and Europe; and appears on CDs released by leading independent labels like Okkadisk, Boxholder, Soul Note, Music and Arts, Buzz, and Rastascan.
"Newton dazzles...he exhibited breathtaking restraint, breaking down time with a subtle hand, tapping out painterly splashes of sound... A large reserve of free floating power."
Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader
http://www.curtnewton.com/
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=139198444
10:00 PM Gill Aharon Group
06/02 Monday
7:30 PM ROB SCHNEIDERMAN with Bob Kaufman (drums) and Will Slater (bass)
Pianist, Composer, Arranger,
Educator
Rob Schneiderman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in
California. His Jazz career began in San Diego playing piano for visiting
soloists such as Eddie Harris, Sonny Stitt, Harold Land and Charles
McPherson. A move to New York in 1982 led to performing and touring
experience with the likes of J.J. Johnson, Chet Baker, James Moody, Art
Farmer and Clifford Jordan including trips to Europe and Japan A
performance fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts featured
Rob with George Coleman, Jimmy Heath, Claudio Roditi, and Slide
Hampton. The collaboration with Slide resulted in the CD New Outlook, the
first of Rob's nine recordings as a leader for the Reservoir Music
label. These CD's contain over twenty Schneiderman originals as well as
arrangements of many standards. The most recent release is entitled
Back in Town, with Boris Kozlov on bass and Johnathan Blake on drums.
Among the sidemen featured on the other dates are Billy Higgins,
Rufus Reid, Brian Lynch, Ralph Moore, Peter Washington, Lewis Nash, Akira
Tana, Billy Hart, Gary Smulyan and Ben Riley. Rob's Reservoir
CD Keepin' in the Groove received 4 * stars (out of five) from Down Beat
magazine. Rob's recordings as a sideman include sessions with
Eddie Harris, J.J. Johnson, and TanaReid.
As a Jazz educator, Rob has most recently been in residence at the
Stanford jazz Workshop He previously taught as an adjunct professor in the
Jazz departments of both William Paterson University(with Rufus Reid) and
Queens College NY (with Jimmy Heath) in addition to giving numerous
clinics
around the country and teaching many students privately. He has also been
on the faculty of The Jazz School in Berkeley.
In May 2001 Rob received a Ph.D. in Mathematics under the guidance of
Robion Kirby from the University of California at Berkeley. After stints
at the Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in Bonn as a National Science
Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow, NYU's Courant Institute, and the
University of Pennsylvania, Rob has recently joined the faculty of the
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Lehman College, City
University of New York. His area of interest is Low-dimensional Topology
and his research is currently focused on 2-spheres in 4-dimensional
manifolds and 3-dimensional knot theory.
10:00 PM Fringe
06/03 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.
06/04 Wednesday
7:00 PM Private event
10:00 PM KGBG
06/05 Thursday
8:15 PM Syncopation
The Boston Globe calls Syncopation the “Manhattan Transfer of the 21st Century,” and it is easy to see why. Like that legendary vocal group, Syncopation performs jazz and pop music that is both timeless and up-to-the-minute. These four young singer/musicians have performed across the U.S. at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival, the Tri-C Vocal Jazz Festival, the Boston Globe Jazz Festival, the Meihou Music Festival, and the 2004 and 2006 International Association for Jazz Education Conferences in New York City. The group also regularly tours Japan.
The style of Syncopation includes bebop, latin, and pop influences. The group usually performs with a band, but their a cappella performance earned them first place at the 2008 Boston Harmony Sweepstakes. Each of the four singers is also an instrumentalist and is occasionally featured playing trumpet, trombone, piano, and percussion.
Syncopation was formed in Boston in January of 2002 and mentored by Cheryl Bentyne of the Manhattan Transfer. Their first album, A New Dance, was released in 2003 and featured contributions from bebop trombone legend Phil Wilson, formidable jazz fusion trumpeter Tiger Okoshi, and Paul Stiller of the vocal group Vox One.
On Syncopation’s 2008 album, Wonderful You, the group reinterprets pop songs from the past 30 years. R&B, soul, folk rock, fusion and electropop are transformed by jazz harmonies, rhythms and style. This recording features Syncopation’s touring rhythm section of Mark Shilansky (piano), Steve Langone (drums), Greg Holt (bass), and Marcus Santos (percussion).
All About Jazz calls Syncopation “a thoroughly modern, bright, and fresh take on ensemble jazz vocals that effectively updates the entire genre.”
Syncopation is:
Aubrey Logan, Christine Fawson, David Thorne Scott, and Tsunenori “Lee” Abe.
with:
Mark Shilansky (piano), Greg Holt (bass), and Steve Langone (drums)
06/06 Friday
7:30 PM Underground Jazz String Quartet
Members of UJSQ:
Tomoko Iwamoto (violin)
Tomoko Omura (violin)
Helen Sherrah-Davies (5-string violin)
Stephanie Wingfield (cello).
The UNDERGROUND JAZZ STRING QUARTET (UJSQ) fuses the classical timeless qualities of the string quartet with vibrant contemporary string techniques, drawing from an eclectic repertoire that includes improvisation as an essential element in their arrangements of jazz and popular music, as well as featuring their own original compositions. It is part of a long and rich history of improvisatory string playing, dating from the baroque era to the blues, and swing jazz to avant-garde.
06/07 Saturday
11:30 AM Yoga with Caroline Logan
7:00 PM WATCH MAN WALK/BELLFLUR/MODEL CARS
WATCH MAN WALK stretches the traditional role of guitar, bass, drums and vocals, to create a variety of balanced compositions. Their ability to take complex and simple textures and wrap both around the importance of language makes it difficult and almost worthless to try to categorize the music they make. For over seven years, Watch Man Walk has self-produced over six full length albums, refining and revising along the way, while at the same time performing live in and around the Washington DC area.
BELLFLUR have been together for a few years and have been playing regularly around Washington DC. The group fluctuates between a 4 and 6 piece band and tries to live up to the idea of making pretty songs about sad things. With fuzzy bass lines, fuzzy guitar lines and fuzzy keyboards, Bellflur's music builds on the atmospheric sounds that bands like God Speed You! Black Emperor, Sigur Ros and Spiritualized have set forth. "The band has a knack for making things cold and detached sound somewhat pretty." - DCist.com.
MODEL CARS is an indie-rock band made up of four talented musicians from around the country sharing the common ground of Boston. With influences ranging from many musical genres, including but not limited to classical, rock, jazz and hip-hop; MODEL CARS writes honest music that is true to themselves, as well as the surroundings they are in.
10:00 PM ebb and flow
06/08 Sunday
7:15 PM David Maxwell's Outtakes Unlimited
Matt Maneri ( Brooklyn), electric viola
Rakalam Bob Moses , drums, percussion
John Turner, bass
David Maxwell, piano, gongs, assorted ethnic reeds, flutes and percussion.
OutTakes Unlimited is comprised of improvising musicians with jazz backgrounds creating soundscapes of shifting tapestries
----from the abstract and architectural to the earthy and estatic.
Come and get aurally realigned!
10:00 PM Gill Aharon Group
06/09 Monday
7:00 PM Bryan Baker and the Glass Diplomats
Lead by ground-breaking, innovative guitarist Bryan Baker, "Bryan Baker and the Glass Diplomats" features the kenetic improvisational freedom that lies at the heart of jazz, but with the rebelious mentality and approch to musicianship that is at the core of rock and punk.
Never partial to accepted conventions or idiomatic cliches, "Bryan Baker and the Glass Diplomats" delivers an experiance that excites both the brain and the body.
Here is what Bill Milkowski of Jazz Times Magazine had to say about Bryan's debut solo record, "Aphotic":
"A player of jaw-dropping technique and ferocious intensity with a darkly alluring musical vision, guitarist Bryan Baker is a leading light among a new breed of six-string renegades who are tearing it up with reckless abandon while pushing stylistic boundaries with impunity. His (debut record) Aphotic is the most startlingly original debut by a guitarist since Pat Metheny's Bright Size Life."
--Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times magazine
Bryan Baker's Bio:
Bryan Baker was born into a creatively fertile environment, with his grandfather being an accordionist, his father being a professional guitarist, and his mother being a designer and artist.
This early immersion in the creative way of life lead Bryan to begin playing the guitar at age four, under the direction of his father.
Nine years later, at age thirteen, Bryan was awarded a full tuition scholarship to attend the Los Angeles Music Academy.
Bryan spent the next four years attending the academy and enveloping himself in the musical and cultural climate of Los Angeles, as well as playing with some of the most legendary performers and musicians within the Los Angeles scene.
At age seventeen, Bryan was awarded a full tuition scholarship to attend the prestigious Berklee College of Music is Boston, Massachusetts.
While at Berklee, Bryan honed his instrumental abilities to a finite point, as well as delved deeply into the art of creating and programming electronic music.
After graduating Berklee with a degree in Professional Music and Music Synthesis, Bryan moved to New York City, where he was soon hired as the guitarist in legendary jazz/rock super group, "Steps Ahead".
Bryan has toured nearly every continent and numerous countries throughout the world with Steps Ahead.
Bryan's main band, Bryan Baker's Door in the Dark is currently recording their debut record for Schott Music/birdJAM Records, which will be released December, 2008.
This band will be touring the world extensively to promote this record.
Bryan is currently living in New York City.
Bryan Baker and the Glass Diplomats are:
Bryan Baker Guitar/FX
George Garzone Saxes
Hogyu Hwag Bass
Lee Fish Drums
10:00 PM Fringe
06/10 Tuesday
7:00 PM Mirabe trio
06/11 Wednesday
7:00 PM Private event
10:00 PM KGBG
06/12 Thursday
7:00 PM Natti Vogel
10:00 PM The Julien Kasper Band
The Julien Kasper Band sound has been described as "Jimi Hendrix and John Coltrane take James Brown, Jeff Beck and T-Bone Walker out to lunch". This is dynamic, accessible, highly original instrumental music with a world of contrasts ranging from tough funk and rock grooves to floating, ethereal harmonic adventures.
http://www.julienkasper.com
http://www.myspace.com/julienkasperband
06/13 Friday
7:00 PM The Shimon Ben-Shir Group
Like a summer breeze that lifts a seagull over a tropical beach, the music of the Shimon Ben Shir Group is warm, inviting and takes the listener on a journey to destinations that reflects the far reaching places around the globe that the group represents. A highly unique soundscape that blends jazz with Middle Eastern and South American influences... touches on the canon of cultures that the Shimon Ben-Shir Group encompasses in their playing. The Groups compositions are warm, lyrical, inviting and memorable.
Review: By John Book, Music For America
The bio for Ways (Ben-Shir Music) says the album is like encountering a friend you haven't seen for a while. While I had never heard of The Shimon Ben-Shir Group before, their brand of laid back jazz does sound familiar and warm, but not too lazy to where it becomes smooth jazz. The core of the music is Ben-Shir's bass work, where he goes back and forth between fretless and fretted, and he surrounds himself with an incredible range of musicians who fortunately know what they're doing. A piece such as "Jochebed" shows how diverse his music can be, where the meat of the song (the melody) sounds beautiful like a Pat Metheny song, but the soloists add their own flavor, especially trumpeter John Frazee. When he plays, he adds a bit of color to an already vibrant portrait, and in a way sets himself from the rest for about a minute before moving away and allowing everyone else to play. Everything on this album is fairly mellow, nothing excessive or out of the ordinary. While some of these songs could appeal to smooth jazz fans, there's a bit more going on than the usual. One can say that Ways is jazz on cruise control, moving the seat back and letting things come as they may, but Ben-Shir pushes himself and everyone to do their best, and they all play for the sake of beautiful jazz unity.
More Reviews at www.ben-shir.com/reviews.html
10:00 PM The Jesse Scheinin Quartet
Jesse Scheinin Quintet
The Jesse Scheinin Quintet is comprised of some of Berklee's top players and features original music. Israeli/Mexican guitarist and composer Ilan Bar-Lavi has his first album coming out on Sunnyside Records in September, pianist Julian Shore has played with Chris Cheek and Hal Crook, bassist Dan Carpel performs regularly at Wally's Jazz Cafe, and drummer Hamir Atwal is featured on saxophonist Greg Osby's upcoming album.
Here's a quote about Jesse from a recent article in the Mercury News:
'''There are a lot of talented kids out there, but there's something special about him that goes beyond what he's playing on the saxophone,'' says tenor sax star Joshua Redman, who has worked closely with Scheinin as artistic director of SFJazz's spring season. ''He's got this natural storytelling ability. He's not afraid to improvise."
06/14 Saturday
1:30 PM Gill Aharon's Student Recital
4:00 PM Gautam Tejas Ganeshan
Founder and director of the Sangati Community Center for South Asian Music in San Francisco, a nonprofit performance venue for weekly public chamber concerts of Indian classical music, Gautam performs thoughtful, creative vocal music at the threshold between Indian classical music and its source – the source of all music – the natural world of sound, the harmony of proportion, the pristine, eternal beauty of patterns and the mind, and the complex eddies of human experience and emotion. Gautam has guest-lectured on Carnatic (South Indian classical) music for the Music of India courses at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and in 2004 was awarded two significant grants for the academic study of music - the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship and the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, issued by the U.S. Department of Education.
Anantha R. Krishnan
The grandson and disciple of the mridangam legend Sri Palghat R. Raghu, Anantha performed his first concert for violinist Professor T. N. Krishnan, and before reaching the age of fifteen had the distinction of performing with many of the finest among a generation of Carnatic musicians: Sri K.V. Narayanaswamy, Mandolin Sri U. Srinivas, Dr. N. Ramani, Sri M.S. Gopalakrishnan, Dr. K.J. Yesudas, Chitravina Sri Ravikiran, Sri Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, Sri N. Vijay Siva, Sri P. Unnikrishnan, among thers. During this period, Anantha recieved many awards from traditional organizations of Carnatic music in Chennai, India. Most notably, he won the Best Mridangist Prize from the Music Academy, Madras, for three consecutive years between 1998-2001, a first for a mridangist under the age of twenty. After a break of six years, he returned back to the Academy this past year and was again awarded with the Best Mridangist Prize for 2007.
8:00 PM Tap and Jazz: A Musical Conversation
An evening of improvisation, combining tap dance and jazz music.
Featuring some of Boston's top dance and musical talent.
Hosted by Suzanne Bouffard
This month’s musicians:
Kevin Harris - piano
Jorge Perez-Albela - percussion
Keala Kaumeheiwa - bass
Advanced dancers welcome to dance. Musicians welcome to sit in.
Suggested donation: $10 ($15 suggested for dancers)
Suggested arrival time for dancers: 7:30 pm
For more information, email Suzanne at smbouffard@gmail.com
10:00 PM Blind Kae and the SeeMonkees
Instrumentation:
Ukulele,Electric guitar, toy piano, footbells, vocals- Kaitlyn smith
Dobro, Guitar, vocals- Jeremy Harris
Accordion- Ciaran O'rourke
Kazoo, Vocals- Jana Borg
Drums- Timur Yusef
06/15 Sunday
3:00 PM Summer Nights in Distant Lands
Summer Nights in Distant Lands
A recital of vocal works with clarinet and piano
Lisa Lynch, soprano; Carola Emrich-Fisher, mezzo-soprano
Chester Brezniak, clarinet; William Merrill, piano
Come enjoy this program of gems, such as Berlioz' Les Nuits d' Ete, Schubert's "Shepherd on the rock," and Louis Spohr's rarely-heard Six German Songs for voice, clarinet and piano, as well as works by Debussy and Offenbach.
7:15 PM David Maxwell's Outtakes Unlimited
Garth Stevenson(Brooklyn), bass
John Lockwood, bass
Nat Mugavero, drums
David Maxwell, piano, gongs, ethnic reeds and percussion
OutTakes Unlimited is comprised of improvising musicians with jazz backgrounds creating soundscapes of shifting tapestries
----from the abstract and architectural to the earthy and estatic.
Come and get aurally realigned!
10:00 PM Gill Aharon Group
06/16 Monday
7:00 PM Very Special Sam Gilman Solo Piano Recital
1st ever Solo Piano recital by Sam Gilman, best known for his amazing Hammond Organ playing in Otis Grove, now experimenting in a stripped down Solo Piano format. Featuring music of Mingus, Monk, Joplin, Radiohead and originals!!!
Special Guest singer/songwriter Caitlin Rodgers Playing her first Boston show in almost a year!
7:30 - Sam Gilman
9:00 - Caitlin Rodgers (featuring Sam Gilman on piano)
10:00 PM Fringe
06/17 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.
06/18 Wednesday
7:00 PM Private Event
10:00 PM KGBG
Kaufman/Gertz/Bergonzi/Guerrero
Jerry Bergonzi sax
Gabriel Guerrero piano
Bruce Gertz bass
Bob Kaufman drums
06/19 Thursday
8:00 PM IMC
1. The Informati: experimental/electronica
http://www.myspace.com/theinformati
2. Jennifer Greer: eclectic, literary piano pop
www.jennifergreer.com
3. Often Airborne: mellow indie rock
http://www.myspace.com/oftenairborne
10:00 PM Futaba Niekawa Trio
Futaba Niekawa piano
Nat Mugavero drums
Gill Aharon bass
06/20 Friday
8:00 PM Josh Rosen, piano, compositions; Stan Strickland, voice, saxophone, flute
Josh Rosen and Stan Strickland have been performing as a duo project since last Fall and have been warmly received in standing-room-only concerts. They have a deep rapport, with Stan's sparkling instrumental colors playing off Josh's expressive piano. They perform Rosen's compositions and unique arrangements of favorite standards and cover tunes. Josh and Stan also love to engage in some "freeplay" as they improvise in tandem with ease.
Singer, saxophonist, flutist, actor Stan Strickland has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Scandinavia, the Caribbean, New Zealand and the former Soviet Union. In addition to numerous radio and television appearances, Stan has performed in many clubs and concert halls, including Jordan and Symphony Halls in Boston, Carnegie Recital Hall and Town Hall in New York, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. His work has been featured on recordings by Bob Moses, Marty Ehrlich, Webster Lewis and Brute Force. Stan has performed with jazz greats Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Herbie Mann, Danilo Perez, Shirley Scott and Marlena Shaw. Love & Beauty, Stan's jazz vocal CD, featuring new arrangements of great jazz classics as well as original material, was released by Hawkline Records in 2005.
Pianist and composer Josh Rosen is a co-leader of 3play+, a band with "a breadth of vision and diversity... ranging from free-improv space jam to reggae to straight-ahead swing to rock to jazz waltz”. Their second CD, “American Waltz”, will be released this summer. Rosen has performed/recorded with world music performers Mulatu Astake and Mindia Devi Klein, folk artists Bob Franke and Dean Stevens, and jazz greats Mick Goodrick, George Garzone, Greg Hopkins, Bob Moses, Phil Grenadier, John Lockwood among many others. Performer Magazine says: “Josh Rosen evokes a refreshingly relaxed openness, yet burns with the best...”
10:00 PM Private event
06/21 Saturday
7:00 PM Max Alper, with Dunes, Dan Lawrence, Jordan Schnee. A night of fun and loops
10:00 PM Sasha Papernik
The classically-trained pianist Sasha Papernik blends Tango, Jazz, 30s
European Nightclub, and, most surprisingly, Schubert into her new
songs for solo voice and piano. One reviewer noted: "With slower beats
and simpler chords, her inclinations might have taken her into folk,
given her propensity for ballad-like narratives and wistful images. As
it is, the flurry of fingers behind her voice locates the energy
somewhere in between Broadway and a slinky Casablanca evening club..."
Currently, she is producing her first album of original songs and
performing at venues in New York City and the Boston area.
06/22 Sunday
3:30 PM Ian Tyson, a solo clarinet recital
Featuring fun music by Copland, Horowitz, Schocker, and Larsen. With Yilin You, piano and Michael Correa, percussion. Reception to follow.
7:30 PM David Maxwell's Outtakes Unlimited
OutTakes Unlimited is comprised of improvising musicians with jazz backgrounds creating soundscapes of shifting tapestries
----from the abstract and architectural to the earthy and estatic.
Come and get aurally realigned!
CHARLIE KOLHASE, SAXES
JOHN LOCKWOOD, BASS
LAWRENCE COOK, DRUMS
DAVID MAXWELL, piano, gongs, ethnic reeds and percussion
10:00 PM Gill Aharon Group
www.myspace.com/thegillaharontrio
also check Andrew's myspace. It has a vocal version of "See Ya" on it.
www.myspace.com/everywherestranger
06/23 Monday
10:00 PM Fringe
06/24 Tuesday
7:00 PM Rob Rudin and the Rude 4 - Plus - The Grass Gypsys
Drummer Rob Rudin brings his “whirled” jazz quartet The Rude 4, plus folk-jazz duo The Grass Gypsys, to the Lily Pad. What makes this different from any other night of original music at the venerable concert venue is that THERE WILL BE CAKE to celebrate Rudin’s birthday!
Rob Rudin & The Rude 4 plays original jazz, blues and funk, along with Celtic, Jewish and other traditional music in an improvisational context. Drummer / percussionist Rudin (www.myspace.com/robrudin) has played and recorded with artists ranging from Americana to Zydeco. Singer and pianist Vanessa Morris (www.newenglandconservatory.edu/yaStudies/faculty/morrisV.html) won't be pigeon-holed. A classical pianist turned contemporary improviser, she's equally at home playing jazz or improvising on southern U.S. folk songs, spirituals, lullabies and hollers. Bill McCormack (www.billmccormack.com) played with internationally renowned jazz guitarist Louis Stewart’s band (www.louisstewart.net) in their native Ireland. He taught U2's Adam Clayton bass before immigrating to Boston in 1991. Saxophonist and clarinetist Mark Chenevert's (www.stonelily.com/mark.html) résumé reads like a who's who of the Boston music scene. He's played rock with Willie "Loco" Alexander and The Del Fuegos and now works with the Chandler Travis Philharmonic and Hot Tamale Brass Band.
The Grass Gypsys (www.myspace.com/thegrassgypsys) are Colleen Rusconi, voice, and guitarist Justin Kleya. These two musician friends formed a duo, discovered their true love for one another, and traded in their day-to-day 9-5/music-at-night lifestyle for an “old school” motor-home and the open road. They travel from town to town like troubadours of old, spreading their tales laden with love, hope, adventure, excitement, and joy in the experience of life, opening hearts and minds along the way. The Grass Gypsys have been described as “…a joy to witness…” “…soul and serenity…” and “...consummate musicians, incorporating folk, jazz, blues, and world music.” They have just released their second album "Lessons from Eden."
Come for the cake, stay for the sounds!
06/25 Wednesday
7:00 PM Private Event
10:00 PM KGBG
Kaufman/Gertz/Bergonzi/Guerrero
Jerry Bergonzi sax
Gabriel Guerrero piano
Bruce Gertz bass
Bob Kaufman drums
06/26 Thursday
7:00 PM Fred Woodard Trio
Fred Woodard – Guitar
Greg Loughman – Bass
Yoron Israel - Drums
$10 suggested donation
The Music
This concert will feature an evening of standard and original jazz music. Woodard’s guitar style draws from several influences including, Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, George Benson and Sonny Rollins. Woodard also takes sounds from styles other than jazz and adapts them to a jazz format.
Here’s what WGBH jazz radio host Eric Jackson has to say about Woodard: “I find Fred’s tone to be warm and inviting, making you want to hear more from him. No matter if he’s playing a ballad, an up tempo tune or an African American spiritual, that warmth shines through.”
Biographies
Fred Woodard (guitar, leader) has performed extensively with his trio in the northeastern and midwestern United States and southeastern Canada, making appearances at events such as the Providence Jazz and Blues Festival, The Discover Jazz Festival, The Kingfield Jazz and Blues Showcase and the Iowa City Jazz Festival. Woodard has released two CD’s Arrival and 1715 on his own label, Ujam Records. Both of these CDs have received extensive airplay and positive reviews as well. Woodard is currently on the faculty at the Roland Hayes School of Music in Roxbury, MA.
Greg Loughman (bass) has been very active on the Boston jazz scene for a number of years. His musical career has also taken him on tours of Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, the Czech Republic and Japan. He is also a faculty member at the University of Maine in Augusta, ME.
Yoron Israel (drums) has toured and recorded with musicians such as Abbey Lincoln, Ahmad Jamal, Kenny Burrell, Art Farmer, James Williams and he has recorded four CDs as a leader. He is currently assistant chair of the percussion department at Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA.
06/27 Friday
7:00 PM Rabid Owl An evening of completely spontaneous freeform improvisation.
Alison Hearn - synthesizer
Roger W. Fritz - guitar, sound effects, other instruments and found objects
Chris Pert - Trumpet
Mike Drzewiecki - drums, percussion
and special guest: Dr. T with live video imaging!
06/28 Saturday
11:45 AM Yoga with Caroline
06/29 Sunday
2:00 PM Gabe Leader-Rose's Senior Recital
Drums - Tiago Michelin
Bass - Gabe Leader-Rose
Piano - Jake Sherman
7:30 PM David Maxwell's Outtakes Unlimited
Dave Tronzo, guitar
Jim Hobbs, sax
Joe Morris, bass
Luther Gray, drums
David Maxwell, piano, etc.
OutTakes Unlimited is comprised of improvising musicians with jazz backgrounds creating soundscapes of shifting tapestries
----from the abstract and architectural to the earthy and estatic.
Come and get aurally realigned!
10:00 PM Gill Aharon Group
www.myspace.com/thegillaharontrio
also check Andrew's myspace. It has a vocal version of "See Ya" on it.
www.myspace.com/everywherestranger
06/30 Monday
4:00 PM The Remus Lupins
7:00 PM mostly other people do the killing
10:00 PM Fringe
The world's premier Free Jazz Trio. Thirty two years of playing together every Monday has created a three headed beast that is making Jazz history. If you want to experience the Boston Jazz scene you cannot miss the Fringe. Monday after Monday this story unfolds.
John Lockwood - Bass
Bob Gulotti - Drums
George Garzone - Sax