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07/01 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.

07/02 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

07/03 Thursday

7:00 PM Kathy Olson Sextet/Sean Berry's Vaunce

Sean Berry's Vaunce

Sean Berry: saxophone
Lefteris Kordis: piano
Austin McMahon: drums
Kendall Eddy: bass

Kathy Olson Sextet

Kathy Olson: bari sax
Sean Berry: tenor sax
Vivek Patel: trumpet
Keigo Hirakawa: piano
Kendall Eddy: bass
Matt Rousseau: drums

07/06 Sunday

7:00 PM Elan Mehler Quartet

Jeromy Viner - Sax
Scott Spivak - Rhodes
Tod Hedrick - Bass
Elan - piano

by Martin Longley
07 September 2007
BBC Radio 1 DJ Gilles Peterson was reclining in the bar of the apparently quite chic Hotel Therme in Vals, Switzerland, when he first heard the radically calming sound of Brooklyn pianist Elan Mehler. Immediately captivated, Gilles returned for the next two nights. So now, this young player and composer is making his debut on Peterson's own Brownswood label, easily qualifying as its most reclined issuance to date.
Mehler favours a fairly unusual line-up, his own acoustic piano being matched by the electric Fender Rhodes keys of David Moore. Andrew Zimmerman blows throaty tenor saxophone and Tod Hedrick strokes warm bass. They don't have a drummer in the band, so Mehler's pieces automatically dwell over in the chamber jazz nook. This is beautifully calming music, inwardly-routed and pensive, the players circling around each other in a luminescent pool. Notes are carefully enunciated, making slight repeats, returning figures whilst they're mulled over at length. It's a jazz balm...
The two-keyboard dialogue is reminiscent of the various permutations favoured by Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett in the late-1960s outfits of Miles Davis. There's also a softly chiming layer-building that sounds like Steve Reich's "Electric Counterpoint", as performed by Pat Metheny. There's a distinctiveness to the compositions that's difficult to pin down in terms of jazz precedents. The foursome pay great attention to tone and timbre, texture and tingling, as Zimmerman's tenor luxuriates in its own clear space, each soloist leaning forward naturally when their time comes to take leave of the general clinging. The soloing regime is never clear: it's more of an organic flow. Listen to "The Pale 45s", where Zimmerman's thistled tenor cuts to a sudden high Fender Rhodes phrase, with bowed bass underlay, then Mehler enters with a boldly simple melody figure. This may well be the pianist's quartet, but what they make is very much a collective music...

10:00 PM Gill Aharon

07/07 Monday

7:00 PM Kendall Eddy

Rick Stone, saxophone and clarinet
Catherine Bent, cello
Carmen Staaf, piano and accordion
Austin McMahon, drums
Kendall Eddy, bass and compositions

10:22 PM The 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.

ohn Lockwood - Bass
Bob Gulotti - Drums
George Garzone - Sax

07/08 Tuesday

7:00 PM Daniel Ian Smith and Lewis Porter duet!

Daniel Ian Smith is one of the outstanding saxophone and flute performers in the Boston area and beyond. He is a professor at Berklee College of Music and is in demand as a clinician, guest soloist, and private teacher. He has performed throughout the United States, Japan, Germany, and England with his own ensembles and with such noted artists as Arturo Sandoval, Maria Schneider, John Lewis, Jimmy Giuffre, George Russell, Steve Gadd, Gloria Estefan, Johnny Mathis, Rebecca Paris, The Temptations, The O’Jays, Sheila Jordan, George Garzone, Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, and many many others! Yet he finds time to direct his own groups, A Collective Directive, TREE-OH. The New World Jazz Composers Octet, and The Big and Phat Jazz Orchestra. As the recipient of the prestigious Uchida Fellowship in 1996 (from the Japan Foundation), Mr. Smith spent 6 months performing and touring around Japan and studying Japanese traditional music and culture. He was the featured soloist at the Yokohama Port Festival, Yokohama, Japan in June of 1996. He is also the founder/artistic director of the Jazz in the Sanctuary Concert Series in Brookline, MA which has produced over 80 concerts in the last 10 years. For more info go to DanielIanSmith.com

Lewis Porter is a jazz pianist and Professor of Music at Rutgers University in Newark, where he directs the Master's program in jazz history. He is known worldwide for his teaching and for his many books and articles, especially John Coltrane: His Life and Music (published in English in 1998; published in French and Italian editions in 2007). He founded and co-edited the journal Jazz Perspectives, and edited the John Coltrane Reference which appeared in January 2008. As a pianist and keyboardist, he has performed recently with such artists as Wycliffe Gordon, Ravi Coltrane, Joe Morris, Jane Ira Bloom, and Judi Silvano with Joe Lovano; he performed in Europe in November 2007 with Dave Liebman and others. His latest CD, recorded live at Siena Jazz, is Italian Encounter, and it has received only rave reviews. For example, Jazz Times says that Porter is "a helluva piano player." He is a regular member, with Badal Roy and Vic Juris, of the indian-inspired group Dharma Jazz. His performance schedule and extended audio and video clips are at Lewisporter.com

07/09 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

07/10 Thursday

7:00 PM Allison Crowe

An organic blend of rock, jazz, folk, Broadway, gospel, pop and soul.

"It is hard to imagine a singer filled with more passion and talent
behind the piano than Allison Crowe." ~ C.C. Chapman, Boston-based new
media executive and music junkie, Accident Hash (USA)

"Ever wonder what it would have been like to listen to a gifted
singer/songwriter from Saskatchewan in a small, intimate hall before she
became Joni Mitchell? Don't fret the missed opportunity. There's no need
to turn back the clock. Check out Allison Crowe..." ~ Robert Reid, The
Record (Canada)

"Treat yourself to one of the mightiest talents on the singer-songwriter
scene today." - Bob Muller, JoniMitchell.com (USA)

"Allison Crowe has a voice to fall in love with. She is from Vancouver
Island in Canada, descended from Scottish, Irish and Manx stock. She's
exactly the sort of artist who can make serious headway on her own label
and that's just what she's doing." ~ Record of the Day (UK)

"The most honest, heartfelt, and directly intimate concert in my entire
life." ~ Ross Hocker, WGTE/NPR Radio (USA)

An organic blend of rock, jazz, folk, Broadway, gospel, pop and soul.
Benefit concert for the EveryDay Angels Foundation

http://www.allisoncrowe.com

http://www.myspace.com/allisoncrowe

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

07/11 Friday

7:00 PM New West Guitar Quartet

www.newwestguitar.com
What started as a class for individual guitarists became an opportunity
for Perry Smith, John Storie, Brady Cohan, and Matt Roberts to create
a group like none other. In reference to their west coast roots and
passion for new music, the group dubbed themselves the New West
Guitar Quartet (NWGQ).

By arranging classic jazz standards and exploring original
compositions, NWGQ established themselves as a notable jazz group
when they were all students at the University of Southern California.
As music majors, NWGQ collaborated with USC to become the first
group to receive the coveted Thornton Protégé Grant. Since the group
started in 2003 they have performed in major venues throughout
Canada, Japan, Europe and all over the Western United States.

With the release of their second album “Wide Awake” on Art Song
Music, NWGQ focuses to combine the improvisational elements of
jazz with the performance standards of a chamber group. By utilizing
all the colors of the guitar, New West Guitar Quartet creates a new
medium of chamber music.

07/12 Saturday

4:00 PM New West Guitar Quartet

www.newwestguitar.com
What started as a class for individual guitarists became an opportunity
for Perry Smith, John Storie, Brady Cohan, and Matt Roberts to create
a group like none other. In reference to their west coast roots and
passion for new music, the group dubbed themselves the New West
Guitar Quartet (NWGQ).

By arranging classic jazz standards and exploring original
compositions, NWGQ established themselves as a notable jazz group
when they were all students at the University of Southern California.
As music majors, NWGQ collaborated with USC to become the first
group to receive the coveted Thornton Protégé Grant. Since the group
started in 2003 they have performed in major venues throughout
Canada, Japan, Europe and all over the Western United States.

With the release of their second album “Wide Awake” on Art Song
Music, NWGQ focuses to combine the improvisational elements of
jazz with the performance standards of a chamber group. By utilizing
all the colors of the guitar, New West Guitar Quartet creates a new
medium of chamber music.

7:00 PM Tony Brown

http://myspace.com/tonybrowntunes
http://sonicbids.com/tonybrownmusic

10:00 PM Michael McNeill

07/13 Sunday

11:30 AM Yoga with Natalie Brooks

10:00 PM Gill Aharon Group

07/14 Monday

7:00 PM Craters

10:00 PM The 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

07/15 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.

07/16 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

07/17 Thursday

7:00 PM Earnest

An art exhibition featuring work by Dave Kiersh, Lauren Leone, Fiona Logusch, and Diana Pyatov.

July 5 through August 5, 2008.

Reception: Thursday July 17th from 7-9 pm.

Music performance by Boy without God at 8 pm.

The Lily pad presents a collaborative exhibition by four earnest artists who share a practice of exploring ideas and creating visual narratives through making art. Their artwork tends to depict fanciful creatures and expressive human figures who inhabit imaginary landscapes created with the use of pens, paint, and chalk pastels on paper.

Dave Kiersh
http://www.davekcomics.com/

Fiona Logusch
http://www.fionalogusch.com/

Diana Pyatov
http://www.dianapyatov.com/

Boy Without God
http://myspace.com/boywithoutgod

10:00 PM The Bebop Trio

Lefteris Kordis - piano, Thor Thorvaldsson - drumset, and Alec Spiegelman - clarinet,

play loose with obscure tunes by Elmo Hope, Herbie Nichols, Duke Ellington, and more.

07/18 Friday

7:00 PM Rocky Mountains in Cambridge

Featuring a quartet of singer-songwriters who attend the Rocky Mountain Song School every August, including three from metro Boston, and a special guest from Denver:

Charlene DiCalogero
If you've never heard, or heard of, "dark and witty acoustica," here's your chance to see the queen of DWA. Some of Charlene's stuff will remind you of Ani DiFranco—but then again, she knows how to put across some sweet fingerstyle too. Her band “The September Babies” have also played the Pad. Her "Odyssey Songs Vol. 1" CD had a record four tracks played on WUMB as a brand-new artist. She'll bring tunes from that and the highly anticipated Vol. 2. www.amphibiouswrecks.com

Rob Mattson
…is an expert on "The Swedish/Jewish Divide" and other current controversies. He has a Martin and a trained baritone voice, and he's willing to use them. On "New Address," Mattson lets you in on a more intimate, romantic side. "Listen" to both of them on the CD of the same name at www.robertmattson.com

Tim Riordan
Tim always has a notebook and a pen with him. That means he is the kind of songwriter who just keeps getting better and better. Who else would think to write "Philip Seymour Hoffman"? Tim's songs tell stories, and his characters find themselves trying hard and struggling harder. At Song School he earned co-write credit on the song “Reveal” with the amazing Willy Porter. "Pick Me Up" is his first CD. www.robertmattson.com

And special guest, Rob Roper:

There's nobody these Boston songwriters would rather bum a beer off of than Rob Roper. He's a producer, a sideman, and singer-songwriter-wiseguy. Originally from Mississippi, the same state that other hip-swiveling guy is from, he can do country, he can do rock, and he'll remind you of Randy Newman, Neil Young and your funniest best friend. www.robroper.com

10:00 PM Ian Rapien

www.ianrapien.com
www.myspace.com/ianrapien

07/19 Saturday

7:00 PM Joe Raciti and the Pure Premium

If Ben Folds had spent the better part of his childhood playing music from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story, he probably would have sounded a lot like Joe Raciti and the Pure Premium. This dynamic, four-piece group brings its unique fusion of piano-pop and musicals to life with youthful exuberance and mature musicianship; a combination rarely found in one person, let alone four.

Be prepared to laugh, sing along, stomp your feet and have your brain massaged with the quirkiest music you've never heard. The first 50 people to the show get a free CD.

For more information on Joe Raciti and the Pure Premium (including samples) please visit:
www.joeraciti.com

Are you ready?

07/20 Sunday

11:30 AM Yoga with Natalie Brooks

7:30 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
Advanced dancers welcome to dance. Musicians welcome to sit in.
Suggested donation: $10 ($15 suggested for dancers)
Suggested arrival time for dancers: 7:00 pm

For more information, email Suzanne at smbouffard@gmail.com

07/21 Monday

10:00 PM The 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

07/22 Tuesday

8:00 PM Big Fuzzy and The Jake Sherman Organ Trio

Max Kennedy and Anneke Reich
Acoustic, lyrical, waltz music: guitar and voice
www.myspace.com/maxandanni

Jake Sherman Organ Trio
Jake Sherman- Hammond B3 Organ
Roy Guzman- Guitar
Jeff Fajardo- Drums

07/23 Wednesday

10:00 PM KGBG

Kaufman/Gertz/Bergonzi/Guerrero
Jerry Bergonzi sax
Gabriel Guerrero piano
Bruce Gertz bass
Bob Kaufman drums

07/24 Thursday

7:00 PM Rock for Health Benefit at lily pad

ROCK FOR HEALTH is a non-profit organization that advocates health care for musicians, 96% of whom are not insured. We inform musicians on a wide variety of health issues including preventative health services, social, mental and occupational outreach. Through l eadership, communication, and partnerships: R.F.H. is working to establish a secure environment in which artists and performers are able to obtain affordable health care.
ROCK FOR HEALTH is sponsoring a benefit concert at the Lilypad in Cambridge, MA on July 24th at 7pm. Some featured artists include: Natti Vogel, The Doublestops, Jaggery, and a few surprise guests.

Artwork will also be available for sale, as well as merchandise from RFH.
All proceeds go toward the cause, and the cost of the show is $12 at the door; $10 adv.
For advanced ticketing: email Robyn Janz at: rock4healthtix@gmail.com


For more information about Rock for Health, visit:

www.rockforhealth.org


For information about the featured artists:

http://www.myspace.com/nattivogel

http://www.myspace.com/jaggery

http://www.myspace.com/thedoublestops

10:00 PM Claudio Marquez Jazz Vibes Group

Featuring the music of vibist Claudio Marquez with:

Dan Pugach - drums
Yuki Ito - bass
TBA - sax

www.claudiovibes.com

07/25 Friday

7:00 PM The RETURN OF THE HAMMOND JAM!

Presented by Sam Gilman

An old school Hammond Organ Jam session, featuring some of the most talented Organ players and Musicians from the Boston area. All instruments welcome to come sit in, Hammond Players attendance is mandatory!

07/26 Saturday

9:00 PM DJ U-NITE and FRIENDS Present:

Summer Heat Party?Senegal Night
Music of the World

07/27 Sunday

11:30 AM Yoga with Natalie Brooks

7:00 PM The Egos, The Jet Boyz, and Red Invasion

10:00 PM Gill Aharon Trio

07/28 Monday

10:00 PM The 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.

ohn Lockwood - Bass
Bob Gulotti - Drums
George Garzone - Sax

07/29 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.

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.

07/30 Wednesday

6:45 PM private event

10:00 PM Bruce Gertz Trio

Tonight!

Bruce Gertz Trio
Joe Hunt, Drums
Lawrence Fields, Piano
Bruce Gertz, Bass

07/31 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.