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09/01 Monday
10:00 PM The Fringe
Over Thirty Years of playing every Monday!
whoaah that's a long time, I guess telepathy is normal after that long.
John Lockwood
Bob Gullotti
George Garzone
09/02 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.
09/03 Wednesday
7:00 PM open vinyasa yoga
one hour class
$5
10:00 PM KGBG
Kaufman/Gertz/Bergonzi/Guerrero
Jerry Bergonzi sax
Gabriel Guerrero piano
Bruce Gertz bass
Bob Kaufman drums
09/04 Thursday
7:30 PM John Young
www.myspace.com/johnyoungband
www.we7.com (search for john young)
www.last.fm/music/John+Young
Sounds Like: Peter Gabriel, Sting, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Asia, Kevin Gilbert, Nick Drake, Camel, Yes etc
Has worked for : The Scorpions, Asia, Paul Rodgers, Fish, John Wetton,Greenslade, MTV Band etc
Has guested with: George & Ringo,Jimmy Page and Robert Plant,Bon Jovi, E.L.O. etc
Has Written for: Jon Anderson (Yes), John Wetton (Asia), Fish, BBC, ITV, Discovery Channel,C.N.N. etc
Supported: Saga, BJH (feat Les Holroyd), Magnum, Focus, Midge Ure,Bonnie Tyler etc
The songs and stories cover many aspects of life war,love,family,dumbing down,poverty
and even the music business! The show can range from soft and deep to powerful and
evocative from singer/songwriter to a one man Pink Floyd. Combine this with John's sense
of humour (well he is from Liverpool!) and you have the recipe for a great evenings entertainment.
The concert will appeal to an eclectic audience who thrive on original intelligent music.
Although the concert is not acoustic it has been well proven in venues from house concerts upwards.
News: John has just been voted the best (indie) male singer by the Progressive Rock Hall of Fame for 2008
http://www.progressiverockhalloffame.com/
09/05 Friday
7:00 PM Mitch Marcus Quintet
Mitch Marcus founded the Mitch Marcus Quintet in 1999. From post-apocalyptic jazz to scintillating trance hypnotism, the Mitch
Marcus Quintet delivers a unique brand of original music, taking you through a labyrinth of ever-shifting textures, comprised of some
of the SF Bay Area's finest musicians, this dynamic collective features the extended compositions of saxophonists Marcus and Sylvain
Carton, as well as the rumbling opuses of drummer Ches Smith.
The members of the Quintet also play in a diverse array of Bay Area and National/International bands, such as Donovan, Marc Ribot,
Grachan Moncur III, Stanley, Trevor Dunn's Convulsant Trio, Kipple, Secret Chiefs 3, Good for Cows, Japonize Elephants, Realistic
Orchestra, Matt Small Chamber Ensemble, Ben Adams Quintet, Nathan Clevenger group, and Shotgun Wedding Hiphop Symphony,
The Mitch Marcus Quintet won "Best Jazz Group 2006" from the SF WEEKLY
Mitch Marcus has been an integral part of the Bay Area music scene, arriving in 1998 after graduating from The Indiana University
School of Music with a BM in Jazz Studies. Contributions to The Mitch Marcus Quintet and its offspring, The Mitch Marcus Quintet +
13, include 3 albums and over 50 different compositions ranging from straight-ahead jazz to complex harmonic/rhythmic endeavors
and a multi-movement suite. These original compositions are unique in that they allow the soloists to navigate non-traditional terri-
tory and find new ground to play within; as well as create distinctive song formats dictated by the melody. Mitch's composition
partner and co-creator/co-leader, Sylvain Carton, have 10 years of playing and writing experience together, creating a viable
partnership in the Bay Area music scene.
www.mitchmarcusmusic.com
www.myspace.com/mitchmarcusquintet
Written By: Steve Silberman, contributing editor - Wired Magazine
The Mitch Marcus Quintet plays 21st century jazz: adventurous music that
swings with all the muscularity and verve of pioneers like Mingus, Monk, and
Rollins, but pays tribute to that glorious past by daring to advance the sweet
science of collective improvisation into the future.
The quintet's influences range freely through the last few decades of musical
exploration – you can hear everything in it from the luminous harmonies of
Ellington and Strayhorn to the on-a-dime turnarounds of Ornette's groups to
Zappa's perpetually surprising melodic inventions – but they sound like no one
but themselves, the sign of true innovators
These qualities of freshness and boldness shouldn't be as rare as they are; but
Marcus and company have happily freed themselves from the deadly reverence
for previously-discovered territory that drags down many younger jazz players
these days. The Special is music that reawakens the hip listener to the potential of
the vast undiscovered terrain ahead. The album also boasts the singularly warm,
organic, and punchy production aesthetic of Stephen Barncard, an
underappreciated genius who has specialized in drawing out the full
embodiment of his musicians' imaginations for over three decades now.
Classic Barncard projects like the Grateful Dead's American Beauty and David
Crosby's If I Could Only Remember My Name established new high-water
marks for the recording of acoustic guitars and vocals in their day; it's
wonderful to hear on The Special how readily Barncard's uncompromising
commitment to the natural sounds of well-played instruments in an uncluttered
ambience translates to contemporary jazz.
The poet Ezra Pound's challenge to his generation of writers was to always
"Make it new." The Mitch Marcus Quintet has taken up that challenge with the
perfect balance of control and abandon, which is the very essence of jazz. In a
world of play-it-safe hybrids of tired forms and well-intentioned-buttepid
homages to the great ones, Marcus and his colleagues are the real thing.
Mitch Marcus is one of those freak
genius types. A virtuosic saxophonist
and dynamic composer, he has a
wide-open ear, a deep respect for
jazz tradition, and a fearless creative
spirit.
East Bay Express, Sam Prestianni
Mitch Marcus Quintet One of the Bay
Area's most riotously swinging young jazz
groups, the quartet serves up post-bop
with an array of jagged rhythms. But just
when the sound becomes reckless, they
connect the dots brilliantly.
Daniel King, San Francisco Chronicle
09/06 Saturday
10:00 PM DANA FALCONBERRY (AUSTIN)
dana falconberry vocals, guitar, songs
andrew bergmann bass
myspace.com/danafalconberry
10 pm
$7
09/07 Sunday
4:00 PM Daniel Cainer
Daniel Cainer's Jewish Chronicles
Beautiful Songs, Much Laughter, Some Tears...
After a sell-out UK tour, master songwriter Daniel Cainer brings his brilliant one man show to the Liliy Pad for just one performance... and you don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy it!
From a ragtime Tale of two Yiddish Tailors, to a hilarious, epic kitchen sink drama (set in a suburban launderama), his clever, funny, haunting, songs tell a universal story.
'Very funny and moving' Daily Mail
'Sophisticated, witty and touching' Manchester Evening News
'Fresh as paint, sharp as a razor' Jewish Telegraph
‘Daniel is winning hearts wherever he goes — not only because of his fine musicianship, but also because his songs are really stories which keep audiences hooked to the end of the narrative.’ The Jewish Chronicle
7:00 PM Valdisa Moura Amor e Musica
http://www.myspace.com/valdisamoura
10:00 PM Gill Aharon Trio
www.myspace.com/thegillaharontrio
09/08 Monday
7:00 PM Stereo Summer (Boston Music Festival)
8:00 PM Trio La Lune (Boston Music Festival)
8pm-
www.anonemusic.com
Flutist Hiroaki Honshuku was first introduced to jazz in 1985 while teaching music at the US Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan. He started at Berklee College of music as a scholarship student in January 1987. By the fall, he was also accepted to the New England Conservatory as a scholarship graduate student. He has studied with George Russell, Dave Holland, Bob Moses, George Garzone, Matthew Marvuglio, and Thomas McKinley. Hiro was chosen leader of the 1990 New England Conservatory Honors Jazz Quintet, which performed throughout the New England region. Hiro has been an assistant director for George Russell at the New England Conservatory since 1987 until Russell's recent retirement. He was also invited as an assistant and a flutist as well as a digital audio technician for Russell's Living Time Orchestra from 1997. Hiro has also played with Mike Stern, Dave Liebman, Mick Goodrick, Dave Weckl, Tiger Okoshi, George Garzone, Maria Schneider, Bob Moses, and Tom McKinley. Hiro has recorded more than 25 CDs for various artists. He also recorded 5 leader albums, which are available at Amazon.com, CDBaby, and iTunes Store.
10:00 PM The Fringe
Over Thirty Years of playing every Monday!
whoaah that's a long time, I guess telepathy is normal after that long.
John Lockwood
Bob Gullotti
George Garzone
09/09 Tuesday
7:00 PM Andrei Matorin (boston music festival)
The Boston Globe calls Brazilian-born Andrei Matorin an "emerging jazz violinist" and featured the Andrei Matorin Quartet in their Picks-of-the-Week column earlier this year next to the likes of jazz greats such as Bill Charlap, Jim Hobbs, and John Patitucci. As a composer, Andrei’s music seamlessly blends the harmonic and rhythmic intensity of jazz with the emotion and sensitivity of classical music while always alluding to the soaring melodies of his native Brazil. As a student at Berklee College of Music, he has been honored with Berklee's Achievement Award on two separate occasions.
Andrei Matorin is also an alumnus of Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead 2008 Program at The Kennedy Center in Washington DC, an exclusive program that "identifies outstanding, emerging jazz artists in their mid-teens and twenties" from an international pool of applicants. Look out for his debut album available February 2009.
For more information please visit: http://www.andreimatorin.com/
10:00 PM Andy Voelker & Kompany (Boston Music Festival)
Saxophonist and Composer Andy Voelker is well versed in a variety of musical styles. Originally from Bricktown, NJ, Andy developed his writing, arranging, recording and performing skills with the New Jersey-based funk band, BROWN. After being awarded a scholarship to attend the Berklee College of Music, Andy moved to Boston, and found himself under the tutelage of George Garzone, Frank Tiberi, Danny Harrington, and Frank Wilkins. Since moving to Boston, Andy has found no shortage of performing opportunities, playing or recording with Dennis DiBlasio, Cameron Brown, James Merenda, Jose Castillo, Dennis Warren's Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble, Event Horizon, and his own group, the Andy Voelker Trio.
http://www.gypsyschaeffer.com/
11:00 PM Sean Berry Group
Saxophonist, composer, and educator Sean Berry is a transplant from Three Forks, Washington. Sean has been performing and teaching in New England since 1998. As a child, he was fortunate enough to find an excellent first teacher and dedicated mentor in Brent Jensen, a former student of the great Lee Konitz. After high school, Sean moved on to study with noted composer and saxophonist Gregory Yasinitsky at Washington State University. Recently, Sean completed his masters degree at the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Danilo Pérez, Charlie Banacos, Jerry Bergonzi, John McNeil, Bob Moses, and Cecil McBee. Sean has performed with jazz greats such as James Williams, Clark Terry, Bobby Shew, Danilo Pérez, Oliver Lake, Frank Mantooth, Jim McNeely, Ingrid Jensen, Matt Wilson, Gary Burton, and Rebecca Paris, and maintains an active freelance schedule playing jazz, funk, rock, and blues. In addition to being a member of the Boston-based Chuck Gabriel Septet and the Makanda Project (along with local luminaries Charlie Kohlhase, Yoron Israel, and John Lockwood), Sean also performs regularly with his own trio and quartet, and maintains a large studio teaching woodwinds.
http://www.myspace.com/seanberrymusic
09/10 Wednesday
7:00 PM open vinyasa yoga
one hour class
$5
10:00 PM BGT (Boston Music Festival)
Bruce Gertz Bass
Tim Miller Gtr
Joe Hunt Drums
09/11 Thursday
7:00 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
Julien Kasper is a superb guitarist ... a dynamic and fluent player with a rich mind full of musical ideas. This is a terrific musician who should not be missed.
— Allan Chase The Portsmouth Herald
"Kasper's playing is authoritative and adventurous. With forays into jazz
phrasing and high-octane blues, his melodic attack combines equal parts of
Jeff Beck and Hendrix channeled through monumental tone."
-- Guitarist Magazine
"His second album continues to show he's is one of New England's real musical treasures. The CD is a sparkling sample of Kasper's versatility ... marvelous interplay... virtuoso fretwork... delectable melody... stunning command of tone and phrasing...
— Jay Miller Patriot Ledger
"Julien Kasper again proves he is one of the finer rock guitar instrumentalists around. He’s got great chops and feel and unquestionable tone. In fact, the sounds of the guitars are damn near perfect. And best of all, the compositions here are well-written."
— John Heidt Vintage Guitar
"Berklee’s ax-wielding professor of Hendrixian studies and Beckology puts the lie once more to the old “those-who-can’t-play-teach” canard with this ripping, live-to-tape date, his second. Grounded in jazz-rock and funk, featuring more guitar tones than a ZZ Top compilation, and all done with a minimum of crotch-grabbing, “The New Imperial” gives a good name to guitar heroics. Download: “8 to 11.”
— Kevin R. Convey Boston Herald
"Wes Montgomery greatly complicated my life by hipping me to jazz," writes Julien Kasper. Way to go, Wes! Kasper's ballsy - yet - breathy tone (think Holdsworth, Frisell) is grafted onto lithe, elastic compositions that breath fusion fire through Texas teeth.
The eclectic [guitarist] suggests that "John Coltrane and Miles Davis have far more in common with Hendrix and Beck than most jazz guitarists." Building his style from that perspective, Kasper displays the kind of righteous control, dead-on phrasing, progressive composition, and savvy ears that make Eric Johnson's music so appealing... This guy is really, really good - somebody give him a record deal quick!"
-- Guitar Player Magazine
10:00 PM Violette de Bartillat
At the early age of 22, Parisian Singer-Composer Violette sings her passion for the Afro-American music and culture. Her originals appear like a tasty blend of Jazz, Soul and Funk. She has been performing for numerous French venues as well as in Dakar, Boston, New york, St Marteen, Prague and Dubaï. She took part in several Jazz Springboards such as Jazz a Vannes Jazz a Crest or Jazz a Sete. She co-wrote and recorded the song Dorian Island on the amazing Thomas ENHCO debut Album Esquisses and is currently recording her first album. From swing to groove, her warm and inviting voice immerses you in the heart of a genuine emotional experience.
http://www.myspace.com/violettesings
11:00 PM Infinite Out
Boston-based experimental electronic jazz quartet Infinite Out has created a sonic world beyond where modern jazz is currently defined, discovering the next logical step in the constant evolution of jazz composition and improvisation. Led by guitarist Colin Sapp, Infinite Out's music is not straight-ahead acoustic jazz, rather an electro-organic blend of jazz, funk/groove, rock and electronic music. Having a strong element of improvisation within the linear compositional forms breaks the once rigid barriers between these seemingly incompatible genres. The resulting music has been termed "live jungle-jazz" and has appeal to fans of live improvised art within and beyond the jazz world. Infinite Out's music has been compared to John Scofield, Wayne Krantz, Bitches Brew-era Miles Davis, Screaming Headless Torsos, Pat Metheny Group, Squarepusher, Primus, and Phish. The remainder of the group's talented young crew consists of Todd Marston on keys,
Andy Dow on bass, and Max Zemanovic on drums.
http://www.colinsapp.com/
09/12 Friday
7:00 PM Ben Kogan/Scurvy/Alex Asher (boston music Festival)
Ben Kogan @ 7, Scurvy @ 8, and Alex Asher @ 9.
Ben: www.myspace.com/benkoganmusic , Scurvy: www.myspace.com/scurvynyc, alex: www.myspace.com/alexasher.
10:00 PM Michael Bates' Outside Sources: (Boston Music Festival)
Russ Johnson-trumpet, Quinsin Nachoff-saxophone/clarinet, Jeff Davis-drums, Michael Bates-double bass
"Bates demonstrates his rock solid composing skills and enviable technical faculties....Simply put, Bates has the ability to make a huge impact on the existing state of modern jazz!"– Glenn Astarita
As a composer and musician, Michael Bates “serves up melodic modernism and contrapuntal elegance” (”Time Out, New York”) and his influences range from Shostakovich, Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman to Bad Brains, Wayne Shorter and John Zorn. Known as a both a leader and double bassist in several collectives, he has performed with Quinsin Nachoff, Russ Johnson, Michael Blake, Gerald Cleaver, Dan Weiss, Tyshawn Sorey, Greg Osby, Jeff Davis, Kevin Turcote, Ben Monder, John McNeil, Briggan Krauss, Peter Van Huffel, Scott Dubois, Ohad Talmor, Michael Attias, Michael Sarin and several other creative musicians.
His debut cd “Outside Sources” was called one of the best albums of 2004 by Cadence Magazine editor Bob Rusch. His second album, "A Fine Balance" (2006) was also exceptionally received and garnered many effusive reviews including several "best of 2006" designations. Released on the German based record label, Between the Lines, A Fine Balance contains ten compositions that combine exquisite melodies and contrapuntal textures with an organic and interactive approach to playing jazz.
Michael's latest recording is set for a fall 2008 release and will be available on trumpeter Dave Douglas' label Greenleaf. Mr. Douglas notes, “I whole-heartedly recommend taking special note in Outside Sources! Michael Bates is a fantastic bassist and an engaging composer.". The new cd "Clock-wise" will feature several more contrapuntal pieces that have been described as “gems that manages to navigate that most difficult and rarely traveled road leading to accessible experimentation....always forward–thinking but also beautiful and within the grasp of even the most casual jazz fan. (Chris Watson, “The View”).
Michael grew up in Canada and often worked at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Even though he was exposed to musicians such as Sun Ra, Thomas Chapin, the Clusone Trio and Dave Holland, he began playing music in hardcore and punk rock bands and maintains that being a jazz musician is no different. While the music he writes and performs is rooted in the jazz, classical and creative music traditions, hardcore’s ‘Do It Yourself’ ethos remains an important component of his music. He is well known as a hard worker and motivated performer.
Michael has recorded three cd's as a leader and over a dozen as a sideman. He has composed well over two hundred pieces of music including works for chamber ensembles, string quartets and solo double bass. As a touring artist, he has visited Europe, Asia, the United States and Canada. Michael has received several grants and fellowships from the Canada Council of the Arts and was on faculty for five years at the Banff International Jazz Workshop. He has studied with the former principal bassist of the Tokyo Symphony, Yoshio Nagashima, at the University of Toronto with Don Thompson and Dave Young and in New York with bassist/composer Mark Helias and Tony Falanga. Michael currently lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, Celena and small dog, Cosmo.
09/13 Saturday
2:30 PM Nathan Curtis
Come hear local composer and multi-instrumentalist Nathan Curtis in this solo recital. Nathan will be performing some of his compositions for piano, bass trombone, flute, and clarinet. However, he promises not to sing this time.
9:00 PM The Milling Gowns CD Release Show w/special guest Dan Blakeslee
9 p.m. (7:30-8:45 p.m.- Private Listening Party. Doors open at 8:45 p.m.)
myspace.com/themillinggowns
The Milling Gowns celebrate the release of "Diving Bell Shallows", their first full-length CD, which showcases the original songs of baritone singer M. backed by darkly elegant piano and viola, punctuated with drums and bass. Their melodramatic pop sound ranges from upbeat with subliminal sadness to slow textured laments.
Dan Blakeslee http://www.myspace.com/danblakeslee
"Blakeslee's live performances are wondrous. Similar to a beekeeper who spells smoke upon the colony before gathering honey, he rouses audiences with wit before subsequently throttling them with his deeply engaging voice and well-thought lyrics. He is unafraid to bare his very soul, emptying a loaded cache of emotion and passion onto the stage for all to witness, explore and devour. His conviction and love for life itself alone makes him impossible to ignore."
09/14 Sunday
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: 7:30 pm
For more information, email Suzanne at smbouffard@gmail.com
10:00 PM Gill Aharon Trio
www.myspace.com/thegillaharontrio
09/15 Monday
7:00 PM Leland Sundries/Dan Kaplan
7pm Leland Sundries
Leland Sundries is the musical project/band of Nick Loss-Eaton. He bridges the biting blues of Michael Bloomfield, the sardonic humor of Cracker or Todd Snider and the plaintive, plain spoken, situational songwriting of Greg Brown. Whether trying to find Memphis with an ex-GI, touting the skills of his Holiday Inn country band or sitting in a cabin alone, the songs evoke specific characters and scenes. Loss-Eaton's harmonica playing ranges from a Big Walter Horton wail to playful Charlie McCoy gallup but is all his own. Nick has played casually with Corey Harris, Monster Mike Welch, Adam Gussow (of Satan & Adam), Stefan Zeniuk and The Shadow Boys (now known as Ladyfingers). He is planning an EP to be self-released for fall 2008. The band has played at Mo Pitkin's, The Living Room, Trash Bar, Kenny's Castaways and Parkside Lounge in New York City. Reach Leland Sundries at lelandsundries AT gmail DOT com.
http://www.myspace.com/lelandsundries
8:30 Dan Kaplan
In a small town outside of New York City, Dan Kaplan wrote his first song at age 3. When he turned 15, he picked up his first guitar and started learning from the nomenclature of the blues and traditional American folk music songs from Bob Dylan and the Beatles, and guitar greats like Jimi Hendrix and Chuck Berry. Music quickly became an obsession and has been ever since.
Throughout high school, Dan fronted several different bands playing classic rock covers and developing as a live performer. "I remember the feeling just before a show," he recalls, "that nervous energy that makes your stomach turn. But I also remember that raw energy when the first note hits...everything else disappears."
Soon after high school, it became clear that writing and performing his own songs was his true passion. He jokingly admits, "songwriting was kind of like a disease. And now that I have it, it just keeps getting worse...Somedays, I can't stop writing for even one second."
While attending Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, Dan played with indie band Autos and Airplanes, acclaimed alt-country rockers The Still, and was involved with diverse projects recording and producing. Now with the release of his second EP Stranger Land, he's taking up the reigns again fronting his own band, playing original songs from his extensive catalogue.
http://www.myspace.com/dankaplan
10:00 PM The Fringe
Over Thirty Years of playing every Monday!
whoaah that's a long time, I guess telepathy is normal after that long.
John Lockwood
Bob Gullotti
George Garzone
09/16 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.
09/17 Wednesday
7:00 PM open vinyasa yoga
one hour class
$5
10:00 PM BGT
Bruce Gertz, Bass
Tim Ray, Piano,
Joe Hunt, Drums
09/18 Thursday
7:00 PM "The Plural Truth" features Bryan Baker on Guitar/EFX/Sounds/Textures and Austin McMahon on Drums
Lead by ground-breaking, innovative guitarist Bryan Baker, "The Plural Truth" 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, "The Plural Truth" 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.
"The Plural Truth" features Bryan Baker on Guitar/EFX/Sounds/Textures and Austin McMahon on Drums
10:00 PM RUSSIAN DOGS#1
1. Vic Rawlings & Jay Sullivan
Vic Rawlings (prepared amplified cello, surface electronics) is active in the Boston improvised music community. His performances focus on the metamusical potential of unstable sounds and silences. He is an instrument builder specializing in modifications of existing instruments. In addition to his extensive cello preparations, he continually develops an electronic instrument from extant analog circuitry, producing, in effect, an analog synthesizer with a highly unstable interface.
He performs regularly as a soloist and as a member of undr quartet, The BSC, and in duo and trio ensembles with Michael Bullock, Greg Kelley, Bhob Rainey, Sean Meehan, Jason Lescalleet, James Coleman, Tatsuya Nakatani, and Howard Stelzer. Collaborators have included Eddie Prevost (AMM), Donald Miller (Borbetomagus), Daniel Carter (Other Dimensions in Music), Laurence Cook, Jaap Blonk, Masashi Harada, and Stephen Drury.
Rawlings appears on the record labels Audio Dispatch, Grob, Sedimental, Emanem, Boxmedia, Chloe, Absurd, and Rykodisc. He has performed as a soloist/ composer with Nicola Hawkins Dance Company and has composed scores for films by Alla Kovgan and Jeff Silva. He has toured throughout the US and in France.
Turntablist Jay Sullivan has been a mainstay of the New England noise and experimental music scene for the past five years or so. Working with distressed vinyl, vintage record players, and a variety of electronic ephemera, he creates his richly crackling music out of dense fields of hiss and hum. In addition to his solo work, he has a longstanding duo project with cassette tape maestro, Howard Stelzer, called Skeletons Out and a newer trio called Ouest with Stelzer and sound artist Brendan Murray.
2. Paper Thin Stages with Ernie Kim & Greg Kelley
Greg Kelley has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and Argentina at numerous festivals, in clubs, outdoors, in living rooms, in a bank, and at least once on a vibrating floor. He has collaborated w/ a number of musicians throughout the globe performing experimental music, free jazz and noise, releasing a number of recordings in the process. He constantly seeks to push the boundaries of the trumpet and of 'music'.
He is the Minister of Fanfares for the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland.
Paper Thin Stages base their music on improvisational checkpoints of glitchy ambiance, pitter-pat drums, and glittering guitars. Sound into musical interludes, and back again into the unknown.
www.myspace.com/paperthinstages or www.paperthinstages.com
$8
09/19 Friday
7:00 PM Marye Lobb and her international band perform marking the release of her first album: Finding Home.
Marye Lobb (Finding Home 2008) is a singer/songwriter with a fresh new sound. The artist has lived all over the world and her music is a reflection of this. Marye uses latin rhythms from her days in South America, Celtic melodies from her Irish Roots, and even some odd meters from the time she spent studying in Athens, Greece.
Without a doubt this album can be enjoyed by people across the globe as she tells stories in English, Spanish and Portuguese about love, traveling, music, [volcanoes and mountains, mosques and the acropolis] and even world poverty. Her sound eclectic and unique, her voice is soothing and her writing is always interlaced with a positive message for all. Marye is committed to social justice; 10% of the profits of the album will go to selected charity. Lobb graduated from Berklee College of Music in 2008.
http://www.myspace.com/maryelizabethlobb
http://www.digstation.com/maryelobb
09/20 Saturday
7:00 PM Bob Gallagher
09/21 Sunday
2:00 PM ART OPENING: Bennett S. Chaney
Superficial Fenestrations - An Installation for the Lily Pad
Photography by Bennett S. Chaney, Opening Reception with live acoustic music.
From Southwestern Virginia, Bennett relocated to Cambridge, MA after spending 8 years teaching basketry to teenagers on top of a mountain while attending design school and completing a Master of Architecture at Virginia Tech in 2007. He has presented his work in numerous exhibitions, including materials from his graduate thesis development in the Piedmont Arts Gallery in Martinsville, Virginia. He currently works for HMFH Architects in Central Square. To view more of his photography and drawings, please visit http://filebox.vt.edu/users/bchaney
7:00 PM Sharoni/Licata/Garzone
10:00 PM Gill Aharon Trio
www.myspace.com/thegillaharontrio
09/22 Monday
7:00 PM Steve Langone Group
Kevin Harris piano
Kendall Eddy bass
Steve Langone drums
Rick DiMuzio tenor
Jim Repa alto
Bruce Bartlett guitar
10:00 PM The Fringe
Over Thirty Years of playing every Monday!
whoaah that's a long time, I guess telepathy is normal after that long.
John Lockwood
Bob Gullotti
George Garzone
09/23 Tuesday
7:00 PM Andrei Matorin
The Boston Globe calls Brazilian-born Andrei Matorin an "emerging jazz violinist" and featured the Andrei Matorin Quartet in their Picks-of-the-Week column earlier this year next to the likes of jazz greats such as Bill Charlap, Jim Hobbs, and John Patitucci. As a composer, Andrei’s music seamlessly blends the harmonic and rhythmic intensity of jazz with the emotion and sensitivity of classical music while always alluding to the soaring melodies of his native Brazil. As a student at Berklee College of Music, he has been honored with Berklee's Achievement Award on two separate occasions.
Andrei Matorin is also an alumnus of Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead 2008 Program at The Kennedy Center in Washington DC, an exclusive program that "identifies outstanding, emerging jazz artists in their mid-teens and twenties" from an international pool of applicants. Look out for his debut album available February 2009.
For more information please visit: http://www.andreimatorin.com/
10:00 PM 3Play++
09/24 Wednesday
7:00 PM open vinyasa yoga
one hour class
$5
10:00 PM Bruce Gertz Trio
w/ Allan Chase, Saxophones
Rob Mitzner, Drums
Bruce Gertz, Bass
09/25 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.
10:00 PM ok|ok
ok|ok is Kyoko Kitamura on voice and laptop, Mike McGinnis on clarinet, Khabu Doug Young on guitars, Tony Moreno on drums. Steeped in the language of jazz improvisation but working with elements of rock, folk, poetry and their own beguiling style, ok|ok manages to seamlessly fuse avant-garde jazz with avant-garde rock, adding multi-lingual spoken words and inexplicable noises to create a wild landscape all its own.
"For all its eccentricity and oddball experimentation, Eating Mantis is a highly musical album. An inside/outside perspective defines this 2006 session...a promising and engaging effort from this New York City-based foursome. " -- Alex Henderson, AllMusicGuide
http://www.myspace.com/michaelmcginnis
http://www.myspace.com/okokmusic
09/26 Friday
8:00 PM Casualty Menagerie
Casualty Menagerie - September 26th and 27th - Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys has an EP is coming out in October but you can get a preview (and a few pre-release copies) at our two day extravaganza. jojo the Burlesque Poetess will host the CD Release party at the Lily Pad in Cambridge. Vermillion Lies (currently on tour with Amanda Palmer) will join the shenanigans with their sister-burlesque (and Lovlies, these are girls you do NOT want to miss!!!) and Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band will make all of your members stand at attention. This Casualty Menagerie will feature fire breathers, teddy bear tea parties, lions, contortionists, belly dancers and much much more!
09/27 Saturday
7:00 PM Melissa Kassel
This music represents the beautiful and mysterious side of improvised jazz. From the very first notes that Melissa Kassel sings, the audience is emotionally drawn in to the music. There is a direct line from her heart to her voice – If you have ever heard her sing you will never forget it. The songs are simple, but unusual and dreamlike. The almost telepathic communication between the musicians on stage is as fascinating as the music itself. There is space, suspense, and surprise. You won’t find a more lyrical trumpeter than Phil Grenadier anywhere. His tone is effortless. Notes hang in the air and slowly dissolve. When Phil and Melissa play together you can close your eyes and you won’t be able to tell which is the voice and which is the horn. Bruno Raberg is the engine of rhythm that propels the music forward but lets it turn in any direction at any moment. The sound of the bass is big and round and warm -- sometimes you think you hear a drummer but there is no drummer. Tom Zicarelli plays the keyboard like a palette of colors. He coaxes the piano from a whisper to a roar and back again as if he’s receiving signals from some invisible antenna. Just when you think you're drifting into orbit, the music comes back home to where it started. If you're searching for inspiration and a transcendent musical experience, look no further.
8:30 PM Casualty Menagerie
Casualty Menagerie - September 26th and 27th - Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys has an EP is coming out in October but you can get a preview (and a few pre-release copies) at our two day extravaganza. jojo the Burlesque Poetess will host the CD Release party at the Lily Pad in Cambridge. Vermillion Lies (currently on tour with Amanda Palmer) will join the shenanigans with their sister-burlesque (and Lovlies, these are girls you do NOT want to miss!!!) and Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band will make all of your members stand at attention. This Casualty Menagerie will feature fire breathers, teddy bear tea parties, lions, contortionists, belly dancers and much much more!
09/28 Sunday
4:00 PM Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club
5:00 PM Rick McLaughlin Trio, featuring Russ Gershon and Pablo Bencid
7:00 PM LOST IN THE TREES/WINDMILLS
LOST IN THE TREES is a folk orchestra from Chapel Hill, NC, led by composer/songwriter Ari Picker. The band is currently on tour in support of their second full length All Alone in an Empty House. The new album shows ringleader Ari Picker fully realizing and extending his compelling synthesis of American folk and traditional classical music and showing that disparate musical styles really stem from a common voice. Lyrically, Picker draws heavily from his autobiography, exploring how the relationship between his parents went on to affect his own relationships with loved ones in his life. Picker uses the unifying familiarity of traditional folk to face these haunting issues with optimism, not dread, and uses his orchestra of strings and horns to objectively correlate the feeling of the song to the listener. Thematically and sonically, All Alone in an Empty House is extremely intimate. Live, the band will be performing with a ten piece ensemble of violin, cello, french horn, euphonium, tuba, mandolin, accordion, glockenspiel, and a rock band set up to truly flesh out the songs.
All Alone in an Empty House was recorded by Ryan Pickett (My Morning Jacket) and Ari Picker and mixed by Ian Schreier (Annuals, The Never). The album will be released in one multi-format package which includes a CD, vinyl record, and coupon for a free 320 kpbs MP3 digital download of the album. Lost in the Trees and Trekky Records are offering the new "everything you could ever need" package as a response to the growing changes in the way people buy music.
WINDMILLS is the brand spanking new moniker for the former folk trio DEXTER & ELLIOT, whose quest involves the union between the natural and technological worlds of music. The band plays an ambient folk-pop electronica that has been said to “wrap itself around the listener like a new blanket that's been taken out of an old chest.” This is what the band would ultimately like to accomplish, the melding of an older folk influence while simultaneously integrating the innovations of 21st century electronic music.
Comprised of singer/guitarist Nick Morawiecki, drummer/sequencer Nate Babbs, bassist Ken Woodward, and guitarist Reid Angwin, the group will be performing songs from their latest release, “SOIL & THE COG”, along with brand new tracks off an upcoming album due for a late fall release. If you’ve been yearning to treat yourself to some “innovative, atmospheric folk, perfect for any rainy day” stop by and check it out.
10:00 PM Gill Aharon Trio with Nick Jaina
Nick Jaina at 10pm
GAT at 11pm
www.myspace.com/thegillaharontrio
There is fear all around; fear of being different, fear of being the same--and in the middle is the narrow way, a small path that is hard to stay on, but which leads to very good things. A Narrow Way is an album featuring aggressively memorable songs recorded in a unique way to capitalize on the energy of the live performance skills of Nick Jaina's band, an energy that has been honed by many performances on the streets of this great country. This album was played entirely by ten musicians in the same room at the same time, all mixed live to 1/4" analog tape. This process was similar to the way that albums were recorded in the fifties and sixties, before the Beatles started taking drugs in '65 and giving everyone a different idea of how people should make albums. On A Narrow Way, every instrument leaps off the tape with immediacy and humanity. Meanwhile, the lyrics of the songs deal with the narrow path that people must take to do right in the world.
This album was recorded and mixed live at Type Foundry Studios in Portland by Adam Selzer (Norfolk & Western). If the band needed a hand clap or a tambourine hit, they had to bring in an extra person to do it, instead of just over-dubbing it. As modern recording has diminished the importance of actually performing in the moment, they felt that it would create a sense of urgency to remove all safety nets and technological helpers, allowing the band to play together in a room like musicians used to do. Bands want to play music together in a room at the same time. It's their natural habitat. It makes them happy. Like wildebeests in the Serengeti.
A Narrow Way will be released this fall on compact disc by HUSH Records and on 180-gram vinyl by Jealous Butcher. It will be available in stores and online on October 14th, but the band will have it for sale on their national tour, which begins on September 10th in Boise and which them around the country in a clockwise motion for 25 shows in 40 days. (HUSH Records has released such great artists as The Decemberists, Laura Gibson and Loch Lomond. Jealous Butcher has put out vinyl for M Ward, Laura Veirs and The Decemberists.)
11:59 PM Sasha Allen
Ladybug&Darling Music presents Sasha Allen and the Geminis 2008 North American Tour
Sasha Allen has been branded as "the start of a new era of great singers", and is endorsed by some of the music industry's biggest names. At the young age of 26, she has made a career as a backing vocalist for the industry's best, including Alicia Keys, Leona Lewis, Christina Aguilera, Usher and John Legend. Having demonstrated her ability to support the best singers in the industry, Sasha is taking her rightful place at the forefront of the stage and is currently working on her debut solo album with several legendary producers such as 10-time Grammy winner producer/songwriter Babyface. Sasha is known for her live show and strives to make her name synonymous with acclaimed singers and performers like Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Celine Dion.
In the past year alone, Sasha has performed on several world tours and platinum albums, including Christina Aguilera's "Back To Basics" World Tour and DVD, John Legend's "Once Again" album, Babyface's "Playlist" album, and was featured on Babyface's "Playlist" World Tour, singing the lead female vocal of the classic hit records he wrote/produced for Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton, Madonna, and more. Sasha's wide-ranging experience also includes tours with Alicia Keys, Leona Lewis and John Legend, performances with Usher and David Bowie as well as records with Celine Dion.
Sasha's gifted artistry was spotlighted on VH1's "Born To Diva", and in the cult film "CAMP", starring as "Dee" (available on itunes). The movie, produced by Danny DeVito, developed a huge following for her by highlighting her acting skills, breathtaking vocal ability and overall star power.
On Sasha Allen's fall 2008 appearances, she is being accompanied by the touring band for New Kids on the Block, including musical director and producer/writer/arranger Rob Lewis (Christina Aguilera, The Pussycat Dolls, Leona Lewis, Diddy, Fall Out Boy, Babyface, Toni Braxton), who will be supervising the show production.
09/29 Monday
7:00 PM Judi Silvano's CLEOME CD release
JSL Records' 20 year anniversary, celebrated with release of Judi Silvano's CLEOME - Live Takes in the Fall featuring George Garzone, Michael Formanek & Gerry Hemingway with John Lindberg. A new Joe Lovano DVD is also in the works.
please visit:
www.jslrecords.com
Review of Women's Work:
Judi Silvano gives a masterful performance with this bold, vibrant all-female ensemble with repertoire which was penned exclusively by women. Far more than a concept album, Women’s Work finds the singer at the peak of her creative game, displaying a firm knowledge of jazz history and vocal technique. She subtly colors the songs with respect for the songwriters’ intentions and adds her own flair with joyous panache. 4 STARS - Down Beat Magazine
You can order Women's Work at:
10:00 PM The Fringe
Over Thirty Years of playing every Monday!
whoaah that's a long time, I guess telepathy is normal after that long.
John Lockwood
Bob Gullotti
George Garzone
09/30 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.