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03/08 Sunday

11:00 AM Vinyasa

2:00 PM Jamie Balmer

Duo Orfeo
Guitarists Jamie Balmer and Joseph Ricker perform works by Chopin, Gnattali, Satie, Mompou, and Piazzolla.
www.myspace.com/duoorfeo
$10 suggested donation

6:00 PM Gillypad

6pm Notrio

7pm David Maxwell

8pm gaT

9:30pm flute and piano duet: music of Poulenc, Stravinsky, and Copeland

Yuka Hamano Hunt - pianist
Kenji Kikuchi - flute

10:15 pm piano trio jazz repertoire:

Terry Bernhard - piano
Bronek Suchanek - bass
Joe Hunt - drums

David Maxwell has amassed an enormous resume throughout the years playing piano with some of the greatest and well- known musicians in the blues. David plays many styles of blues, jazz and improvised music, but he is best known for his soulful virtuosity and unmatched ability to reach the heart of post-war Chicago Blues. Through his work, he has gained the respect of artists, critics and fans and has established a reputation as one of the finest blues pianists alive.

In the last decade , David has received over a half dozen WC Handy and Grammy nominations and a Grammy Award for recorded work, as well as Handy nominations for instrumental performance He has played with many of the greats including tours with Freddie King, Bonnie Raitt, James Cotton, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin, Jimmy Rodgers, Charley Musselwhite, Johnny Adams and Ronnie Earl; and gigs with Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Levon Helm, Jimmy Witherspoon, Lowell Fulsom, Junior Wells and many others. He has been involved in well over fifty recording sessions and can be found playing keys on many blues albums that have been released over the last 25 years. David backed up Keith Richards and Eric Clapton for Hubert Sumlin's CD, "About Them Shoes" released in 2005.

David's music was used in the movie "Fried Green Tomatoes" and in the TV series "Touched By An Angel". He has performed on "Late Night With Conan O' Brien" and is on several videos playing with Freddie King in the early 70's. (Rounder). David's first CD as a leader "Maximum Blues Piano"(1997, Tonecool) received high critical acclaim. His new album, "Max Attack" (2005 95North Records), features guests James Cotton, Kim Wilson, Ronnie Earl, Duke Robillard, Hubert Sumlin and Pinetop Perkins .

article about Joe Hunt http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=26099