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04/17 Friday
7:00 PM Margin Walker/Mutt/Mod Gun
Margin Walker (www.myspace.com/marginwalkerx)
Mutt (www.myspace.com/muttma)
Mod Gun (www.myspace.com/modgun)
$5, All Ages
10:00 PM Bob Mover Quartet
Bob Mover- Alto and Tenor saxophones, vocals
Bob Albanese- piano
Esperanza Spalding-bass
Joe Hunt-Drums
Tickets $15.00/$12.00 for students w/ valid id
esperanzaspalding.com
www.myspace.com/esperanzaspalding
Saxophonist Bob Mover
At the age of 21, Mover joined Charles Mingus for a stay of five months at
the Five Spot in New York City. He then joined Chet Baker’s group for 9
months before leaving for Brazil in 1974. During his six months stay, he
worked with samba legends Johnny Alf (the “father of Bossa Nova”) and
Lucio Alves.
Upon his return to New York City in 1975, he rejoined Baker. They worked
regularly in New York City clubs, as well as performing at Carnegie Hall,
Avery Fisher Hall and touring the mid-west and California. In the summer
of that year, he made his first European appearances with Chet Baker at La
Grande Parade du Jazz (Nice, France), Jazz Festival Laren (Holland) and
the Middleheim Jazz Festival (Antwerp, Belgium), where they played
opposite Sarah Vaughan. This concert was filmed for European television
and a review appeared in the Belgian press, which described Mover as “a 23
year old revelation”.
At the end of 1975, Bob went out on his own, leading his own groups around
NYC and elsewhere. His first working band featured Tom Harrell (trumpet)
and the late Jimmy Garrison (bass). Critic, Chuck Berg, wrote in Downbeat
“Mover is a poet/philosopher whose music rings with a profundity that
speaks to both heart and mind...Mover´s voice is his own, worth listening
to...carefully." From 1976 to the end of 1979, he led his own quartets and
quintets every Sunday and Monday night playing to packed houses at Sweet
Basil in Greenwich Village.
Featured sidemen included pianists Kenny Barron, Mike Nock, and the late
Albert Dailey as well as, bassists Buster Williams, Ron McLure and Denis
Irwin, trumpeters Harrell and Claudio Roditi, and most often the
underrated master, Ben Riley on drums.
In 1976 and 1977, he made is first two recordings under his own name– On
The Move (Choice) and Bob Mover (Vanguard) – the latter, having received a
4 ½ star review in Downbeat Magazine. He worked as a sideman with Duke
Jordon, Matthew Gee, Albert Dailey, Vinnie Burke and others and often
subbed for Russell Procope in a trio with pianist Brooks Kerr and Duke
Ellington’s long time drummer, Sonny Greer. During this period, Bob also
co-led a group with Lee Kontiz. They played in concerts and clubs in the
USA and Canada and recorded an album under Konitz’s name, Affinity – The
Lee Konitz Quintet (Chiaroscuro) (that also received a 4 ½ stars in
Downbeat).
In 1981, Bob resided in Boston where he taught improvisation workshops at
Berklee College of Music in Boston while holding down regular gigs at
Michial’s Pub and Pooh’s Pub with his quartet (Joe Cohn or Mick Goodrich
on guitar, the late Charlie LaChapelle on bass and the legendary Boston
drummer Bobby Ward). He also played in the quintet of pianist Art Matthews
with young trumpeter, Wallace Roney as his front line partner.
Rejoining Chet Baker in March, 1981 they toured France, Belgium, the
Nederlands, Austria and Germany while making two recordings – Chet Baker
Live at Clubs Salt Peanuts Köln Volumes 1, and 2 (Circle) “an added bonus
to these discs is the astounding alto playing of Bob Mover”, (Bob Oakley,
Jazz Journal, 1990,Chet Baker the Wages of Lyricism).
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Drummer Joe Hunt has toured and recorded with George Russell, Stan Getz
and Bill Evans. He left New York in 1971 to teach at Berklee's jazz
studies program for 31 years, during which time he also performed with Joe
Henderson, Tal Farlow and Kenny Burrell
www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=26099
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Esperanza Spalding
In addition to the studying and the teaching, the Berklee years have also
created a host of networking opportunities. Since her move to the East
Coast, Spalding has worked with several notable artists, including pianist
Michel Camilo, vibraphonist Dave Samuels, bassist Stanley Clarke,
guitarist Pat Metheny, singer Patti Austin and saxophonists Donald
Harrison and Joe Lovano.
The newest chapter of Spalding’s journey begins with the release of her
international debut recording for Heads Up in May 2008.
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Bob Albanese, a perpetual student, was granted a scholarship in 2002 to
complete a B.M. and M.M. at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music in
Jazz Composition. He met the challenge head on and while under the M.S.M.
umbrella composed a number of new works including a Jazz Philharmonic
piece entitled “Samba Esperança” that was performed by the Cincinnati
Conservatory Philharmonic in April of 2006. He completed his formal
degrees, BM and MM in May 2006 graduating with honors, receiving the
William C. Borden award [for outstanding achievement in the field of
Jazz].
Equally at home in jazz, Latin, pop, and theatrical musical settings, Jazz
Pianist Bob Albanese has worked with a wide stylistic cross section of
artists, many of considerable fame. Some of the notables he has performed,
arranged and/or recorded with include Anita O’Day, Buddy Rich, Warne
Marsh, Rita Moreno, Herb Ohta, Datevik Hovanesian, Leslie Uggums, Daphne
Rubin Vega, Bill Watrous and a host of other Jazz artists ranging from Cab
Calloway to Freddie Hubbard to Branford Marsalis.
The legendary pianist and composer, Clare Fischer, after hearing a solo
performance Bob gave in Los Angeles in 2006, “I thoroughly enjoyed Bob’s
originality, harmonic and rhythmic depth and fluency of ideas”.