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10/01 Thursday
7:00 PM Florencia Gonzalez Big Band
www.myspace.com/florenciagonzalez
“…Florencia Gonzalez has been throwing some killer big-band numbers (…) tracks driven by Latin dance rhythms (tango, candombe, etc) but stretched into modern realms of harmony, rhythm and form that recall the best of Mingus, Monk and Gil Evans...”
“...That large ensemble is where you hear the whole potential of her conception - an array of colors (...) as she marries modern jazz harmony and the occasional 12 tonish classical master to the deepest folkloric traditions of the south of South America.”
JON GARELICK
THE BOSTON PHOENIX
“Her music explores an electric balance of Latin heat and the cool ease of American jazz music that evokes flashes of Leonard Berstein’s score for West Side Story.”
THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE
Florencia Gonzalez - composer, arranger, conductor
Kazuyo Kuriya - flute, alto flute
Jeremy de Jesus - flute
Kose Yamaguchi – clarinet, alto sax
Arthur Felluca - alto sax, soprano sax, clarinet, flute
Natsuki Sugiyama - alto sax, flute
Andy Voelker - tenor sax, clarinet
Andrew Halchack - tenor sax, flute, clarinet
Cooper White - bari sax
Joshua Mizruchi - trumpet, flugel
Jenn Allen - trumpet, flugel
Christopher Kottke - trumpet, flugel
Aquiles Navarro- trumpet, flugel
Jason Belcher - french horn
Clayton DeWalt - tenor trombone
Cale Israel - bass trombone
Javier Rosario - guitar
Jiri Nedoma - piano
Mariana Iranzi - acoustic bass
Francisco Molina – drum set
Plus special gests……
10:00 PM Three Dub Mice
10/02 Friday
7:00 PM “Scorned, Swindled and Back for More: Songs of Love, Hate and Retribution”
Leading Canadian Recording Artist and National Folk Music Award Nominee, Donna Creighton Philistine Recording Artist, Arthur Nasson, and Master of the Spoken Word Marc Zegans
In this unique triple bill, three of North America’s most original and inventive voices will be playing for the people and happily taking their money, as they present a richly layered exploration of love, loss and what follows in its wake. This gorgeous evening of song and spoken word is not to be missed.
“Smart, funny and talented as hell.”
~Vern Theissen, Canada’s leading playwright
The acclaimed Canadian singer-songwriter, begins her 2009-10 “Ass in Gear” U.S. with shows on September 30th at Bascom Lodge atop Mount Greylock, and on October 2nd, at the Lily Pad in Cambridge. Nominated in 2008 for a Canadian Folk Music Award, and the four-time winner of the London Music award, Creighton toured for ten years with Borealis recording artist, Sirens, and has appeared on stage with countless talented musicians ranging from Bruce Cockburn to Lisa Loeb. Donna is a classically trained vocalist with the Royal Conservatory of Music, and a veteran recorder player.
Her music and lyrics are precise, elegant, genre blending explorations of love and its prospect when life has reached its middle. In “Naked” the centerpiece of her soon to be released solo album she sings, “Here I stand with my heart in my hand and dare to chance familiar beginnings with similar ends.” Later she asks, “If I reach around the corner where the feelings hide, and I pluck one from the darkest hour and show you my tattered side, will you run?” With these lyrics, Donna reveals why she has been described as “a stage personality who can steal your heart and openly hand you hers in return.” This is one performer not to be missed.
ARTHUR NASSON
"Genre-bounding, funny, and endlessly inventive."
~Harp Magazine
Arlington’s own Arthur Nasson, is making a rare public appearance following the release of his breakout album, False Prophets, whose arch and stylish pop confections, such as Princess Chardonnay, are drawing heavy national radio play. Philistine Recording artist Nasson, has released five critically lauded albums in the past four years. About him the critics have said:
"Perfect Pop. Richly arranged technicolor songs…. It's no more artistic or less accesible, than the multi-million selling albums, The Beatles made in their prime."
~The Boston Herald
"Like an unhinged Dylan hammering a jazz piano, Nasson has a great ear for a tune and seems to be willing to try anything once in order to make one, resulting in a fine burst of aural entertainment."
~Americana UK
Marc Zegans
"The mix of voice, lyric and sound keeps us captive in shared emotion...Zegans’ voice-- a bold, honeyed, nuanced instrument creates the music of these poems."
~ Sandra Miller
Poet at Large and Master Spoken Word Artist, Marc Zegans will be previewing material from his soon to be released second album, Marker and Parker, recorded with Legendary Jazz Pianist Don Parker. Marc’s first album, “Night Work” released in 2007 was described by Screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson, whose films, include “Secretary” and “Fur”, as, “erotic and sad, a logue of girls: broken-hearted, cruel and grieving—a celebration of love and naughty women… “ About His Book, Pillow Talk (2008, g.spot press) gushed reviewer Kelvy Bird, "A provocative and delightful book...a marvel."
"Dangerous yet alluring eroticism....Zegans pushes us ever further into the dark and murky areas of our own sexual and primal natures. Guided by his verbal flashlight, the nooks and crannies of loss, regret, desire, and memory are set in the gallery for viewing.... This is poetic intercourse… "Night Work" is the aphrodisiac."
~ Writer and Director Matthew D’Abate
"These are the words of a man whose senses are acute. It's the work of a cat, a city cat: all awareness.”
~ Recording Artist, Jennifer Greer
10:00 PM Michael Holt/Lee Feldman
These are two of the most creative song writers around, and both are serious pianists too. If you love excellent composition with humor waiting for you just around the next chord change you should be here this night!
< href="http://www.myspace.com/mikeyholt">http://www.myspace.com/mikeyholt
I started out in New York, have been a long-time member of The Mommyheads, and now live in Toronto. North America & Europe tour this fall. It's Not Up To Us, The Sound Of Love, and The Desert Song are rough previews from my newest, forthcoming album, "The Dawn Chorus" by Michael Holt & The Kids. Nino Wrote A Tune is from my first album, "Pajama Garden". Spiders is from the Mommyheads album "Flying Suit". June and All The Michaels In The World are from my last album, "Windows". I Do Not Think I Would Have Some Fun is from my high-school band The Connotations, live at NYC's CBGB in 1986. Visit michaelholtmusic.com for more info and free downloads, and myspace.com/michaelholtclassical for my classical side.
THE MOMMYHEADS' new album, "You're Not A Dream", may be sampled at myspace.com/theoneandonlymommyheads, downloaded at iTunes, and mail-ordered at bladencountyrecords.com
A Short History Of Lee
Lee Feldman, born in 1959, is a New York based songwriter, pianist, singer and composer. He has released three critically acclaimed albums -- Living It All Wrong (Pure/Mercury, 1996); The Man in a Jupiter Hat (Bonafide/Mercury, 2000); and I’ve Forgotten Everything (Bonafide, 2006) -- and STARBOY (2004), an animated musical about a 2-dimensional superhero.
Lee has had extensive training in classical piano, jazz piano and composition. In spite of that, he writes music that has meaning and sticks in the brain. Lee is on the piano faculty of Third Street Music School Settlement and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.
"Lee Feldman's I've Forgotten Everything is unlike anything else in cotemporary pop. If you have a passion for good songwriting, you need this album. - Stereophile
"Lee Feldman uses a Tin Pan Alley bounce to make twisted or troubled situations sound like parlor songs." – New York Times
"Lee Feldman plays the piano in just the dry, subtle, understated manner that his dry, subtle, understatedly hilarious songs call for." - Atlantic Monthly
From Art Dudley's "Listening" column in Stereophile #45:
...Then there's Lee Feldman, a classically trained pop musician who brings a strong if decidedly off-center sense of melody to the art of traditional American songwriting, and whose lyrics betray a poetic sensibility in tune with the best of the 20th-century Americans (especially Theodore Roethke, whose "My Papa's Waltz" could easily hide on one of Feldman's albums). All of which is to say that Lee Feldman is unclassifiable.
Michael Fremer turned me on to Feldman's music when he wrote about it for Listener back in the early days of 2001, and my fondness for the Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter has since grown steadily. His third album, I've Forgotten Everything (Urban Myth UM-114-2), has just been released, and it's already an indispensable part of my pop-music collection. Almost half of the album's songs discuss aging or abandonment-not in a maudlin or self-pitying way, but impressionistically, with carefully chosen images and scraps of monologue. In "Me and My Sara Remaining," an elderly man talks about his changing neighborhood with a mixture of fear and resignation; in his plaintive, unaffected style, Feldman sings the opening line- "And all of the places are changing" -against a continually changing string of chords that never quite resolve, yet that support a strangely sad melody. And in "Give Me My Money," the album's thematic center, the narrator focuses his motley thoughts just long enough to express his frustration as something tangible:
Give me my money
I'm a human being
I used to write music that people could sing
Give me my footsteps
Where did they go?
I wish I had known that I needed them so
Some of the tunes on I've Forgotten Everything meander in a happy, childlike way - such as the upbeat "Big Women on the Shelves," the album's happiest and most triumphant moment. Others are more serious-minded, such as the stark setting for a creepy-funny lyric titled "Cave." That one opens with a solo trumpet playing a series of descending intervals, then switches to an ascending series of mildly dissonant chords led by a solo cello: It's almost Schmidt's Symphony 4 in miniature. The simplest melody of all is reserved for the closing number, "See You Again" -yet even then, the leitmotif of aging returns, as the final lines are sung by the Northside Senior Center Chorus. From Brooklyn, of course.
Lee Feldman's I've Forgotten Everything is unlike anything else in contemporary pop. The songs are alternately sad, whimsical, harrowing, and very funny (although the album's best laugh may be the visual joke on the disc itself). A third of the tunes are waltzes, and all of the melodies are catchy and challenging in more or less equal measure. Above all, the writing voice behind it all is kind, humane, and clever without being too clever: There's nothing arch about Feldman's music.
Every one of these songs is like a smile you can't read, yet that pulls you along in spite of yourself. Lee Feldman is one of the few musicians in contemporary pop whom I think of as an artist, and I've Forgotten Everything is far and away his best work so far. If you have a passion for good songwriting, you need this album. ######
10/03 Saturday
4:00 PM 1K Entertainment presents: The Battle for $1,000
10:00 PM Somerville Symphony Orkestar and Fictional Monsters
www.myspace.com/somervillesymphonyorkestar
10/04 Sunday
2:00 PM Birdsong At Morning
Birdsong At Morning is a new chamber-folk ensemble led by Alan Williams (formerly of Knots and Crosses). Alan's compatriots include Greg Porter (formerly with Talking To Animals) and Darleen Wilson (producer of Catie Curtis, Chris Smither, Cry Cry Cry, Patty Larkin). For the Lily Pad shows, the trio will include drums and a string quartet to recreate the sound of their records. Their first release, Bound, was hailed as an "exquisite debut" in Performing Songwriter. The Sundays at Lily Pad residency celebrates the release of their second recording, Heavens. The music is detailed, lush, romantic yet emotionally direct. The eight musicians will create a beautiful, warm world to envelope the audience - come in from the autumn chill!
$10 donation
6:00 PM Gillypad
6pm NOtrio
7pm John Gordon
The band is:
Randy Wooten - drums
Gill Aharon - piano and compositions
Jef Charland - bass
Blake Newman - bass
Andrew Stern - guitar
Alec Spiegelman - winds/horns
Rick Stone- Alto
Kelly Roberge - tenor
Eric Hofbauer - guitar
9:30 Saxophonist Allan Chase reunites with two old friends, visiting from New York for this trio performance.
Allan Chase - alto, soprano, baritone saxophones
Joe Fitzgerald - bass
George Schuller - drums
Joe Fitzgerald has played with countless jazz artists in New York and Boston since the early 1980s. He's a member of Ballin' the Jack and has collaborated with many of the greatest guitarists in jazz in duo and trio settings.
http://www.myspace.com/joefitzgeraldbass
George Schuller is well known to Boston audiences as founder of Orange then Blue, a jazz composers' ensemble. He has made 18 CDs as a bandleader or co-leader of collectives, and dozens more as a sideman with artists including Joe Lovano (Rush Hour), Ran Blake, Frank Carlberg, and many others.
10/05 Monday
10:22 PM The Fringe
10/06 Tuesday
8:00 PM Odd Tuesday Milonga
10/07 Wednesday
7:00 PM Open Vinyasa Yoga
10:00 PM Steve Langone Group
First Wednesday of every month. Original Jazz, from a drummer led group. Good combination.
"To the great wide jazz world, the name of drummer Steve Langone may be a new one, in which case the combustible music on this disc will be a revelation.
For those who have been listening in the Boston area for the past decade, the results will not be so surprising.
Langone is the kind of muscian whose talent is noticed when heard in any of the numerous ensembles with which he has performed, and whose range is just as obvious once you notice that he is one of the most active drummers in a variety of contexts. This is his debut as a leader, and it both summarizes the skills that have made him so successful and prophesizes an even brighter future."
Bob Blumenthal 2001
10/08 Thursday
7:00 PM Earthsound
Earthsound is an award-winning Boston-area band that breaks down barriers between musical genres and the human and natural worlds. Our repertoire mixes dynamic original jazz, beautiful music from countries such as Brazil, Peru, and Armenia, and improvisation to unique natural soundscapes. Underlying it all is a groove that will get you dancing or put you in state of deep meditation.
Earthsound features Nando Michelin on piano, Fernando Brandão on flute,
Jorge Perez-Albela on drums, and myself (Jason Davis) on bass. We have
performed at a wide range of venues including the Fireplace, Ryles Jazz Club, the
Lily Pad, the Taylor House, and the Armenian Library and Museum of America.
The project has been the focus of a Boston Globe article, and the group was
nominated in the Best Music Poll in the Boston Phoenix.
10/09 Friday
7:30 PM Ellen DeGenova
Singer/Songwriter Ellen DeGenova teams up with piano whiz Tim Ray to perform her originals, old and new. Recently selected as a finalist in the Boston Folk Festival Songwriting Competition, Ellen pledges allegiance to no genre and has a bad habit of marching to the beat of her eclectic heart.
10:20 PM Ben Coleman
10/10 Saturday
7:00 PM “new’d music” CD Release Concert
Chris Chalfant -piano:
“Chalfant’s swirling improvisations assimilate the directions and
perspectives of Don Pullen, Cecil Taylor, and Dave Burrell…highly original
music.” “All in Good Time” Marshall Zucker, JazzImprov Magazine
Chalfant lays down droning piano lines that mix the grandeur of McCoy
Tyner with the expressionism of Cecil Taylor. The percussion lays down
deep, rolling rhythms that evoke ancestral Africa.”
– David Dupont, One Final Note
“Chris Chalfant is that rare combination of first-rate jazz composer and
improviser. [She is a] rugged individualist in the tradition of the best
players.” - Chris Kelsey
Dennis Warren-drums:
An unleashed crate-of-marbles percussion work of Dennis Warren - the music
remains nothing other than what is exactly right for the moment. And that
commitment to the evolving Now is what makes the music.
Short Takes: Boston Stu Vandermark
Warren, who studied with Black music theorists like trumpeter Bill Dixon
and drummer Milford Graves, was around to experience the tail end of that
Free Jazz psychedelic epoch. Jazz Weekly.com
He plays a kind of funk/rhythm & blues/jazz that balances intense groove
and creative freedom, Rui Eduardo Paes
www.chrischalfant.com
www.fmrje.com
10:00 PM Quantum Jams II
Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble:
Michael Shea-keyboard
Forbes Graham-trumpet
Jim Hobbs-alto saxophone
Hilary Noble-tenor saxophone/flute/congas/percussion
David Warren-electric bass
Jose Arroyo-congas/percussion
Dennis Warren-drums/timbales
Warren, who studied with Black music theorists like trumpeter Bill Dixon and drummer Milford Graves, was around to experience the tail end of that Free Jazz psychedelic epoch. The FMRJE draws on those ideas to produce a gyrating, hypnotic sound, which as he says "demonstrates our ancient roots
and our future communications, swirling through our biochemical spheres and igniting our souls for the hope of love in humanity." Jazz Weekly.com
FMRJE is 21st century fusion before it's time... this is what they'll be listening to in the 22nd, no doubt! There are only 3 cuts, but 2 of them are over 25 minutes long... they call their tracks "events", & you'll understand that immediately upon listening (in th' old days, we called 'em jams, methinks). This goes much further/deeper than just a jam session, however... think Mahavishnu, then perhaps Weather Report, maybe even Sharrock; or any other group with opera length jazz fusion laced with
heavy percussion.Improvijazzation Nation.
More than ever before, the FMRJE has incorporated the free-funk ideologies of Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman's working bands of the 1970s. However, the virtual percussion troupe formed by the confluence of Warren and Jose Arroyo keeps the group far less rhythmically confined than even Agharta /Pangaea era Miles.
One Final Note Scott Hreh
Jump in to the flow of Dennis Warren's music any place you desire. His music, the music of the Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble (FMRJE) is a continuously flowing river of sound with (seemingly) no starting or ending points
All About Jazz CD Review Marc Corroto
10/11 Sunday
2:00 PM Birdsong At Morning
Birdsong At Morning is a new chamber-folk ensemble led by Alan Williams (formerly of Knots and Crosses). Alan's compatriots include Greg Porter (formerly with Talking To Animals) and Darleen Wilson (producer of Catie Curtis, Chris Smither, Cry Cry Cry, Patty Larkin). For the Lily Pad shows, the trio will include drums and a string quartet to recreate the sound of their records. Their first release, Bound, was hailed as an "exquisite debut" in Performing Songwriter. The Sundays at Lily Pad residency celebrates the release of their second recording, Heavens. The music is detailed, lush, romantic yet emotionally direct. The eight musicians will create a beautiful, warm world to envelope the audience - come in from the autumn chill!
$10 donation
6:00 PM Gillypad
6pm Notrio
7pm Notrio + GAT
8pm GAT
9:30 pm
Pong
The band is:
Randy Wooten - drums
Gill Aharon - piano and compositions
Jef Charland - bass
Blake Newman - bass
Andrew Stern - guitar
Alec Spiegelman - winds/horns
Rick Stone- Alto
Kelly Roberge - tenor
Eric Hofbauer - guitar
10/12 Monday
7:30 PM Jazz and Tap, a musical conversation.
10:22 PM The Fringe
10/13 Tuesday
8:00 PM Even Tuesday Milonga
10/14 Wednesday
7:00 PM Open Vinyasa Yoga
10/15 Thursday
7:00 PM Anne Walsh
http://www.annewalsh.com/music.html
http://www.myspace.com/annewalshmusic
The sounds of Brazilian jazz make up the backbone of Anne’s latest release “Pretty World”. The CD features the talents of Brian Bromberg, Oscar Castro-Neves, Tom Zink, Gary Meek and many others. Her live shows are always exciting, featuring not only Brazilian music by the likes of Ivan Lins, Djavan, Dori Cammyi and Jobim, but also original lyrics written to the music of Pat Metheney, Steps Ahead, Keith Jarrett, and Chick Corea. Though a native of Boston, she's spent the last 20 years in Los Angeles in constant demand as a performer and recording vocalist, and will be making her east coast (re)-debut at the Lily Pad! She'll be accompanied by her trio consisting of Tom Zink on keys, Chris Wabich on drums and percussion, and Christian Fabian on bass. The live show is very open, improvisational and fun.
10/16 Friday
7:00 PM Adrian Negenborn: Urban Expressionism
Refreshments and snacks provided.
Adrian Negenborn has studied at Skidmore College, Studio Art Centers International Florence, and Massachusetts College of Art. He has exhibited in Cleveland, OH; Glens Falls, NY; Saratoga Springs, NY; and Boston, MA. His paintings grow out of extreme contrasts within the language of marks that comprise the images. Taped edges and graffiti-like marks recontextualize more traditional Abstract Expressionist tropes. He strives to showcase his own existential struggle within the internal tumult of the paintings.
All work is for sale, direct questions to artslilypad@gmail.com
10/17 Saturday
10:20 PM Yuri Yamada
Original songs by singer/songwriter Yuri Yamada.
Folky and acoustic beautiful songs in Japanese and English.
Yuri Yamada (vo, pf)
Yuki Nakajima (vln)
Jungeun Lee(base)
Toshihiro Mori (drms)
10/18 Sunday
2:00 PM Birdsong At Morning
Birdsong At Morning is a new chamber-folk ensemble led by Alan Williams (formerly of Knots and Crosses). Alan's compatriots include Greg Porter (formerly with Talking To Animals) and Darleen Wilson (producer of Catie Curtis, Chris Smither, Cry Cry Cry, Patty Larkin). For the Lily Pad shows, the trio will include drums and a string quartet to recreate the sound of their records. Their first release, Bound, was hailed as an "exquisite debut" in Performing Songwriter. The Sundays at Lily Pad residency celebrates the release of their second recording, Heavens. The music is detailed, lush, romantic yet emotionally direct. The eight musicians will create a beautiful, warm world to envelope the audience - come in from the autumn chill!
$10 donation
6:00 PM Gillypad
6pm Notrio
7pm The Inbetweens
The Inbetweens force the guitar trio format to walk the plank and make it jump anyway. All graduates of the New England Conservatory in Boston, guitarist Mike Gamble, bassist Noah Jarrett, and drummer Conor Elmes collectively weave melodies and vamps into intricate spiderwebs of rhthym. The trio circles eachother like predators seeking the same prey, exploring uncharted territories while they are at it. The brooklyn based trio is releasing their third album, "Quantum Cowboy" on madison based, record label
layered.
The band is:
Randy Wooten - drums
Gill Aharon - piano and compositions
Jef Charland - bass
Blake Newman - bass
Andrew Stern - guitar
Alec Spiegelman - winds/horns
Rick Stone- Alto
Kelly Roberge - tenor
Eric Hofbauer - guitar
9:30 p.m.
A first-time meeting between outstanding West Coast tenor/ soprano saxophonist Jason Robinson (Cosmologic, great solo CD 'Cerberus Rising'), veteran Boston saxophonist Charlie Kohlhase (Explorers Club, Charlie Kohlhase Quintet, CK5, Either/ Orchestra), pianist Josh Rosen (3Play +) and drummer Curt Newton (Tripleplay, Ken Vandermark, Joe Morris). Compositions and improvisations.
www.charliekohlhase.com, www.curtnewton.com, www.jasonrobinson.com
10/19 Monday
7:00 PM NEC 2009/2010 Jazz40 Event
Quartet of Happiness at 7pm
the Fringe at 10pm
10:22 PM The Fringe
10/20 Tuesday
8:00 PM Odd Tuesday Milonga
10/21 Wednesday
7:00 PM Open Vinyasa Yoga
10:00 PM The Contortionist (IN), Venable (IN), Twisted Legacy, New Kids In The Pit, Lakeside Avenue, and more!
10/22 Thursday
7:30 PM The Either/Orchestra
The E/O is approaching the 24th anniversary of its first show, not so far from the Lily Pad at the Cambridge Library in December 1985. This fall finds them working on new material, preparing an album and getting ready for a trip to Europe to collaborate once again with their Ethiopian compatriots Mahmoud Ahmed and Mulatu Astatke. Also aboard is new alto saxophonist Hailey Niswanger, a talented 19 year old from Portland OR who is studying at Berklee.
As always, the E/O promises heavy Afro-Cuban grooves, dense and rewarding arrangements, and a variety of soloists who each put their personal stamp on the sound.
The E/O consists of: Tom Halter and Dan Rosenthal, trumpets; Joel Yennior, trombone; Hailey Niswanger, Russ Gershon and Charlie Kohlhase, saxophones; Rafael Alcala, piano; Rick McLaughlin, bass; Pablo Bencid, drums, Vicente Lebron - congas!
10:00 PM Beyond Hope Lies and more!
10/23 Friday
7:00 PM Prospective Records Presents
10:00 PM Jill and the Peacocks/ Ramzy Suleiman
http://www.myspace.com/jillpeacocksmusic
With a warm soulful voice like Jill's, you'd never guess she was from Canada! Her music is natural and sexy; it's chill but deceptively complex with beautiful melodies you won't easily forget.
http://myspace.com/ramzysuleiman
"The sounds can be rousing, tender, mathematically complex or as simple as water flowing."- THE WASHINGTON POST
"Enjoy his energy and enormous talent before he gets too famous to charge $6 for tickets."-EXPRESS NIGHT OUT
10/24 Saturday
8:30 PM Ginger Ibex CD release party
Ginger Ibex CD release concert! "Firefly", the first full-length album from this Cambridge, MA band, includes ten original instrumental songs and one cover song, ranging from light intimate solo piano, to viola plus piano, through piano with full string sections and percussion. The music's dark lyrical beauty combines elements of contemporary Rock, plus Classical, Romantic and Impressionist suonds, with Middle Eastern modes and Tango, a la "Keith Jarrett meets Rachmaninov meets Astor Piazzola".
"Ginger Ibex mixes and melds musical styles on 'Firefly' in a fashion that is both surprising and wildly successful... 'Firefly' has enough classical relevance to appeal to the stuffiest of music aficionados, but enough modern touch to sound current & alive." (wildysworld.blogspot.com)
myspace.com/gingeribex
Seana Carmody opens. She is a long-time veteran of the Boston music scene, formerly of The Swirlies and Syrup USA. Seana joins us with a beautiful solo set of her dreamy folk-pop songs. Seana will also be accompanied by Ginger Ibex in a special collaboration
$10
10/25 Sunday
2:00 PM Birdsong At Morning
Birdsong At Morning is a new chamber-folk ensemble led by Alan Williams (formerly of Knots and Crosses). Alan's compatriots include Greg Porter (formerly with Talking To Animals) and Darleen Wilson (producer of Catie Curtis, Chris Smither, Cry Cry Cry, Patty Larkin). For the Lily Pad shows, the trio will include drums and a string quartet to recreate the sound of their records. Their first release, Bound, was hailed as an "exquisite debut" in Performing Songwriter. The Sundays at Lily Pad residency celebrates the release of their second recording, Heavens. The music is detailed, lush, romantic yet emotionally direct. The eight musicians will create a beautiful, warm world to envelope the audience - come in from the autumn chill!
$10 donation
6:00 PM Gillypad
6pm Notrio
7pm Notrio + GAT
8pm GAT= The Gill Aharon Trio
The band is:
Randy Wooten - drums
Gill Aharon - piano and compositions
Jef Charland - bass
Blake Newman - bass
Andrew Stern - guitar
Alec Spiegelman - winds/horns
Rick Stone- Alto
Kelly Roberge - tenor
Eric Hofbauer - guitar
6:00 PM Gillypad
6pm Notrio
7pm Notrio + GAT
8pm GAT= The Gill Aharon Trio
The band is:
Randy Wooten - drums
Gill Aharon - piano and compositions
Jef Charland - bass
Blake Newman - bass
Andrew Stern - guitar
Alec Spiegelman - winds/horns
Rick Stone- Alto
Kelly Roberge - tenor
Eric Hofbauer - guitar
9:40pm Joe Hunt Trio with Terry Bernhard and Bronek Suhanek
This is the real deal jazz piano trio!
Hunt, Joe (Joseph Gayle), drummer, educator; b. Richmond, IN, 31 July 1938.
There were three big influences for him in Richmond, IN. They include altoist John Pierce (George Russell's Stratus Seekers), the late bassist Andy Simpkins (Three Sounds), and drummer Harold Jones (Count Basie). He studied in Indianapolis with Willis Kirk (author of Brush Fire), and at Indiana U. with Richard Johnson. He played with David Baker's band (1956-1959) while attending Indiana University. He was a member of George Russell's sextet from 1960-62 (performer in residence at the Lenox School of Jazz 1960). He also played with John Handy's quartet from late 1960 into 1961.
He did Army service from 1962-64. He was with the Stan Getz quartet (1964-5), the Jim Hall trio (1965), the Gary Burton quartet (1966) and the Bill Evans trio (1966-67). He freelanced in NYC until 1971 and also attended Mannes College of Music there. He moved to Boston and joined the Berklee College faculty in 1971 and remained there as a Professor of Percussion Studies.
While in Boston, he led groups including John Scofield, Jimmy Mosher, Mick Goodrick, and Mike Stern. He also toured with the National Jazz Ensemble and Barry Harris, both groups led by bassist Chuck Israels. In the mid-90s his group included Paul Fontaine and Ray Santisi. He was also a member of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra directed by Baker.
He married Ellen Barton Hunt in 1986. Ellen is a professional pipe organist from Newark, NJ. He has three children and four grandchildren from former marriages.
Hunt retired from teaching at Berklee as of fall 2003 and has moved to Central PA. He keeps busy playing with pianists Steve Rudolph (Harrisburg), and Ron Thomas (Philly). He still gets to NYC from time to time and stays in touch with Boston friends.
Recordings:
George Russell: At the Five Spot (1960), Stratusphunk (1960), In Kansas City (1961), Ezzthetics (1961), The Stratus Seekers (1962); Don Friedman: A Day in the City (1961); Stan Getz: Getz Au Go Go (1964), Getz/Gilberto #2 (1964), Nobody Else But Me (1964), The Canadian Concert of Stan Getz (1965); Bill Evans: Secret Sessions at the Village Vanguard (1967); Amy Lee: Inside the Outside (1999)
Bibliography:
J.H., 52nd Street Beat: In-Depth Profiles of Modern Jazz Drummers 1945-1965 (no date listed); includes bios on several little known drummers.
10/26 Monday
7:00 PM Conscious 20's Gathering
A gathering for people in their 20's who are into spirituality, metaphysics and living consciously.
The evening will be centered around open group discussion. Ian, the organizer, will also be sharing a unique perspective on metaphysics and tools for working with energy in our lives. There will be plenty of time to mingle and get to know each other afterwards.
$10
Gathering starts at 7pm
www.meetup.com/Conscious-creative-passionate-20-somethings
10:22 PM The Fringe
10/27 Tuesday
8:00 PM Even Tuesday Milonga
10/28 Wednesday
7:00 PM Open Vinyasa Yoga
10:00 PM Tiger Saw/Sound China/All My Friends are right here with me
Tiger Saw: www.tigersaw.com
South China: www.myspace.com/southchinamusic
All My Friends
ONE MORE BAND TBA
Tiger Saw performs for the first time in the Boston area since the spring. South China is celebrating the release of their album Washingtons, (Peapod Recordings). There will be a puppet show, staging readings from Dylan Metrano's book All My Friends Are Right Here With Me: A Decade in the Indie Rock Underground. One more band TBA.
10/29 Thursday
8:00 PM Live Footage Brooklyn
myspace.com/livefootagebrooklyn
Brooklyn based duo performs original compositions with lots of room for improvisation based on live looping. Some have described their music as a combination of Squarepusher meets Debussy.
10:00 PM The Alumni Club, The Promise Hero (OH), P.I.N.S.K.Y. (ME) and more!
10/30 Friday
7:00 PM The Ghost Tour featuring: The McMickle Brothers and Bern & the Brights
Part of the vibrant and up-and-coming Montclair, New Jersey music scene, Bern & the Brights and the McMickle Brothers are set to haunt the hollows of New England this Halloween.
Bern & the Brights is an evocative rock group whose driving rhythms and potent lyrics have garnered them national attention. Recently asked to open for Butch Walker at Webster Hall in NYC, the Brights have also shared the stage with acts such as Living Color, Nicole Atkins and Mike Doughty. The play The Lily Pad in Cambridge, MA, their first stop on this October's Ghost Tour with the rising Montclair duo the McMickle Brothers.
With guitar and drums, young brothers Matt and Sam McMickle create rousing, visceral soundscapes. Their timeless garage rock is marked by contagious melodies and raw, energetic vocals that span whispering falsettos to guttural howls.
Bern & the Brights: www.myspace.com/bgroove
McMickle Brothers:www.myspace.com/boquiver
$5
10:00 PM CHROME TONGUES AND STEP BROTHERS
http://www.myspace.com/chrometongues
CHROME TONGUES AND STEP BROTHERS is a newly formed live electronic improvisation group pursuing an at once vintage and futuristic origninal sound. Inspired by the jazz stylings of Sun Ra, electronic beats of groups such as Black Moth Super Rainbow and Prefuse 73, also enlisting the punk spirit of groups like Sonic Youth.
This evening promises to be a well-lit and original experience!
10/31 Saturday
8:00 PM Halloween Jam/Party
Lily Pad will be having a jam and hang for Halloween.
List of Musicians to be announced soon.