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01/01 Friday
7:30 PM Ellen DeGenova
Singer/Songwriter Ellen DeGenova teams up with piano whiz Tim Ray to perform originals and covers. A finalist in the 2009 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.
01/04 Monday
10:22 PM The Fringe
George Garzone
Bob Gullotti
John Lockwood
Established 1971!
The Fringe are one of the genuine living treasures of the Boston jazz scene. Originally formed back in 1971 by tenor-saxophonist George Garzone, bassist Richard Appleman, and drummer Bob Gullotti as an outlet for their free jazz improvisations, The Fringe have entertained and enlightened Boston area jazz audiences for over 30 years. Bassist Appleman left the band in 1985 to become Chairman of the Bass Department at Berklee College and was replaced by veteran bassist John Lockwood.
Along with their impressive tenure with The Fringe, Gullotti, Garzone, and Lockwood are in great demand as session players and have played with many of the greats of contemporary jazz. Along with keeping up with a busy performance schedule, each of them are well-respected educators helping to inspire the jazz musicians of tomorrow.
01/05 Tuesday
5:40 PM Vinyasa Flow class with Rachel
8:00 PM Odd Tuesday Milonga
01/06 Wednesday
7:48 PM Nat and Gill = Notrio with Jeff Galindo
01/07 Thursday
6:00 PM Parlor NIght, All Night
8:00 PM Jim Hobbs and Matt Shipp
Matthew Shipp was born December 7, 1960 in Wilmington, Delaware. He started piano at 5 years old with the regular piano lessons most kids have experienced. He fell in love with jazz at 12 years old. After moving to New York in 1984 he quickly became one of the leading lights in the New York jazz scene. He was a sideman in the David S. Ware quartet and also for Roscoe Mitchell’s Note Factory before making the decision to concentrate on his own music.
Mr Shipp has reached the holy grail of jazz in that he possesses a unique style on his instrument that is all of his own- and he’s one of the few in jazz that can say so. Mr. Shipp has recorded a lot of albums with many labels but his 2 most enduring relationships have been with two labels. In the 1990s he recorded a number of chamber jazz cds with Hatology, a group of cds that charted a new course for jazz that, to this day, the jazz world has not realized. In the 2000s Mr Shipp has been curator and director of the label Thirsty Ear’s “Blue Series” and has also recorded for them. In this collection of recordings he has generated a whole body of work that is visionary, far reaching and many faceted .
Matthew Shipp is truly one of the leading lights of a new generation of jazz giants.
01/08 Friday
10:00 PM IT'S FROM THE SKY, ANIMAL HANDS and DOUBLE NINES
there will be 3 bands performing: IT'S FROM THE SKY, ANIMAL HANDS and DOUBLE NINES
http://www.myspace.com/doublenines
http://www.itsfromthesky.com/
http://www.myspace.com/animalhands
01/10 Sunday
6:00 PM Gillypad
6pm Notrio
7pm Pandelis Karayorgis trio with Jorrit Dijkstra and Curt Newton
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 pm Kendall Eddy Group
Rick Stone - woodwinds
Dan Rosenthal - trumpet
Will Graefe - guitar
Mike Connors - drums
01/11 Monday
10:22 PM The Fringe of the Fringe
All starters are out this monday. Coming in off of the bench are, Nat Mugavero - drums, Gill Aharon- bass and piano, Leo Genovese - piano and reeds, Justin Purtil bass, guitar and voice, Jeff Galindo - trombone and interpretive dance!
George Garzone
Bob Gullotti
John Lockwood
Established 1971!
The Fringe are one of the genuine living treasures of the Boston jazz scene. Originally formed back in 1971 by tenor-saxophonist George Garzone, bassist Richard Appleman, and drummer Bob Gullotti as an outlet for their free jazz improvisations, The Fringe have entertained and enlightened Boston area jazz audiences for over 30 years. Bassist Appleman left the band in 1985 to become Chairman of the Bass Department at Berklee College and was replaced by veteran bassist John Lockwood.
Along with their impressive tenure with The Fringe, Gullotti, Garzone, and Lockwood are in great demand as session players and have played with many of the greats of contemporary jazz. Along with keeping up with a busy performance schedule, each of them are well-respected educators helping to inspire the jazz musicians of tomorrow.
01/12 Tuesday
5:40 PM Vinyasa Flow class with Rachel
8:00 PM Even Tuesday Milonga
01/13 Wednesday
7:00 PM Open Vinyasa Yoga
10:00 PM Srinivas Reddy
sitar recital
01/14 Thursday
10:00 PM Steve Brickman
01/15 Friday
7:30 PM Jason Webley with Army of Broken Toys
01/16 Saturday
7:00 PM Ginger Ibex
01/17 Sunday
6:00 PM Gillypad
6pm Notrio
7pm
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 PM Bogdan Holownia, Piano with Bronek Suchanek, Bass
Bogdan Holownia is a Professor of Music at Academies of Music in Warsaw and Bydgoscz, Poland. Bogdan Holownia has released more than 10 CD recordings, one of which won “Gold Album” status with Sony Poland. Please visit Bogdan Holownia’s web site at http://www.holownia.pl/
Bronek Suchanek has performed extensively in Poland, Sweden and the United States with such artists as; Art Farmer, Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, and with local artists; George Garzone, Bob Gullotti, James Williams, Herb Pomeroy, John Wilkins and Rebecca Parris. Bronek appears on 27 jazz recordings and is currently a Professor of Music at the University of Southern Maine.
01/18 Monday
10:22 PM The Fringe
George Garzone
Bob Gullotti
John Lockwood
Established 1971!
The Fringe are one of the genuine living treasures of the Boston jazz scene. Originally formed back in 1971 by tenor-saxophonist George Garzone, bassist Richard Appleman, and drummer Bob Gullotti as an outlet for their free jazz improvisations, The Fringe have entertained and enlightened Boston area jazz audiences for over 30 years. Bassist Appleman left the band in 1985 to become Chairman of the Bass Department at Berklee College and was replaced by veteran bassist John Lockwood.
Along with their impressive tenure with The Fringe, Gullotti, Garzone, and Lockwood are in great demand as session players and have played with many of the greats of contemporary jazz. Along with keeping up with a busy performance schedule, each of them are well-respected educators helping to inspire the jazz musicians of tomorrow.
01/19 Tuesday
5:40 PM Vinyasa Flow class with Rachel
01/20 Wednesday
7:00 PM Open Vinyasa Yoga
01/22 Friday
7:30 PM Kim "Vermillion" Boekbinder
Kim "Vermillion" Boekbinder has spent the last four years writing, recording, and touring with the internationally acclaimed band, Vermillion Lies. Having performed hundreds of shows across the world - headlining such venues as the Gogol Club in Moscow, Teatro Circo de Braga in Portugal and San Francisco's Great American Music Hall - Kim is currently working on her first solo release and congruent tour.
Kim's solo music is cut from a constantly evolving swath of experiences, sounds, and layered stories; A sound that she calls "retro-electric-snap-crackle-pop". With an arsenal of songs, a hollow body electric guitar, a looping pedal, and a voice of stunning clarity, Kim's shows are all carefully crafted and completely unique.
Forget where you are, let your heart dance, and fall in love with the world Kim invites you into by listening at:
www.kimvermillionboekbinder.bandcamp.com
www.myspace.com/kimboekbinder
www.twitter.com/kimboekbinder
Opening act is Kayla Oberlin, a Ukulele playing songwriter, and artist, from Brooklyn, NY. http://cosmonomad.livejournal.com/
There will be other special musical guests, and it's Kim's birthday party.
Doors: 7pm Show 7:30
01/23 Saturday
7:00 PM Melissa Kassel
Melissa Kassel - voice
Tom Zicarelli - piano
Phil Grenadier - trumpet
Bruno Raberg – bass
This amazing quartet returns to the Lily Pad to warm up the coldest part of the year. Songs. Improvisation. Soul. Spirit. Freedom. Darkness. Light. Their music will take you to another place in another space.
www.myspace.com/melissakassel1
10:00 PM Three Limones
Mark Aanderud, Piano; Hernan Hecht, Drums; Rick Parker, Trombone
In November of 2008 Aanderud and Hecht, two of the most important
improvising musicians from Mexico and Parker, from Brooklyn, joined
with saxophonist Tim Berne for a 10 concert tour in Mexico, forming
their collective quartet, Four Limones. In this January, Hecht and
Aanderud travel to the USA to perform and record their first CD as a
quartet with Berne. For this performance they play music from their
adventurous group as a trio.
01/24 Sunday
6:00 PM Gillypad
6pm Notrio
7pm The Bebop Trio
Lefteris Kordis - piano
Alec Spiegelman - clarinet
Thor Thorvaldsson - drumset
The Bebop Trio plays freely improvised suites of unjustly forgotten lines from the 1950's. Expect to hear some of the compositions (by Elmo Hope, Herbie Nichols, Lennie Tristano, and others) that will also show up on their forthcoming, self-titled, Creative Nation Music album, to be released in early 2010.
8pm 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
9:30pm A Night of duo Improvisation
Featuring Anthony Coleman & Peter Negroponte, Davindar Singh & Andrew Hock
Anthony Coleman is a composer, improvising keyboardist and teacher, born in New York City on August 30th, 1955. His ensembles have included the trio Sephardic Tinge (three CD's: Sephardic Tinge (1995), Morenica (1998), and Our Beautiful Garden is Open (2002) - all on Tzadik) and Selfhaters Orchestra (two CD's: Selfhaters (1996) and The Abysmal Richness of the Infinite Proximity of the Same (1998), both on Tzadik). Other CD's include the cycle by Night (1987 - 1992), a series of works inspired by Coleman's experiences in (the ex-) Yugoslavia (Disco by Night, Avant 1993), Shmutsige Magnaten (Tzadik), a live solo performance from the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival, Summer, 2005 which features interpretations of the songs of Mordechai Gebirtig, and Pushy Blueness (Tzadik) and Lapidation (New World), both recordings of his chamber music. Coleman has toured and recorded with John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Marc Ribot, Shelley Hirsch, Roy Nathanson and many others. Coleman is currently on the NEC faculty in the Contemporary Improvisation Department, where he also teaches Jazz and Composition students. His CD, Freakish: Anthony Coleman Plays Jelly Roll Morton has just been released by Tzadik.
http://www.myspace.com/antcol8
"Drummer Peter Negroponte is powerful and propulsive, odd that I haven't heard of him until now" - BLG (Downtown Music Gallery, NYC)
http://www.myspace.com/peternegroponte
http://www.myspace.com/davindar
http://www.myspace.com/andrewhock
01/25 Monday
7:30 PM Karina Stone
K Stone's project intends to revive latin folk music through a language of jazz . The project mixes original as well as traditional folkloric tunes with sophisticated arrangements by Nando Michelin. This is the perfect tour through Latin America, you will hear Uruguayan Candombe, Venezulean Joropo, Afro-peruvian tunes and many other rhythms.
10:22 PM The Fringe
George Garzone
Bob Gullotti
John Lockwood
Established 1971!
The Fringe are one of the genuine living treasures of the Boston jazz scene. Originally formed back in 1971 by tenor-saxophonist George Garzone, bassist Richard Appleman, and drummer Bob Gullotti as an outlet for their free jazz improvisations, The Fringe have entertained and enlightened Boston area jazz audiences for over 30 years. Bassist Appleman left the band in 1985 to become Chairman of the Bass Department at Berklee College and was replaced by veteran bassist John Lockwood.
Along with their impressive tenure with The Fringe, Gullotti, Garzone, and Lockwood are in great demand as session players and have played with many of the greats of contemporary jazz. Along with keeping up with a busy performance schedule, each of them are well-respected educators helping to inspire the jazz musicians of tomorrow.
01/26 Tuesday
5:40 PM Vinyasa Flow class with Rachel
8:00 PM Even Tuesday Milonga
01/27 Wednesday
7:00 PM Open Vinyasa Yoga
01/28 Thursday
7:30 PM Danny Holt
renowned Los Angeles-based pianist Danny Holt brings his unique brand of contemporary piano music to The Lily Pad. Music starts at 8pm and also features the contemporary flute and cello duo of Ashley Addington and Rachel Arnold.
“If his upcoming concert of classical music is met with a mosh pit, pianist Danny Holt wouldn’t mind at all.” -Daily Hampshire Gazette
Danny Holt performs across the globe in concert halls, clubs, art galleries, churches, living rooms, and wherever else he can find a piano and someone to listen. Known for his no-holds-barred style, he has been called “the classical music equivalent of an extreme sports athlete” (The Record, Waterloo, Ontario) and Los Angeles City Beat named him one of the “local heroes” of L.A.’s music scene. He specializes in performing contemporary works, 20th century music, and obscure and neglected repertoire from past centuries, often juxtaposing diverse styles to create unexpected sonic flavors.
The Lily Pad program explores the influences of rock, jazz, and pop on contemporary classical music. Included in the program will be groovy British minimalism by Graham Fitkin, the eclectic music of Mike Garson (pianist for David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, etc.), Karen Tanaka’s Techno Etudes, and selected Radiohead transcriptions by Christopher O’Riley.
A specialist in contemporary music, Holt has held fellowships at the Bang On a Can Summer Music Institute, the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall, and New England Conservatory’s Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice, and he has worked with such composers as Steve Reich, Louis Andriessen, Christian Wolff, James Tenney, Graham Fitkin, David Lang, Michael Gordon, Augusta Read Thomas, and Michael Finnissy, among others. He has received awards and grants from ASCAP, Yamaha, the American Composers Forum, the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music, and others.
Holt’s Fast Jump CD (Innova, 2009) was a featured new release on both WNYC and iTunes, and includes world premiere recordings of works by David Lang (co-founder of Bang on a Can), Caleb Burhans, Lona Kozik, Graham Fitkin, and Jascha Narveson. Gramophone called the disc "a compelling showcase for Holt's innate virtuosity and gregarious temperament” and Sequenza21.com called Holt’s playing “brilliant”.
On February 14, Holt launches his self-released follow-up CD, Release. Featuring minimalist/ambient works by contemporary and new age composers, this new album is a musical exploration of grief and remembrance: a tribute to Holt’s father who passed away in 2008.
The opening set by flutist Ashley Addington ( www.AshleyAddington.com) and cellist Rachel Arnold ( www.LadyRayCello.com) features new works by composers Christopher Gainey ( www.christophergainey.com) and Jim Scully ( www.jimscully.com).
For more information about Danny Holt see http://dannyholt.net/
For more information about Fast Jump see http://www.innova.mu/artist1.asp?skuID=375
For all press inquiries please contact Heidi Campbell Heidic@composersforum.org
8:00 PM Danny Holt
http://www.myspace.com/dannyholtmusic
01/29 Friday
8:00 PM Arthur Nasson
Rock singer -songwriter multi-instrumentalist
Arthur Nasson
continues to support his latest release,
"False Prophets" which is recieving widespread national radio play.
10:00 PM Bob Gullotti Project
Jeff Galindo
Billy Jones
Sean Farias
Bob Gullotti
01/30 Saturday
4:00 PM Pablo Ablanedo Octet
Altogether, the sound is definitely jazz but distinctively Argentinean
Sextet(o)
Daniel Ian Smith (saxes)
Phil Grenadier (Trumpet)
Eric Hofbauer (guitar)
Pablo Ablanedo (piano & composition)
Fernando Huergo (bass)
Bertram Lehmann (drums)
"With his latest effort, Argentine pianist/composer Pablo Ablanedo pronounces a sense of joy. In the liners the artist emphasizes that this work "alludes to the happiness of creation." To that end, Ablanedo and his octet disseminate a set of emotive musings via a Spanishtinged luster combined with polychordal horn charts and more." (4 ½ stars) Glenn Astarita, Down Beat Magazine (US)
"Alegría has cemented Pablo Ablanedo’s reputation as an innovative and yet disciplined composer who promises even more noteworthy work in the future." Bill Donaldson, Cadence Magazine (US)
"The newest works by this Argentinean pianist and composer are as mature and sophisticate as any of the best modern Latin jazz." Bob Young, Boston Herald (US)
"It would be a mistake to pigeonhole the pianist/composer Pablo Ablanedo as a "Latin jazz artist”: the lush, complex weave of his writing for octet on the new Alegría (Fresh Sounds) has as much to do with Gil Evans as with the tangos of Ablanedo's fellow Argentine, Astor Piazzolla." Jon Garelick, Boston Phoenix (US)
"Pablo Ablanedo Octet is hot. However, to describe the octet in simple terms is to do the group a disservice, because their performances on From Down There are exiting, complex, intricate and fun."
Katie DeBonville, Northeastern Performer (US)
01/31 Sunday
6:00 PM Gillypad
6pm Notrio
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