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04/01 Thursday
7:00 PM Ellen DeGenova
7:00 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. In the spirit of April Fool’s Day, show up wearing your undies on the outside of you clothes and get a cupcake at the door. Most fun undies wins the Grand Fundies prize (TBA).
8:30 Julie Dougherty
I’ve been singing since the mid-sixties, starting with my sister, Kathy, performing folk music at coffeehouses in the Boston area, such as the Unicorn Coffeehouse and the King’s Rook (we were lucky enough to open up several times for the Kingston Trio in the 70’s) …through the years since then, I’ve travelled much of the country singing Irish music, original folk-rock music, country-rock music in the 80’s, and have made several trips to Nashville, where I placed two original songs with two major publishing firms and almost moved there in the early 90’s....but my roots are in New England! I also hosted a songwriting cable TV show, called Songwriters In The Round for three years, on which we featured many fine songwriters including Noel Paul Stookey, Chris Smither, and Al Kooper, to name just a few. I spent a year and a half writing and performing in an original funk band in the Boston area, the Boston Horns and also explored some jazz and blues combinations. I really love all kinds of music and love singing as many styles as I can. I’m very lucky to have had plenty of work over the years and have recorded a couple of my own CD’s along the way.
04/02 Friday
7:30 PM Jamie MacDonald and Harvey Diamond
http://www.myspace.com/jamesmacdonaldbass
Jamie MacDonald is a first-call musician for the southern Vermont/New Hampshire/Massachusetts area. His ability to groove creatively in a wide range of musical settings, along with a high level of technique from years of both jazz and classical studies, have given Jamie a reputation as a seriously original improvisor. Jamie performed for several years with confidant Claire Arenius in trio settings with Draa Hobbs and The Ambassadors of Light with Eugene Uman. He has also worked with jazz figures Harvey Diamond, Sheila Jordan, Carlos Averhoff, Bobby Bradford, James Williams, Helmut Kagerer, Mitch Seidman, Scott Mullet, and the Vermont Jazz Center Big Band. As a classical musician, Jamie has performed with Raylnmor Opera Company, and Keene Chamber Orchestra as the Principal Bassist. Jamie formerly taught bass, jazz ensemble and jazz theory at the Vermont Jazz Center and currently at Cheshire Music in Keene, New Hampshire. He holds a B.M. in performance from Keene State College and has studied with jazz icons Michael Formanek, Cameron Brown, and Don Baldini.
10:00 PM Michael Feinberg/Daniel Platzman group
Bassist Michael Feinberg and drummer Daniel Platzman have become a major force on the new york jazz scene. Since moving to New York in June 2009 the duo has shared the stage with the likes of Ted Nash, Jonathan Kreisberg, Ambrose Akinmusire, Noah Preminger, and Greg Gisbert among others. And as individuals they have performed with many other artists including George Garzone and McCoy Tyner. Critics have said of Feinberg's most recent cd "Evil Genius" (fearturing Platzman, Alex Wintz, Steve Pardo, Brian Hogans, and Sam Barsh) ". . .[evil genius] embraces elements of both pop music and the avant-garde with a strong
flare for jazz music. . . of the here and now" - Chad Radford, Creative Loafing.
This will be the first concert the group will perform after their showcase in Austin, Tx as part of the South by Southwest Festival, and it is definately one not to be missed. The rest of the group will be rounded out by some of the top jazz musicians in Boston. For more info. please visit www.michaelfeinbergmusic.com
www.michaelfeinbergmusic.com
www.danielplatzman.com
04/03 Saturday
3:00 PM K 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.
7:00 PM PABLO ABLANEDO OCTETo
Altogether, the sound is definitely jazz but distinctively Argentinean
Fernando Brandao (flutes)
Phil Grenadier (trumpet)
Daniel Ian Smith (saxes)
Kelly Roberge (saxes and clarinet)
Carlos Averhoff Jr. (saxes)
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)
"Argentine composer Pablo Ablanedo makes a disarmingly gentle but firm debut notable more for his ascetic, introspective writing than his low-profile piano. This band plays the through-composed and chamber-like pieces understatedly rather than in-your-face, slowly unfolding a mature, inclusive world vision." (4 stars)
Fred Bouchard, Down Beat Magazine (US)
"...be sure that Pablo Ablanedo's work has its own personality: you will be pleased to listen and listen to From Down There.”
Claude Colpaert, Jazz Hot Magazine (France)
"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)
10:00 PM Michael Feinberg/Daniel Platzman group
Bassist Michael Feinberg and drummer Daniel Platzman have become a major force on the new york jazz scene. Since moving to New York in June 2009 the duo has shared the stage with the likes of Ted Nash, Jonathan Kreisberg, Ambrose Akinmusire, Noah Preminger, and Greg Gisbert among others. And as individuals they have performed with many other artists including George Garzone and McCoy Tyner. Critics have said of Feinberg's most recent cd "Evil Genius" (fearturing Platzman, Alex Wintz, Steve Pardo, Brian Hogans, and Sam Barsh) ". . .[evil genius] embraces elements of both pop music and the avant-garde with a strong
flare for jazz music. . . of the here and now" - Chad Radford, Creative Loafing.
This will be the first concert the group will perform after their showcase in Austin, Tx as part of the South by Southwest Festival, and it is definately one not to be missed. The rest of the group will be rounded out by some of the top jazz musicians in Boston. For more info. please visit www.michaelfeinbergmusic.com
www.michaelfeinbergmusic.com
www.danielplatzman.com
04/04 Sunday
6:00 PM Gillypad
6pm Notrio
Nat Mugavero - drums, Gill Aharon - bass and piano, Eric Hofbauer - guitar.
7pm TBA
8pm The Gill Aharon Trio plays every Sunday. It is now approaching year five of weekly performing and IT IS HAPPENING!
The band is:
Randy Wooten - drums
Gill Aharon - piano and compositions
Jef Charland - bass
Blake Newman - bass
Andrew Stern - guitar
Rick Stone- Alto
Kelly Roberge - tenor
Eric Hofbauer - guitar
9:30 Josh Rosen, Jason Robinson, Charlie Kohlhase and Curt Newton
04/05 Monday
8:00 PM Mario Cerra
http://www.myspace.com/cerramario
Mario Cerra: Saxophones
Shin Sakaino: Bass
Jordan Siegel: Piano
Lee Fish: Drums
Mario Cerra attended Berklee College of music starting in 1998 after having been awarded a full merit based scholarship. During his tenure at Berklee Mario received the prestigious Joseph Viola Award and the Woodwind Department Achievement Award. Since that time he has been traveling and performing intensely. Between 2003 and 2007 Mario lived in Buenos Aires Argentina, where he became one of the country’s most sought-after musicians in the capacity of band-leader, sideman, recording artist and music educator. Mr. Cerra has performed at several international Music festivals and on various commercial recordings.
Currently Mario resides in Boston, MA , where he has established himself as a performer and music educator. He is a faculty member at Brookline Music School, Sharon Music Academy, Brookwood School and the Making Music Matters! Program.
Mario Cerra enjoys freelancing and playing with some of the finest musicians in the Boston-NewYork area. His latest contribution is “Circular” by Pedro Cervera, recorded in September 2009 in California with Pedro Cervera, Bob Magnuson, Peter Sprage and Sabino Paz.
10:22 PM The Fringe
04/06 Tuesday
8:00 PM Odd Tuesday Milonga
04/07 Wednesday
7:30 PM Notrio prepares the room for: The Fully Celebrated
Nat Mugavero, Eric Hofbauer and Gill Aharon.
Wednesday nights will be booked with local and touring musicians as part of an attempt to have a midweek musical oasis. Notrio will prepare the room and then deliberate music will begin. Our room preparation procedure has been in developed over the last five years.
10:30 PM The Fully Celebrated
Number two of the Jim Hobbs monthly Wednesday series.
http://www.myspace.com/fullycelebrated
04/08 Thursday
7:00 PM Florencia Gonzalez Big Band
www.florenciagonzalez.com
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
"La actuación de la Florencia González (...) nuevamente fue uno de los números más interesantes y disfrutables, con el justo balance entre academia y esquina, entre el norte y el sur, entre el pasado y el futuro de la música. "
MARIANO VIDEGARAY, LA DIARIA
“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
10:00 PM Jonathan Larkin (sax/electronics) w/ guests
Exploring the art of improvisation as it finds common ground between modern and ancient techniques cross culturally.
Human Mirror Project is a group of artists working towards bringing the world closer together
through the power of music. By utilizing musical performance, photography, and video,
they are able to create a common understanding between people with varying musical backgrounds and interests.
Human Mirror’s involvement in ethnomusicology, as well as music therapy, serve as a strong foundation
for the open and collaborative nature of this project. The group is interested in researching
‘the power of music’ as a catalyst to social change and intercultural communication,
and exploring new realms of collaboration in art and music.
In 2009, Human Mirror Project spent two months traveling through India, documenting people and their music.
The group is now sharing new works derived from the materials gathered in India.
The group utilizes contemporary digital mediums to allow for a multimedia expression of
what is taking place right now in a world full of music.
http://humanmirrorproject.org/
04/09 Friday
10:00 PM The Carmen Staaf Trio
Lineup:
Carmen Staaf - piano
Kendall Eddy - bass
Austin McMahon - drums
Suggested donation: $8
Winner of the 2009 Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Pianist Competition, Carmen Staaf is increasingly being recognized in New York as “a most impressive pianist” (Bob Brookmeyer). Rooted in straight ahead jazz, her music draws on diverse experiences including living in Cuba, playing with salsa bands, her classical training, and her alter ego as a klezmer accordionist. The Carmen Staaf Trio features bassist Kendall Eddy and drummer Austin McMahon and plays originals by each member; fresh explorations of standards; and swinging music by Mary Lou Williams and other jazz composers. Her 2008 album “Reflection”, described as “profoundly beautiful” (Bud Young, KBCS FM Seattle), wove through-composed ensemble work, solo piano ruminations and free improvisation into pieces both lyrical and rhythmically driving. “I strive for honesty in my music, for the letting go of the desire for it to sound a certain way or make people feel a certain way. I've found that the music resonates most with listeners when I use my training and tools to serve whatever truth I'm actually feeling at that moment. It takes faith, and it's humbling, but the deepest music I've been part of has happened from playing this way.” A recent arrival in New York, Carmen taught in the piano department at Berklee for four years. She has performed at jazz festivals all over the US and Europe as well as in Panama, Cuba and Carnegie Hall, and has worked with Henry Grimes, Bob Brookmeyer, Eddie Gomez, Francisco Mela, Lila Downs, George Garzone, Frank London, Esperanza Spalding, John McNeil, Kenny Wollesen, Kate McGarry, and Alicia Svigals. She toured India for a month in a dog suit with NYC's favorite furry animal ragtime band, the Xylopholks.
“A new star to discover” - Michael G. Nastos, Allmusic.com
www.carmenstaaf.com
04/10 Saturday
7:30 PM Gustavo Assis-Brasil Solo Guitar: Originals and Arrangements
Gustavo Assis-Brasil is an accomplished guitarist with a remarkably fluid linear concept and a distinctive, ultra-sophisticated harmonic sense, who also exhibits a fully developed voice as a composer. - Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times Magazine
http://www.gustavoassisbrasil.com/
04/11 Sunday
2:00 PM Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble
"redefining musical boundaries" San Francisco Classical Voice 9/1/09
The Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble, a groundbreaking new music ensemble led by classical and film composer Jack Curtis Dubowsky, combines acoustic instruments, electronic hardware, composed material and structured improvisation. The Ensemble treats analog synth as a rare and unpredictable performance instrument. The Ensemble's contemporary electroacoustic music, abstract, calm, spacious, free form, and transcendental, is performed and recorded live with no overdubs or sequencing.
The Ensemble has played chamber concert series, new music series, galleries, alternative performance spaces, and has also presented programs of live music to experimental film.
The Ensemble is based in San Francisco and includes NEC graduate Fred Morgan on drums and percussion. Their sonic language is at times comparable to Neu! and Cluster.
www.destijlmusic.com/jcde.html
www.sequenza21.com/2009/09/ten-questions-for-jack-curtis-dubowsky/
www.myspace.com/jcde
www.cdbaby.com/cd/jackcurtisdubowsky
www.pandora.com/music/artist/jack+curtis+dubowsky
6:00 PM Gillypad
6pm Ian Power
http://myspace.com/ianhpower
7pm Jon DeLucia and David Tronzo and Garth Stevenson
http://www.jondelucia.com/
8pm
Zoltan Lantos and Tanya Kalmanovitch Violin Duo
Meeting for the first time in performance at the 2008 Amsterdam India festival, violinists Zoltán Lantos and Tanya Kalmanovitch immediately found common ground: both had trained in the great violin traditions of European and Indian classical music, and both have since made their careers in the spaces between musical traditions.
Their duo blends the intimacy of a traditional music session with the elastic, impulsive nature of free improvisation and a dazzling array of influences from their wide-ranging musical travels. They trace the violin’s global routes with fiery virtuosity and sublime interaction, touching on Hungarian folk music, Irish traditional music, free improvisation and contemporary jazz.
Tanya Kalmanovitch, violin & viola
www.tanyakalmanovitch.com
Born in Fort McMurray, Alberta, violist and violinist Tanya Kalmanovitch works in the intersection of European classical music, contemporary jazz, and free improvisation. Based in New York City since 2004, she has been named the city's "Best New Talent" by All About Jazz, and described by Time Out New York as "the Juilliard-trained violist who’s been tearing up the scene”. She has performed throughout Europe and North American with a diverse range of artists including Benoît Delbecq, Dominique Pifarély, Ernst Reijseger, Ted Reichman, Anthony Coleman, Mat Maneri, the Turtle Island String Quartet, Martin Hayes, John Cage and Shujaat Husain Khan. Her most recent recording with pianist Myra Melford, "Heart Mountain", topped many critics' lists in 2007.
Tanya is the Assistant Chair of the Department of Contemporary Improvisation at Boston’s New England Conservatory. She teaches regularly at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London UK and the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag NL, and has led workshops on improvisation throughout Russia, North America, Ireland, the Czech Republic, and Germany.
Zoltán Lantos, violin & tarangini
www.majazz.hu/lantoszoltan/index_eng.htm
Zoltán Lantos received his initial training in classical violin from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. Drawn to experimental and Asian music from an early age, he traveled to India to study Indian classical music in 1985. Returning to Budapest nine years later, he developed a compelling voice as an improviser, blending his musical roots in European classical music and Hungarian folk music with Indian classical music and contemporary jazz.
In the past decade Zoltán has emerged as the pre-eminent performer in the European world-jazz scene, appearing on major concert stages and festivals with artists such as Márta Sebestyén, Dhafer Youssef, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Aruna Narayan, Urna, the Karnataka College of Percussion, Didier Lockwood, Charlie Mariano, Dave Liebman, Ramesh Shotham, Lars Danielsson, Markus Stockhausen, Achim Tang, Patrice Heral, and others. Equally important to his musical life, however, are numerous collaborations with folk musicians he encounters in his extensive musical travels: Roma musicians in Granada, Bulgarian wedding band soloists, and traditional musicians in the Rajasthani deserts and the Mongolian steppes.
Zoltán is a founding member of the Society of Hungarian Jazz Artists. He plays a 5 string violin and a custom-built 5+16 sympathetic string violin (Tarangini) created by Ricardo Margarit.
9:30pm Allan Chase and Carmen Staaf
10:30pm 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
04/12 Monday
7:00 PM Jazz and Tap Jam
An evening of improvisation, combining tap dance and jazz music.
Featuring some of Boston's top dance and musical talent.
Expect the unexpected.
Hosted by Suzanne Bouffard
This month's musicians:
Nat Mugavero - drums
Jef Charland - bass
Gill Aharon - piano
Advanced dancers welcome to dance. Musicians welcome to sit in.
Suggested donation: $10 ($15 suggested for dancers)
Suggested arrival time for dancers: 7:00 pm
For more information, visit http://sites.google.com/site/smbouffard/
10:22 PM The Fringe
04/13 Tuesday
8:00 PM Even Tuesday Milonga
04/14 Wednesday
9:30 PM Notrio prepares the room for Lawrence Cook
9:30pm Notrio
Nat Mugavero - drums, Gill Aharon - bass and piano, Eric Hofbauer - guitar
10:30pm Lawrence Cook and friends
10:30 PM Laurence Cook's band
Laurence Cook - drums & electronics
Vic Rawlings - cello & electronics
Greg Kelley - trumpet
Jim Hobbs - alto saxophone
Laurence Cook went from being a student at MassArt to being a longshoreman in NYC to playing drums in the burgeoning ESP/free jazz/loft scene, playing with the likes of The Godz, Alan Silva and Paul Bley. Relocating back north, he began playing in Bill Dixon's bands and with such Boston stalwarts as Lowell Davidson, Joe Morris, John Voigt and others. This carried on throughout the 80s, continuing on to the Eremite era of the late 90s which found him playing with Jemeel Moondoc, Daniel Carter and Thurston Moore. Tonight he's back with his Disaster Unit bandmates Rawlings and Kelley (also both of the BSC and the undr quartet) and recent collaborator Jim Hobbs (who in addition to being known for his work in the Fully Celebrated Orchestra, also has some history with Siege, Nightstick and the Death's Head Quartet, which featured Robert Williams from Siege and Nightstick and Seth Putnam from A.C.)
04/15 Thursday
7:00 PM Friends for Family Records presents:
Burning Oak - www.myspace.com/oakburning
Coyote Kolb - www.myspace.com/coyotekolb
Jeff Rowe - www.myspace.com/jeffrowemusic
Matt Murphy (member of Wolves and the radio and Goodnight Neverland) - www.myspace.com/wolvesandtheradio
Steve Terry (member of Larcenist and Wolves and the Radio) - www.myspace.com/larcenistmusic
Jonathan Schoeck (member of Larcenist) - www.myspace.com/larcenistmusic
10:00 PM Patrick Simard
http://www.myspace.com/patsimardmusic
04/16 Friday
7:00 PM Shannon Selig CD Release Promotional Show
casey MacKenzie 7pm http://www.caseymackenziemusic.com/
Jacob Sherman 8pm http://www.facebook.com/jakeandsexytime
Shannon Selig 9pm http://www.shannonselig.com/
Shannon Selig is one of Boston newest vocal talents. Come out for a night of music highlighting some new songs off her soon to be released album and enjoy some old favorites. Also joining her for the night will be Casey MacKenzie and Jacob Sherman.
10:00 PM AFROAMERICA
Comenzó cantando música brasileña con el grupo BOSSA 9. En 1991 graba su primera producción como solista, titulada “Canta Brasil”, editada en el Perú y posteriormente en España. A mediados de los 90’s incursiona en el jazz, participando en los Festivales del ICPNA, CCPUC y el que se realizó en el Museo de la Nación, organizado por el INC (Instituto Nacional de Cultura) de Lima, Perú.
En el 2001 presentó “DÍAS DE CINE”, espectáculo en el que rendía tributo a las grandes melodías compuestas para el séptimo arte.
En febrero del 2004 cumplió una exitosa temporada de conciertos con “JOBIM VIVE”, conmemorando los 10 años del fallecimiento del gran compositor brasileño Antonio Carlos Jobim. Pilar ha tenido la oportunidad de participar como cantante invitada en las presentaciones de figuras de la talla de Luis Salinas (Argentina), Joyce (Brasil) y Carmina Cannavino (México), Roberto Menescal & Wanda Sá (Brasil), en sus respectivas visitas a nuestro país. Uno de sus más recientes trabajos es “AFROAMÉRICA”, un concierto de jazz construído a partir de la diversidad rítmica y temática afroamericana.
JAZZ CON SABOR PERUANO
Las armonías del jazz y la bossa nova se entrelazan con los colores del cajón peruano y la guitarra criolla, consiguiendo una novedosa amalgama de sonidos que podrían definirse como JAZZ CON SABOR PERUANO.
La idea de fusionar el jazz y la bossa nova con la música peruana surge en la década de los 60’s cuando la bossa nova se difunde en el mundo entero a través de Antonio Carlos Jobim y su Chica de Ipanema. Los músicos peruanos se vieron influenciados por esta corriente, de la misma manera que los músicos de las décadas del 30 y 40 lo hicieron con los tangos y los boleros. Por citar algunos nombres, podemos mencionar a Carlos Hayre, Lucho Neves y Félix Casaverde. Justamente Pilar de la Hoz llegó a grabar una maqueta con Félix Casaverde y quizás fue su primera experiencia cercana con la música peruana. Posteriormente Pilar decide desarrollar más ampliamente este proyecto y recurre a Sergio Valdeos y Edward Pérez, dos especialistas en la bossa nova y el jazz respectivamente, quienes han hecho los arreglos de la que es su última producción discográfica.
El público ha recibido de la mejor manera esta propuesta, quizás porque no se trata de ningún tipo de copia, es la manera como los músicos peruanos sentimos el jazz, teniendo referentes de nuestra música, en algunos casos recurriendo a temas de nuestro folklore y en otros incorporando elementos de nuestra tradición como el cajón afroperuano, a los llamados standards de jazz.
Cabe resaltar que Pilar de la Hoz presentó este trabajo en el XV Festival Jazz en Lima, alternando con músicos de la talla de María Schneider (Grammy 2005), Ingrid Jensen, Geoffrey Keezer, Billy Kerr, John Thomas, Jon Wikan, Matt Clohesy, entre otros.
También Pilar se ha presentado en el mes de marzo del 2005, en la I Fiesta de la Música del Valle Sagrado de los Incas, en el Urubamba, Cuzco.
Y entre el 23 y 26 de junio del 2005 participó como invitada en el XIX Festival Internacional Boleros de Oro, que tuvo lugar en la ciudad de La Habana, Cuba, habiendo sido programada en todos los teatros y en el legendario “Dos Gardenias” considerado el Templo del Bolero.
El sábado 29 de octubre del mismo año cerró el V Festival de Jazz de Arequipa, organizado por el Instituto Cultural Peruano-Alemán, con su espectáculo de “Jazz con Sabor Peruano”.
En diciembre del mismo año fue invitada por el Maestro Chucho Valdès a participar en el XXII Festival Internacional Jazz Plaza, en la ciudad de La Habana, Cuba, uno de los festivales de jazz màs importantes del mundo, donde presentó su “JAZZ CON SABOR PERUANO”, teniendo la acogida del público cubano, así como de los extranjeros que se dieron cita en este evento.
Durante un año se desempeñó como Productora General de la Asociación Internacional Jazz Perù, asì como productora y conductora del ùnico programa radial de música brasileña en nuestro paìs: “Ilha Brasil”.
En octubre del 2007 sacó su tercera producción “De Locos y Cuerdas”; trabajo exclusivo de guitarra y voz, considerada de primerísimo nivel, ya que cuenta con extraordinarios músicos como Roberto Menescal (Brasil) considerado uno de los padres de la bossa nova, Luis Salinas (Argentina), Lucho González, Oscar Cavero, Sergio Valdeos y Diego Salvador (Perú).
Y este cuarto nuevo disco titulado “HOZADÍAS” es al igual que el de Jazz con Sabor Peruano, una búsqueda de fusionar la música peruana con diferentes elementos del jazz y la bossa nova y reafirmar su posición de ser la primera, y pionera cantante de jazz con peruano.
04/17 Saturday
7:00 PM The Britton Brothers
The music is a unique blend of jazz and today's music. The band is made up of talented up and coming musicians, who have done their homework and checked out the jazz tradition but are open to new possibilities. The instrumentation is acoustic piano, acoustic bass, drums, tenor sax, and trumpet.
www.thebrittonbrothers.com/
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04/18 Sunday
2:30 PM Hester
A benefit for the Mark Sandman Music Project, featuring music of Beethoven, Stravinsky and Bolling, and perhaps a few surprises.
Suggested Donation: $10.00
Hester is:
Annamae Goldstein, violin
John Yannis, piano
Two old friends reunite for a weekend of musicmaking, culminating in a short concert for a good cause. Annamae plays with the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. John mostly sings renaissance music these days, but used to play a lot of piano. Just ask Annamae. Back in high school, they rocked out with Claude Bolling's various suites for classical instruments plus 'jazz piano'. Older but not much wiser, they will revisit some of that music, plus take on some other stuff. Join them for a relaxed, informal hour-or-so of music. All proceeds will benefit the Mark Sandman Music Project, which seeks to provide opportunities for young people to participate in music and develop creative, social, and cognitive skills.
To donate directly, go here:http://www.firstgiving.com/sandmanmusicproject
6:00 PM Gillypad
6pm Notrio
Nat Mugavero - drums, Gill Aharon - bass and piano, Eric Hofbauer - guitar.
7pm Emily Hay
Los Angeles based experimental flutist/vocalist with keyboardist Motoko Honda and friends.
www.emilyhay.com
www.myspace.com/motokohonda
8pm The Gill Aharon Trio plays every Sunday. It is now approaching year five of weekly performing and IT IS HAPPENING!
The band is:
Randy Wooten - drums
Gill Aharon - piano and compositions
Jef Charland - bass
Blake Newman - bass
Andrew Stern - guitar
Rick Stone- Alto
Kelly Roberge - tenor
Eric Hofbauer - guitar
9:30pm Kelly Roberge
04/19 Monday
8:00 PM Mario Cerra
Mario Cerra attended Berklee College of music starting in 1998 after having been awarded a full merit based scholarship. During his tenure at Berklee Mario received the prestigious Joseph Viola Award and the Woodwind Department Achievement Award. Since that time he has been traveling and performing intensely. Between 2003 and 2007 Mario lived in Buenos Aires Argentina, where he became one of the country’s most sought-after musicians in the capacity of band-leader, sideman, recording artist and music educator. Mr. Cerra has performed at several international Music festivals and on various commercial recordings.
Currently Mario resides in Boston, MA , where he has established himself as a performer and music educator. He is a faculty member at Brookline Music School, Sharon Music Academy, Brookwood School and the Making Music Matters! Program.
Mario Cerra enjoys freelancing and playing with some of the finest musicians in the Boston-NewYork area. His latest contribution is “Circular” by Pedro Cervera, recorded in September 2009 in California with Pedro Cervera, Bob Magnuson, Peter Sprage and Sabino Paz.
At this concert Mario will present his latest original compositions, as well as some jazz standards. Mario’s music is deeply rooted in the jazz tradition, yet his music is fresh and clearly conveys his unique personal perspective. Hard-Bop, contemporary jazz, African and South American rhythms, come together organically and naturally to give the audience a profound and heartfelt performance.
Mario has been traveling and performing extensively for the last 15 years, across South America, Europe and the United States.
04/20 Tuesday
8:00 PM Odd Tuesday Milonga
04/21 Wednesday
9:30 PM Notrio prepares the room for: Para Quintet
Nat Mugavero, Eric Hofbauer and Gill Aharon.
10:30 PM Para Quintet
Forbes Graham - Trumpet
Jim Hobbs - Alto Sax
Steve Lantner - Piano
Jacob William - Bass
Laurence Cook - Percussion
04/22 Thursday
7:00 PM Art Opening: Jess Barnett
7:00 PM Art Opening:
10:00 PM 3play+
Phil Grenadier, trumpet
Josh Rosen, piano, compositions
Lello Molinari, bass
Marcello Pellitteri, drums
Improvisations, genre-bending originals, rearranged covers.
04/23 Friday
7:00 PM Les Paradisiers, Oval Portraits
http://myspace.com/ovalportraits
Barcelona/Boston psychedelic exotica act Les Paradisiers play their first concert with special friends Oval Portraits.
04/24 Saturday
7:00 PM Inman Review: meet & greet /w poetry readings and maybe some acoustic music
10:00 PM Jason Rigby
JASON RIGBY QUINTET
Jason Rigby - tenor & soprano saxophones
Russ Johnson - trumpet
Mike Holober - rhodes
Cameron Brown - bass
Jeff Hirshfield - drums
>>>The Sage QUINTET is a powerhouse ensemble formed to explore group improvisation with the twists and turns of a two-horn front line mixed with the dynamic sound of the Fender Rhodes electric piano. The band was formed conceptually out of the influences of Miles' 70's electric bands, Ornette Coleman's explorations with Don Cherry and Dewey Redman, and Jack DeJohnette's mid-70's work - all culminating in a modern mixture of grooves, free melodies, psychedelic sounds, and angular horn lines. This performance comes off the heels of the group's critically acclaimed 2009 Fresh Sound Records release The Sage. The QUINTET will be performing newly penned Rigby originals, as well as some material from the record.<<<
"...the saxophonist's quintet sustains a daunting finesse while swinging full tilt on the new The Sage."
- Jim Macnie, The Village Voice
"Rigby's burly tenor tone and searching improvisations recall the expressionistic flights of Ornette Coleman and Joe Henderson."
- John Murph, DownBeat
NEWS RELEASE
New York-based tenor saxophonist Jason Rigby has been hailed as "a truly lyrical musician" and "New York's rising star of tenor sax." John Murph of Downbeat states: "Rigby's burly tenor tone and searching improvisations recall the expressionistic flights of Ornette Coleman and Joe Henderson." An earthy voice that deftly combines many influences - critics recognize in Rigby the creative mindset of Wayne Shorter, the energy of John Coltrane, and the elasticity and compositional style of Ornette Coleman and Paul Motian. Jason Rigby is rapidly attracting the attention of the music world as a saxophonist and composer who has something important to say.
Rigby first received critical acclaim for his debut album Translucent Space, which put his name solidly on the map of modern creative music. It was listed by Wire Magazine as one of the Top Jazz and Improv Recordings of 2006 and praised in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Saxophone Journal, and other periodicals of note.
Jason rigby's sophomore release, The Sage, which features this quintet, instantly received stellar reviews for its compositional expansiveness and cutting-edge improvisation. Focusing his attention on organic spontaneity, Rigby's concept involves creating sonic beauty with experimentation, group interaction and musical development. Not bound to traditional harmony, he bases many of his fresh-sounding originals on free-style melodies and ostinato rhythmic patterns.
Since moving to New York, Jason Rigby has performed with Mark Guiliana, the Village Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, David Binney, Eivind Opsvik, Tony Malaby and Cameron Brown. He has led his own bands on record and in venues in the US and Europe.
04/25 Sunday
5:00 PM Gillypad
6 pm notrio
eric hofbauer, gill aharon and nat mugavero
7 pm Andrei Matorin
The Boston Globe calls Andrei Matorin an “emerging jazz violinist” and featured him in their Critic’s Picks column twice in 2008. Born in Brazil, Matorin began playing the violin at the age of six after moving to Boston. Three years later, having spent a year studying in L’Aquila, Italy, he enrolled at the prestigious Conservatoire de Geneve in Switzerland. After studying four years in Switzerland his return to the United States prompted him to temporarily put his classical studies aside while he explored jazz. It was a world he had never been exposed to before. At fifteen, upon moving to Boston he pursued his newfound love of jazz at The New England Conservatory (NEC) Preparatory School and soon began his professional career. Andrei Matorin was the first violinist ever to graduate from NEC’s Jazz Program. He then enrolled at Berklee College of Music on a scholarship from the World Scholarship Tour to study Jazz Composition and Performance.
8 pm Your Neighborhood Saxophone Quartet gig
Allan Chase - alto and soprano sax
Cercie Miller - alto and soprano sax
Joel Springer - tenor sax
Tom Hall - baritone sax
A rare reunion of one of Boston's leading improvisation ensembles of the 1980s and 1990s. Formed in 1980, YNSQ are veterans who recorded one LP and five CDs, made countless appearances around New England and New York, toured the Midwest, and made 11 European tours including appearances at major jazz and new music festivals, concert halls, and clubs. They will draw on their book of nearly 200 original compositions and arrangements, plus new pieces.
9 pm The Gill Aharon Trio plays every Sunday.
The band is:
Randy Wooten - drums
Gill Aharon - piano and compositions
Jef Charland - bass
Blake Newman - bass
Andrew Stern - guitar
Rick Stone- Alto
Kelly Roberge - tenor
Eric Hofbauer - guitar
10 pm The Joe Hunt Trio
At the Lily Pad every fourth Sunday!
Joe Hunt joined the George Russell sextet (1960-1962) which included Eric Dolphy, Don Ellis, and Steve Swallow. In 1964 Joe joined the Stan Getz quartet (64-65) for tours in North and South America, film and TV appearances. jazz festivals including Newport. From 1966-67 Joe was with the Bill Evans trio for national tours, festivals, clubs, and recordings. He’s played with Dexter Gordon, Dizzy Gillespie, Jim Hall, and many others.
Joe came to Boston with Gary Burton in 1971 and taught at Berklee College until 2002. He is now Professor of Music (part time) at NEC and still teaches as a part time as Professor at Berklee. He recently played in the Tel-Aviv jazz festival with Don Friedman and Chuck Israels (2/3 and 2/4/2010).
Joe is a Cambridge, MA resident and leads a great jazz trio with
TERRY BERNHARD (pianist) with Eddie Gomez, Chet Baker, Al Foster, and Sonny Stitt
BRONEK SUCHANEK (bassist) with Don Cherry, Art Farmer, and Sir Roland Hanna.
Our trio has been together since early 2009. We play each week and are a creative work in progress. Our goal is a high level of interactive improvisation providing us and our audience a rewarding and satisfying listening experience. We play at the Lily Pad every 4th Sunday each month. Treat yourself to a great jazz trio listening experience and come.
04/26 Monday
8:00 PM Mario Cerra
At this concert Mario will present his latest original compositions, as well as some jazz standards. Mario’s music is deeply rooted in the jazz tradition, yet his music is fresh and clearly conveys his unique personal perspective. Hard-Bop, contemporary jazz, African and South American rhythms, come together organically and naturally to give the audience a profound and heartfelt performance.
Mario has been traveling and performing extensively for the last 15 years, across South America, Europe and the United States.
Mario Cerra attended Berklee College of music starting in 1998 after having been awarded a full merit based scholarship. During his tenure at Berklee Mario received the prestigious Joseph Viola Award and the Woodwind Department Achievement Award. Since that time he has been traveling and performing intensely. Between 2003 and 2007 Mario lived in Buenos Aires Argentina, where he became one of the country’s most sought-after musicians in the capacity of band-leader, sideman, recording artist and music educator. Mr. Cerra has performed at several international Music festivals and on various commercial recordings.
Currently Mario resides in Boston, MA , where he has established himself as a performer and music educator. He is a faculty member at Brookline Music School, Sharon Music Academy, Brookwood School and the Making Music Matters! Program.
Mario Cerra enjoys freelancing and playing with some of the finest musicians in the Boston-NewYork area. His latest contribution is “Circular” by Pedro Cervera, recorded in September 2009 in California with Pedro Cervera, Bob Magnuson, Peter Sprage and Sabino Paz.
10:22 PM The Fringe
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.
04/27 Tuesday
8:00 PM Even Tuesday Milonga
04/28 Wednesday
9:30 PM Notrio prepares the room for: Algernon
9:30pm Notrio
Nat Mugavero - drums, Gill Aharon - bass and piano, Eric Hofbauer - guitar
10:30 PM Algernon
Chicago-based experimental rock band
Algernon has a new record, "Ghost Surveillance"
04/29 Thursday
7:30 PM Longy School of Music - performance
Longy instrumental and vocal majors present an eclectic concert of chamber music ranging from the Baroque to contemporary eras
Brahms Clarinet Trio
Eve Galvani on clarinet, Richard Foo on piano and Mikhail Veselov on cello
10:00 PM Adam Birnbaum
"Acclaimed jazz pianist Adam Birnbaum performs regularly with Greg Osby, Al Foster and many others. He returns to Boston for an evening of solo piano improvisations on standards and originals."
04/30 Friday
7:00 PM PABLO ABLANEDO OCTETo
Altogether, the sound is definitely jazz but distinctively Argentinean
Fernando Brandao (flutes)
Phil Grenadier (trumpet)
Daniel Ian Smith (saxes)
Kelly Roberge (saxes and clarinet)
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)
10:00 PM Brigham Hall
A recent addition to the Boston music scene, pianist Brigham Hall began his career as an artist-teacher for the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, regularly performing across disciplinary boundaries and genres that included classical, musical threatre, electronic, and jazz music. Hall returns to his acoustic roots to present a night of solo piano re-imagining rock tunes by Radiohead, Flaming Lips, Portishead and others. Following will be new music by his quartet, which features an impressive lineup of performers from the Dudley House Jazz Combo at Harvard University and the New England Conservatory.
michael heller - sax
maxwell behrens - drums
zwelakhe-duma bell le pere - upright bass
brigham hall - piano
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