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10/01 Friday

8:00 PM David Rumpler and Friends

A jazz recital featuring singer Christina Watka and trumpet/flugelhorn player
and Chris Kottke (I 'm contemplating calling it the Kottke/Watka group). Also featured are myself on piano,
Mickey Carter on drums and Jon Dreyer on upright bass.

10:00 PM Portico Quartet

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http://porticoquartet.com/

The Portico Quartet are a bunch of guys in their early twenties who play instrumental music. Formed four years ago from two sets of schoolfriends, they share a house in East London, make recordings, and play festivals and clubs. Yet what distinguishes them from dozens of other Hackney hopefuls is the way they sound – a fresh, unclichéd resynthesis and reinvention of music that’s both pleasingly familiar and thrillingly new, like World Music from the future. With largely acoustic resources – percussion, bass and wind instruments – they have conjured and refined a group signature that’s immediately recognisable. Thanks to the use of the hang, a tuned percussion instrument bought on impulse at a music festival, they have a sound that is instantly attractive, yet uncompromisingly individual, and it’s this, combined with the cheerful eloquence of their performances, that has brought Portico Quartet a long way in a short time.

The line-up of the band is Duncan Bellamy (drums), Milo Fitzpatrick (double bass), Nick Mulvey (hang and percussion) and Jack Wyllie (soprano, tenor saxophones and electronics). From a grassroots start in 2005, busking on the South Bank of London’s Thames, their reputation spread swiftly. They began to get paid bookings plus the odd festival, and they made a five-track CD to sell at gigs. In 2007 they signed a record deal to make a full length CD, Knee Deep In The North Sea (Babel/Vortex). This was a turning point: the album attracted attention from DJs, bloggers and critics of every stripe, and was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Music Prize alongside Rachel Unthank, The Last Shadow Puppets, Radiohead and Elbow – a win-win situation for credible newcomers like Unthank and Portico Quartet.

Now the band has another album in the can: Isla (Real World Records, out October 2009) is a thoughtful and richly tuneful collection of nine pieces recorded by producer John Leckie at Abbey Road no. 2, a studio room made legendary by George Martin, the Beatles, Kate Bush and many others. Leckie’s track record as a catalyst for emerging talent is legendary: not only for the famous examples, Stone Roses, Doves, XTC, Radiohead, but also for pioneering systems orchestra Lost Jockey (which spawned Man Jumping, ZTT’s Andrew Poppy, Orlando Gough, and soundtrack supremo John Lunn) and World Music stars such as Rodrigo & Gabriela and Papa Wemba.

Their story begins in 2004, when Bellamy and Mulvey, who met at sixth form college in Cambridge, first encountered the hang at a temporary music shop at WOMAD, the World Music festival then held at Rivermead in Reading. Bellamy bought one of four left in stock: ‘It had been my birthday, and I had some money in my account, and I borrowed the rest off friends,’ he laughs, ‘because “why not”.’ A few days later, Mulvey phoned up to order another one, making sure it was in a sympathetic key, and they started to experiment.

Invented and first made in 2000 by Felix Rohner and Sabina Schaerer of PANArt in Bern, Switzerland, the hang is a dimpled, dome-shaped tuned metal percussion instrument, like two woks welded together. The sound is reminiscent of the mbira (thumb piano) and the steel drum, but the hang has a tunefulness and resonance that derives from its significantly different overtones.

Yet it wasn’t until Portico Quartet got started, in Spring 2005, that Bellamy and Mulvey realised how important the instrument would be for them. ‘The limitations have been really liberating in a paradoxical way,’ says Mulvey. ‘They’ve ushered me into making musical choices. I think it’s made me a better musician, with a “less is more” approach – to do less and listen more.’

Bassist Fitzpatrick, who has known saxophonist Wyllie since they were at infant school together, doesn’t miss the freedom that a more chromatic instrument might bring to the group. ‘The limitations of the hang are just the same as those of a musician inside themselves,’ he muses. ‘Even if you have a piano, with all the keys and all the notes, it doesn’t make any difference, it’s all about how you express yourself inside.’

In fact the simple ‘constraints’ of Portico Quartet’s unusual line-up have proved to be a gateway to a world of musical possibilities that makes them sound like no one else around, like World music from another planet. Yet there’s nothing alien about their music: the four principal voices – saxes, bass, drums and hang – communicate with the intensity of a string quartet, the ease of a jam session and the youthful glee of a pop group.

For an instrumental band, playing acoustic music with unfamiliar instruments, Portico Quartet seem to have glided effortlessly past all the potential obstacles in today’s music culture: they’re lucky, but they’ve also made their own luck. I first heard about them by word of mouth, and through the YouTube clip of ‘Still Life With Flowers’, an animation by Leo Bridle (a Southampton schoolfriend of Wyllie) that makes clever use of their music. When I first saw them perform – during the Southbank Centre’s reopening weekend in 2007 – their free, ad hoc performances prompted random audience groupings to gather within seconds. People of all ages and all types smiled with pleasurable recognition at music they’d never heard before. It’s not ‘easy listening’, but it’s a friendly sound, for reasons that are as musical as they are social. As Mulvey says: ‘The resonance of the hang really hugs everything around it.’

So where does this music come from? Asked to name significant musical experiences, any number of names tumble forth, from Queen and Miles Davis to EST, Philip Glass and Toumani Diabaté, plus many more from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. And they all cite Steve Reich’s Music For 18 Musicians, made before they were born, as a landmark album: ‘My Mum gave it me when I was 15 for a birthday present,’ recalls Mulvey, ‘and it was just – phwoo – Technicolor!’

Collectively, they’re schooled in jazz, classical and popular music, and both Wyllie and Mulvey studied mbira and Balinese gamelan at SOAS (School of African and Oriental Studies), where they met in 2004. Most importantly, the members of Portico Quartet have learnt about their music from each other. And they’ve grown up independently as a band, keeping a discreet distance from the cloistered fund-chasing of contemporary classical music, the cash-strapped musical chairs of the jazz scene and the competitive rat-race of indie.

Isla, the new album, is another step forward. Producer Leckie has brought an extra clarity to their arrangements, while the musicians have made good use of the studio to sculpt and enhance their sound with loop pedals, real-time electronics and overdubs. Nevertheless, 70 per cent of the album was performed live at Abbey Road: this is a band who can deliver on the promise of their recordings in concert; and vice versa. Their collectively written compositions evoke a universe of musical possibilities and influences. ‘Eventually, the sum of all our parts – and what we’ve been listening to – comes out,’ says Wyllie. Yet Portico Quartet sound like nobody else in jazz, World or contemporary music. Each of the nine tracks on Isla has a distinct mood and atmosphere, while remaining firmly within their soundworld. From the churning maelstrom of Clipper to the pounding pedal points of Dawn Patrol; from the fragile ostinatos of Line to the anthemic ensemble of the title track, Isla is an album whose contents reveal fresh nuances and facets on each listen.

Music industry veterans sometimes express anxieties that new listeners and performers are losing interest, that music is becoming dematerialised, in every sense, while other fads and forms come to the foreground. Portico Quartet give the lie to such fears. Like their fans and followers, they have grown up immersed in the global jukebox of sounds available to anyone with curiosity and an internet connection. What they play can’t be classified as World, jazz, pop, rock, roots or contemporary classical music, yet they draw strength and inspiration from all those genres. They understand the power of performance, and the potential of music to communicate through its basic elements: rhythm, harmony, melody and timbre. And, as a band of friends, they have wrought a collective sound that evokes a multitude of musical memories while remaining genuinely new, sounding a warm new note that resonates long after the final track has ended.

John L Walters - August 2009

“Isla feeds on Steve Reich mathematics, Radiohead dread, African desert grooves and ECM northern melancholy to travel into a new, chiming cavernous sound-world that is both exotic and hypnotic.”-MOJO

“A melodic accessibility and cinematic scope as liable to woo fans of Radiohead’s as patrons of Ronnie Scott’s.”-Q Magazine

“Genuinely innovative… there isn’t a band that sounds remotely like them.”-Observer Music Weekly

“Achingly cool… a haunting sound that echoes in your head long after they have stopped playing.”-The Sun

“A powerfully atmospheric, moody masterpiece mixing electronics with Jack Wylie’s sax and Nick Mulvey’s hang, which hovers at the albums heart.”-The Independent

“Sophisticated composing mixed with wonderful atmospherics and beautifully judged improvised departures abound.”-Daily Mirror

“With impeccable sound production, the four-piece proved itself well able to step up to a bigger stage with an adroit, hypnotic performance… during which each of the players impressed with virtuoso elements.” - Billboard

10/02 Saturday

7:00 PM Shufflin' Time Band

Jazz Vocalist, Pianist, Tap Dancer, Composer, Arranger, and Educator, Patrice Monahan has performed with some of Boston’s finest musicians. Her band has a great vibe on swing, latin, funk grooves, a touch of the blues and percussive tap dance.
This performance at the Lily Pad will have guest artist Nick Grondin joining the band on guitar.

Shufflin’ Time’s musical compositions original and honest interpretations of jazz standards blend a strong rhythm section of piano, bass and drums adding the temperature changing sounds of Rick Stone on alto saxophone and many colors of drummers Richard Malcolm and Miki Matsuki. Sometimes cool……Sometimes hot…….And Always Right On!

With rave reviews from her audience and media, Shufflin’ Time was officially launched in 2007.

Their musical styles are funky swing with Bill Mc Cormack on acoustic bass, I’m Just a Lucky So and So; driving Get out of Town; jazz soul original Pepper Jack, shuffle blues belting the Existential Blues, an original ballad Maybe reveals Patrice’s “beautiful vocal” quality, vulnerable, never overdone.

Unique to their sound Shufflin’Time has the element of tap dance as percussion. Strong accomplished dancers and a comic flair Patrice and dance partner Valery Marcantonio add a layer of energy, enticing the audience with Patrice’s rhythmic Funky Paddle and Val’s Shim Sham Shimmy echo the audience’s response “she does it all.”

Interesting arrangements balanced with improvisation underlies Patrice’s free spirit. She is accompanied on the piano by Eyran Katsenelenbogan a fabulous pianist. Together they create a magical sound. This band can create an ambiance that is subdued and sultry to hard swinging jazz and blues. This band is building great momentum. Come catch their spirit. CD release planned for Spring 2011.

www.patricemonahan.com
www.myspace.com/patricemonahan

10:00 PM The Peter Kenagy/Randy Ingram quartet

The Peter Kenagy/Randy Ingram quartet is a reunion of two New England Conservatory classmates who have become leading voices on their instruments and on today’s jazz scene. Since meeting as graduate students at the conservatory in 2000, Kenagy and Ingram have complied impressive performing credits and released critically acclaimed records as bandleaders. This collaborative ensemble will feature their compositional and improvisational skills.

In the words of mentor Fred Hersch, "Randy Ingram is among the vanguard of NYC jazz pianists." A recipient of the 2007 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer's Award, Ingram is a much in demand sideman and a creative force in the NYC jazz community, appearing with his trio at clubs such as Smalls and the 55 Bar. His "excellent debut" (JazzTimes), The Road Ahead, was released in the fall of 2009 on Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records to rave reviews. Ingram has performed with Billy Higgins, Tierney Sutton, Joe LaBarbera, Ben Monder, Joe Locke, Kendrick Scott, and many other leading musicians. Recent performance highlights include a tour of Spain and Portugal with his trio, a tour supporting Blue Note recording artist Kristina Train, and an appearance on CNN.com with Decca/Universal recording artist and jazz singing prodigy Nikky Yanofsky.

Jazz trumpeter Peter Kenagy's music has been called elegant and adventurous, both modern and rooted in tradition, with a sound all its own. Kenagy has vast range in his original compositions and arrangements, and has performed widely throughout the United States and internationally. Kenagy's debut album, Little Machines, was released by the Barcelona-based Fresh Sound New Talent label in 2005, and was called “an auspicious debut that is somehow bold in a restrained fashion” (All About Jazz). In 2010, Kenagy released Coolidge on the Fractamodi label, which features Kenagy's eclectic approach to hard-bop in a quartet setting. He has performed with contemporaries and elder statesmen alike, joining the Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra with legends Bob Brookmeyer and George Garzone, recording with Ran Blake, Mohamed "Joh" Camara, and peers Jeremy Udden, and Austin McMahon.

"Enlightenment comes in part through learning how to achieve greater results through more economical means. In his debut as a leader, Randy Ingram makes it clear that he has absorbed this lesson into his creative DNA...when Ingram does kick it up...the impact is at least as strong as that made by his flashier peers, and deeper too" - Robert L Doerschuk, Downbeat

"All indications are that trumpeter Peter Kenagy, with his début release Little Machines, possesses all the raw materials for greater success: fine playing, strong compositional skills and, most importantly, a concept that lends his recording a larger narrative arc…An auspicious début that is somehow bold in a restrained fashion…a strong new voice." -John Kelman

"[Ingram's] throughly enjoyable debut portends a bright future....The
Road Ahead suggests he'll be hard to stop" - Kevin Convey, The Boston Herald

"...unusually clever compositions and arrangements...thoughtful improvising...[Kenagy] likes to play melodies, although always imbued with swing and considerable harmonic daring. He reminds me of both Tom Harrell and Don Cherry." -Marc Meyers

10/03 Sunday

5:00 PM Spirited Magazine Launch Party

This is a free event!

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Live Magazine installation

Performances by
Songstress: Katie Chastain
Pianist: Mitch Hampton
Poet: Silvana Costa

Beverages provided by:
BolsGenever
PrettyThings Beer and Ale Project

8:00 PM Notrio

Nat and Gill
sorbet

9:00 PM Drums, Drums, Piano

Pandelis Karayorgis, piano
Luther Gray, drums
Curt Newton, drums

10:00 PM Gill Aharon Trio

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The Gill Aharon Trio is rarely a trio.

Gill Aharon - piano and composition
Randy Wooten - drums
Jef Charland - bass
Andrew Stern - guitar
Rick Stone- alto sax
Kelly Roberge - tenor sax

This music is very difficult to describe. It's really good, and really different. Little kids seem to like it.

10/04 Monday

5:40 PM Yoga with Natalie

8:00 PM Berklee Global Jazz Institute Concert Series

Berklee Global Jazz Institute

The Berklee Global Jazz Institute (BGJI) is a performance program designed to foster creativity and musicianship through various musical disciplines, with pianist and composer Danilo Pérez as its artistic director. The BGJI provides a comprehensive contemporary music environment where students are given opportunities to explore their creativity to the highest level possible, advance the power of music as a tool for the betterment of society, and connect musical creative thinking with the natural environment.

Danilo Pérez ’88, Artistic Director

The Grammy Award–winning pianist and composer Danilo Pérez is among the most influential and dynamic musicians of our time. In just over a decade, his distinctive blend of Pan-American jazz, covering the music of the Americas, folkloric, and world music, has attracted critical acclaim and loyal audiences. Whether leading his own ensembles or touring with renowned jazz masters (Wayne Shorter, Roy Haynes, Steve Lacy), Pérez is making a decidedly fresh imprint on contemporary music, guided, as always, by his love for jazz. Born in Panama in 1965, Pérez went to Berklee in the 1980s and has led his own groups since the early 1990s. As a bandleader, he has earned three Grammy nominations for his ebullient and innovative recordings. Pérez serves as the ambassador of goodwill for Unicef, cultural ambassador of Panama, president and founder of the Panama Jazz Festival, and a faculty member at Berklee College of Music. He has worked as a music educator for more than 20 years.
Marco Pignataro, Managing Director

Marco Pignataro is a multi-talented saxophonist, composer, educator, and jazz columnist. A native of Bologna, Italy, Pignataro has performed extensively across Europe and the Americas, sharing stages and clinics with artists such as Eddie Gomez, Oscar Stagnaro, Danilo Pérez, Arturo Sandoval, Ray Vega, Kenwood Dennard, Antonio Sanchez, Paquito D'Rivera, Billy Drummond, Clark Terry, Billy Hart, and Jon Faddis. Pignataro has, until recently, been the director of the Jazz and Caribbean Music Department and Jazz Saxophone chair at the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico. At the conservatory, he developed the jazz saxophone curriculum, cofounded the bachelor of music in jazz and Caribbean music studies, and founded and directed the CMPR Jazz Faculty Ensemble and the CMPR Jazz Festival. His column, Style & Influence, was regularly featured in the quarterly magazine Jazz Improv. Pignataro was elected as an IAJE Executive Board Member of the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE), where he served as the first IAJE Latin America Representative and founder and president of the IAJE Chapter of Puerto Rico, the IAJE Latin American Ensemble, and the IAJE Puerto Rico Big Band. He is a RICO Performing Artist, as well as an endorser for Mauriat saxophones and the Applied Microphone Technology Wireless System.

10:00 PM The Fringe

www.thefringejazz.com/

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.

10/05 Tuesday

5:40 PM Vinyasa Yoga with Rachel

8:00 PM Odd Tuesday Milonga

10/06 Wednesday

6:00 PM Open Vinyasa Yoga

9:10 PM Notrio prepares the room for: Jim Hobbes

10:10 PM 1st Wednesday of the Month with Jim Hobbs

Jim Hobbs Alto saxophone

Kevin Frennette guitar

Forbes Graham trumpet

Chris Kottke trumpet

Glynis Lomon cello

Syd Smart drums

Jacob William bass

Eric Zinman piano, euphonium, vibraphone keyboard

WITH SPECIAL GUEST FROM AUSTRIA!!!

MARIO RECHTERN alto, baritone, and sopranino saxophone and electronic saxophone violin

10:10 PM 1st Wednesday of the Month with Jim Hobbes

Jim Hobbs-sax and Ray Anthony-Drums

10/07 Thursday

7:00 PM Florencia Gonzalez Big Band

http://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

Florencia Gonzalez - composer, arranger, conductor

Geraldine Morillo - flute, alto flute

Susanna Quilter - flute

Kose Yamaguchi – clarinet, alto sax

Arthur Felluca - alto sax, soprano sax, clarinet, flute

Andrew Halchak - alto sax, clarinet, flute

Andy Voelker - tenor sax, soprano sax

Jason Gillenwater - tenor sax, flute, clarinet

Mike Jacobs - bari sax, bass clarinet

Joshua Mizruchi - trumpet, flugel

Stan Johnson – trumpet, flugel

Jenn Allen - trumpet, flugel

Christopher Kottke - trumpet, flugel

Seth Hamlin - tenor trombone

Yichin Teng - tenor trombone

Ben Al Malteen - bass trombone

Sam Lisabeth - guitar

Mina Cho - piano

Mariana Iranzi - acoustic bass

Willy Rodriguez – drum set

Plus special guests……

10:00 PM Elizabeth Shepherd

Elizabeth Shepherd is among Canada's most promising young talents and she has the widespread critical acclaim to prove it. The rave reviews for her first two studio albums as well as sold-out performances at prestigious venues like Tokyo’s Cotton Club, London's Jazz Café and the Hollywood Bowl have been extremely gratifying for Shepherd, but the Toronto-based singer/songwriter/pianist has never been content to rest on past achievements.  Shepherd’s debut Start To Move (2006) and follow-up Parkdale (2008) were both JUNO nominated (*Canada's Grammy equivalent) and described as “pushing the boundaries of jazz”. With the release of her stunning third album Heavy Falls the Night, she pushes well past those boundaries to carve out her own niche of smart, sophisticated and adventurous music.

Heavy Falls the Night takes the listener on an unpredictable musical ride. It's hard to pick a favourite track from such an eclectic album but, depending on your taste, it could be the dancefloor ready Seven Bucks, co-produced by Japanese mixmaster DJ Mitsu The Beats (Dwele, Jose James), and inspired by an NFB documentary. Or it could be The Taking - Shepherd’s powerful tribute to the women who came before her – knocked out in Jazz 11/8 time. Or maybe it’s the supremely soulful reworking of Anne Murray's 70s soft-rock radio staple Danny's Song, one of the few secular songs that made it past the gatekeepers in Shepherd's Salvation Army childhood home.

Elizabeth's rhythmically intricate, groove-oriented tunes, sincere lyrics and distinct, soulful voice have earned her a worldwide following, and her fans will certainly not be disappointed by the explorations on this new record. Critics, hipsters and music aficionados from London to Tokyo have been spreading the word for a few years now, and will surely continue to embrace her music. But more importantly, with Heavy Falls the Night, Elizabeth Shepherd is destined to reach music lovers everywhere.

Praise for Elizabeth Shepherd's Heavy Falls the Night (2010)

"Mesmerizing" ~All About Jazz (US)
“Better than ever” ~Globe and Mail
“Subtle and captivating” ~The Mirror (Montreal)
“Another superb collection of tunes” ~North Shore News (Vancouver)
“NNNN” ~NOW (Toronto)
“Her best effort” ~Beatroute (Calgary)
"She continues to impress" ~Edmonton Journal
"She's the real deal" ~Montreal Gazette
"Completely captivating from start to finish" ~CKUA Radio (Edmonton)
"Superb" ~Tandem (Toronto)

10/08 Friday

7:30 PM Record Release Party

http://www.arthurnasson.com/

Arthur Nasson release his 6th album "Echo Garden"
a sprawling musical adventure in three parts,
Where hook filled rock songs,give way to
themes and soundscapes, then
morph back into songs.
"Echo Garden" is recieving tremendous praise at Press and Radio in the US,UK and Canada.
Joining Arthur will be;
his young son Graham on Drums,
and a reunion with long time Arthur cohort
Paul Curcio as he makes the trip up
from NYC to play Bass for the show.

10:00 PM Zoe Boekbinder and Meff 'n' jojo's Tiny Instrument Revue

http://www.zoeboekbinder.com/

http://bit.ly/tinyFB

10/09 Saturday

3:00 PM The first show of the Triple Rainbow Awesome tour comes to Cambridge, and will rock your socks off.

The show features:

ALL CAPS - Luke Conard and Krisina Horner digitize geek rock and make you dance. Their new release is #3 on iTunes right now, so lets celebrate with a party. (www.allcapsband.com)

Alex Carpenter - Alex plays songs about Harry Potter and the Hunger Games and California and stuff. (www.FightEvilReadBooks.com)

Skyway Flyer - How can you not love Jason Munday? He will get you jumping around talking about taking down the Death Star and being a dork. (www.YouTube.com/JasonMundayMusic)

Mike Lombardo - Mike shows us how awesome rock piano can be! With awesome hooks and great lyrics, Mike is your new favorite geeky piano rocker! (www.MikeLombardoMusic.com)

7:30 PM Tom Carter : Glenn Jones : High aura'd

high aura'd 7:30 http://www.myspace.com/highaurad

Glenn Jones 8:15 http://www.myspace.com/glennjonesguitar

Tom Carter 9 http://www.wholly-other.com/artist.html

" looped guitar drones of immensely-stacked grit and beauty, with heaps of psychedelic melodic content "
"...carefully drawn and skillfully paced audio narratives that impart emotions ranging from sweet affection to complicated grief... declare[s] Jones to be a musician whose moment has arrived."
"lull and twang, this warm hum from far away"

10:00 PM DAVID MAXWELL AND JIM HOBBS DUO

" Visceral ephemeralness ...... powerful"
".... don't miss"

10/10 Sunday

9:00 PM Jeremy Siskind Trio

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The Jeremy Siskind Trio
John Sutton, bass
Michael Davis, drums

Pianist, composer, and educator Jeremy Siskind is “a remarkable pianist” and “a rising star on the jazz scene” according to legendary pianist Marian McPartland. Siskind, from Irvine, California, began playing the piano at a very young age. By his early teens, he was performing original compositions all over the country through Yamaha’s Junior Original Concert program; twice, Siskind was even flown to Tokyo, Japan to represent the United States in front of Japanese audiences. Both his playing and composing quickly thrived upon beginning to study jazz with pianists Linda Martinez and Tamir Hendelman: he won first place in the soloist competition at the Fullerton College Jazz Festival, “Most Outstanding Rhythm Section Player” in the Reno Jazz Festival, and received scholarships from the “Friends of Jazz,” “O.C. Community Foundation Centennial Arts,” and the “Vail Jazz Foundation”; he also became the youngest winner of the American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publisher’s (ASCAP) Young Jazz Composer’s Awards while still in high school in 2002.

http://www.jeremysiskind.com/