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04/01 Friday
6:00 PM Parlor Night - MUSIC, beer and wine
6pm Ben Warsaw
http://www.benjaminwarsaw.com/
native of Atlanta, Georgia, Benjamin Warsaw began his piano studies at the age of eight. While in Atlanta, Benjamin studied piano with Angela Oyzboyd at the European School of Music and with Dr. Cary Lewis, retired Professor of Piano at Georgia State University. Currently working to achieve his Doctorate in Piano Performance under the tutelage of Anthony di Bonaventura at Boston University, Benjamin actively pursues a career as classical pianist, teacher, and accompanist. Benjamin graduated with both Bachelor’s (‘05) and Master’s (‘07) degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, where he studied piano with Ms. Rebecca Penneys.
8pm Jim Hobbs Band
Jeff Galindo, Mike Castellana-gtr, Jeff Charland, Luther Gray and Jim Hobbs
9pm Bucky Band
10pm Gutbucket CD release party for "Flock"
PRESS RAVES
“Achieves an impressive balance of passionate lyricism and pummeling angularity.”
- Time Out New York
“Although they don't flaunt it, all the band members are superb musicians... itʼs music-making
and exploring the edges, nibbling at them to re-create the elements and discover something
new, which they do admirably. [A Modest Proposal] is a superb record” - All Music Guide
“This is a rarity: a punk rock band with chops, whose members actually write out their music...
rip-roaring energy and razor-tight micro-cuts.” - PopMatters
“New Yorkʼs premiere jazz/prog/punk band.”
“Blends free jazz, hardcore rock, oddball time signatures, and other elements into a
cacophonous, humor-laden sound all its own.” - Boston Globe
“A no-holds-barred approach to the jazz-rock paradigm.” - The New York Times
“Very adept musicians [who] are clearly in control of the chaotic sound they create. A classic
case of a band that defies categorization.” - Washington Post
“Devastatingly precise playing... solos feel like a lid exploding.”
“Gutbucketʼs own description of their music (“art-rock, avant-squonk, mathed-out prog”) does
not begin to suggest the extent to which this quartet can mess with your head.” - JazzTimes
11pm gill aharon Trio
action and adventure
rated PG
Dogs welcome
04/02 Saturday
7:30 PM The Spruce & Maple Jazz Quartet
Violin - Mimi Rabson
Cello - Aviv
Guitar - Nick Grondin
Bass - Tom Appleman
Featuring an unusual front line of violin and cello, this all string jazz combo will be performing standards and originals.
10:00 PM Nick Grondin
04/03 Sunday
6:30 PM Jazz Writers’ Collective & Thinkin’ Big in concert @ Lily Pad
Lorenzo Carrano: http://go.berkleemusic.com/Lorenzo_Carrano
Jonah Francese: http://www.myspace.com/jonahfrancese
Jo Miura: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=64A90692A356AB08
Jenn Allen: http://www.jennallenjazz.com/
Jazz Writers’ Collective and Thinkin’ Big are two cooperative bands founded with the purpose of showcasing the talent of young Jazz arrangers and composers.
Jazz Writers’ Collective (JWC) is a project that was started during the Summer of 2010: it features two trumpets, a trombone, alto, tenor & baritone saxophones plus rhythm section and plays original compositions and arrangements in the style of Jazz chamber music. The repertoire will include music written by the JWC and a selection of pieces submitted by other young writers.
Thinkin’ Big is a cooperative large ensemble (five trumpets, five saxophones, four trombones & rhythm sections) founded during Fall ’10: the music selection will include Big Band arrangements and originals in the style of the great post bebop tradition.
Both ensembles were founded and are run by Berklee College of Music students.
Admission $6
9:00 PM Brian Friedland
04/04 Monday
7:30 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.
04/05 Tuesday
8:00 PM Odd Tuesday Milonga
04/06 Wednesday
7:00 PM The Teacher's Study Project: Wednesday night public all levels Vinyasa class!
$5
9:30 PM Jolanda/Jacopo de Nicola/Molly Zenobia
Jolanda - (IT) http://www.myspace.com/jolandaenid
Jacopo de Nicola (Philly) - http://www.myspace.com/jacopodenicola
Molly Zenobia (Boston) - http://www.mollyzenobia.com
04/08 Friday
6:00 PM Parlor Night - MUSIC, beer and wine, and free GUMBO while it lasts
Serious music in a non serious setting. I'm inviting you to come engage in conversation and listen to conversational music. Chamber music of all genres will be performed on these evenings. Every Friday from now on you can count on varied, interesting and skilled musical performances! Come and relax.
6pm - 8pm The Lily Pad Quartet
Violinists Rhiannon Banerdt, Matthew Consul, Sarah Silver, violist Sonia Oram, and cellist Michael Dahlberg will feature experimental programming and spontaneity and bring you an experience of music from the classical world that is personal and fresh.
8pm Dave Fox Group
9pm C.O.D. trio here on tour from ITALY
C.O.D. Trio
"Odd original songs" Project (upcoming new release)
Biagio Coppa – sax
Gabriele Orsi – guitar
Francesco Di Lenge - drums
www.myspace.com/codtrio
codtrio@gmail.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/COD-Trio/104205539611588
The different experiences and approches on the compositions are filtered with an aesthetics of sounds and rhythms, ancestral and new, intriguing and descreet, neurotonic and soporific. Music for the Braves , definitely not for fearful ones.
Reviews from the previous album “We Will Rock You We Will....”
from www.recordheaven.net
We Will Rock You We Will Jazz You We Will Mock You (CD)
This is an incredible record, very well played and recorded, a mix of fantastic music (RIO, PROG, JAZZ) mixed with a very ironical feeling and great passion just like a sophisticated joke ! It seems a tribute to prog / rock music but, believe me, original and very complex music is played here... A MUST !!!
from www.znrcds.com
Fantastic Italian jazz-rock-avant music by a trio of guitar,sax & drums. Taking as their starting point famous rock songs the trio proceed to dissect, reassemble and basically eviscerate seven famous/infamous rock icons. Beginning with The Police's "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" and "Every Breath You Take", then the next victim is Queen's "We Will Rock You" followed by Pink Floyd's "The Wall". Finishing up the disc are Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust", Pink Floyd's "Money" and, finally, Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Now don't expect nice jazz renditions of popular songs as jazz musicians like to do. These "versions" are barely recognizable as what they purport to be. Woven into the tapestry that is the construct of COD Trio you will be able to catch little snippets of melody and hints at rhythm, but there is enough there that if they hadn't told you the premise you would've been scratching your head and trying to figure out what was so familiar! As an avant-fusion jazz disc this is utterly killer.... as an album of jazz covers of popular songs.....you be the judge
10pm The Pleasants
Folk Rock / Grunge / Indie
11pm 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
04/09 Saturday
3:00 PM Danielle Deckard Live at the the Lily Pad
$5 at the door
http://www.danielledeckard.com
http://danielledeckard.bandcamp.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Danielle-Deckard/269086762658
Danielle Deckard will be performing her original music at the Lily Pad on April 9th at 3PM. The show will feature a string quartet with arrangements by Paul Dougherty. The event will be recorded and is being released as a live album in May. Hillary Reynolds Band is opening.
7:00 PM Hashish, Heartache, and Homeland: A Night of Rembetika
Rembetika refers to early 20th-century urban folk music that flourished in cities and ports on both sides of the Aegean, especially among the communities of newly arrived Greek refugees from Asia Minor that flooded Athens, Piraeus, and Thessaloniki after World War I. Skordalia pays tribute to these songs of love and loss, featuring Dean Lampros on sandouri, baglama, and vocals; Joe Teja on oud and guitar; Panayiotis League on violin, bouzouki, and vocals; Chris Veilleux on clarinet; Michael Davis on percussion; and the vocals of Ilyana Sawka.
$10 at the door
www.zestygreekmusic.com
10:00 PM Nrivana Tribute
04/10 Sunday
3:30 PM D.R. Finch Music Jazz Performance & Talk featuring The Bebop Trio
“The Bebop Trio”, the new release on Creative Nation Music featuring pianist Lefteris Kordis and clarinetist Alec Spiegelman, explores an underplayed repertory of mid-century progressive jazz composition.
In this jazz performance, Kordis and Spiegelman, joined by drummer Austin McMahon, will play selections from the album that illustrate the process by which jazz musicians ingest, process, re-compose, and otherwise comment on popular music.
Attendees can expect a presentation accessible to the non-musician, but with enough novel perspective to interest the jazz aficionado or practitioner.
6:06 PM No Exit
9:09 PM Spectral Rehab presents Deaf Center (Type Records, Norway, LIVE) with Ezekiel Honig &High Aura'd (LIVE) and Spectral Rehab DJs
04/11 Monday
7:30 PM Tap & Jazz: A Musical Conversation
This will be a unique opportunity to explore and demonstrate how to integrate tap dance and jazz music. For the general public as well as dancers and musicians, it will enhance the experience of musical dialogue for all. Advanced dancers are invited to dance; all are invited to ask questions, give feedback, and share ideas. We'll start off with a discussion between musicians and dancers about strategies for communicating, and we'll spend the rest of the evening in an open demo format of dance punctuated by questions and feedback.
Suggested donation: $15
For more information, please contact Suzanne smbouffard@gmail.com
04/12 Tuesday
8:00 PM Even Tuesday Milonga
04/13 Wednesday
7:00 PM The Teacher's Study Project: Wednesday night public all levels Vinyasa class!
$5
9:30 PM Deciphering the Message- The Music of Art Blakey
$10 at the door for general admission and $5 for students.
04/14 Thursday
10:30 PM David Reider
David Reider (flutes, alto sax) and Pedro Sarmiento (piano) were founding members of the Boston Art Quartet, active from 1987-1995, playing often on the East Coast and in Spain and Portugal. Their 1990 CD The Fax (Accurate Records) received much critical praise (Downbeat, Jazziz, Jazz Times, Billboard) with comments such as “inventive, hard driving, grooving, interpretative with a vastness of musical diversity.”
Coming from the Third Stream music tradition popularized by the Modern Jazz Quartet, Gil Evans, Gunther Schuller, Ran Blake, George Russell, and others starting in the late ‘50s, a movement that merged classical and jazz genres to create a third tradition, tonight’s music continues a trajectory that encompasses several distinct influences.
David Hawthorne and David Reider played as Dave and Dave for more than 20 years, exploring the repertoire of traditional Brazilian styles such as choro, samba, and bossa-nova.
This 2011 "Midlife Crisis Tour" presents the musicians in Boston, Flagstaff, and San Francisco.
David Hawthorne (guitar) is a musician and bowmaker living in Cambridge, MA. He has performed extensively in North America and Europe, and has given workshops in both Jazz performance and bowmaking. His compositions are recorded on MMC and Cavali records. He is noted for his suites of Jazz music for Zither ensemble, published by Editions Zither, Munich.
David Reider (flute, alto saxophone) has performed in clubs and festivals throughout Europe, North America, and Mexico and has composed for film and dance. He developed music education innovations including the first worldwide high school online concert in 1995, and the critically acclaimed Kids N Music integration projects (National Report of Best Practices, 1998). He currently works as an education researcher and program evaluator, helping schools and districts improve teaching and learning in the arts and sciences. He works for Education Design, INC, in Boston, MA.
Pedro Sarmiento (piano) studied piano at New England Conservatory with Ran Blake. He lives in Spain, where he plays with singer Pedro Ruy Blas, guitarist Arcadio Marin and Duo Iberia, a duo he created with trumpeter Laurent Filipe in 1992. Much of the music he plays is inspired by Spanish music, mostly flamenco. With Duo Iberia he has performed in China, India, Africa and many European countries. Every summer, Pedro writes music for children’s plays performed by children and written by some of Spain’s leading playwrights (Juan Mayorga, Jordi Galceran, Paco Mir)
04/15 Friday
6:00 PM Parlor Night
6:46 to 7:37 Notrio
8pm Berkovitz/Raberg Quartet
Come join us for a one-hour set of creative contemporary jazz, featuring Joe Berkovitz (piano), Gary Fieldman (drums), Phil Grenadier (trumpet), and Bruno Råberg (bass). Beer is served on Friday nights at the Lily Pad.
9pm Plamen Karadonev Contemporary Piano Accordion Project with Greg Loughman - bass, Fabio Pirozzolo - drums/percussion featuring Elena Koleva - voice presenting originals and arrangements of classical and jazz material.
"..What might appear as a sudden supernova,..Karadonev has that something which is relatively rare and which marks the true improviser. He is in complete command technically and rhythmically assured, and yet is never complacent or predictable. The arrangements sound extremely organic but have a built-in precision from which the excitement of the unknown originates....."
Budd Copman, , All About Jazz
10pm Vasil Parmakov and Izko Finzi
Renowned Bulgarian Piano and Violin Duo
11pm Gill Aharon Trio
10:00 PM Vasil Parmakov and Izko Finzi Renowned Bulgarian Piano and Violin Duo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itzhak_Fintzi
videos:
Vasil Parmakov & Icko Finci
Vasil Parmakov & Icko Finci
watch this video, music "starts" at 1 min and 20sec.
Izko Finzi
Awards
First prize for Male performance at the National Review of Children Dramaturgy and Theatre – Targovishte – for Feygin in "Oliver", dir. Andrey Avramov, Youth Theatre
Second Prize for Male Performance in the National review of Bulgarian Drama and Theatre – Sofia – for Old Man in "When the Roses Start Dancing" by Valery Petrov, dir. Grisha Ostrovsky, Youth Theatre Sofia
1991
ASKEER for Lifetime Achievement
best Actor for "The Great Love of D.L.", dir. Magda Kamenova – International TV Film Festival, Prague
Best Actor – International Film Slavic and Orthodox Festival – Minsk for "Everything from Scratch", dir. Ivan Pavlov
Best Actor – Golden Rose International Film Festival – Varna for "Late Full Moon" after Dostoevsky, dir. Edward Zahariev
1999
First Prize for Male Performance – Festival of Chamber Theatre Vratsa for The Hero in "Notes from the Underground" after Dostoevsky, dir. Lilly Abadjieva, Little City Theatre Off the Channel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itzhak_Fintzi
04/16 Saturday
4:30 PM WILSON JAZZ ONE
7:00 PM PABLO ABLANEDO OCTETo
Altogether, the sound is definitely jazz but distinctively Argentinean"
OCTETo:
Fernando Brandao (flutes)
Phil Grenadier (Trumpet)
Daniel Ian Smith (saxes)
Kelly Roberge (saxes & clarinet)
Eric Hofbauer (guitar)
Pablo Ablanedo (piano & composition)
Fernando Huergo (bass)
Bertram Lehman (on April 16th) Austin McMahon (on April 30th) (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 ARIEL ARTISTS PRESENTS:
"MACHINES"
FEATURING ONI BUCHANAN AND DUO ORFEO
WITH VISUALS BY ARTHUR GANSON
Ariel Artists presents two of its brightest young stars in the contemporary classical world – Oni Buchanan, and Duo Orfeo – together for an evening of slow-burning wonder and painstaking music construction, held together by the delicate workings of Arthur Ganson’s renowned mechanized kinetic sculptures. As Ganson’s sculptures and films ratchet along through the night on stage, screen and ghostly shadows, a full program of mysterious works from the recent past and brand new compositions of the uncertain present will be performed by this incredible and diverse lineup of musicians.
Pianist Oni Buchanan's program brings careful mastery to the work of contemporary New York composer Annie Gosfield, the piano-and-tape work of Mei-Fang Lin, and the post-tonal dissonant hybrids of Cindy Cox. Duo Orfeo performs works transcribed for classical and electric guitar with an uncanny mix of warmth and precision, brought to light by their incredible performances of Eric Satie, Francis Poulenc, Arvo Part, and Steve Reich.Join us for this one-of-a-kind meeting of voices and visions.
Program Details:
Oni Buchanan
Interaction, Mei-Fang Lin (for piano and tape)
The Wanton Brutality of a Tender Touch, Annie Gosfield
Hierosgamos (complete), Cindy Cox
Duo Orfeo
Mouvement Perpetuels, Poulenc
Danses de Travers, Satie
Nagoya Guitars, Steve Reich
Fratres and Spiegel im Spiegel, Arvo Part
www.arielartists.com
www.onibuchanan.com
www.duoorfeo.com
www.arthurganson.com
04/17 Sunday
3:30 PM Pictures on Silence Harp and Saxophone Concert
Pictures on Silence, a contemporary harp and saxophone duo, present a program of music combined with external elements, including film and pre-recorded electronics. In addition to featuring current classical composers, rock covers are included in this alternative program
http://www.picturesonsilence.com/
7:30 PM Nikolas Metaxas "Square One" CD-Release Show
With a guitar in hand and a dream in mind, Nikolas Metaxas moved to the USA after enjoying chart-topping success throughout his homeland of Greece, Cyprus and all over Europe. Inviting melodies, poignant songwriting, and thought provoking lyrics allow Nikolas to stand out amidst the sea of aspiring singers and songwriters. Almost a year in the making, "Square One", Nikolas' debut album is finally completed. Square One is not just your average album. It's an experience you cannot miss. Supporting acts include up and coming bands 'Visions', 'Kingston530', and singer/songwriters 'Miguel Milla', 'Brian Dunne', and 'Zarni'
Price: $12 pre-sale @ http://nikolasmetaxas.eventbrite.com, $15 at the door - With every ticket you get a FREE copy of the album "Square One"
04/18 Monday
7:30 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.
04/19 Tuesday
8:00 PM Odd Tuesday Milonga
04/20 Wednesday
7:00 PM The Teacher's Study Project: Wednesday night public all levels Vinyasa class!
$5
04/21 Thursday
7:00 PM Alexandra Day
Charlene Kaye
Alexandra Day
Mary Bichner
A "Wings of Spring" Theme to celebrate the onset of warmer weather... feel free to come dressed as your favorite winged creature! This show is part of Alexandra Day's new CD Release Tour (April through May, Boston to New Orleans), celebrating her second album "Untangle".
10:00 PM Water Escape
Water Escape
Haruka Yabuno- Piano
Tal Gur- Saxophones
Ehud Ettun- Upright Bass
Nathan Blankett- Drums
Water Escape plays Contemporary-Jazz written by all four members of the group.
The music genres travels through Nu Jazz, East-European, Hebrew and world music, and refers to the music of Bill Frisell, Brad Mehldau, Avishai Cohen and Esbjorn Svenson trio.
Doors open at 10:00 p.m
Tickets: 10$ (8$ early price – by email - ehudettun@gmail.com
or by phone 401 533 8715)
Website: www.tinyurl.com/waterescape
04/22 Friday
6:00 PM Parlor Night - MUSIC, beer and wine
Whirl
04/23 Saturday
7:00 PM Faulty Front Doors
http://www.myspace.com/alugten
Constructed and conceived by artist Alexa Dexa, Faulty Front Doors is a venture in formalizing the subconscious via sensory activation.
Alexa Dexa is a singer/songwriter and visual artist whose fanciful indie electro-pop-tronic concoctions blend floating vocals, poignant lyrics, haunting melodies, and dance-worthy beats. (Not to mention a collection of toy instruments that would put many playpens to shame, the most favored of which is her toy piano.) She embodies a freedom of spirit and exhibits pure devotion to evocative tunes and unconventional performance.
10:00 PM Sam Reider and The Lost Boys + The Tres Amigos
BIO:
San Francisco-native Sam Reider is an award-winning jazz pianist and singer (and most recently, accordionist). In 2007, the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, “At 18, he [Reider] plays with the swinging fluidity of a seasoned pro.” Now in his final year at Columbia University in New York, Reider is making a name for himself on the national scene.
In May 2008, Reider was interviewed on Marian McPartland’s legendary NPR show, Piano Jazz. The program, which has showcased artists from Oscar Peterson to Norah Jones aired in December 2008.
Reider’s piano trio released its first album in 2008 entitled “Without Strings.” Uptown Trio, which acclaimed jazz critic Doug Ramsey cites as “impressive in its ability to achieve abstraction without sacrificing continuity and form” has since completed several national tours, performing at such venues as the Jazz Gallery in NYC, Jimmy Mak's in Portland, Yoshi's San Francisco and Oakland, Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, Catalina's in Los Angeles.
Reider's new project, Sam Reider and the Lost Boys, was founded only last September but since then has met with critical success. The Lost Boys perform frequently in the New York City area at venues like The Bitter End, Cornelia Street Cafe, The Bowery Poetry Club, and The Falcon, and recently released an EP entitled "Goodbye July." The music is an eclectic mix of original material that bridges the boundaries between jazz, folk, and rock styles. Reider brings his talents for composition and lyricism together with an amazing band that includes voice, piano, bass, drums, guitar, accordion, and a horn section.
Sam Reider: Vocals, Piano, Accordion
Jeff Picker: Bass
Jake Goldbas: Drums
Armand Hirsch: Guitar
Eddie Barbash: Alto Sax
Ben Flocks: Tenor Sax
JJ Kirkpatrick: Trumpet
Isaac Kaplan: Trombone
04/24 Sunday
7:00 PM rio Cerra presents: Circular Association
Mario Cerra: Saxophones
Phil Grenadier: Trumpet
Calvin Brown: Piano
Shin Sakaino: Bass
Yuriana Sobrino: Drums
http://www.myspace.com/cerramario
9:00 PM Joe Hunt Trio
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.
04/25 Monday
7:00 PM Show Cancelled due to illness!
The fascinating French vocalist Raphaelle Brochet combines a jazz background with a decade spent studying South Indian classical vocal music and Persian music to creat a unique improvisational approach.
The new album “Reflection” from 2009 Mary Lou Williams Jazz Pianist Competition winner Carmen Staaf is a narrative woven of jazz-, classical- and Latin-inspired originals; freely improvised interludes; and personal takes on jazz standards. The band features rising stars Daniel Blake (tenor and soprano sax), Jorge Roeder (bass), and Austin McMahon (drums and percussion), with guest appearances by Dana Sandler (voice) and Brian Landrus (bass clarinet). “Reflection” is available online at www.cdbaby.com/cd/carmenstaaf and at http://www.digstation.com/
Bud Young of Seattle’s KBCS 91.3 FM and Bud’s Jazz Records raves “profoundly beautiful; one of the best things I’ve heard in years” about the record, which has entered the rotation on nationally syndicated radio programs. Staaf, a former Piano Faculty member at Berklee College of Music in Boston, has performed at festivals worldwide. She has been called “a new star to discover…a wonderfully melodic and inventive keyboardist” (Michael G. Nastos, Allmusic.com) and “a most impressive pianist” (trombonist/composer/arranger Bob Brookmeyer).
For bookings, contact Carmen Staaf at HYPERLINK carmen@carmenstaaf.com. For more information, please visit http://www.myspace.com/carmenstaaf
Additional Talking Points for “Reflection”
Carmen Staaf performed at the Kennedy Center in the 2010 Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival, as she was the winner of the 2009 Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Pianist Competition. The competition is held annually at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. as part of the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival, which honors the work of pianist Mary Lou Williams and showcases contemporary female jazz artists. On May 15th, 2009, Carmen was selected as the winner out of four finalists from around the world by a panel of judges including jazz piano legend Dr. Billy Taylor; pianist/composer Toshiko Akiyoshi; and drummer/bandleader Sherrie Maricle.
“Reflection” was recorded after Carmen recovered from a bout with Hodgkin's lymphoma. Much of the music expresses this journey and the ways it changed her as a person. Carmen has organized benefit concerts for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society since her cancer experience, and the album is dedicated to those who helped her through her struggle. She has now been in remission for over four years.
Carmen was heavily featured in a recent New York Times story about musicians living in her building in Brooklyn. Since moving to New York, she has performed with Mexican singer Lila Downs at Carnegie Hall, toured India for a month in a dog suit with Internet sensations the Xylopholks, and played accordion in a puppet musical about the Rosenberg trial.
Carmen taught in the piano department at Berklee College of Music for four years, upon graduating from a New England Conservatory/Tufts University double degree program. She was hired to teach at Berklee at age 24.
“Reflection” features NYC saxophonist and composer Daniel Blake of Julian Lage's band, as well as bassist Jorge Roeder, who currently plays with Lee Konitz, Kenny Werner and Julian Lage.
Carmen's award-winning Kennedy Center performances can be seen online at HYPERLINK "http://www.kennedy-center.org/millenium"www.kennedy-center.org/millenium (search the archive for “May 15th”), and her CD “Reflection” is available on www.itunes.com and www.cdbaby.com.
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Biography
Born to musician parents, Raphaëlle grows up in the world of jazz and combines studies of music and dance in renowned conservatories in France, along with studies of Ethnomusicology in Paris Sorbonne and Nanterre University.
She gets her Jazz degree from the Nantes Conservatory and receives a grant to spend a year in the University of Montreal’s Jazz Vocal Department. She then moves to New York City and creates KrsThal, project that combines jazz, Carnatic and Japanese music traditions. In 2008 she receives a full scholarship from Wesleyan University and gets a Masters of Arts specialized in South Indian Music in 2010.
Raphaëlle has been deepening her knowledge of Carnatic music for the past 10 years in India and in the US under the tutorial of great masters such as Sarada Thota, N.Govindarajan, B.Balasubrahmaniyan and D.Nelson, and has been trained in Persian Music with Fariba Davoodi in Iran and with Babak Towhidi in Canada.
Raphaëlle Brochet records her first album at the age of 17 with Floris Nico-Bunink (Mingus, Billy Holliday) under the label Daybreak. She has since then been performing with Arnaud Fusté, Shawn Mativetsky, Alexi David, Babak Towhidi, Lionel Pezzano and many others. Her collaborations also include film directors (Amin Moghadam, Paris), theater directors (Patrick Palmer, Montreal), and dancers (Anand Satchidanandan, US/India; Shoko Yamamuro, US/Japan).
Raphaëlle regularly performs in the United States, Canada, France and India.
04/26 Tuesday
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 Wednesday
7:00 PM The Teacher's Study Project: Wednesday night public all levels Vinyasa class!
$5
9:30 PM Ken Yates - The Backseat EP Release Show w/ Brian Dunne
http://www.briandunnemusic.net/
04/28 Thursday
7:30 PM 2nd and 4th Thursday Big Jazz with Florencia Gonzalez and The Tal Gamlieli Trio
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 - tenor sax
Susanna Quilter - flute
Arthur Felluca - alto sax, clarinet
Mike Jacobs - bari sax, alto sax, soprano sax
Christopher Kottke - trumpet, flugel
Seth Hamlin - tenor trombone
Ben Al Malteen - bass trombone
Sam Lisabeth - guitar
Mina Cho - piano
Mariana Iranzi - bass
Jorge Perez-Albela
9:00 PM Tal Gamlieli Trio Featuring Stan Strickland.
Stan Strickland: Voice, Saxophone, Flute and loop machine
Eyran Katsenelenbogen: Piano
Tal Gamlieli: Bass
Jorge Perez Albela: Drums/Persecution
Jazz bassist and composer Tal Gamlieli creates simple melodies that speak directly to the listener’s heart. Within his first year in the US, the Jerusalem-born musician won the 2007 DownBeat Award for Outstanding Performance. Tal Gamlieli has played for audiences in the Americas, Russia, Israel and Europe. In Boston area at Jordan Hall, Somerville Theater, Regattabar, Ryles Jazz Club, Berklee College of Music, The Lily Pad, Wally’s Jazz Club.
In Israel he performed at the Jerusalem Theater and the Jerusalem Music Center. In Russia at Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Hall. In Italy at The Place Club in Rome and at Teatro della Gioventù in Genoa. He performed, toured or recorded with jazz musicians such as Jerry Bergonzi, Joanne Brakeen, Yoron Israel, Juanito Pascual, Jo Lawry, Stan Strickland, Marco Pignataro, Bert Seager, Joe Hunt, Adam Cruz, Richie Barshay, Tatsu Kisaragi, Alex Brown, Arnie Lawrence, Omri Mor. In April 2009 Tal was hired by Jazz icon, pianist Danilo Perez to perform with his trio at the opening show for Jazz Appreciation Month at the Smithsonian museum in Washington DC. In October 09 Mr. Perez asked him to join his trio to perform with Jazz singer Lizz Wright at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia. Gamlieli’s approach to composition is influenced by classical harmony and counterpoint, and rhythms from the American swing, Middle Eastern and Kurdish, North African and South American traditions.
Singer, saxophonist, flutist, actor Stan Strickland has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Scandinavia, the Caribbean, New Zealand and the former Soviet Union. In addition to numerous radio and television appearances, Stan has performed in many clubs and concert halls, including Jordan and Symphony Halls in Boston, Carnegie Recital Hall and Town Hall in New York, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. His work has been featured on recordings by Bob Moses, Marty Erlich, Webster Lewis and Brute Force. Stan has performed with jazz greats Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Herbie Mann, Danilo Perez, Shirley Scott and Marlena Shaw. Love & Beauty, Stan's new jazz vocal CD, featuring new arrangements of great jazz classics as well as original material, was released by Hawkline Records in 2005.
Stan has opened for Jazz greats Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, and for Barenaked Ladies. He toured South Africa with The Village People, and was a featured soloist with Take Six and the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall.
http://www.stanstrickland.net/
Master pianist Eyran Katsenelenbogen is celebrating this year the release of his tenth solo piano CD 88 Fingers. The CD includes Eyran’s interpretation of beloved songs such as September Song (Weill) and Those Were The Days (Raskin), as well as an improvisation on Mussorgsky’s theme from Pictures At An Exhibition.
Eyran recently completed a highly successful tour in Germany with Russian classical pianist Andrei Ivanovitch. Gerhard Hummer conceived the Pictures At An Exhibition: Classical Meets Jazz collaboration and produced and managed the tour. The German press hailed the groundbreaking interpretation of Mussorgsky’s masterpiece by Ivanovitch and Katsenelenbogen, calling it “An absolute sensation in the history of concert events.”
Eyran’s past tours include concerts and recordings in England, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Israel, Canada and the US. His jazz solo piano concerts have been enthusiastically received around the world, in venues such as Saint Joseph Theater in Scarborough, England; Bechstein Centrum in Hamburg; the Tel-Aviv Jazz Festival; Boston's Jordan Hall; and the Teatro di Marcello in Rome. Cadence magazine has glowingly reviewed Eyran’s recordings: "…his playing…is at times introspective, at times explosive, but at all times dynamic and challenging…"
Eyran is a recipient of the ASCAP Plus Award for the years 2002 – 2008. His upcoming release 88 Fingers was made possible with funding from New England Conservatory.
04/29 Friday
5:30 PM Art Opening
8:00 PM Parlor Night - MUSIC, beer and wine
8pm Patrice Monahan
9pm Mario Cerra
10pm B°TONG
hostile electronics - noisy tectonics - drones & tones
B°TONG is Chris Sigdell, former member of the German experimental/industrial group NID (1995 - 2005). With B°TONG, he reaches for the nether regions of experimental electronic sound, and has established himself as an acknowledged experimental soundscape creator. So far he has shared the stage with such known artists as: Aun (CDN), Column One (D), Dave Phillips (CH), Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim (D), Origami Galaktika (N), Sudden Infant (CH), The (Law) Rah Collective (NL), To Live And Shave In LA (USA), Vladimir Hirsch (CR), Zbigniew Karkowski (PL). B°TONG has appeared at festivals like Sinus-Series (Basel 2006), Ausklang (Hamburg 2006), Shift (Basel 2007 & 2008), Lab 30 (Augsburg 2009), and has performed on various radio stations. B°TONG sometimes collaborates with other artists (Alain Courtis, Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim, Kommisar Hjuler, PS Stamps Back, TBC, Tamagawa), is part of installations (“Polarkreis” & “95°“ by Brigitte Gierlich & Camilla Schuler), video-projects (“Images” by Ulrich Fischer), and does his own clips to assorted pieces of his musical catalogue. The video to Sphere II was shown at the 2007 Miami Art Fair as part of the Urban Nomad film-festival; the videos to Black Dog Dream and 95° were shown in Beijing (Taiwan), and his latest, Fragile Package, made by video artist Silvia Bergmann is available on various Internet forums.
B°TONG has toured through Belgium, Canada, Czech Republik, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, and the U.S.A.
The music is a choice of dark brooding layers of sound, high pitched tones, and weird electronic sounds that give birth to images of darkness and tranquillity, the solitude of an icy polar night or the equivalent of an underwater journey into the bottomless pit.
B°TONG uses samples from television, radio and film, and processes these on the computer with recordings of his voice and other. There are no instruments involved! In a live-situation Chris Sigdell relies on instruments like microphone, metal-sheet, electric toys, and… kitchen utensils. The sounds made with them are fed and put through various effect-pedals giving him that trademark sound.
11pm Gill Aharon Trio
04/30 Saturday
3:30 PM Naomi Ayala and Trishna Live at the Lily Pad
Naomi Ayala (born Jennifer Ayala) was born and raised in New York City, surrounded by music and the performing arts since she was 5 years old. Naomi began performing in talent shows and singing in church and school choirs at five years old. She discovered an outlet through music and the performing arts, helping her to overcome the unstable upbringing she experienced as a child. It wasn’t long before Naomi began taking dance lessons and was accepted into an advanced scholarship program with the National Dance Institute. Naomi continued her studies in music throughout middle school in a dual program, playing flute in band and singing solos from Carmina Burana in choir. She spent hours during her summers studying music at Manhattan School of Music’s Camp MSM program, where she expanded her knowledge and skills in music theory, singing, stage performance, dance, and musical theater. Naomi was accepted through a selective audition process into the nationally renowned LaGuardia Arts High School, based on the 1980 film Fame. The high school specializes in preparing its students for professional careers and/or studies in the visual and performing arts fields. Naomi further developed her choral repertoire and lead singing experience at LaGuardia, in addition to being exposed to jazz and writing her own songs and poetry. She is currently attending and finishing up her Professional Music studies as a Dean’s List student at the acclaimed Berklee College of Music in Boston. It was at Berklee that Naomi had the opportunity to lead a 16-piece funk/soul band during her freshman year mentored by John Blackwell, a dynamite drummer known for working and touring with Prince. Naomi also had the fortune of performing alongside some phenomenal artists and musicians such as: Michael Bearden, Eartha Robinson, Siedah Garrett, Nona Hendryx, Terri Lynne Carrington, and M’shell Ndegeocello. Naomi worked as a featured solo artist on the cruise line Spirit of Boston, performing for many different functions and events. Her musical influences include but are not limited to: Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Prince, Erykah Badu, Rihanna, Teena Marie, and Janelle Monae. Naomi is also a skilled background/studio singer. Apart from her work and experience in music, Naomi has also been involved in acting, spoken word/slam poetry competitions, modeling, mentoring young girls in the Boston community, and teaching. Feel free to visit her myspace page and youtube channel at: myspace.com/jenniferayalamusic and youtube.com/jenniferayalamusic.
Trishna was adopted from India to an amazing loving family in the states when she was 1 year old. She graduated in '07 from Bristol High School in Ohio and is now in her last semester at the #1 contemporary music school in the world, Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA for Professional Music: Performance and Business. Trishna truly has the passion to perform and have her songs heard!! She writes and performs in the pop/hip-hop/dance/gospel genres with singer/songwriter/actor Jeff Martineau. Trishna has been trained as a vocalist for many years and is currently under the vocal coachings of Duane Moody, Donna McElroy, and Livingston Taylor. She is also a working model/actress. Trishna has a sound that puts artists like Beyonce, Pink, Kelly Clarkson, Lady Gaga, and Leona Lewis all into the same song, but also brings back the live band playing on all the songs.
Naomi Ayala, born Jennifer Ayala
Trishna was adopted from India to an amazing loving family in the states when she was 1 year old. She graduated in '07 from Bristol High School in Ohio and is now in her last semester at the #1 contemporary music school in the world, Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA for Professional Music: Performance and Business. Trishna truly has the passion to perform and have her songs heard!! She writes and performs in the pop/hip-hop/dance/gospel genres with singer/songwriter/actor Jeff Martineau. Trishna has been trained as a vocalist for many years and is currently under the vocal coachings of Duane Moody, Donna McElroy, and Livingston Taylor. She is also a working model/actress. Trishna has a sound that puts artists like Beyonce, Pink, Kelly Clarkson, Lady Gaga, and Leona Lewis all into the same song, but also brings back the live band playing on all the songs.
Naomi Ayala, born Jennifer Ayala
Trishna was adopted from India to an amazing loving family in the states when she was a year old. She graduated in '07 from Bristol High School in Ohio and is now in her last semester at the #1 contemporary music school in the world, Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA for Professional Music: Performance and Business. Trishna truly has the passion to perform and have her songs heard!! She writes and performs in the pop/hip-hop/dance/gospel genres with singer/songwriter/actor Jeff Martineau. Trishna has been trained as a vocalist for many years and is currently under the vocal coachings of Duane Moody, Donna McElroy, Livingston Taylor, and Grammy award winner Raymond Reeder. She is also a trained dancer and working model. All songs are co-written with Jeff Martineau. "Freak Like Me" was co-written with Jeff Martineau and Dann J. Henry. Trishna has a sound that puts artists like Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, and Leona Lewis all into the same song, but also brings back the live band playing on all the songs. She is the future of today's top hits combining aspects of pop, hip-hop, gospel, dance, and rock into her songs.
For more info check out: http://www.trishnamusic.com
7:00 PM PABLO ABLANEDO OCTETo
Altogether, the sound is definitely jazz but distinctively Argentinean"
OCTETo:
Fernando Brandao (flutes)
Phil Grenadier (Trumpet)
Daniel Ian Smith (saxes)
Kelly Roberge (saxes & clarinet)
Eric Hofbauer (guitar)
Pablo Ablanedo (piano & composition)
Fernando Huergo (bass)
Bertram Lehman (on April 16th) Austin McMahon (on April 30th) (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 The Outnumbered
Charlie Kohlhase - alto and baritones saxophones
Jason Robinson - soprano and tenor saxophones, alto flute
Josh Rosen - piano
Curt Newton - drums
Bruno Raberg - bass