03/19 Friday
10:30 PM "An Evening of Jazz with E.S.P."
Yesterday's Bebop meets today's electric Jazz. Originating from central NY, E.S.P. is an exciting, modern jazz quartet featuring accessible original music. Their sound is part groove, part bebop, and part Latin. Its real jazz, that you don't need a G.P.S. to follow!
This world class jazz quartet has been on the scene since 1999, and celebrated its ten year anniversary by releasing a new CD called “Time’s Up!” which plays on radio stations in over 90 cities all over the U.S. and abroad. Reviewers love it...
-"Time’s Up is a fine piece of work that both contemporary fans and jazz purists can easily enjoy." Ron Jackson smoothjazzvibes.com
-“Bravo! You are going to love the music on this CD” - Peter Erskine.
-“Time’s Up! is nothing short than awe inspiring 5 Stars!” - Cashbox Magazine”.
-“One of the top 10 Best CDs from Central NY in 2009 - Mark Bialczak, The Post Standard.
-"It has truly been worth the wait for this new ESP album”- Eric Cohen, WAER Jazz 88.
-“Clearly inspired by the tradition of true jazz improvisation, yet “Time’s Up!” glistens with a contemporary sound.” - Jazziz Magazine
The concert, presented by Syracuse’s award winning jazz label, Spider Records, will feature Matthew Vacanti on bass, John Magnante on guitar, Karl Sterling on drums and Brian Scherer on sax and flute.
www.espjazz.org/
03/20 Saturday
3:30 PM Tell Me a Beautiful Lie
a staged reading of a new musical; a romance set in the Crimea after the Russian Revolution.
This event is free.
7:00 PM Modern and Straight-Ahead jazz with a Superband consisting of:
Mark Shilansky - piano
Rachel Caswell - voice
Sara Caswell - violin
Kristin Korb - bass, voice
Les Harris, Jr - drums
www.kristinkorb.com/
www.markshilansky.com/
www.myspace.com/markshilansky
www.caswellsisters.com/
10:00 PM The Mike Baggetta Quartet
Mike Baggetta : Guitar
Jason Rigby : Saxophone
Eivind Opsvik : Bass
George Schuller : Drums
The Mike Baggetta Quartet performs the original, award-winning music of guitarist and composer Mike Baggetta. Group interaction, fearless improvisation and a strong emphasis on melody are some of the hallmarks of this group, making it an exciting musical event for all kinds of listeners. Their debut album is "Small Spaces" released on Fresh Sound New Talent records.
"On his solid new release, Small Spaces (Fresh Sound New Talent), the guitarist Mike Baggetta seeks an adventurous yet accesible dynamic..." - Nate Chinen, The New York Times
"Mike is one of the best young improvisors on the NY scene..." - Vic Juris, Jazz Guitarist
"This is a superb band...outstanding, and the performances are totally compelling." - Andy Hamilton, Jazz Journal (UK)
"...his melodic sense is truly beautiful." - Tom Chandler, Jazzreview .com
"Rare is the young musician who fuses avant garde and postbop mettles so effortlessly—Small Spaces is a refreshingly unsafe approach to modern jazz." - Clifford Allen, All About Jazz NY
"Guitarist/composer Baggetta is one of those subtle players. He does not overwhelm you with volume or seek to impress with fleet-fingered improvisations. Instead, each piece he performs creates new worlds of possibilities...utilizing approaches from many different genres but never sounding derivative of any one person or school." - Richard Kamins, The Hartford Courant
03/21 Sunday
11:00 AM Yoga with Natalie
6:00 PM Gillypad
6pm Notrio
7pm Parker Shper
The band is:
Randy Wooten - drums
Gill Aharon - piano and compositions
Jef Charland - bass
Blake Newman - bass
Andrew Stern - guitar
Alec Spiegelman - winds/horns
Rick Stone- Alto
Kelly Roberge - tenor
Eric Hofbauer - guitar
9:30pm The Monologue Bombs
http://www.myspace.com/themonologuebombs
03/22 Monday
5:40 PM Yoga with Natalie
10:22 PM The Fringe
George Garzone
Bob Gullotti
John Lockwood
Established 1971!
The Fringe are one of the genuine living treasures of the Boston jazz scene. Originally formed back in 1971 by tenor-saxophonist George Garzone, bassist Richard Appleman, and drummer Bob Gullotti as an outlet for their free jazz improvisations, The Fringe have entertained and enlightened Boston area jazz audiences for over 30 years. Bassist Appleman left the band in 1985 to become Chairman of the Bass Department at Berklee College and was replaced by veteran bassist John Lockwood.
Along with their impressive tenure with The Fringe, Gullotti, Garzone, and Lockwood are in great demand as session players and have played with many of the greats of contemporary jazz. Along with keeping up with a busy performance schedule, each of them are well-respected educators helping to inspire the jazz musicians of tomorrow.
03/23 Tuesday
5:40 PM Vinyasa Flow class with Rachel
8:00 PM Even Tuesday Milonga
03/24 Wednesday
7:00 PM Open Vinyasa Yoga
10:00 PM The Respect Sextet
Eli Asher (trumpet, toys)
James Hirschfeld (trombone, tuba, toys)
Malcolm Kirby (bass)
Ted Poor (drums)
Josh Rutner (reeds, radio, toys)
Red Wierenga (piano, keyboard, respectronics)
The Respect Sextet, called "one of the best and most ambitious new ensembles in jazz" by Signal To Noise, brings its unique brand of eclectic free jazz to Cambridge for the very first time. Its latest CD, Sirius Respect: The Respect Sextet play the music of Sun Ra and Stockhausen, was deemed "one of the most compelling recordings of the year" by the Wall Street Journal and was a "LOVE IT" pick by Newsweek. Through its eclecticism, humor, devotion to improvisation, predilection towards swing, and its use of toys and “little instruments,” The Respect Sextet has drawn comparisons both to New Dutch Swing and the AACM. Many dialectics are at work (and play) in Respect’s world, in which the serious, heady, and intellectual mingle with the light, comic, and absurd, where compositions alternate and mesh with improvisations, and where tight ensemble work coexists with loose, empathic interplay.
03/25 Thursday
8:00 PM Naya Records Presents Two New Albums: Sarah Brindell/ Cameron & the Trenton St. Collaborative/Shea Rose
Naya Records celebrates the album releases of two up and coming artists, Cameron & the Trenton St. Collaborative and Sarah Brindell. With special guest, Shea Rose.
http://www.nayarecords.com/
Sarah Brindell:
www.sarahbrindell.com/
Cameron Greenlee:
www.myspace.com/camerongreenlee
www.cdbaby.com/cd/camerongreenlee
http://www.myspace.com/jushearose
03/26 Friday
7:00 PM gaetana brown,alto jeffro, black steel peacock
10:00 PM bob gullotti project
marty ballou bass
jeff galindo trombone
billy jones tenor
03/27 Saturday
3:00 PM Wotienke
Years ago Wotienke was a girl playing the piano and singing by herself in Amsterdam, but while living in the Czech Republic she became a band. The unlikely musical long-distance relationship between the Dutch singer-songwriter and four Czech musicians turned out to be very fruitful. The band toured through the Czech Republic, Holland, Poland, Austria and Slovakia and finally settled down in an Amsterdam based studio to record their first album Mainland Sailors in spring 2009.
Authenticity, simplicity and a playful performance define the music of Wotienke, which travels from light chansons and poppy tunes to more edgy and sometimes experimental songs. Lyrical inspiration comes from every day life, love or curiosity. But an uncle who became rich by selling sand to desert people or commuting from one city to the other also formed triggers for songs.
In March 2010 Wotienke will travel far away from home to go back to where she started: performing solo.
More information:
www.wotienke.com
www.myspace.com/wotienke
www.wotienke.bandcamp.com
Quotes from the press
“Although Wotienke has only just released their debut album, their music sounds unbelievably mature and global.”
Radek Bureš, Filter 10/2009
“The album manages to be not only playful as a big-beat, but also to be intellectually introverted, casual or full of strength, it can absorb your attention and make you think. Primarily, it provides an excellent music experience.”
Zdeněk Neusar, freemusic.cz 10/2009
“Wotienke gracefully slides from jazz to chanson and alternative rock. Every piece from the group has a very strong emotional charge and power”
Roman Lipčík, Report 01/2010
7:30 PM Songs for Songs: A Benefit for Children in Uganda
Four singer/songwriters from Berklee College of Music coming together to raise money to deliver guitars to orphans in Pader, Uganda.
