07/07 Monday
7:00 PM Kendall Eddy
Rick Stone, saxophone and clarinet
Catherine Bent, cello
Carmen Staaf, piano and accordion
Austin McMahon, drums
Kendall Eddy, bass and compositions
10:22 PM The Fringe
The world's premier Free Jazz Trio. Thirty two years of playing together every Monday has created a three headed beast that is making Jazz history. If you want to experience the Boston Jazz scene you cannot miss the Fringe. Monday after Monday this story unfolds.
ohn Lockwood - Bass
Bob Gulotti - Drums
George Garzone - Sax
07/08 Tuesday
7:00 PM Daniel Ian Smith and Lewis Porter duet!
Daniel Ian Smith is one of the outstanding saxophone and flute performers in the Boston area and beyond. He is a professor at Berklee College of Music and is in demand as a clinician, guest soloist, and private teacher. He has performed throughout the United States, Japan, Germany, and England with his own ensembles and with such noted artists as Arturo Sandoval, Maria Schneider, John Lewis, Jimmy Giuffre, George Russell, Steve Gadd, Gloria Estefan, Johnny Mathis, Rebecca Paris, The Temptations, The O’Jays, Sheila Jordan, George Garzone, Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, and many many others! Yet he finds time to direct his own groups, A Collective Directive, TREE-OH. The New World Jazz Composers Octet, and The Big and Phat Jazz Orchestra. As the recipient of the prestigious Uchida Fellowship in 1996 (from the Japan Foundation), Mr. Smith spent 6 months performing and touring around Japan and studying Japanese traditional music and culture. He was the featured soloist at the Yokohama Port Festival, Yokohama, Japan in June of 1996. He is also the founder/artistic director of the Jazz in the Sanctuary Concert Series in Brookline, MA which has produced over 80 concerts in the last 10 years. For more info go to DanielIanSmith.com
Lewis Porter is a jazz pianist and Professor of Music at Rutgers University in Newark, where he directs the Master's program in jazz history. He is known worldwide for his teaching and for his many books and articles, especially John Coltrane: His Life and Music (published in English in 1998; published in French and Italian editions in 2007). He founded and co-edited the journal Jazz Perspectives, and edited the John Coltrane Reference which appeared in January 2008. As a pianist and keyboardist, he has performed recently with such artists as Wycliffe Gordon, Ravi Coltrane, Joe Morris, Jane Ira Bloom, and Judi Silvano with Joe Lovano; he performed in Europe in November 2007 with Dave Liebman and others. His latest CD, recorded live at Siena Jazz, is Italian Encounter, and it has received only rave reviews. For example, Jazz Times says that Porter is "a helluva piano player." He is a regular member, with Badal Roy and Vic Juris, of the indian-inspired group Dharma Jazz. His performance schedule and extended audio and video clips are at Lewisporter.com
07/09 Wednesday
7:00 PM Private Event
10:00 PM KGBG
Kaufman/Gertz/Bergonzi/Guerrero
Jerry Bergonzi sax
Gabriel Guerrero piano
Bruce Gertz bass
Bob Kaufman drums
07/10 Thursday
7:00 PM Allison Crowe
An organic blend of rock, jazz, folk, Broadway, gospel, pop and soul.
"It is hard to imagine a singer filled with more passion and talent
behind the piano than Allison Crowe." ~ C.C. Chapman, Boston-based new
media executive and music junkie, Accident Hash (USA)
"Ever wonder what it would have been like to listen to a gifted
singer/songwriter from Saskatchewan in a small, intimate hall before she
became Joni Mitchell? Don't fret the missed opportunity. There's no need
to turn back the clock. Check out Allison Crowe..." ~ Robert Reid, The
Record (Canada)
"Treat yourself to one of the mightiest talents on the singer-songwriter
scene today." - Bob Muller, JoniMitchell.com (USA)
"Allison Crowe has a voice to fall in love with. She is from Vancouver
Island in Canada, descended from Scottish, Irish and Manx stock. She's
exactly the sort of artist who can make serious headway on her own label
and that's just what she's doing." ~ Record of the Day (UK)
"The most honest, heartfelt, and directly intimate concert in my entire
life." ~ Ross Hocker, WGTE/NPR Radio (USA)
An organic blend of rock, jazz, folk, Broadway, gospel, pop and soul.
Benefit concert for the EveryDay Angels Foundation
http://www.allisoncrowe.com
http://www.myspace.com/allisoncrowe
10:00 PM The Julien Kasper Band
The Julien Kasper Band sound has been described as "Jimi Hendrix and John Coltrane take James Brown, Jeff Beck and T-Bone Walker out to lunch". This is dynamic, accessible, highly original instrumental music with a world of contrasts ranging from tough funk and rock grooves to floating, ethereal harmonic adventures.
http://www.julienkasper.com
http://www.myspace.com/julienkasperband
07/11 Friday
7:00 PM New West Guitar Quartet
www.newwestguitar.com
What started as a class for individual guitarists became an opportunity
for Perry Smith, John Storie, Brady Cohan, and Matt Roberts to create
a group like none other. In reference to their west coast roots and
passion for new music, the group dubbed themselves the New West
Guitar Quartet (NWGQ).
By arranging classic jazz standards and exploring original
compositions, NWGQ established themselves as a notable jazz group
when they were all students at the University of Southern California.
As music majors, NWGQ collaborated with USC to become the first
group to receive the coveted Thornton Protégé Grant. Since the group
started in 2003 they have performed in major venues throughout
Canada, Japan, Europe and all over the Western United States.
With the release of their second album “Wide Awake” on Art Song
Music, NWGQ focuses to combine the improvisational elements of
jazz with the performance standards of a chamber group. By utilizing
all the colors of the guitar, New West Guitar Quartet creates a new
medium of chamber music.
07/12 Saturday
4:00 PM New West Guitar Quartet
www.newwestguitar.com
What started as a class for individual guitarists became an opportunity
for Perry Smith, John Storie, Brady Cohan, and Matt Roberts to create
a group like none other. In reference to their west coast roots and
passion for new music, the group dubbed themselves the New West
Guitar Quartet (NWGQ).
By arranging classic jazz standards and exploring original
compositions, NWGQ established themselves as a notable jazz group
when they were all students at the University of Southern California.
As music majors, NWGQ collaborated with USC to become the first
group to receive the coveted Thornton Protégé Grant. Since the group
started in 2003 they have performed in major venues throughout
Canada, Japan, Europe and all over the Western United States.
With the release of their second album “Wide Awake” on Art Song
Music, NWGQ focuses to combine the improvisational elements of
jazz with the performance standards of a chamber group. By utilizing
all the colors of the guitar, New West Guitar Quartet creates a new
medium of chamber music.
7:00 PM Tony Brown
http://myspace.com/tonybrowntunes
http://sonicbids.com/tonybrownmusic
10:00 PM Michael McNeill
07/13 Sunday
11:30 AM Yoga with Natalie Brooks
10:00 PM Gill Aharon Group
07/14 Monday
7:00 PM Craters
10:00 PM The Fringe
The world's premier Free Jazz Trio. Thirty two years of playing together every Monday has created a three headed beast that is making Jazz history. If you want to experience the Boston Jazz scene you cannot miss the Fringe. Monday after Monday this story unfolds.
John Lockwood - Bass
Bob Gulotti - Drums
George Garzone - Sax
