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Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Claudia Quintet's 20th Anniversary Tour: May 2017
The Claudia Quintet
2017 East Coast
"20th Anniversary" Tour
Formed by composer / drummer / arranger John Hollenbeck in 1997, the Claudia Quintet explores the edge without alienating the mainstream, proving that genre-defying music can be for everyone. Over the past decade, the group has released CDs that are critically acclaimed world wide and whose appeal extends well beyond, as well as including traditional jazz audiences. Over the course of 20 years and 8 albums, the band has forged an astounding chemistry and become expert at juggling mind-boggling dexterity with inviting emotion and spirit.
“The Claudia Quintet…turns out music of clockwork intricacy and crisp premeditation. … Jazz and new music and post-rock…have been steadily encroaching on one another’s turf for a while… The overlap has a lot to do with textural dynamics, which is what the Claudia Quintet has always been about. ... and groove, on a cellular level." - Nate Chinen, The New York Times
John Hollenbeck - Drums, Compositions
Chris Speed - Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone
Matt Moran - Vibraphone
Chris Tordini/Drew Gress - Bass
Red Wierenga - Accordion
The Claudia Quintet Celebrates 20 Years!
2017 East Coast Tour
Monday, May 15, 2017
8:00 PM
2477 18th St NW
Washington D.C.,
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
8:00 PM
140 N. Columbus Blvd. (at Race St.)
Philadelphia, PA
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
7:30 PM
1842 East Winter Park Road
Orlando, FL
Thursday, May 18, 2017
8:00 PM
4202 East Fowler Avenue
Tampa, FL
Friday, May 26, 2017
12:12 AM
1353 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA
Saturday, May 27, 2017
7:30 PM
92 Race St
Holyoke, MA
Acclaimed Drummer-Composer John Hollenbeck Pens Rich, Complex Tunes for an Era of Short Attention Spans on The Claudia Quintet's 8th album
– Super Petite –
a Potent Package that Condenses Virtuoso Playing and a Wealth of Ideas into Ten Compact Songs
As always, Hollenbeck’s uncategorizable music – which bridges the worlds of modern jazz and new music in surprising and inventive ways - is realized by Claudia’s longstanding line-up: clarinetist/tenor saxophonist Chris Speed, vibraphonist Matt Moran, bassist Drew Gress, and accordionist Red Wierenga. Over the course of 19 years and 8 albums, the band has forged an astounding chemistry and become expert at juggling mind-boggling dexterity with inviting emotion and spirit.
Like the band’s name, the title Super Petite originated as an affectionate nickname for one of the band’s fans. “I thought that was a funny juxtaposition,” Hollenbeck recalls, “but it also became a good frame for the album because the tunes are short but can also be grand in a way - just not in length.”
The concept was both a personal challenge for Hollenbeck as a composer always dealing with a wealth of ideas, but also a reaction to a tendency in modern music toward the epic. “I’m feeling things in the opposite direction,” the composer explains. “When tunes are longer, there tend to be moments when not a whole lot is happening. If you have a really short tune, the whole thing has to be compelling.”
Nowhere is that principle better exemplified than in “Pure Poem,” which clocks in at under two minutes but is the most difficult piece the quintet has ever recorded. It was inspired by “Pure Poem 1007-1103” by Japanese poet Shigeru Matsui, which consists solely of sequences of Roman numerals and was used by controversial poet Kenneth Goldsmith to illustrate his theory of “Uncreative Writing.”
Hollenbeck draws inspiration from a number of diverse sources throughout Super Petite, including two unrecognizable interpretations of classic jazz – which, in its earliest years, demanded short songs due to the limitations of the day’s recording media. The mesmerizing “Nightbreak,” which opens the album, is built upon a slowed-down translation of Charlie Parker’s famous break in “Night of Tunisia,” while “Philly” transforms an infamous Philly Joe Jones lick into an exercise in bebop deconstruction.
Two variations on the same theme, “JFK Beagle” and “Newark Beagle”, were sparked by the contraband-sniffing dogs that patrol the international baggage claim area of airports. They are the living embodiment of Super Petite – utterly adorable but all business. “My problem is I want to pet the beagles but they’re so focused on that one thing,” Hollenbeck laments. “That piece began as a portrait, a combination of being really cute but staying focused. I don't know exactly what that would sound like musically, but that’s the challenge. In the end it doesn’t really matter to me if it happens or not, because it still leads me into a certain world.” In this case, the idea of international travel inspired Hollenbeck to use his passport number as a series of pitches that formed the basis for the pieces.
Similarly, “If You Seek a Fox” began life as a dig at the composer’s least favorite 24-hour cable news network, then morphed into an aural description of the eponymous animal. “A-List” began with an even more fantastical scenario, imagining the Claudia Quintet walking the red carpet. (“Think Entourage meets the Geek Squad,” as Hollenbeck wryly puts it in his liner notes.) If the tune’s urgent [press release continued on verso] pulse is unlikely to attract the paparazzi, it’s nonetheless a compelling mood piece that Hollenbeck insists “feels almost like a Led Zeppelin tune in our heads.”
“Peterborough” was written in the titular New Hampshire town, where Hollenbeck spent six idyllic weeks in the fall of 2014 as a resident artist at the famed MacDowell Colony. It was there that Aaron Copland composed his Pulitzer-winning “Appalachian Spring,” which inspired the hint of Coplandesque American optimism in Hollenbeck’s combination of clarinet and vibes. The residency also provided the opportunity to explore the work of master Senegalese drummer/composer Doudou N’Diaye Rose, whose “Rose Rhythm” forms the basis for Hollenbeck’s “Rose-Colored Rhythm.”
Hollenbeck describes the MacDowell Colony as “a beautiful space where you can do whatever you want all day and no one bothers you. You can work hard all day on something, but you can also get out and ride a bike or run if you want. Then in the evening you see all these other people from different disciplines who have been doing the same thing as you, talk about what they’re doing, go to bed and do it all again the next day.”
The album concludes with “Mangolds,” a mood piece built from a slow, elongated melody line named for Hollenbeck’s favorite vegetarian restaurant in Graz, Austria, where he worked with the renowned Jazz Bigband Graz on his 2006 release Joys and Desires.
The Claudia Quintet Albums on Cuneiform Records
"The Claudia Quintet...is one of the most exciting groups in contemporary jazz. ...Each of the discs comes at you with the force of a manifesto: this band knows exactly what it is about, and the compositions charge forward with inevitability. ... the band now sounds so thoroughly integrated and seamless that you'd think it was a tenor-trumpet quintet or a 16-piece big band. ...The Claudia Quintet, inimitable, deserves to inspire."
- Will Layman, PopMatters
Based in metro Washington [Silver Spring, MD] since its founding in 1984, Cuneiform Records releases music by some of the best musicians and composers from around the globe and is widely recognized as an international force in the world of avant-garde and truly progressive, cutting-edge music. The independent label has released over 450 albums to date, and it has focused on the cutting edge of genres ranging from jazz and electronic music to rock and post-classical musics.
Central Florida’s Flying Horse Big Band - Big Man on Campus (KARI-ON PRODUCTIONS 2017)
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Harry penned several originals and arrangements, and we also include a repertory number, “Raincheck,” with a nod to Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington. Harry is a superb musician who contributed marvelous performances to this recording.
There are numerous arrangements written for the band, as well as two originals, “B.M.O.C.” and “The New Creole Love Call.” Michael Philip Mossman’s thrilling “Partido Blue” adds a Brazilian flair.
The Flying Horse Big Band swings with authority and includes a bounty of wonderful soloists: saxophonists Saul Dautch, Andy Garcia and Gabe Wallace, guitarist Ryan Waszmer, trumpet players Alex Lewis and Josh Toler, pianist Mudel Honoré and upcoming trombonists Christian Herrera and Lentzy Jean-Louis
Saxophonist Jeff Rupert is a YAMAHA performing artist. His credits include recordings and tours with: Diane Schuur, Mel Tormé, Kevin Mahogany, Ernestine Anderson, and Benny Carter’s Grammy winning Harlem Renaissance. Jeff Rupert toured for fifteen years with Sam Rivers; four albums ensued, and from 1997- 2002 he toured and recorded with Maynard Ferguson. Jeff Rupert’s six recordings as a leader all charted on Jazz Week. Do That Again! was #39 out of the top 100 jazz albums of 2014, and En Plein Air: The Jazz Professors play Monet charted on Jazz Week to #29. Performance venues include: the Blue Note, Birdland, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Tokyo Forum, the National concert hall of Taipei, Taiwan, and jazz festivals in Europe, Israel, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
As a composer and arranger, Rupert has written for: Bob Berg, James Moody, Maynard Ferguson, Kenny Drew jr, Kevin Mahogany and Judy Carmichael. Rupert has produced four big band albums for the Flying Horse Big Band, all featuring original compositions and arrangements. Jeff Rupert is Pegasus Distinguished Professor, Trustee Endowed Chair, and Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Central Florida (UCF), and founder of Flying Horse Records.
There are numerous arrangements written for the band, as well as two originals, “B.M.O.C.” and “The New Creole Love Call.” Michael Philip Mossman’s thrilling “Partido Blue” adds a Brazilian flair.
The Flying Horse Big Band swings with authority and includes a bounty of wonderful soloists: saxophonists Saul Dautch, Andy Garcia and Gabe Wallace, guitarist Ryan Waszmer, trumpet players Alex Lewis and Josh Toler, pianist Mudel Honoré and upcoming trombonists Christian Herrera and Lentzy Jean-Louis.
URBANITY US TOUR JUNE 2017
Guitarist Albare & Keyboardist Phil Turcio
Join Forces For The Ultimate In Urban Soul
URBANITY US TOUR JUNE 2017
URBANITY US TOUR DATES JUNE 2017
June 3, 2017
Vibrato Jazz Grill
2930 Beverly Glen Circle
Los Angeles, CA 90077
(310) 474-9400
Showtime 9:30pm
June 6, 2017
Blues Alley
1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20007
(202) 337-4141
Tickets on Sale Now
June 7, 2017
NightTown
12387 Cedar Road
Cleveland, OH 44106
(216) 795-0550
June 8, 2017
Ryles Jazz Club
212 Hampshire Street, Inman Square
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 876-9330
Showtime 8:30pm
June 9 & 10, 2017
Birdland Jazz Club
315 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10036
(212) 581-3080
Tickets on Sale Now
June 13, 2017
Club Arcada
105 East Main Street
St. Charles, IL 60174
(630) 962-7000
Showtime 8pm
June 16, 2017
Jazziz One Nite Stand Series at Boca Raton Resort & Club
501 East Camino Real
Boca Raton, FL 33432
Showtime 7pm
The collaboration between Albare and Phil Turcio started 27 years ago when Albert Dadon – aka Albare – was looking for a new pianist for his band. At the time Phil had just turned 18. Albare recalls, “He was not even the youngest member of the band then; our drummer just turned17.” “These guys sounded so good, itwas a pleasure already to play with them.” Phil explains that he and Albare hear music in the same way, “Everything I throw at Albare comes back as if I would have played it myself.”
From beginning to end, listeners will hear the duo’s innate instincts, the perfect partnership, the gorgeous groove of two friends making music. “We love jazz, but not in the traditional sense,” says Albare. “I think that Jazz of the 21st Century is all encompassing. There are no limits.” That thought is evident as Albare and Phil Turcio come together as Urbanity.
RELEASE DATE: 03/31/2017
Albare and Phil Turcio come together as Urbanity.
URBANITY “URBAN SOUL”
PRODUCED BY: PHIL TURCIO & ALBARE
FEATURING: ALBARE: GUITARS & SITAR
PHIL TURCIO: KEYBOARDS, PIANO & PROGRAMMING
RECORDING & MIXED BY : PHIL TURCIO & ALBARE
AT ALBARE’S & PHIL TURCIO’S STUDIOS MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA MASTERED BY LEON ZERVOS AT STUDIO 301 PTY LTD. ALEXANDRIA NSW AUSTRALIA
PHOTOGRAPHY: DENNYS ILLIC
DESIGN: THINK PRODUCTIONS
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Christian Meaas Svendsen – AVIN (NAKAMA RECORDS 2017)
Nakama Records proudly presents:
Christian Meaas Svendsen – AVIN
Avin is a Kurd maiden name meaning love. Avin is also the name of Svendsen’s girlfriend. The central theme on the album is their unfinished love, and the texts and the music describe Svendsen’s feelings and reflections in the turbulent phases of the relationship. Loss, anger and despair are repeating themes, but amidst it all there is hope and a strange kind of underlying positivism. The music is inspired from early American contemporary music, modern nordic improvised music and different types folk songs. The result is a more meek version of the modern contemporary music, a slightly more strict version of improvised music and jazz, and a somewhat detached way of presenting conventional singer/songwriter material. It is creative music with some healthy resistance presented in an earnest, convincing and personal way.
Christian Meaas Svendsen - vocal, guitar
Vilde Alnæs - violin
Adrian Løseth Waade - viola
Kaja Fjellberg Pettersen - cello
Inga Aas - double bass
Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø - trombone
Espen Reinertsen - saxophone
Agnes Hvizdalek - vocal
Available on the 11th of May
CD // LP // digital download // streaming
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