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December 02 2009
John Hollenbeck and the Claudia Quintet with special guest Gary Versace
premiere new works from their Chamber Music America’s 2009 New Jazz Works Grant.
Commissioning and Ensemble Development program funded through the generosity
of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Claudia Quintet +1
John Hollenbeck, drums + percussion
Chris Speed, tenor saxophone
Matt Moran, vibraphone
Ted Reichman, accordion
Drew Gress, double-bass
Gary Versace, piano
December 6th Ars Nova Workshop Philadelphia, PA
December 7th Towson State Towson, MD
December 13th Douglass Street Music Collective Brooklyn, NY
December 31st Emmanual Church “First Night” Event Boston, MA
January 9th Winter Jazz Fest NYC Bitter End 9:45pm NYC
details:
December 6
Ars Nova Workshop Philadelphia, PA
International House Philadelphia
3701 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104 Map
http://www.ihousephilly.org
Price: $12 General Admission
Buy Tickets
http://www.arsnovaworkshop.org/events/claudia-quintet-1-12-06-2009
December 7
Towson State Towson, MD
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Monday, December 7, 8:15 p.m.
The Bill and Helen Murray Jazz Residency Program
presents drummer and composer John Hollenbeck in the initial event of his week-long residency.
All proceeds will benefit the Bill and Helen Murray Jazz Residency.
Tickets: $13 general admission; $7 seniors; $5 students
http://www.towson.edu/artscalendar/music.asp
December 13
Douglass Street Music Collective Brooklyn, NY
295 Douglass Street
Brooklyn, NY
9pm (One Set)
$10 suggested donation
December 31
First Church in Boston “First Night” Event
66 Marlborough Street
set times:
9:00 PM - 9:45 PM , 10:15 PM - 11:00 PM
(with Trevor Dunn and Matt Mitchell)
http://www.firstnight.org/FirstNight2010/Events/Evening.aspx
2010
January 9
Winter Jazz Fest NYC
Bitter End 9:45pm
147 Bleeker Street NYC
http://www.winterjazzfest.com/2010nycwinterjazzfest/2010pressrelease.html
“This is a true ensemble from top to bottom, a sonic equivalent to a hand-woven tapestry…Impressive.” -DownBeat
This brilliant New York band led by drummer and composer John Hollenbeck - a leader of a new generation of musicians who have brought together many disparate threads of contemporary music to create a new sound - recasts jazz in shimmering new shapes inflected by classical minimalism, new music, progressive rock and post-rock. The Claudia Quintet embraces the textural freedom of electronic sounds and improvisation, the structural ambition of contemporary classical music, and most importantly, the joy of bodacious grooves and unapologetically gorgeous melodies. For this ensemble, Hollenbeck has assembled a group of the foremost innovators in this new sound to create a powerhouse band. The quintet’s one-of-a-kind “jazz and beyond” sound, with massive emotional depth, comes organically from the uncanny interplay of its virtuosos: Drew Gress (John Surman, Uri Caine, Ravi Coltrane), Matt Moran (Slavic Soul Party, Mat Maneri, Theo Bleckmann), Ted Reichman (Anthony Braxton, Marc Ribot, Paul Simon), and Chris Speed (Human Feel, Bloodcount, AlasNoAxis), accompanied by guest pianist Gary Versace, best known for his work with John Scofield, John Abercrombie and Maria Schneider. Their beautifully seductive work features propulsive grooves, catchy melodies and improvisation that is nothing short of telepathic.