JORIS TEEPE & BARRY GREEN

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20

9.00 PM PARIS / 8.00 PM LON / 3.00 PM NY / 12.00PM LA

TICKET PRICE €10.00 / £10.00 / $13.00

Barry Green - piano Joris Teepe

Barry's star is rising high on the European Jazz scene. He has accompanied, led and recorded with many of the world's leading Jazz artists including: Dave Friesen, Bobby Watson, Perico Sambeat, Charles McPherson, Deborah Brown, Ben Street, Drew Gress, Chris Cheek, Tom Rainey, Gerald Cleaver, Stan Sulzmann and many more.

He started his own record label called Moletone records in 2008. The first release was the trio record "The Music of Chance" featuring Ben Street and Jeff Williams, this received glowing reviews. A duo album followed this featuring the great bass player Dave Green, "Turn Left at Monday", performing rare songs by Alec Wilder and Ornette Coleman. His third release on Moletone records is "Babelfish" (you put it in your ear!), with vocalist Brigitte Beraha, and featuring Chris Laurence and Paul Clarvis.

In January 2014 Barry recorded two trio albums in New York; the first with Chris Cheek and Gerald Cleaver titled "Great News", and the next with Drew Gress and Tom Rainey called "Almost There"..

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Joris Teepe is from Amsterdam and has been living in New York since 1992. He has been (and still is) working with many Legends & Stars in Jazz such as Benny Golson, Rashied Ali, Barry Harris, Bobby Watson, Sonny Fortune, Tom Harrell, Chris Potter, Billy Hart and Randy Brecker. His longest stint was with Rashied Ali (John Coltrane’s last drummer), with whom he recorded 4 CDs and toured the world for 9 years. Joris Teepe has been leading his own groups for 25 years and has recorded 16 CD’s as a leader. He has composed over 100 originals, including pieces for Symphony Orchestra & Small Jazz Group and for Symphony Orchestra, Big Band & Choir. He leads his own Big Band in New York, performing exclusively his own music. He also performs his own repertoire as a guest soloist with local Big Bands. One of his latest projects is the “Trio of Liberty” co-led by Don Braden. This trio marks their 25th year of musical cooperation. Down Beat selected their CD “conversations” as CD of the year 2017. Another new project is “In the Spirit of Rashied Ali” and a new CD was released in the Spring of 2018.

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MICHAEL KANAN TRIO

Featuring Greg Ruggiero & Neal Miner

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21

9.00 PM PARIS / 8.00 PM LON / 3.00 PM NY / 12.00PM LA

TICKET PRICE €10.00 / £10.00 / $13.00

Michael Kanan - piano - Greg Ruggiero - guitar Neal Miner - bass

The Michael Kanan Trio, featuring guitarist Greg Ruggiero and bassist Neal Miner has been delighting audiences in New York for the past 5 years. The group exhibits a rare level of intuitive communication and camaraderie between three musicians committed to swing. In Miner and Ruggiero, Kanan has found kindred spirits who share his affection for and commitment to the American songbook as a wellspring of inspiration for jazz improvisation. The group sound is joyful, lyrical, and grows out of a natural rapport. As a piano/guitar/bass trio, it would be impossible not to be influenced by the father of the genre, the King Cole Trio.” Kanan says. “However, we didn’t come together to try to recreate his style or format. I chose Greg and Neal solely based on musical chemistry. Neal and I have a 28-year history of playing together, and he was a huge influence on my development. And Greg was the perfect element to complete the trio. If he played any other instrument he still would have been part of the trio because of his conception, sound, and our shared understanding of music.” 

Kanan says he loves the trio format because of its intimacy and conversational qualities. “Having guitar instead of drums opens up many melodic and textural possibilities. Greg and I have spoken at length about how to blend our sounds and to avoid the usual guitar/piano conflicts. In this trio we try to take advantage of all the possibilities of having three instruments that both accompany and solo. In general, we avoid the usual pattern of melody-solo-melody in favor of more interesting ways to interact over the course of a song. Any one of us might have the leading voice at any given moment. But underneath it all remains our love of the swing beat.” 

The trio’s latest recording, In This Moment (Gut String Records GSR042) is the clearest, most mature statement of Kanan’s career to date. It captures the trio in a live performance at New York’s prestigious listening room, Mezzrow. As he wrote in the liner notes, “I hear us trusting each other on this recording. For this Mezzrow recording we had chosen which originals we would play. Other than that, we left it up to instinct and rapport… We were aiming for honesty, communication and love. That night I think we found them.”  

“Michael Kanan is one of my teachers. It’s lovely to hear his pure, unforced pianism in this kind of casual but sincere setting.” - Ethan Iverson

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A True Living Legend of Music

CHARLES MCPHERSON

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 22

BOOKING IS NOW CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT

9.00 PM PAR | 8.00 PM LON | 3.00 PM NY | 12.00PM LA

Charles McPherson - alto saxophone Rob Thorsen - bass

THIS IS A RARE ONLINE LIVE PERFORMANCE BY ONE OF THE GREATEST ALTO PLAYERS IN THE HISTORY OF THE MUSIC. AT 81 YEARS OF AGE CHARLES MCPHERSON IS A FORCE OF NATURE. HE PLAYS WITH THE FIRE AND VITALITY OF A 20 YEAR OLD, THE VIRTUOSITY OF A GREAT MASTER, AND THE WISDOM AND SOUL OF A GREAT SAGE ALL COMBINED.

After growing up in Detroit, Charles studied with the renowned pianist Barry Harris and started playing jazz professionally at age 19. He moved from Detroit to New York in 1959 and performed with Charles Mingus from 1960 to 1972. While performing with Mingus, he collaborated frequently with Harris, Lonnie Hillyer (trumpet), and George Coleman (tenor sax).

Charles has toured the U.S., Europe, Japan, Africa and South America with his own group, as well as with jazz greats Barry Harris, Billy Eckstine, Lionel Hampton, Nat Adderly, Jay McShann, Phil Woods, Wynton Marsalis, Tom Harrell, Randy Brecker, James Moody, Dizzy Gillespie, and others.

Charles was the featured alto saxophonist in the Clint Eastwood film “Bird,” a biopic about Charlie Parker. Charles has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Don Redman Lifetime Achievement Award and an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from California State University San Marcos. Charles performed this past April at the NEA Jazz Master’s 2019 performance during Stanley Crouch’s tribute.  Widely recognized as a prolific composer, Charles is now Resident Composer for the San Diego Ballet, where he has written three original suites for chamber music and jazz combos.

Charles is joined for this this concert by the renowned bassist, Rob Thorsen, one of California’s firm favourites.

RECENT ALBUM RELEASE:

Charles McPherson’s Jazz Dance Suites captures his groundbreaking collaboration with the San Diego Ballet, an association that began in 2015. A family affair, Jazz Dance Suites is inspired by McPherson’s daughter Camille McPherson, a soloist in her 8th season with the prestigious dance company. Joining McPherson on Jazz Dance Suites are some of the most exciting names in modern jazz; Terrell Stafford on trumpet, Lorraine Castellanos on vocals, Jeb Patton, and Randy Porter on piano, Billy Drummond on drums, David Wong on bass and Yotam Silberstein on guitar.

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