Concert May 9 Evolving Music Series/Blues and the Empirical Truth

[AllenLowe]

coming up in a week or so, playing this new series with my regular band plus Chris Kelsey on soprano and Steve Bernstein on trumpet. Steve you probably already know about, but Chris is a brilliant saxophonist.

it is billed as follows:

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center

107 Suffolk Street

New York, NY 10002

212-260-4080

8.00 pm: Allen Lowe and the Blue Moaners

Allen Lowe (alto and C Melody sax)

Steve Bernstein (trumpet)

Chris Kelsey (soprano sax)

Lewis Porter (piano)

Ray Suhy (guitar)

Chris Day (bass)

Jake Millet (electronic drums)

[fasstrack]

coming up in a week or so, playing this new series with my regular band plus Chris Kelsey on soprano and Steve Bernstein on trumpet. Steve you probably already know about, but Chris is a brilliant saxophonist.

it is billed as follows:

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center

107 Suffolk Street

New York, NY 10002

212-260-4080

8.00 pm: Allen Lowe and the Blue Moaners

Allen Lowe (alto and C Melody sax)

Steve Bernstein (trumpet)

Chris Kelsey (soprano sax)

Lewis Porter (piano)

Ray Suhy (guitar)

Chris Day (bass)

Jake Millet (electronic drums)

Night, Allen? Or don't you know yet?

[AllenLowe]

it's in my header - May 9, Monday night -

let me reiterate, btw, for those of you who don't know Chris Kelsey's work, that he's a major talent.

[fasstrack]

it's in my header - May 9, Monday night -

let me reiterate, btw, for those of you who don't know Chris Kelsey's work, that he's a major talent.

It wasn't in the message body and I didn't look at the header.

I actually can make it that night. No promises, but shoot me a PM reminder if you would.

[AllenLowe]

would love to see you - I'll send you something next week

[fasstrack]

would love to see you - I'll send you something next week

I'll be the bald little Jew.

Wait, everybody will be a bald little Jew....

[AllenLowe]

for those of you who missed us Monday night, a few words of commentary from Chris Kelsey:

."... some­thing much more sig­nif­i­cant: my gig last night with saxophonist/composer Allen Lowe's band.

If you don't know who Allen is, you should. Check out his web­site; there are sev­eral fairly lengthy musi­cal sam­ples from his many albums that'll give you an idea of his music's breadth, orig­i­nal­ity, and humor. His lat­est record­ing project is The Blues and the Empir­i­cal Truth, selec­tions from which we per­formed last night at Clemente Soto Velez on NYC's Lower East Side as part of Arts for Art / Vision Fes­ti­val / RUCMA's Evolv­ing Voice Series.

I was hon­ored that Allen asked me to be part of his band, and bowled over by the expe­ri­ence. Not only are Allen's tunes great, but his alto play­ing is sub­limely inven­tive. Pianist Lewis Porter—best known, per­haps, as an edu­ca­tor and author (his Coltrane bio is far and away the best available) — wailed with mal­ice afore­thought, and trum­peter Steven Bern­stein was absolutely mon­strous. Allen's fel­low Main­ers who com­prised the rhythm sec­tion were first rate, and tubaist Chris Meeder was won­der­ful. The crowd was large and lively, the vibe ter­rific. All in all, a great musi­cal expe­ri­ence. My thanks to Allen for includ­ing me."

Edited May 13, 2011 by AllenLowe

[relyles]

Congratulations on what sounds like a succesful performance. I like what I have heard of Kelsey's playing. This souonds like something I would have liked to hear.

[papsrus]

Ditto. Congrats Allen. Sounds as though it was a wonderful night.

[AllenLowe]

Kelsey is a terrific saxophonist. On his blog, btw, he has a version of himself playing Shuffle Boil that is just stupendous. We had a great time.