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Ivo Perelman Quartet with Matthew Shipp, Joe Morris, and Luthor Grey
The Ivo Perelman Quartet (Ivo Perelman, Matthew Shipp, Joe Morris, and Luthor Grey) celebrates the release of their album "The Hour of the Star."
Ivo Perelman learned to play guitar, cello, clarinet, trombone, and pianowhile young, and concentrated on tenor sax from age 19. He attendedtheBerklee College of Musicfor one semester and thendropped out,moving toLos Angelesin 1986. Perelman released his first album in1989, which featuredPeter Erskine,John Patitucci,Airto Moreira,Eliane Elias, andFlora Purimas guests. After the release of hisfirst album he moved toNew York City. Perelman has released manycritically acclaimedalbums since then for a number of different labels, and has played withDominic Duval,Borah Bergman,Rashied Ali,Jay Rosen,Marilyn Crispell,Matthew Shipp,Paul Bley,Don Pullen,Fred Hopkins,Andrew Cyrille,Joanne Brackeen,Mark Helias,BillyHart,Mino Cinelu,Nana Vasconcelos,Reggie Workman,William Parker,Louis Sclavis,John Wolf Brennan,Elton Dean, andJoe Morris.
Matthew Shipp was born December 7, 1960 in Wilmington, Delaware. He started piano at 5 years old with the regular piano lessons most kids have experienced. He fell in love with jazz at 12 years old. After moving to New York in 1984 he quickly became one of the leading lights in the New York jazz scene. He was a sideman in the David S. Ware quartet and also for Roscoe Mitchell's Note Factory before making the decision to concentrate on his own music.
Wire Magazine called Joe Morris "one of the most profound improvisersat work in the US." Mostly known as a highly acclaimed guitarist,Morris added upright bass to his instruments in 2000 and has sinceearned a similar level of acclaim having performed on the instrumentwith Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Ken Vandermark, Marshall Allen,Sunny Murray, Joe Maneri, Billy Bang, Taylor Ho Bynum, Roy Campbell,Steve Lantner, etc. As a bassist/bandleader he has recorded for HatHut, Aum Fidelity, Riti, Skycap, Not Two and the recently releasedsolo bass LP "Sensor" on the No Business label.
Luther Gray started playing drums in punk rock bands. He laterdeveloped a significant interest in jazz and cut his teeth playingaround the D.C. area with the likes of Butch Warren, Cecil Payne,Webster Young, and Buck Hill at the same time performing and recordingwith indie rockers Tsunami, Delta 72, Jenny Toomey, and Ida. In 1999he moved to Boston, where he currently resides. Luther has sinceworked with Joe Morris, Anthony Braxton, Joe McPhee, Cameron Brown,Joseph Daly, Sabir Mateen, Roy Campbell, Geoff Farina, Andrew White,Rob Brown, Taylor Ho Bynum, Raqib Hassan, Bill Pierce, Joe Beck, FredAnderson, Ken Vandermark and many others. His band, Lawnmower, has acritically acclaimed CD, titled West, on the Clean Feed label. He hasperformed in festivals and concerts across the country and abroad andhas recorded for the Simple Machi...
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LocationISSUE Project Room
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
United States
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