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Deep Hamden: A Jazz Mini-Festival at Best Video Performance Space, Aug. 18-19, 2017
Friday, August 18, 8 PM: The Deep Hamden Band, performing "Deep Hamden," a Blue Suite composed by Allen Lowe
Saturday, August 19, 5 PM: Adam Matlock
6 PM: The Rosemary Minkler Quartet, featuring Will Cleary
8 PM: Brian Jarawa Gray & The Healing Drum Society
Best Video Performance Space hosts a 2-day jazz festival, Deep Hamden, on Friday, Aug. 18, and Saturday, Aug. 19.
On Friday, Ag. 18, the festival features saxophonist Allen Lowe with a big band performing Deep Hamden: A Blue Suite (starting at 8 PM; with saxophonist Jovan Alexandre). Brian Jarawa Gray (Jarawa) and The Healing Drum Society headline Saturday night, Aug. 19, performing The Healing Drum, starting at 8 PM. Pianist Rosemary Minkler and her Quartet featuring saxophonist Will Cleary perform at 6 PM. Solo accordionist (and member of Anthony Braxtons Orchestra) Adam Matlock opens the Saturday program at 5 PM.
Tickets are $10 each night, $15 for both nights, and advance tickets are available through Brown Paper Tickets.
For more information call 203-287-9286 or email allenlowe5@gmail.com
Some of the Performers:
Allen Lowe is a saxophonist and American music historian. He lectures at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and is a Visiting Professor at the Berklee School of Music. He has recorded as a leader with Julius Hemphill, David Murray, Gary Bartz, Hamiet Bluiett, Ken Peplowski, Don Byron, Doc Cheatham, and Roswell Rudd.
As an historian, David Hajdu of the New Republic has described Lowe as
one of the most important music historians alive, an exceptional thinker who sees the entirety of American musical history with unmatched clarity. He's unbowed as an intellectual, driven by neither vogues or ideology. His work taken as a whole is a monumental achievement. There's no one better alive.
John Szwed, of Yale and Columbia Jazz studies, has written:
Allen Lowe is a genius! His work is always full of wonder, the excitement of discovery, and humor. Im amazed by the energy and intelligence it takes to do this quantity of work at this level while on the margins of media and music. Yes, I know that the best work has always been done at the margins, by the so-called underground Poe, Whitman, Monk, Harvey Pekar, Herbie Nichols, James Joyce, Sun Ra but its still a surprise and a revelation whenever you find it.
Brian Jarawa Gray and the New Village Drummers. Brian Jarawa Gray is better Known as Jarawa, Jarawa has more then 30 years of experience as a Percussionist, Song writer, Band leader and Performing artist, He has taught world music in public, private schools and Universities in Connecticut and New York. Jarawa performs Natural Centric Drumming and the music of the African Diaspora. He is a featured artist on recordings by Oliver Lake, Pheroan Aklaff, Yosuke Yamashita, The Visions Band and His own CDs are titled Berdisha Pertasha, You're Soo Special and Stories of Life. Jarawa has Performed at. Lincoln Center with Jay Hoggard SOBs With Pheroan Aklaff Seventh Avenue Theater With Joseph Jarmin Brooklyn Academy of Music with Chuck Davis Dance Co. and many more venues across the country.
Adam Matlock is a composer and performer, working within the realms of art music, electronics, folk, international music and traditional songwriting. He utilizes the alias G. Zarapenecko for electronic compositions and experiments, An Historic for original songs, and his own name for longer-form compositions as well as the occasional solo performance. He works with the legendary composer Anthony Braxton.
Born and raised in Waterbury, CT, Rosemary Minkler is an accomplished young pianist, composer, and audio engineer. She grew up surrounded by music and began studying piano at an early age, discovering her passion for jazz at the Litchfield Jazz Camp. She continued her studies on a full scholarship to Western Connecticut State University, where she received a degree in Audio and Music Production with a concentration in Jazz Piano.
Here, she studied jazz piano with Peter Tomlinson, classical piano with Russell Hirshfield, classical composition with Kevin Isaacs, and applied audio with Douglas O'Grady and Edward Dzubak. In addition, she worked closely with jazz guitarist/composer Jamie Begian as well as renowned jazz saxophonist Jimmy Greene. She is currently a member in Danbury-based fusion collective The Recess Bureau and often plays with other musicians in the Connecticut and New York area. Rosemary's most recent release, Prospectus, is her debut as a bandleader, composer, and audio engineer.
Will Cleary hails from Houston, Texas, where he began his jazz studies at the Summer Jazz Workshop and Houston's High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. He then obtained his Bachelor of Music degree at the Oberlin Conservatory, studying with Gary Bartz, Robin Eubanks, and Dan Wall. He received his Master of Music degree in 2010 from the Eastman School of Music under the tutelage of Walt Weiskopf and Bill Dobbins, and was the recipient of the Raymond and Maxine Schirmer Prize in Jazz Performance.
Will has played with Slide Hampton, Chuck Mangione, Conrad Herwig, Marvin Stamm, Marcus Belgrave, Charles McPherson, Kim Waters, Bob Sneider, Dave Glasser, and Pat LaBarbera. He has opened for Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, as well as for Jason Moran. Other significant performances include appearances at the Houston International Jazz Festival, the Detroit International Jazz Festival, the Rochester International Jazz Festival, and services at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York City. He is currently playing and recording with various artists in New Haven, Connecticut, and the surrounding areas.
Jovan Alexandre who will perform with Allen Lowe's ensemble on Friday night is a tenor saxophonist, who made his debut as a leader at the prestigious New York City Winter JazzFest [on January 9, 2015]. He has been a soloist on recordings for drummers Ralph Peterson (Outer Reaches [2010]) and Winard Harper (Coexist, sharing the tenor spotlight with Frank Wess [2012]), and for the South African jazz singer Nonhlanhla Kheswa (Meadowlands, Stolen Jazz [2013]). His first album as a leader, Collective Consciousness, was released worldwide [on February 24, 2015][on Xippi Phonorecords, XP22540].
Alexandres Wallingford is fifteen miles due north of New Haven. Several times a week during his high school years, he made the further trek northward to Hartford, a city rich in jazz history, to study at the Artists Collective, a neighborhood institution founded to promote the art and culture of the African diaspora and much beloved of Hartfords African-American and Caribbean communities. In the 1980's, the University of Hartfords Hartt School, a nationally prestigious conservatory, asked Jackie McLean to establish a jazz performance department. Alexandre is one of dozens of alumni of the Artists Collective to have continued their studies at Hartt. He graduated with distinction [in 2011] from the jazz program, now formally known as the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz.
Shortly after graduating from Hartt, Alexandre began to earn an almost underground reputation as one of the most compelling and talked- about of the new tenor saxophone soloists, through appearances with top-name musicians such as Hank Jones, Dionne Warwick, Curtis Fuller, Harold Mabern, Larry Willis, Charles Tolliver, Randy Brecker, Antoine Roney, Benito Gonzalez, Shimrit Shoshan, Ray McMorrin, Josh Evans, Curtis Torian, Tadataka Unno, and Kendrick Oliver & The New Life Jazz Orchestra.
With the release of his debut album Collective Consciousness, and more regular appearances in New York City and national and international touring on the horizon.
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1842 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, CT 06517
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