Willie Oteri Wd-41 and Friends at Jazz OUTside Series at Kenny Dorham's Backyard

When: Thursday August 21 at 7:00pm
Where: Kenny Dorham’s Backyard,
1106 East 11th St, Austin, TX 78702
Cost: $5 suggested donation, Kids free
Contact: Harold McMillan [email protected]

WD-41 and friends
(Willie Oteri and Dave Laczko)
(live looping and effected trumpet madness sometimes with sax, drums and spoken word and ???)

The Jazz Destroyers
(jazz and beyond)

Beyond Jazz Jam Session
(bring your ax, poetry, etc)

The jams at these shows tend to go to live Bitches Brew era territory and beyond so if that is of interest to you come out and jam or just listen....

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When: Thursday August 21 at 7:00pm
Where: Kenny Dorham’s Backyard,
1106 East 11th St, Austin, TX 78702
Cost: $5 suggested donation, Kids free
Contact: Harold McMillan [email protected]

WD-41 and friends
(Willie Oteri and Dave Laczko)
(live looping and effected trumpet madness sometimes with sax, drums and spoken word and ???)

The Jazz Destroyers
(jazz and beyond)

Beyond Jazz Jam Session
(bring your ax, poetry, etc)

The jams at these shows tend to go to live Bitches Brew era territory and beyond so if that is of interest to you come out and jam or just listen.

Jazz OUTside with Diverse Artes presents collaborative spoken word and improvised music performances that feature an ever evolving all-star cast of Austin’s best performance poets, musicians, and writers who create live-on-the-spot spontaneous compositions.These are decidedly not "poetry readings." Now one of Austin’s longest lived spoken word and music projects (since 2000), word/jazz creates a comfortable setting for exploration of how traditional call-and-response can be adapted to performance situations where artists are free to improvise based on real time inspiration of the moment.

Host for the show:
Willie Oteri & WD-41 with Dave Laczko and very special guests.
Willie Oteri (Part of Austin's improv scene for over 15 years) -Guitar, has collaborated and performed with Scott Amendola (Charlie Hunter) Dino J.A. Deane (John Zorn, Jon Hassel) Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, John Lennon), Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson, XTC), Mike Keneally (Frank Zappa), Jerry Marotta (Peter Gabriel), Stu Hamm (Joe Satriani, SteveVai) and others. In recent years, it is Oteri's role as composer and band leader which has garnered him increasing notoriety coupled with a notable unique style on guitar. Willie has toured Europe and Japan and often gigs in Italy and Germany. Top 3 editors pick at Guitar Player Magazine Dec. 2010

Dave Laczko - Trumpet has been on the Austin Jazz scene for decades including the Brarons of Rhythm and 14 years as a Jazz DJ for KAZI radio and recordings with WD-41, JA Deane, Scott Amendola and Shrunken Head Shop. WD-41 currently have a top ranked video and mp3 at All About Jazz. Dave has also toured Italy and Germany.

The Jazz Destroyers are a trio specializing on old favorites and new standards. Whether a jazz standard or a reimagined hit from today, The Jazz Destroyers bring a fresh perspective from diverse backgrounds. Their debut LP "Thoroughly Obscure" is due out later this year. Donald W. Mohr - Guitar, Thomas Baker - Bass, Dale Lynn - Drums.


We hope you will join us. Great food near by and B.Y.O.B (cans and plastic only). Bring your own lawn chairs and blankets. A $5 donation is suggested to help DiverseArts continue it’s work promoting local arts and artists. Children have free admission.

DiverseArts is funded in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that .....a great nation deserves great art.

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