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Neil Alexander & Nail @ The Underground at The Falcon
Courtesy of Sally Lynch | Posted on August 18, 2017
Where
The Falcon
1348 Rte 9w
Marlboro, NY
Map
845-236-7970
When
Fri, September 1, 2017
7:00 pm
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Musicians
Neil "Nail" Alexander
keyboardsRichie Morales
drumsDave Anderson
saxophonePeter Furlan
saxophone, tenorAbout
“All music is crossover”, says Neil Alexander, a self-styled “Jazz Synthesist” and composer from Newburgh, NY. He knows what he’s talking about, having played thousands of gigs in about every style across 30+ years of making music.
Formed in 1999 by synth master, Neil Alexander, to satisfy his diverse musical tastes, NAIL breaks rules and brings multiple styles and worlds together. A remarkable quartet, NAIL is a particularly hi-tech fusion of Jazz, Rock, Funk, Ambient and Electronica, with a distinctly original sound.
Alexander ties this difficult categorization together through jazz, the original melting pot of music. “Jazz borrows from everything it co-exists with, and spawns new styles constantly.” With his experience - which includes playing rock, jazz, blues, funk, electronica, ambient, classical, composing for Modern Dance and Avant Garde Theater as well as teaching Master Classes in music technology - Neil has built a formidable musical vocabulary. ...