Drummer Gregg Bendian And Bassist Hilliard Greene Join Host Keyboardist Dave Bryant For May's Harmolodic Jazz "third Thursdays" Concert. at Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church

Improvising keyboardist Dave Bryant, curator and host of the “Third Thursdays” series of monthly harmolodic jazz concerts, has invited drummer Gregg Bendian and bassist Hilliard Greene to join him in May for a high-energy harmolodic jazz trio experience.

The May concert will be Bryant’s and Bendian’s first in-person performance together since the recording of their Night Visitors album, released in 2020. The album featured a trio of Bryant, Bendian, and the late bassist Charnett Moffett, who passed last spring. All three artists had direct affiliations with free jazz legend Ornette Coleman. Per Wulf’s Music + Blog review of Night Visitors: “Bryant and the two musicians improvise amazingly, adding influences from other music styles as rock, blues and beyond into the performances. . . . Very original and a great tribute to the music of Coleman, taking his concepts forward. Adventurous and a pleasure to listen to!”...

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Improvising keyboardist Dave Bryant, curator and host of the “Third Thursdays” series of monthly harmolodic jazz concerts, has invited drummer Gregg Bendian and bassist Hilliard Greene to join him in May for a high-energy harmolodic jazz trio experience.

The May concert will be Bryant’s and Bendian’s first in-person performance together since the recording of their Night Visitors album, released in 2020. The album featured a trio of Bryant, Bendian, and the late bassist Charnett Moffett, who passed last spring. All three artists had direct affiliations with free jazz legend Ornette Coleman. Per Wulf’s Music + Blog review of Night Visitors: “Bryant and the two musicians improvise amazingly, adding influences from other music styles as rock, blues and beyond into the performances. . . . Very original and a great tribute to the music of Coleman, taking his concepts forward. Adventurous and a pleasure to listen to!”

Bryant notes, “It’s about time Night Visitors had a CD release concert! It’s just so sad that we can’t perform with our good friend Charnett. But this long-awaited reunion with Gregg and Hill should be both warmly familiar and stylistically wide-ranging.”

This is the second concert in year two of the “Third Thursdays” series. This second year (running from April 2023-March 2024) will continue to feature artists who are also former Ornette Coleman colleagues. The ultimate goal of “Third Thursdays” is to share experiences of free jazz played using Coleman’s unique approach. Each month’s concert is a totally different experience, catapulting performers—and their listeners—out of their usual comfort zone with ear-catching transcendent musical moments.

“Third Thursdays” performances and interviews have been documented at dbryantmusic.com/third-thursdays. Performance videos and interviews with former Coleman colleagues are also available at youtube.com/@davebryantmusic/videos.

For the full announcement, with further background information on the artists, please visit www.prlog.org/12962282

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