Thelonious Monk winner now a leader on tour, Jon Irabagon 4tet
Summary: The Creative Music Series presents a stellar 4tet. Notable, leading-edge musicians, world class, on tour!
Each is a leader in their own right!
Each has played in Boston, now together for the first time:
April 22 Firehouse 12, New Haven, CT
April 23 THE LILYPAD, Cambridge, MA
April 24 Space Gallery, Portland, ME
April 25 Quinnโs, Beacon, NY
April 26 The Bop Shop, Rochester, NY
April 27 Tonal Music Studio, Takoma Park, MD
April 29 Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta, NY...
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Thelonious Monk winner now a leader on tour, Jon Irabagon 4tet
Summary: The Creative Music Series presents a stellar 4tet. Notable, leading-edge musicians, world class, on tour!
Each is a leader in their own right!
Each has played in Boston, now together for the first time:
April 22 Firehouse 12, New Haven, CT
April 23 THE LILYPAD, Cambridge, MA
April 24 Space Gallery, Portland, ME
April 25 Quinnโs, Beacon, NY
April 26 The Bop Shop, Rochester, NY
April 27 Tonal Music Studio, Takoma Park, MD
April 29 Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta, NY
He is hoping to have the new album of this group for this April tour called Rising Sun!
Jon Irabagonโs new quartet!
Irabagon:
From the winner of the notable 2008 Thelonious Monk Saxophone Competition to a leading and in-demand figure in Jazz world-wideโฆ
โThere are few players who can so deftly stride from postbop to free improvisation, and then wander from chaotic collage-spraying to sleek-blowing fluency.โ - The New York City Jazz Record.
"Irabagon is a subverter of the jazz form; heโs a revolutionary whoโs secretly messing with the changes. He might be dismantling the musicโs mechanics from the inside, but from the outside he can frequently persuade a crowd that heโs an old- school practitioner - The New York City Jazz Record.
Dan Weiss's intense study of jazz, classical Indian, contemporary classical, West African, and metal sets a musical platform that creates a sound that transcends conventional style or genre.
Chris Lightcap performed weekly with the Cecil Taylor Big Band in 1995. For the next two years he worked regularly throughout New York City in a trio led by saxophonist George Garzone.
Matt Mitchell, โA pianist of burrowing focus and an indispensable fixture of the contemporary vanguardโ โ Nate Chinen, The New York Times
This program is supported in part by a Grant from the Cambridge Arts Council a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
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Made possible with the support of Jazz Road, a national initiative of South Arts, which is funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
A first-generation Filipino-American Jon Irabagon (b. 1978, Chicago) has been influenced by the self-empowering and individualistic philosophies and aesthetic of the great AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) ensembles. Irabagon builds on this foundation by adding modern classical and late-period John Coltrane to his compositional base.
After earning a Bachelor of Music from DePaul University, Irabagon continued his education by earning a Master of Arts from the Manhattan School of Music and completing post-graduate studies in the jazz program at Juilliard. Heโs a winner of the Rising Star award in Downbeat Magazine for both alto and tenor saxophones, and the recipient of a Philippine Presidential Award, the highest civilian honor an overseas Filipino can receive.
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