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Listen To This at Boston Harbor Distillery

Where

Boston Harbor Distillery
12r Ericsson St
Boston, MA
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Listen To This at Boston Harbor Distillery

When

Sat, October 22, 2022
8:00 pm

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Musicians

Bryan Murphy
trumpet
Russ Gershon
multi-instrumentalist
Todd Brunel
clarinet, bass
Dave Bryant
keyboards
Rick McLaughlin
bass, acoustic
Rick Barry
percussion
J. Johnson
guitar

About

When Miles Davis turned in his Italian suits for Sly Stone-inspired threads and started using electric piano, guitar and Fender Bass in his bands, he turned over the world of jazz. In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, A Tribute to Jack Johnson and On the Corner fused the best of funk beats, jazz harmony and avant-garde abandon in a way that has seldom been matched.

A new eight piece band, โ€œListen to This,โ€ is named for the working title for the album that became Bitches Brew. Most of its members were drawn into jazz as teenagers by the groundbreaking work of Miles and his sidemen โ€“ Herbie, Chick, Wayne, Zawinul, McLaughlin โ€“ when that music was brand new. At the distance of โ€“ gulp โ€“ a half century, they revisit this music and play it with the delight of teenagers and the skill of veterans....

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