Mandorla Music Presents Paradiso & Reijonen And Rivers & Pacowski at Third Life Studio

Presenting the latest of our occasional "Duo Duo" events. This one will feature the Giuseppe Paradiso/Jussi Reijonen Duo and the Kurtis Rivers/Alain Pacowski Duo.

Giuseppe Paradiso was born in Santeramo in Colle, Italy and started his musical studies on drums at the age of six. He went on to conservatory study as well as training in jazz tradition, winning an international marimba competition along the way, and came to Boston in 2008. He has performed internationally, lead the band Meridian 71, curated a concert series, and keeps a busy schedule as an educator. Oud and guitar player Jussi Reijonen's musical journey has taken him from his native Northern Finland to years spent living in the Middle East, East Africa, and now the United States. As a result, in both his original compositions and his playing, the open spaces and silences of Scandinavia rub shoulders with the modes of Arab music and Indian and West African rhythms. ...

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Presenting the latest of our occasional "Duo Duo" events. This one will feature the Giuseppe Paradiso/Jussi Reijonen Duo and the Kurtis Rivers/Alain Pacowski Duo.

Giuseppe Paradiso was born in Santeramo in Colle, Italy and started his musical studies on drums at the age of six. He went on to conservatory study as well as training in jazz tradition, winning an international marimba competition along the way, and came to Boston in 2008. He has performed internationally, lead the band Meridian 71, curated a concert series, and keeps a busy schedule as an educator. Oud and guitar player Jussi Reijonen's musical journey has taken him from his native Northern Finland to years spent living in the Middle East, East Africa, and now the United States. As a result, in both his original compositions and his playing, the open spaces and silences of Scandinavia rub shoulders with the modes of Arab music and Indian and West African rhythms.

South Carolina native alto saxophonist Kurtis Rivers is a veteran of the Boston jazz scene whose career includes stints with Either/Orchestra and Salim Washington's Roxbury Blues Aesthetic. He can currently be seen with the Makanda Project and his own long-running quartet. French guitarist Alain Pacowski first met Kurtis when both were regulars playing at Wally's decades ago, and their collaboration has continued since. In 2013, he released his album Double A. These days, he splits his time between Boston and the busy New York scene.

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