BT3 Brings Hard Jazz/Funk Grooves & Guitar Pyrotechnics to the Iridium Jazz Club – Friday, August 13 @ 11:30pm as part of their Emerging Artist Series
From a lifetime of breaking boundaries, leading an award-winning, DC-based hip-hop/fusion band, Miscellaneous Flux, and collaborating with numerous musical pioneers (Vernon Reid, Burnt Sugar: The Arkestra Chamber, and DJ Logic), guitarist Ben Tyree, pushes forward with his own ground-breaking, improvisational, sci-fi/jazz/funk trio project, BT3. On Friday, August 13 @ 11:30pm, Tyree will present BT3 at the Iridium Jazz Club (1650 Broadway @ 51st. Street, NYC) as part of their Emerging Artist Series....
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BT3 Brings Hard Jazz/Funk Grooves & Guitar Pyrotechnics to the Iridium Jazz Club – Friday, August 13 @ 11:30pm as part of their Emerging Artist Series
From a lifetime of breaking boundaries, leading an award-winning, DC-based hip-hop/fusion band, Miscellaneous Flux, and collaborating with numerous musical pioneers (Vernon Reid, Burnt Sugar: The Arkestra Chamber, and DJ Logic), guitarist Ben Tyree, pushes forward with his own ground-breaking, improvisational, sci-fi/jazz/funk trio project, BT3. On Friday, August 13 @ 11:30pm, Tyree will present BT3 at the Iridium Jazz Club (1650 Broadway @ 51st. Street, NYC) as part of their Emerging Artist Series.
Incorporating Coltrane-esque melodic sheets of sound, funk-derived and classical finger-style rhythm playing as well as chord voicings not typical to guitar arrangements, Tyree has established himself as one of the most versatile and creative musicians of his generation. With BT3, Tyree lays down powerful rhythms laced with cutting-edge improvisations and trancy sonic textures. Though progressive in form and intricacy, BT3's firm roots in groove are what make them so alluring.
Tyree's vision stems from studies of classical guitar, composition and jazz performance at Washington, D.C.'s Duke Ellington School of the Arts and Howard University as well as experiences with his award-winning hip-hop/fusion group, Miscellaneous Flux. Having collaborated with the likes of Vernon Reid, DJ Logic, and Kyp Malone (TV On The Radio), his musical vision has expanded broadly, as has the demand for his talent. Since re-locating to New York seven years ago, Tyree has been working steadily on various projects throughout the city, with Burnt Sugar: The Arkestra Chamber, MuthaWit, Nomi, Res, Elliot Sharp's SyndaKit, Stephanie Rooker and the Search Engine, and Soul Understated (feat. Mavis “Swan" Poole), amongst others.
BT3, freshly formed in 2009, has been astonishing audiences at The Blue Note, (the now defunct) Black Betty, Rose Live Music, Fat Baby, Real ArtWays (Hartford, CT), and on 89.3 FM WKCR's Live Constructions with their daring and unique style of instrumental, and heavily improvisational jazz/funk fusion. Performing all original material composed by guitarist/band leader Ben Tyree, BT3 also features bassist Theo Harden, drummer Lawrence Qualls, and rotating members including John Medeski (organ), DJ Logic (turntables), Steve Jenkins (bass), Stacy Dillard (tenor saxophone), V. Jeffrey Smith (tenor saxophone), and Stephanie Rooker (vocals). A live recording of BT3's “A Song Of Hope" is currently featured on a benefit compilation for Partners In Health (raising funds to benefit the earthquake victims in Haiti) called Mizik Pou Dwa Moun: A Burnt Sugar Collective Compilation for the People of Ayiti (burntsugar.bandcamp.com).
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