Grant Calvin Weston & Jupiter Blue at The Rotunda

Fire Museum & The Rotunda Present:

Grant Calvin Weston

The Out sider/Improv Messenger solo project debut

Jupiter Blue


Thursday, February 16th 8:00 PM
The Rotunda
4014 Walnut Street
Philadelphia
FREE


Grant Calvin Weston:

"Legendary drummer Calvin Weston joined Ornette Coleman's Prime Time at age seventeen and appeared on multiple recordings with the innovative fusion band, including the classic Virgin Beauty with Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia. For over thirty years, Calvin's progressive and driving approach to drumming has powered recordings with George Adams, Derek Bailey, Samm Bennett, Jean-Paul Bourelly, James Carter, Trevor Dunn, Melvin Gibbs, Eyvind Kang, Billy Martin, Marc Ribot, James "Blood" Ulmer and The Lounge Lizards." - Imaginary Chicago...

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Fire Museum & The Rotunda Present:

Grant Calvin Weston

The Out sider/Improv Messenger solo project debut

Jupiter Blue


Thursday, February 16th 8:00 PM
The Rotunda
4014 Walnut Street
Philadelphia
FREE


Grant Calvin Weston:

"Legendary drummer Calvin Weston joined Ornette Coleman's Prime Time at age seventeen and appeared on multiple recordings with the innovative fusion band, including the classic Virgin Beauty with Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia. For over thirty years, Calvin's progressive and driving approach to drumming has powered recordings with George Adams, Derek Bailey, Samm Bennett, Jean-Paul Bourelly, James Carter, Trevor Dunn, Melvin Gibbs, Eyvind Kang, Billy Martin, Marc Ribot, James "Blood" Ulmer and The Lounge Lizards." - Imaginary Chicago

Grant Calvin Weston has blazed a harmolodic, funkadelic trail through modern jazz. This record is a culmination of recordings made on the West Coast and his hometown of Philadelphia. Weston puts his Midas touch on electronics and acoustic instruments that blow the socks off any jazz-rock poser out there. Listen to the man who funked-up Ornette Coleman in the 1980s. "Weston lays down a ferocious groove with ecstatic shouts … tugging rhythmic displacements that tease like thunder and lightning throughout." - All About Jazz


Jupiter Blue:

Sun Ra Arkestra guitarist D.Hotep uses his Akimbo Research Project to explore differing genres of music -- from composed to improvised to experimental. With Sun Ra Arkestra vocalist/lyricist/violinist Tara Middleton he forms the duo Jupiter Blue, developing lyrical grooves & jazz-sourced vocal soundscapes. This performance will bring the duo together with Sonic Liberation 8 founder Kevin Diehl, providing electronic rhythms & atmospheres, for an exploration of original song, spoken word, and improvisation.

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