Will Calhoun: Wmv Project at Alma Mater

Modern Renaissance Jazz presents:
Grammy Award-Winning Duo Drummer Will Calhoun & Guitarist Vernon Reid from the group "Living Colour" at Alma Mater music venue in Mt. Airy.

On Thursday, Aug 11th, the Grammy-Award winning duo Will Calhoun and Vernon Reid will partner with bassist Melvin Gibbs to form the soul-rock-jazz fusion project WMV and perform two shows, 7:30pm & 9:30pm at Alma Mater Restaurant/Beer Garden, 7165 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19119.
Known primarily for his vivid and volcanic drumming in the hard-hitting soul-rock group Living Colour, Calhoun, whose forthcoming CD, Celebrating Elvin Jones, is a tribute to John Coltrane’s legendary drummer – has also worked with a wide range of jazz and hip-hop artists from McCoy Tyner to Mos Def, and earned critical praise as Best Drummer by Downbeat Magazine, and from countless other publications. Calhoun has played in a staggering variety of styles and traditions over the course of his eclectic career, including straight-ahead jazz, fusion, traditional African percussion, funk, hip-hop, and of course, hard rock. Bassist Gibbs, no stranger to the electric scene, is known for his work with the group Power Tools, worked as a sideman with Bill Frisell, Femi Kuti, Dead Prez, and Craig Harris, and is an impressive composer in his own right. As the lead guitarist of Living Colour and a co-founder of the Black Rock Coalition, Brooklyn-based Vernon Reid's eclectic and encyclopedic guitar playing ranges from hard rock and punk and funk, to R&B, avant-garde jazz, hip-hop and beyond....

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Modern Renaissance Jazz presents:
Grammy Award-Winning Duo Drummer Will Calhoun & Guitarist Vernon Reid from the group "Living Colour" at Alma Mater music venue in Mt. Airy.

On Thursday, Aug 11th, the Grammy-Award winning duo Will Calhoun and Vernon Reid will partner with bassist Melvin Gibbs to form the soul-rock-jazz fusion project WMV and perform two shows, 7:30pm & 9:30pm at Alma Mater Restaurant/Beer Garden, 7165 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19119.
Known primarily for his vivid and volcanic drumming in the hard-hitting soul-rock group Living Colour, Calhoun, whose forthcoming CD, Celebrating Elvin Jones, is a tribute to John Coltrane’s legendary drummer – has also worked with a wide range of jazz and hip-hop artists from McCoy Tyner to Mos Def, and earned critical praise as Best Drummer by Downbeat Magazine, and from countless other publications. Calhoun has played in a staggering variety of styles and traditions over the course of his eclectic career, including straight-ahead jazz, fusion, traditional African percussion, funk, hip-hop, and of course, hard rock. Bassist Gibbs, no stranger to the electric scene, is known for his work with the group Power Tools, worked as a sideman with Bill Frisell, Femi Kuti, Dead Prez, and Craig Harris, and is an impressive composer in his own right. As the lead guitarist of Living Colour and a co-founder of the Black Rock Coalition, Brooklyn-based Vernon Reid's eclectic and encyclopedic guitar playing ranges from hard rock and punk and funk, to R&B, avant-garde jazz, hip-hop and beyond.
"I’ve known Melvin from nearly the beginning of my career, and we’ve been playing together off and on for over 30 years,” Reid says on the Iridium supper club’s blog. "Part of the thing we do is we play a little of Ronald Shannon Jackson, which is a real connection between Melvin and myself of how we kind of came up … We also play the music of Sonny Sharrock and then there’s some originals, there’s some improvisation. It’s a real part of my involvement with rock and roll. Rock and roll is how you interpret it and I interpret it as an avenue towards freedom so for me coming from this whole idea of free jazz and free rock….”
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