New Music/New Jazz - An Evening With Elliott Sharp and Anthony Coleman

Two unique and visionary composer/performers present an evening of solos and duos encompassing their own works and the music of Thelonious Monk, Jelly Roll Morton, and more.

Elliott Sharp is known for the wide range of his work, always true to his own sonic vision and performing throughout the world: from blues with his band Terraplane and the legendary Hubert Sumlin, extreme rock with Carbon, chamber works with the Arditti Quartet, orchestral scores with the Ensmeble Modern, and improvisation with the likes of Jack DeJohnette, Bill Laswell, Arthur Blythe, Christian Marclay, and DJ Soulslinger. Sharp recently released a CD of solo acoustic guitar, "The Velocity Of Hue" to great critical acclaim and has just recorded a CD of Thelonious Monk compositions also on acoustic guitar. He will present works from both of these on this evening.

Anthony Coleman is a composer-keyboardist who has performed and recorded throughout the world, both with his own projects and with numerous other ensembles including the piano trio Sephardic Tinge, which has released 3 discs: Sephardic Tinge, Morenica, and Our Beautiful Garden Is Open and has performed at the Sarajevo Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Saalfelden Festival, and the Krakow and Vienna Jewish Culture Festivals. He has also performed extensively with ensembles of Marc Ribot, John Zorn, Glenn Branca. He has recently presented a concert of Jelly Roll Morton's compositions and will draw from those works ffor this evening.

Elliott Sharp reviews: "If much of his previous work has found beauty in extremes of intensity, he reverses course here, creating a cumulative intensity from extremes of beauty." Steve Smith - TIME OUT NYC

While Sharp's knowledge of global musics must inform his playing, the overall effect is of an intrinsically American, intrinsically blues, and specifically guitar derived, music. The playing is elegiac, lyrical and passionate, and uses several extended techniques of finger-tapping, harmonics and fretboard noise as well as a subtle sinuous acoustic feedback to extend notes at will. Few other players have managed to liberate the language of steel blues so completely Most of all, though, the music has an extraordinary saturated living colour, as the title track (and its title) Velocity Of Hue so succinctly suggest." Nick Southgate - THE WIRE

 Cover $12   elliottsharp.com

Rachel Loshak, vocals, bass;  Morgan Taylor, guitar

A Connecticut native reared in the jazz and rock clubs of Chicago, Tuey Connell draws upon the likes of Bill Withers, Johnny Hartman, Wes Montgomery and Bela Fleck – in addition to blues, swing and roots music – to create his unique, intoxicating sound. Connell is one of those rare, multi-faceted musicians like Chet Baker, Nat King Cole and Shirley Horn whose striking talent on an instrument is matched by their intuitive and intimate vocals. Not only does Connell sing sophisticated music, but he writes it, contributing three memorable songs to his 4th CD, Under the Influence (Minor Music).

Connell has to be the best-kept vocal/instrumentalist secret in the country. Connell is a new vocal force not to be denied. Nuvo, Indianapolis

The best young male jazz singer to emerge since Kurt Elling… Star Tribune, Minneapolis

One of a kind Connell delivers on promise. Chicago Tribune

The Tuey Trio will share this special night with NYC's supremo s/s and bassist, Rachel Loshak and her guitarist, Morgan Taylor.

"What makes singer/bassist, RACHEL LOSHAK's music and sound so unique is a sophisticated, orchestral approach to traditional pop music. Imagine a string quartet stripped of its native instruments and handed electric guitars and amplifiers. Melodic bass figures move like a boogied cello weaving with guitar, drums and piano beneath her pure and bell-toned voice. This forms an accessible foundation to the wide-eyed wonderment of her lyrics and beautifully haunting melodies which Loshak paints in broad strokes with a graceful sadness. Supporting her both onstage and on record are guitarist Jason Crigler (Linda Thompson, Marshall Crenshaw) and drummer Dan Reiser (Norah Jones, Marcy Playground). Rachel moved to New York City in the late Ninties from Suffolk, England and honed her songwriting craft with her unique 'bass and voice' style."
 Cover $8   tueyconnell.com ,  www.rachelloshak.com