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Sat, 04/17/10
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(139 days ago)
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From: 08:00 PM
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To: 09:00 PM
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Location: An die Musik Live
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410.385.2638
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Peter Erskine
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RELATIVITY
featuring Marty Ehrlich, Peter Erskine, and Michael Formanek
http://www.petererskine.com/
http://www.martyehrlich.com/
Tickets: $20/$10 students
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Peter Erskine began playing the drums at the age of four and has been at the forefront of world-class jazz ensembles for more than 35 years.
His first major professional work was with the Stan Kenton Orchestra, which he joined in 1972. After a three year stint with Kenton and a two year stay with Maynard Ferguson, Erskine joined Weather Report in 1978. The excellence of the partnership between Erskine and bassist Jaco Pastorius was an integral part of that group's success.
Following his four years in Weather Report (having recorded five albums with them - including the Grammy Award winning "8:30"), he began to play with Mike Brecker, Mike Mainieri, Don Grolnick and Eddie Gomez in the group Steps Ahead. Erskine's other touring and recording credits (500 albums & film scores) include Steely Dan, Diana Krall, Chick Corea, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Gary Burton & Pat Metheny, Joni Mitchell, Kurt Elling, Sadao Watanabe, Eliane Elias, Mike Stern, Kate Bush, Miroslav Vitous and Jan Garbarek; the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Ensemble Modern, the ASKO, Avanti, Remix & Absolute Ensembles, Bass Desires (with John Scofield, Bill Frisell, and Marc Johnson), the John Abercrombie Trio, the Kenny Wheeler Quintet & Big Band, the Yellowjackets and the Bob Mintzer Big Band. He has also recorded with his own groups, including trios with John Taylor, Palle Danielsson, Rita Marcotulli, and his current bands with guitarist Nguyen Le and bassist Michel Benita ("Trio E_L_B"), as well as a trio he shares with pianist Alan Pasqua.
Erskine's solo albums include: "Peter Erskine", "Transition", "Motion Poet", "Sweet Soul", "Big Theatre", and his ECM recordings "You Never Know," "Time Being", "As It Is" and "Juni" as well as "History of the DRUM", "Behind Closed Doors" and "Side Man Blue" on his own label FUZZY MUSIC. Peter is the co-leader of several albums, including "Prism" with Bill Dobbins and the WDR Big Band, "Cologne" with Bill Dobbins and John Goldsby, and "Dream Flight" with Nguyen Le and Michel Benita. The latest release on Fuzzy Music is “The Trio” featuring Peter, bassist Chuck Berghofer and pianist Terry Trotter.
Erskine's other playing ventures include The Lounge Art Ensemble with Bob Sheppard on saxophone. That group's most recent CD is titled "Music for Moderns," and a piano trio with Alan Pasqua and Dave Carpenter.
Their double CD "Peter Erskine & Alan Pasqua with David Carpenter - Live at Rocco" received rave reviews from the press and fans. Their last two CDs are called "Badlands" and the Grammy-nominated "Standards."
Erskine won his second Grammy Award for his work on the Randy & Michael Brecker album "Some Skunk Funk" (with Vince Mendoza and the WDR Big Band). His CD titled "Worth The Wait," recorded with trumpeter Tim Hagans and the Norrbotten Big Band (Sweden) won tremendous praise, and the follow-up CD “The Avatar Sessions” will feature Erskine, Hagans and the big band along with guest soloists Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, George Garzone and Rufus Reid.
Besides touring and recording, Erskine is composing for theater, dance, film and television. He has completed musical scores for Shakespeare's King Richard II and A Midsummer Night's Dream; the latter being honored by the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle with the award for the "Best Original Musical Score." His music for The American Conservatory Theatre's production of Twelfth Night was awarded by the Bay Area Drama Critics' Circle as the "Best Dramatic Score."
Other works for this medium are Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, the dance piece "History of the Drum" (written for the Kokuma Dance Company of Birmingham, England), "The Yield of the Long Bond" and "Honor" for LA's "Matrix Theatre," and scores for the Pasadena Playhouse productions of "Side Man" and “Defiance.” He has written for animation including “Gun Smith Cats,” and composed the music for the Simon & Schuster books-on-audio series "Alien Voices" starring Leonard Nimoy and John deLancie of Star Trek fame.
Peter was Composer-in-Residence at the famed Hilliard Ensemble's choral workshop in Germany in 2000, and received a BBC commission to compose the suite "Music for Brass and Percussion." Additional commissions include a piece for the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and marimba soloist Colin Currie, plus a percussion ensemble piece written in memory of Nexus co-founder John Wyre ("A Bird Sings").
Erskine is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, and studied percussion with George Gaber at Indiana University. His own pedagogical efforts include four instructional videos as well as eight books, including: "Drumset Essentials, Vols. 1, 2 & 3 " (a trilogy of instructional methods), plus the "Erskine Method" book and DVD, "Essential Drum Fills" and "Time Awareness for All Musicians" (published by Alfred Music Publishing). Erskine's other books include "Drum Concepts & Techniques" and "The Drum Perspective", both published by the Hal Leonard Corp.
Erskine conducts clinics, classes and seminars worldwide. He is the Director of Drumset Studies at the USC Thornton School of Music, and is the Jazz Drumming Consultant to the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Erskine has won the Modern Drummer magazine Readers' Poll in the "Jazz Drummer" category 10 times, and was awarded an honorary Doctorate degree from the Berklee College of Music. He was the soloist along with Evelyn Glennie at the world premiere of a new Double Concerto for Percussion titled "Fractured Lines," composed by Mark-Anthony Turnage, in London at the Proms in July 2000 with Sir Andrew Davis conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra. That work was recorded for the Chandos label.
Erskine is 55-years-old, and makes his home in Southern California.
Marty Ehrlich is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation, critically acclaimed as both composer and player. Equally fluent on clarinet, saxophone, and flutes, Ehrlich has been hailed as “one of the most formidable multi-instrumentalists since Eric Dolphy…the jazz dream musician” (The Village Voice).
The New York Times calls him “one of the premier melodicists of his generation,” and The Nation “one of his time’s most original thinkers (with) a rare and wonderful talent, a now yearning, now biting attack and a stunningly voice-like expressiveness.”
Jazz Zeitung states: “If there is a believable poetic sensibility in jazz, you will find it with Marty Ehrlich.”
The Jazz Journalist Association honored him as Wind Player of the Year in 2001 and as Clarinetist of the year in 2003. In 2004, Ehrlich was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Composition.
Since moving to New York in 1978, Ehrlich has performed his compositions throughout America, Europe and Canada with numerous ensembles. Marty’s latest recording on Palmetto Records, “News on the Rail” features a sextet and is being hailed as one of the best albums of 2005 (JazzTimes). The Traveler’s Tales Group is a quartet of two horns and rhythm section. Its most recent recording, Malinke’s Dance, was chosen as one of the ten best recordings of 2001 in the Village Voice. The Dark Woods Ensemble features Ehrlich’s woodwinds with cello and bass. Its most recent release, Sojourn, received an award from Absolute Sound Magazine as one of the three best recordings of the year. Ehrlich has recorded 14 CDs with these ensembles on the Palmetto, Enja, New World, Omnitone and Tzadik labels.
In 2003, Ehrlich released a CD of an extended composition for 23 musicians called The Long View. During 2002, this work was played in exhibition at Harvard University with the paintings of a long time collaborator of Ehrlich’s, the visual artist Oliver Jackson. The Boston Phoenix called the piece “one of a handful of integral long-form works in jazz, standing beside those of the likes of Hemphill, Mingus and Ellington.”
Ehrlich has also been active as a collaborator with other composers. He currently works with pianist Myra Melford in the Melford/Ehrlich Duo and in a trio with Andrew Cyrille and Mark Dresser, called C/D/E. The duo recently released Yet Can Spring on Arabesque, and the trio a self-titled CD on Pao. He has also released duo recordings with Muhal Richard Abrams, Mike Nock, Anthony Cox and John Lindberg.
As a composer, the New York Composer’s Orchestra, the Boston Jazz Composer’s Alliance, The Lydian String Quartet, The Rova Saxophone Quartet, The Kitchen House Blend Orchestra, the New York String Trio and pianist Ursula Oppens have commissioned works from him. In 1995 he was composer-in-residence at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum in Boston and in 2000 he was the Peter Ivers Visiting Artist at Harvard University and artist-in-residence at Dartmouth Univeristy. Ehrlich has taught at New England Conservatory of Music and Hampshire College.
Ehrlich has also been in great demand as a sideman, appearing with a distinguished array of artists, covering numerous generations and idioms. He has performed in ensembles led by Muhal Richard Abrams, Ray Anderson, Fontella Bass, Tim Berne, Anthony Braxton, Jaki Byard, John Carter, Anthony Davis, Jack DeJohnette, James Emery, Peter Erskine, Michael Formanek, Don Grolnick, George Gruntz, Chico Hamilton, Jerome Harris, Julius Hemphill, Andrew Hill, Robin Holcomb, Wayne Horvitz, Leroy Jenkins, Oliver Lake, Myra Melford, Roscoe Mitchell, James Newton, Mike Nock, Mario Pavone, Ken Peplowski, Bobby Previte, George Russell, Randy Sandke, Leo Smith, John Zorn and others. He appears on close to 100 albums with these composers.
Michael Formanek’s singular approach to the acoustic bass has led to an impressive range of musical associations. During his thirty-plus year career, he has played and/or recorded with Elvis Costello, Tim Berne, Uri Caine, Freddie Hubbard, Stan Getz, Marty Ehrlich, Chet Baker, Tony Williams, Gerry Mulligan, Bob Mintzer, Fred Hersch, Dave Liebman, Joe Henderson, Mark Isham, Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band, Mingus Big Band, Terumasa Hino, Cedar Walton, Attila Zoller, George Coleman, Jane Ira Bloom, Bob Moses, Gunther Schuller, Peter Erskine, Joe and Matt Maneri, Gary Thomas, Harold Danko, Dave Burrell, and many others.
Composition also plays a significant role in Formanek’s overall musical profile, and four albums of his original music, Wide Open Spaces, Extended Animation, Low Profile and Nature Of The Beast have been released to critical acclaim on the Enja label. Am I Bothering You, a recording of solo bass performances made for Tim Berne’s Screwgun label, has firmly established itself as an important contribution to that genre. Formanek produced or co-produced all of these recordings and among the featured musicians are Greg Osby, Tim Berne, Mark Feldman, Dave Douglas, Marvin “Smitty” Smith, Ku-umba Frank Lacy, Marty Ehrlich, Wayne Krantz, and Jim Black. Formanek received Chamber Music America's New Works: Creation and Presentation Grant for 2000-2001 to compose a new piece for the Tim Berne/Michael Formanek Duo, which was recently performed in Philadelphia as part of the Chamber Music America Encore program for 2007. Formanek was commissioned to compose an original piece for the 150th anniversary of the Peabody Conservatory. The piece, The Open Book for Jazz Soloists with Orchestra, was premiered at Peabody in February of 2007, and featured members of the Peabody Jazz Orchestra and the full Peabody Concert Orchestra under the direction of Hajime Teri Murai.
Current projects include Tim Berne’s bloodcount, together with saxophonists Tim Berne and Chris Speed, and drummer Jim Black, which has reunited after a ten-year hiatus, and 3081, a Baltimore based quartet featuring trumpeter Dave Ballou, saxophone and clarinetist, John Dierker, and percussionist Will Redman, and a new quartet with Tim Berne, pianist Craig Taborn, and Gerald Cleaver on drums.
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Marty Ehrlich
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Michael Formanek
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