7/18 – Strollin’ Park St (Mad) | 7/19 – Lovely Socialite @ The Jazz Estate (Mke)

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Sat, 7/18 | Strollin Park Street (Mad) Jazz Festival

Produced by the Greater Madison Jazz Consortium, the season’s second Strollin’ event offers a family-friendly 5 ½ hours of continuous and stylistically-diverse live jazz in the afternoon in and around the Villager Mall at the south end of South Park Street, followed by an “after-party” at north end of the Street, at The Mason Lounge. As always with Strollin’, there’s no cover charge. Here’s the line-up.

One City Early Learning Stage at the Villager Mall (South East Corner of the parking lot, across from McDonald’s): Noon-2:30pm
Madison Music Foundry Student Jazz Ensemble: Noon-12:30pm
Fountain of Life’s Rivers of Madison: 12:45-1:45pm
Black Star Drum Line: 2pm-2:30pm

The Urban League Community Room: 2pm-3:30pm
Rick Flowers Quartet

Madison Police Station- South District (outdoor stage, or the community room if weather is bad): 3:15pm-5:30pm
Mad City Funk 3:15-4:15pm
Golpe Tierra 4:30pm-5:30pm

The Mason Lounge: 7-9:30pm
bpmTrio: 7-8pm
Five Points Jazz Collective: 8:30pm-9:30pm

For more info please visit jazzinmadison.org

Strollin’ South Park Street is made possible by a grant to the Jazz Consortium from the John and Carolyn Peterson Charitable Foundation, by sponsorships from Prime Urban Properties, One City Early Learning Centers, the South Metropolitan Business Association, Sergenian’s Floor Coverings, Uncle Joe’s Shoes and Sportswear, with additional support from media sponsors WORT-FM and Isthmus and from the Urban League of Greater Madison and Lane’s Bakery.


Sun, 7/19 | 7pm $5 @ The Jazz Estate

Lovely Socialite (pre-order new album!)

Lady Cannon (Mke)

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Lovely Socialite is half-way through the pre-order campaign for our new album, Toxic Consonance!  Help us out by pre-ordering your copy today!!

We’ll be sharing the fantastic stage at The Jazz Estate in Milwaukee with local act, Lady Cannon!


6/13 | Jonah Parzen-Johnson / Tar Pet / Lovely Socialite @ Bright Red Studios

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We had a wonderful show last night @ Bright Red Studios!  Thanks to all who came out!

Lovely Socialite explored a quartet free-improv set with Pat on cello, Abe on vibes, Mike on assorted home-made percussion and drum set, & BCG on gaohu, pipa, bass & cajon.  So much open, quiet space.  We were able to explore individual solo moments all around, as well as every duo pairing within the larger quartet.  Very rewarding, as most Socialite sextet improvs exist in a wall-of-sound-madness!  I was grateful to explore sparcer orchestrations for such an open ear’d audience. (new album due out by early fall!)

Taralie of Spires That In The Sunset Rise, known as Tar Pet when solo – gave us a really deep set.  My favorite two pieces were in the middle.  One was a layering of melodic cello drones that bubbled forth minute changes, all playing against one another to create a long landscape.  Once the scene was set, she switched to sax and blew an elegy to Ornette Coleman, who passed away this week.  I think we all knew what it was about, because Taralie was so excellent and clear in her delivery of the meditation.  What a way to send-up Ornette! [peace, respect]

…oh yeah, DISTORTED CELLO DRONES!!!.  < that’s all I need to say on the one that followed.

The touring musician of the night, Jonah Parzen-Johnson (Brooklyn, NYC), treated us to his carefully crafted ‘bari-sax + electronics’ compositions.  Inbetween pieces, he would share introspections and wonderments de jour.  Anything his soul was searching at the moment.  A lot of it about how we interact with each other, but all of it posed in the form of (yet) unanswered questions.  Much appreciation for the insight into his being and process.  Jonah is on tour for his new album “Remember When Things Were Better Tomorrow”, which you should buy right now!  He’s halfway through a 5 week tour, help support his final leg with a purchase of his well developed music!


 

5/22, 6/05 | Charlie Painter Trio @ Ruth’s Chris Steak House

Fri, 5/22 & Fri, 6/05 | 6-9pm @ Ruth’s Chris Steak House [Madison / Middleton]

THE CHARLIE PAINTER TRIO

feat. Charlie Painter – guitar / BC Grimm – bass / M. Koszewski – drums

CP and Friends


 

Off To Japan! Visiting Huckleberry (Tokyo) & Emilio (Sapporo)!

WAA!! Leaving today for Japan!!!!

Lexa & I (BCG) are leaving for Japan!  It’ll be our very first time there & I can’t wait to see my two best buds, AJ & Emilio!

As most of you dear readers know, our very dear AJ “Huckleberry” Grimm has been teaching in Tokyo since November, 2014.  We’ll tool around his favorite hotspots in Tokyo, check out the bamboo forests of Kyoto and old seats of government at Kamakura!  Sounds like we’ll be able to meet up with keyboard extraordinaire, Nana while we’re in the Nagoya area!  Halfway through the trip, we’ll shoot up north to Sapporo, Hokkaido (of the beer company fame) to visit Emilio, my roommate & best bud from college!  We’ll be playing a show there, thanks to Emilio – check it out!! >>

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Sunday, 5/10 | Sapporro, Japan

お疲れ様です!5月10日のタイムテーブル出来ました!問題あるかどうかを確認して下さい!

あとは、セッションにもぜひ出て欲しいんですけど、どうでしょうか?

と、狭い場所なので取り置きがあれば人数教えて欲しいです!

  • 5月10日 (日)
  • 「Music from Around the World vol.2」
  • タイムテーブル:
  • 18:30-open
  • 19:00-19:20 パレメケロン
  • 19:25-19:45 springman
  • 19:50-20:15 Mar T
  • 20:20-20:45 BC Grimm
  • 20:50-21:15 ポライ・ボゥ
  • 21:20-21:45トタニハジメ
  • 22:00~ セッション 宜しくお願いします!