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- Steve Connolly
Berklee Performance Center
Saturday, January 9 at 8:00am - Fusion Nouveau
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Tuesday, January 26 at 8:15am - Jerome Kyles: Who I Am
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Wednesday, January 27 at 8:15am - David Thorne Scott and the Bop...
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Thursday, January 28 at 8:15am
Berklee Performance Center Bop standards and originals; vocals with piano, bass, drums, guitar, trumpet, and saxophone. The instrumentalists really know the genre, having played it for decades.
Time:8:15AM Thursday, January 28th
Location:Berklee Performance Center
Berklee Performance Center
Got plans for New Year's Eve?
Our Box Office is selling buttons to get you into all the First Night events around town. Stop by 12/21, 12/22, 12/23 (10am-6pm) or 12/31 (4:30pm-10pm) and get yours. It's a Boston tradition!
artist: Ekua Holmes
Berklee Performance Center They're heeeere. Boston area students invade the BPC for three days this week to watch Chamber Theatre's Encore performance of 'Five Gothic Tales'. School buses line up on Mass. Ave., kids overcome with Holiday break excitement, snowball fights on the sidewalk, a collection of single mittens strewn between the seats,... teachers trying to maintain some order while everyone rushes into the hall... oh yeah, three days in a row!
Berklee Performance Center Few have been able to blend so many different styles of music with authenticity and edge, yet throughout his career, Jerome Kyles has done just that. From hints of jazz, classical, r&b, and gospel, this evening will prove to be like all the others: magical!
Time:8:15AM Wednesday, January 27th
Location:Berklee Performance Center
Berklee Performance Center Got tickets to see Canadian Brass tomorrow night? The show is still ON! Box Office will open at approximately 6pm.
Berklee Performance Center
Slowly but surely we're starting to add events for our Spring 2010 season. Check our website for a full listing.
We're ready for *snow* - are you?
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Founded on the revolutionary principle that the best way to prepare students for careers in music was through the study and practice of contemporary music. For over half a century, the college has evolved constantly to reflect the state of the art of music and the music business. ...
Berklee Performance Center Fusion Nouveau is a nine-piece band featuring the compositions of Bob Pilkington. The band is made up of four horns and five rhythm featuring many Berklee faculty. Stylistic influences include everything from early '70s fusion and horn bands to contemporary jazz and fusion.
Time:8:15AM Tuesday, January 26th
Location:Berklee Performance Center
Berklee Performance Center The Las Vegas Review-Journal named Connolly the Best Elvis in Las Vegas. He has also been recognized by Bill Clinton, Dennis Miller, Donald Trump, and Steven Tyler for his outstanding performances.
Best Elvis in Las Vegas
Time:8:00AM Saturday, January 9th
Location:Berklee Performance Center
Berklee Performance Center
First Night Boston, Berklee College of Music, and WGBH 89.7 present Anat Cohen at the Berklee Performance Center on New Year's Eve, Thursday, December 31, kicking off NPR's annual worldwide broadcast Toast of the Nation. The concert is a centerpiece of this year's First Night Boston festival.
Entrancing audiences on bot...h clarinet and saxophone, Berklee alumna Cohen is one of jazz's brightest young stars. She recently completed a week-long engagement at the legendary Village Vanguard in New York, and was named Clarinetist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association. Her quartet features Jason Lindner on piano, Joe Martin on bass, and Daniel Freedman on drums.
Admission is $18 by purchase of a First Night button. Anat Cohen performs two sets: 8:00 p.m. Eastern (NPR broadcast), and 9:30 p.m. Cohen's performance will be rebroadcast at 4:00 a.m. Eastern (1:00 a.m. Pacific) for revelers in the Western time zones.
Virtuoso jazz violinist Ben Powell performs the first set of the evening at 6:30 p.m. Powell, a 2009 Berklee graduate, leads a group that includes Tim Ray on piano, Bruno Raberg on bass, and Bob Tamagni on drums. Each of the three performances will be seated separately. The Berklee Performance Center is located at 136 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, MA. Call 617 747-2261 for more information.
The Hynes Auditorium Garage, located at 50 Dalton St., will provide a $7 discount on parking with a parking ticket validated by the Berklee Performance Center.
New Year's Eve 2009 marks the sixth consecutive year that Berklee, WGBH 89.7, and NPR have collaborated to kick-off the live holiday special Toast of the Nation. Heard on more than 200 NPR affiliate stations and NPR Worldwide, Toast of the Nation begins in Boston and will move across the country, with live celebrations from John Pizzarelli in Washington, D.C., the Bad Plus in New York, Irvin Mayfield Quintet in Minneapolis, and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy in Los Angeles.
For a full schedule of performances, and to find local participating NPR stations, visit wbgo.org/toast. Hosted by Eric Jackson of WGBH's Eric in the Evening, the concert can be heard locally on WGBH 89.7 FM. Toast of the Nation is produced for NPR by WBGO-FM, Newark; WGBH Radio produces the Boston portion of the broadcast.
A native of Tel Aviv, Israel, Anat Cohen was introduced to music early by her talented brothers, and began her clarinet studies at age 12. She learned to play the tenor saxophone at 16, graduated from the prestigious Thelma Yelin High School for the Arts as a jazz major, played tenor saxophone in the Israeli Air Force Band, matriculated to Berklee, and began playing in New York in 1999 with various Brazilian ensembles. There, she established herself as one of the primary talents of her generation, both on the tenor saxophone and clarinet. Cohen has performed for countless audiences in the city, including at the Village Vanguard in 2007, where she was simultaneously the first female reed player and the first Israeli to headline at the club.
Cohen's albums have all received overwhelmingly positive responses. Her 2007 releases, Noir and Poetica, prompted the Washington Post to call her "one of the brightest, most original young instrumentalists in jazz," and the Village Voice to declare that the albums could "take her to the top." Cohen was named Clarinetist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association in both 2007 and 2008—the first time in the history of the awards that an artist has earned top clarinet honors two years in a row. Her latest album, Notes from the Village, was called "the real deal" by the New York Times, and was awarded four stars by Down Beat magazine. The album, released in September 2008, is Cohen's fourth album on which she is the band leader. It features compositions written by Cohen herself, as well as her interpretations of songs by Fats Waller, John Coltrane, Sam Cooke, and Ernesto Lecuona.
Also appearing, jazz violinist Ben Powell
Time:6:30AM Thursday, December 31st
Location:Berklee Performance Center
Berklee Performance Center
Don't hold your breath!
Canadian Brass Band is at the BPC this Sunday, December 20, 8pm.
$35, $50 tickets still available.
"[They] have always included a bit of humor and showmanship in their act and this video is a prime example."
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Canadian Brass, the flight of the bumble bee
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Mark Shilansky and his quartet play Latin-influenced jazz with lots of fun new chords added to jazz standards, and original tunes that are complex yet catchy, all served up with Shilansky's virtuosic piano playing and soulful singing. Special guest singers (Alison Wedding, David Thorne Scott, and Yumiko Matsuoka) will ...help render tunes from Shilansky's latest release, Join the Club, and some of Shilansky's vocal jazz arrangements, including an original Christmas tune. With Dino Govoni, sax; Keala Kaumeheiwa, bass; and Mark Walker, drums.
Over the past decade guitarist and composer David Gilmore has recorded and performed with some of the most highly influential and innovative artists in modern music today including Wayne Shorter, Dave Douglas, Muhal Richard Abrams, Sam Rivers, Steve Coleman, Don Byron, Cassandra Wilson, Uri Caine, Randy Brecker, and David Sanborn.
Gilmore has appeared on more than 50 recordings and been a major presence on the international touring scene. In the spring of 2001 he released his first recording as a leader, Ritualism, which received major international critical appraise and was nominated for Debut CD of the Year in 2001 by the Jazz Journalists Association. Gilmore was recently voted into the Rising Stars category in Down Beat Magazine's Critic's Poll.
Born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gilmore sought out music at a young age experimenting with piano, drums, and percussion before discovering the guitar at the age of 15. After a few years of private study with Boston local guitar gurus John Baboian and Randy Roos, Gilmore moved to New York to attend New York University, where he studied under the tutelage of sax titan Joe Lovano and pianist Jim McNeely. Shortly after his graduation in 1987, Gilmore began touring and recording in earnest with many of the members of the fledging M-Base Collective, and soon after began to find himself in many other diverse musical situations, recording and/ or touring with Ronald Shannon Jackson, Trilok Gurtu, Graham Haynes, Robin Eubanks, and Lonnie Plaxico. In the early 1990s he became an active member of the popular jazz/fusion group Lost Tribe, coproducing their first two recordings for the Windham Hill Label. Over the years he has also lent his skills to a variety of pop/ comme! rcial acts including Japan’s Monday Michiru, Meshell Ndegeocello, Melissa Etheridge, Joan Osborne, Mavis Staples, Isaac Hayes, Boz Scaggs, Tommy Lang of Austria, Rise Robots Rise, and toured extensively with multiplatinum-selling artist Joss Stone. In 1995 Gilmore got the call to join sax legend Wayne Shorter’s group, and appears on Shorter’s Grammy Award winning album, High Life on Verve. He can be found on recordings by Christian McBride, Carolyn Leonhart, Don Byron, Ron Blake, and Uri Caine.
As a composer, improviser, and guitarist, Gilmore is committed to pushing the boundaries of improvisational music, at the same time without alienating the uninitiated listener. His music reflects the diverse musical influences and experiences he has assimilated throughout his career. The exploration of rhythm is a major component of his music, utilizing many non-Western approaches and integrating them into a modern framework. Gilmore was a recipient of the Chamber Music America New Works Composer Grant, enabling him to compose a commisioned work entitled "African Continuum," which was performed in public in the spring and fall of 2003. His playing has been compared to guitarists with styles as diverse as George Benson, Wes Montgomery, Jimi Hendrix, and Leo Nocentelli. Unified Presence features Christian McBride, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Ravi Coltrane, and Claudia Acuna.
Time:8:15AM Wednesday, December 16th
Location:Berklee Performance Center
Berklee Performance Center Berklee celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Frank Loesser, one of the most influential composers for Hollywood and Broadway. This Broadway-style musical theater production will feature a 30-piece orchestra and 30 singers, with costumes, staging, and sets. The night will include selections from The Most Hap...py Fella, Candide, Fiddler on the Roof, Guys and Dolls, and more. Vocalist and musical theater great Jo Loesser, wife of the late Frank Loesser, will perform.
Celebrating Frank Loesser on Broadway
Time:7:30AM Tuesday, December 15th
Location:Berklee Performance Center
Berklee Performance Center One of Berklee's most popular ensembles. The funk and soul group performs the music of the famed Tower of Power band, creating a wall of energy with six vocalists, eight horns, and five rhythm players. Tickets: $10.
THIS is hip!
Time:8:15AM Monday, December 14th
Location:Berklee Performance Center
Berklee Performance Center
This holiday season why not give the gift of live music. From violin
sensation, David Garrett, to the Music of Motown and the International
Folk Festival, there's something for everyone. Concert tickets are the perfect stocking stuffer.
For music lovers of all ages, a membership to our Concert Club offers exclusive invi...tations and preferred seating to select events.
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Founded on the revolutionary principle that the best way to prepare students for careers in music was through the study and practice of contemporary music. For over half a century, the college has evolved constantly to reflect the state of the art of music and the music business. ...
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Hammer of the Gods annoint the BPC tomorrow night. 8pm.
Incredible recreation of an actual live Led Zeppelin concert circa 1970s. This is an all-ages, family-friendly show. Tickets available at the Box Office.
The Berklee Performance Center has teamed up with rock CAN roll to
"beat hunger." Please support this effort by... bringing one healthy and
nutritious nonperishable food item to the show. For a list of most
needed foods, please visit rockCANroll.org.
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Hammer of The Gods playing Since I've Been Loving You. Amazing Tribute band.
