Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares Presents: Steve Swell's Kende Dreams

Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares Presents: Steve Swell's Kende Dreams

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Glenn Siegel, 413-320-1089 [email protected] Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares presents: Steve Swell’s Kende Dreams Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares begins its 5th season with a performance by Steve Swell’s Kende Dreams , featuring Steve Swell, trombone, compositions; Rob Brown , alto saxophone, Connie Crothers, piano, William Parker , bass and Gerald Cleaver , drums, on Thursday, September 15 , at 7:30pm at Hampshire College Music Recital Hall , Amherst, MA . Single tickets ($15) available at www.jazzshares.org and at the door. At the urging of Lars-Olof Gustavsson and Keith Knox of Sweeden’s Silkheart Records, Steve Swell assembled an all-star quintet and produced, Hommage à Bartók (2015.) “The seven tracks are creative music pitched at the highest level,” writes John Corbett in the liner notes.“As is that music's unalienable right, it absorbs and transforms things that it comes into contact with . So, unlike Milhaud's attempts to quote or characterize jazz, this is jazz eating and fully digesting modern classical music, turning it into something else completely.” Born in Newark, NJ in 1954, trombonist Steve Swell has been an active member of the New York music community since 1975, when he began playing in top 40 bands, salsa bands, big bands (most notably those of Buddy Rich and Lionel Hampton) and performed on Broadway in Bob Fosse's ‘Dancin’". Swell joined Jaki Byard and the Apollo Stompers, and made his recording debut in Sept. of '84 for the Soul Note label. He then became a member of Makanda Ken McIntyre's band which led to tours and recordings with Tim Berne, Joey Baron, Herb Robertson, Jemeel Moondoc, Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, William Parker, Bill Dixon, Butch Morris, John Zorn, Dave Burrell, Elliott Sharp, Rob Mazurek, Perry Robinson and Ken Vandermark. He has over 40 CDs as a leader or co-leader and is a featured artist on more than 100 other releases. He runs workshops around the world and is a teaching artist in the New York City public school system focusing on special needs children. “His playing reflects great attention to timbre and color,” writes Grego Applegate Edwards, “and he in his own way channels the trombone jazz tradition encompassing the early tailgaters, the big-band innovators, boppers and afterboppers, all of it, and gives it his own spin as an important stylist in his own right.” Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares concerts are produced by a group of music lovers who have purchased jazz shares . Like farm shares, where stakeholders ensure the success of the farm by pre-paying for food, Pioneer Valley Jazz Share members purchase jazz shares to provide the capital needed to produce concerts with minimal institutional support. Operating under the fiscal sponsorship of The Northampton Center for the Arts, we are a grassroots, all- volunteer organization dedicated to the continued vitality of the music. Thanks to our business sponsors: Davis Financial Group, Florence Savings Bank, UMass Fine Arts Center, Downtown Sounds, Carol Abbe Smith Delap Real Estate, River Valley Co-op, Simmer Music, Bueno y Sano, Tony Margherita Management, Haydenville Woodworking & Design, Artisan Gallery, Barbara Ween: Visage, Hampshire College, Waugh Agency and Dean’s Beans. .

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