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Mon: Darius Jones Trio w. Cooper-Moor & R.Bob Moses @ Outpost
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rob chalfen
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Oct 14, 2009 07:10 PDT
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Jazz @
OUTPOST 186
186
½ Hampshire St. Cambridge Ma
617.876.0860
~ all ages ~ http://www.zeitgeist-outpost.org
Monday
19 October @ Outpost, 8pm $10
subconsciouscafe
presents cd release of
The
Darius Jones Trio
featuring Cooper-Moore & Rakalam Bob
Moses
Darius
Jones - alto & compositions / Cooper-Moore - piano & diddley bow/
Rakalam Bob Moses - drums
CD: Man'ish
Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing) http://www.aumfidelity.com/home.htm
Darius
Jones is an extraordinarily gifted young alto saxophonist and
composer; Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing) is his remarkable debut as
a leader. Jones joined the New York music community in 2005, after living and
studying in Richmond, VA. In his short time here, he has amazed and inspired
musicians and audiences from widely divergent backgrounds with his meticulously
honed musical gifts. Soul-power is at his foundation; forward looking
expression always at the fore. Some bands Jones currently works with are the
Cooper-Moore Trio, Mike Pride's From Bacteria to Boys, William Hooker's Bliss
(East), and Trevor Dunn's Proof Readers. Jones also has a band with Travis
LaPlante, Andrew Smiley, and Jason Nazary called Little Women; their first
record Teeth came out in 2008.
Man'ish Boy is a deeply personal work that found Jones meditating on his life
growing up in the south: not an easy life, but one suffused with familial love,
hard work and self-assurance. His experiences in church, particularly hearing
gospel choirs – the ecstatic combination of powerful individual voices coming
together to create something greater – were a deep inspiration for this
project. An abiding respect for elders and the breadth of life experience they
bring led Jones to ask master musicians Cooper-Moore (piano, diddley-bo) and
Rakalam Bob Moses (drums) to be part of this project. Jones first met Moses at
a performance while still in Virginia, and they have had a close relationship
ever since. Jones joined forces with Cooper-Moore, a fellow Virginian and
church-goer as a youth, after moving to NYC. Cooper-Moore was asked specifically
to also play diddley-bo here: a one-wire stringed instrument with roots in the
deep south via Africa; with it, he most definitely brings the organic funk.
Herein: ballads of deeply affecting tenderness, an intense polyrhythmic
excursion that literally does chase the ghost in holiness fashion, a series of
open-ended pieces that further display the remarkable improvisational gifts of
the three musicians, and more. The album's bonus track, Chaych!, features
Darius' regular working trio with fellow younger highlights on the NYC new
music stage Adam Lane: bass and Jason Nazary: drums, and makes abundantly clear
the connection between juke joints and churches of the deep south. –SJ
"Darius Jones is one of those rare talents that when you first here him
you scratch your head because its all there-the concept,the virtuosity,a real
improvisational mind-i feel really good about the future of this music knowing
that a real and pure talent like Darius exists."
matthew shipp
"A phenomenal debut, Man'ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing) presents
the singular artistry of Darius Jones; a new voice poised to receive widespread
acclaim from the jazz underground." Troy Collins, All About Jazz
COOPER-MOORE
"One of New York's
most effusive but reclusive musical geniuses. Cooper-Moore is a one-man New
Orleans jazz funeral flailing like the Grambling State marching band across a
vaudeville stage." - Andy
Battaglia, Salon.com
As a composer, performer, instrument builder/designer,
storyteller, teacher, mentor, and organizer, Cooper-Moore has been a major, if
somewhat behind-the-scenes, catalyst in the world of creative music for over 30
years....Following an evidently rather trying European tour with David S. Ware,
Beaver Harris, and Brian Smith in 1981, Cooper-Moore returned home and
completely destroyed his piano, with sledgehammer and fire, in his backyard. He
didn’t play piano again until some years after... It was not until the early ‘90s,
when William Parker asked him to join his group In Order To Survive, that Cooper-Moore’s
pianistic gifts were again regularly featured in the jazz context.
Bob
Moses
Drummer, composer, artist, poet, dancer, visionary, nature mystic: Bob
Moses's life has been a continuous quest for vision, spirit, compassion,
growth, and mastery in a multiplicity of art forms. A partial list of stellar
musicians Bob Moses has worked and/or recorded with both as a leader and a
sideman includes: Charles Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Jim Pepper, Larry
Coryell, The Free Spirits, Dave Liebman, Gary Burton, Keith Jarrett, Steve
Swallow, Michael Gibbs, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Paul Bley, Herbie Hancock, Jack
DeJohnette, Jaco Pastorius, Hal Galper, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Steve
Kuhn, Sheila Jordan, Bobby McFerrin, Dave Sanborn, Bill Frisell, Eddie Gomez,
Don Alias, John Scofield, Terumasa Hino, Dave Holland, Charlie Haden, Hermeto
Pascoal, Jovinos Santos Neto, Danillo Perez, David Sanchez, Chucho Valdes,
Jimmy Slyde, Savion Glover, Gregory Hines, Stan Strickland, Tiger Okoshi, Nana
Vasconcelos, Obo Addy, John Medeski, Vernon Reid, DJ Logic, Badal Roy,
Ravikiran, Master Anand, Raqib Hassan, Sam Rivers, Pharoah Sanders, Tisziji
Muñoz, and many others. Moses's first recording as a leader was the 1968 album
Love Animal, with Jim Pepper, Larry Coryell, Steve Swallow, and Keith Jarrett.
The albums Bittersuite in the Ozone and Love Everlasting, the later recorded
with spiritual master and guitar genius Tisziji Muñoz, both received five stars
in Downbeat. The album Love Everlasting, recorded September 23, 1987, features
Jerry Bergonzi, George Garzone, John Medeski, and John Lockwood, while the
album Drumming Birds, also 1987, features percussion duets with Billy Martin.
"Leave it to Moses, a multi-directional shamanistic groovilator, to put
all the pieces together. On Time Stood Still, another sprawling production of
DeMille-ian scale. He seamlessly blends Monk, funk, tap, hip hop, bebop, big
band, blues, Bahia, Tanzania, and the avant garde into one organic package
while paying homage to the spirits of Gil Evans, Charles Mingus, Rahsaan Roland
Kirk, and Jaco Pastorius."-Bill Milkowski, Downbeat
OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire
St., Inman Sq. Cambridge (rear)
DIRECTIONS: Near cr.
Prospect St., opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11. Big ‘186’ on R side. Follow walk
at left to gallery in back.
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rob chalfen
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