June 16: Castello di Grumello – Garrison Fewell Trio

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Garrison

Jazz and Wine evening with the Garrison Fewell Trio

Garrison Fewell – guitar
Dino Contenti – bass
Stephen Keogh – drums

20:00, 16 June 2012

Castello di Grumello (Bergamo), Italy
Grumello Di Monte, Via Fosse 11, Bergamo

Telephone
+39-348-30-36-243
Website
Visit website
Tickets
– €40 Dinner and Concert – €20 Aperitif and Concert

Sublime music, fine wines and local delicacies in the magical surroundings of the Castello Grumello winery.

The ticket includes a tour of the winery at Castello di Grumello followed by tasting, dinner with selected wines, and a concert by the Garrison Fewell Trio.

“Melodicism and freedom don’t often go hand in hand, but guitarist Garrison Fewell is carving out a niche for himself where such a pairing seems inevitable.”
—John Sharpe, AllAboutJazz-New York

 

June 16th
Castello di Gruello
Grumello, (Bergamo)

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Friday May 25th, 7-8pm @ the Lily Pad

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Garrison
Friday May 25th, 7-8pm at the Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Inman Sq. Cambridge.

Garrison Fewell – guitar
Todd Brunel – bass clarinet
Forbes Graham – trumpet
John McLellan – drums
w/ special guest
Jim Hobbs – alto sax

Todd Brunel and Garrison Fewell have collaborated in various creative musical projects including the Variable Density Sound Orchestra and Vortex Other Dimensions Ensemble. Together with Forbes Graham and John McClellan, the quartet has performed for various improvised music series in Somerville, Cambridge and Boston. The Lily Pad set will showcase multiple musical personalities: melodic accessibility, a spontaneous composition and the unbridled freedom of free improvisation.

“The guitarist formerly known as one of Boston’s most eloquent inside players has become one of its leading experimenters,” explains the Boston Phoenix’s Jon Garelick who included Garrison Fewell‘s “Variable Density Sound Orchestra” on his best of 2009 list.

Jim Hobbs has been an underground feature of the Boston music scene for two decades and has been described as “one of the generation’s most gifted artists” by Troy Collins, AllAboutJazz. Boston Phoenix writer Jon Garelick says, “There’s no one with a more individual sound than Hobb; strangled and crying one minute, soft and bluesy the next, or just plain Johnny Hodges purdy.”

Todd Brunel is an innovative, critically acclaimed clarinetist and saxophonist, whoproduces The Vortex Series for New and Improvised Music, with grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Cambridge Arts Council and the Somerville Arts Council. The Vortex Series has also been chosen as the jazz “pick of the week” in the Boston Phoenix and the Boston Globe.
Trumpet player and electronic musician Forbes Graham is part of a dynamic new generation of improvisers in Boston. In his solo work and as part such groups as the Full Metal Revolutionary Jazz Ensemble and the Calliope Quartet, Forbes traverses a wide spectrum of genres and styles including experimental, jazz, noise, metal and more.

John McLellan has a resume that is expansive and varied, including work with Joe and Mat Maneri, Roswell Rudd, Bern Nix, Roy Campbell, William Parker, Ken Vandermark, Denman Marony, Ben Monder, and the Either/Orchestra. He has performed at festivals including the Newport Jazz Festival, the Iowa City Jazz Festival, Munster International Jazz Festival in Germany and New York’s Vision Festival.


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Garrison Fewell + Eric Hofbauer @ Somerville’s Porchfest

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Garrison

Garrison Fewell + Eric Hofbauer are playing for Somerville’s Porchfest!
Saturday, May 19th from 2-4:00pm. FREE!

We will be playing on the back porch. More information and location plus mp3 listening can be found on Somerville Arts Council website by clicking here:  http://www.somervilleartscouncil.org/node/571

 

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Tuscany International Guitar Workshop: June 13-16, 2012

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Garrison

Tuscany International Guitar Workshop with Garrison Fewell. Certaldo, Italy. June 13-16, 2012

Course Options and Costs:
60 Euro: Listener/ Auditor / Visitor – observing workshops, opening concert, jazz aperitivo and jam sessions
130 Euro: Full Course Participant – includes everything! 

Travel and hotel not included. Email to book your room at Il Castello hotel: info@albergoilcastello.it

Please see globalmusicfoundation for details about hotel and meal options

Choose your Course Option from the drop down menu, then click the BUYNOW button below to confirm and pay for your course registration:

Course Options

 

In this workshop, you will learn how to improvise better solos and build phrases naturally by exploring the potential of triads and their melodic extensions. Garrison will teach you how to develop a more melodic way of thinking about harmony, and learn the improvisational tools that will help you create your own approach to soloing over chord changes.

In this workshop you will also learn to create solo phrases in the styles of some of the world’s finest jazz guitarists—Jim Hall, Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery and Pat Martino.

  • Broaden your melodic palette using triads, melodic extensions, guide tones, and altered notes.
  • Expand your agility on the fretboard, throughout the range of the guitar
  • Add articulation to your phrases by playing solo excerpts in the styles of the masters of jazz guitar
  • Learn to hear and use guide tones to connect your melodic lines while playing over chord changes
  • Learn the rhythmic skills essential to jazz phrasing
  • Learn simple techniques for building chord voicings for comping

Click here for course timetable information: course timetable

And when you still want MORE information, go to the Workshops in Europe page


 

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Monday May 7th: Coplonic Synesthesia of Red Venus + Steve Swell

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Garrison

Coplonic Synesthesia of Red Venus @ Mobius

first half at 8PM features solo performances by students Nathaniel Franklin, Mark Fucito, Heredia Renzo and Kai Sorensen from Tom Plsek’s Exploring Technology for Brass class at Berklee

AND

second half at 9PM features special guest from New York City, legendary trombonist Steve Swell with Tom Plsek (MAG), trombone; Garrison Fewell guitar; John Voigt; and Randy Pingrey, trombone

Mobius: 55 Norfolk Street, Cambridge, MA
Monday, May 7, 8pm  $10 donation requested

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JUNK KITCHEN #4 FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2012 –8PM

DO YOU DO DUO, TWO? Don’t miss this unique evening of musical couples entwined, intermingled, unwound…

@ Outpost 186:186 1/2 Hampshire St. Cambridge, MA
$10 suggested donationSPECIAL GUEST DUOS:

in-it-for-the-long-haul
Garrison Fewell and Eric Hofbauer (guitars)
Skinny Vinny (drums and alto sax)
second-date:
Esther and Shelly (oboe and bassoon)
blind-date:
Brian Abbott and Joshua DeScherer (guitar and contra-bass)
…and others!


Junk Kitchen turns armchair psychologist with this one, as its patients will be coming tonight to get things off their chests! Couples tired from the daily grind, frustrated by a flirting affair or just sick of no one paying attention to them will have a chance to vent out in stream-of conscious improvs.Pairs who “just want to make it work” will display their communication skills by hashing out old emotional scars, coming to amends and forging new bonds which will help send them off onto the sunset.

And perhaps new partnerships will be sparked, as the series also sets up some worthy singles on blind-date improvisations or gently nudges newly-met duos to keep on playing.

In the process JK is going to keep its big mouth shut and take the Freudian approach. It will dim the lights, place fake plants around the room, put up generic pictures of beaches on the walls as patients lying down on a big cold leather couch will have the Doc saddle up next to them with a legal pad and an expensive pen. I can’t guarantee you that its notes won’t be full of doodles though . . . (Co-pay required)


 

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Boris Savoldelli + RX Trio April 13 @ the Lily Pad

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Garrison

Boris Savoldelli + RX Trio April 13 @ the Lily Pad, 1353 cambridge st, Inman Sq. Cambridge, MA http://www.lily-pad.net/archives/2012/04/13/index.html

Italian vocalist and improviser Boris Savoldelli comes to Boston accompanied by local veterans John Voigt on bass, Garrison Fewell on guitar and electronic wizard and creative saxophonist Mike Dobiel.

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Boris Savoldelli – voice and electronic wave-lengths
Garrison Fewell – guitar and strange objects
Mike Dobiel – alto sax and computer
John Voigt – bass, poetry, deep space sounds

Boris Savoldelli is a new vocal performer on the music scene who is receiving kudos from around the world. He is always challenging his “vocal instrument” with new and original ways of singing, thanks to his music background that ranges from classical studies to jazz to rock-funk to avant-garde experimental music.

In 2008 Boris released his most representative album titled INSANOLOGY, an experimental vocal solo project, composed, largely arranged and recorded using only a looper machine. This CD represent Boris’ “light side”, the melodic and more accessible part of Boris’ music. “Insanology” received flattering reviews from all around the world (Italy, USA, Brazil, France, UK, Holland, Russia, Germany, Israel).

In June 2009, the New York-based Moonjune Records released Boris’ duo CD with Elliott Sharp,PROTOPLASMIC, an example of Boris “dark” and experimental side.

In April 2010, his first official video titled “The Miss Kiss” debuted.

in March 2011, the New York-based Moonjune Records released a new Boris’ Vocal Solo “light” album, titled BIOCOSMOPOLITAN with the Italian trumpeter PAOLO FRESU and bassist JIMMY HASLIP as special guests.

 

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Ascension Unending @ Evolving Series: Monday, April 9th

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Garrison
Monday 4/9/12 Evolving Music Series
LES Gallery
1st floor @ Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center
107 Suffolk Street (between Delancey & Rivington) Manhattan, NYC
Tickets:  $11 per set / $16 for 2 / $20 all night
Students/Seniors :  $8 per set / $12 for 2 / $18 all night
Monday April 9
PRESENT IS PAST / FUTURE IS NOW


7.30 pm / WELF DORR UNIT
Welf Dorr sax
Dave Ross guitat
Dmitry Ishenko bass

Joe Hertenstein drums

8.30 pm / ROB BROWN QUARTET
 Rob Brown sax, compositions
Kenny Warren trumpet
Peter Bitenc bass
Juan Pablo Carletti drums

9.30 pm / JOHN TCHICAI ASCENSION UNENDING
John Tchicai sax
Alex Weiss sax
Rosie Hertlein violin, voice
Garrison Fewell guitar

Dmitry Ishenko bass

Ches Smith drums
 

Evolving Music fundraiser. Donate to support the music here: 

 

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Fewell / Infascelli Duo, Mon. March 19th

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Garrison

GARRISON FEWELL- guitar
SILVIA INFASCELLI – vocals

Un approc cio intimista che valorizza la bellezza delle melodie e il raffinato lirismo delle improvvisazioni.

La Vocalist Silvia Infascelli condivide questo viaggio fra standard jazz e composizioni originali con un partner d’eccezione: ilchitarrista Garrison Fewell.

LUNEDI 19 MARZO ore 21,30 al BOPO
via Concordia, 6 Ponteranica Bergamo
tel.035 4128322



 

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Tchicai/Fewell/Gartmayer @ Piacenza Jazz Festival March 23rd

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Garrison

New Music Trio with John Tchicai, tenor sax, Susanna Gartmayer, bass clarinet, Garrison Fewell, guitar, etc. @ Piacenza Jazz Club, Friday March 23rd.

http://www.piacenzajazzclub.it/index.php?ID_L3_menu=743

 

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March 21, Ferrara: Fewell/Zanchi/Fusco Trio

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Garrison

People Restaurant Aperitif
Via Putinati
44100 – Ferrara (FE)
Email: info@jazzlife.it

 

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