Garrison Fewell

Garrison Fewell Trio @ Fermento, Milan.  Attilio Zanchi, bass + Antonio Fusco, drums.

Folks, I love this trio of like minded spirits and true friends! If you are anywhere near Milan, please join us. I guarantee that we will all find a new pathway to peace this night…. it takes 12 days for the journey from Kamakura to Kyoto. We hope to see you there!

Via Camillo Ugoni n°18 – 20158 – Milano
Per Prenotazioni Tel. 02.87380668
http://www.fermentoaep.com/

Garrison Fewell and Bruce Gertz duo at Sato II on Thursday, May 1st 6:30 – 9:30 pm. Great food, no cover charge. We’ll be playing tunes… http://sato2stoneham.com/

SATO II
147 Main St Stoneham, MA 02180
781 438-8786

93 North from Boston  to 128/95 North. Take first exit onto 28 South. See SATO II on right, (yellow sign) after Redstone Shopping Center

Sunday Feb. 12th 6:00pm.  Playing a house concert in Somerville. Improvised and creative music w/ Jerry Sabatini, Todd Brunel and Eric Hofbauer. New compositions, new arrangements for the quartet and various duos, two Sun Ra compositions.

Email me if you would like an invitation to attend as space is limited.

I’m playing tonight w/ Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble. We’re the last group so if you can make it later, please join us!

Todd Brunel, clarinets
Garrison Fewell, guitar
Forbes Graham, trumpet
John McLellan, drums

Friday January 27, 8pm
Church of the Advent Library
30 Brimmer Street (Beacon Hill)
http://theadventboston.org/geninfo/direct.htm
$10. suggested donation (all proceeds go to the performers!)

It’s going to be a wonderful night of duos for flute & cello, premiering Charles Turner’s ‘Ancient Places’ (w/ Naomi Gurt Lind, soprano), and Boston premieres of several pieces for solo guitar- most of them written for the performer Aaron Larget-Caplan.  Wrapping up the concert will be a several episodes of spontaneous music from a great collection of Boston area improvisers from the Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble. Led by clarinet master Todd Brunel, the group’s members change from night to night, keeping the music fresh and inspiring. These guys have a solid sense of ensemble, commitment and a passion for improvising toward compositionally minded results. They are sure to be an amazing compliment to the program of formal compositions in the first part of the concert.

Aaron Larget-Caplan, guitar
http://www.aaronlc.com/
Cancion de cuna (2011) by Hayg Boyadjian (b. 1938)

Upward* (2011) by John McDonald (b.1959)

Lullaby in Three Voices by Alan Fletcher

A Child Sings at Thanksgiving (2010) by Demetrius Spaneas (1969)

Summertime by George Gerswhin /arr. Toru Takemitsu

Tracing a wheel on water (2003) by Kevin Siegfried (b. 1969)

Ashley Addington, flute
Rachel Arnold, cello
Naomi Gurt Lind, soprano
www.ashleyaddington.com
http://www.ladyraycello.com/
“Llef” by Hilary Tann (1988)

“Ancient Places” by Charles Turner (2011)
w/ Naomi Gurt Lind, soprano

“Hacked” by Matt Samolis (2011)

“Mirrors” by Kaija Saariaho (1997)

“Verse I” (Sea Nocturnes) Hafliði Hallgrímsson (b. 1941)

Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble
Todd Brunel, clarinets
Garrison Fewell, guitar
Forbes Graham, trumpet
John McLellan, drums

clarinetconspiracy.com/fr_home.cfm
http://www.garrisonfewell.com/
http://www.rarefrequency.com/2007/10/forbes_graham.html

The Variable Density Sound Orchestra in New York is a new recording project  and we just launched a kickstarter fund raiser to help produce this recording.

Click here to watch the video and become a backer! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1370465060/variable-density-sound-orchestra-recording-in-new

We hope to get you involved in the creation of this recording! Thanks to the contributions of dedicated individuals like yourselves, creative music continues to thrive. Individual members of the VDSO are involved in various social justice issues, bringing attention to the importance of culture in today’s society through creativity and improvisation.

View a video clip of the recording session on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5x9SyHQ4Fw

Your contributions will help cover expenses for the recording studio, mixing, production, distribution and promotion of theCD and support the exceptional artists involved in this project. The release date is September 2012.

Variable Density Sound Orchestra: Guitarist Garrison Fewell founded the VDSO in 2008 and released two recordings on the Creative Nation Music label. As the name implies, the VDSO is not a fixed group, but an actively changing and growing collective of improvising musicians and composers from around the world. With varied nationalities, ethnic and gender backgrounds, the VDSO conducts improvisational dialogues that transcend boundaries and promote cultural diversity in creative music.

Members of the VDSO in New York: Garrison Fewell, guitar / John Tchicai, tenor saxophone / Roy Campbell Jr., trumpet / Steve Swell, trombone / Dmitry Ishenko, bass / Regiie Nicholson, drums

John Tchicai’s “Ascension Unending”
@ Evolving Music Series Jan. 2nd. 7:30 pm
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center. 107 Suffolk st, Manhattan.
more info: http://www.visionfestival.org/schedule/evolving-voice

John Tchicai – tenor sax and flute
Alex Weiss – alto and baritone sax
Garrison Fewell – guitar
Rosi Hertlein – violin
Dmitry Ishenko  bass
Reggie Nicholson – drums

Sextet for Creative Music Celebration: Dec. 30th, 2011, NYC

Steve Swell – trombone
John Tchicai – saxophone
Roy Campbell Jr.- trumpet
Garrison Fewell – guitar
Dmitry Ishenko – bass
Reggie Nicholson – drums

Friday, November 11, 2011   8:00 PM-11:00 PM
Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Alden Hall in the Spaulding Recital Hall
100 Institute Road
Worcester, MA 01609

Doors open at 7 PM; shows start at 8 PM.
Tickets are: $10.00, general public; $8.00, students and WCUW members. Tickets are available at www.brownpapertickets.com, and at the door.

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

Garrison Fewell, a professor at Berklee College of Music since 1977, has toured the globe for more than 30 years as one of the jazz world’s premier performer/educators. Fewell’s music showcases the melodic accessibility and sturdy framework of his compositions as well as the unbridled freedom of free improvisation.

“As a mainstay in Boston’s jazz scene, saxophonist Charlie Kohlhase has helped cultivate the city as one of America’s most fertile hotbeds for creative music”. John Murphy, Jazz Times Magazine.

Jerry Sabatini earned a Masters Degree in Contemporary Improvisation as a trumpet performance major from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston in 2009. He studied jazz, world and experimental improvisational music, personal style, and composition with Ran Blake, Anthony Coleman, Peter Row.

This concert is funded in part by the Worcester Arts Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

WCUW 91.3 is the proud recipient of a 2011 Worcester Cultural Commission Arts Lottery grant. This funding will allow WCUW 91.3 to continue presenting “low-cost” concerts in our FRONTROOM as well as at Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Alden Hall