More Mario: M. Pavone Nonet Connecticut tour | Summer 2014

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From http://mariopavone.com/home.html:


June 19, July 16, July 26, and August 10, 2014 —
Mario Pavone Nonet: Street Songs / The Accordion Project

This series is part of a four venue workshop/process/performance arc where the audience is invited to attend and observe that part of the creative evolution that occurs when player / improvisers join to construct, prepare and hone a performance. The process will culminate on Sunday, August 10th @ 1:30pm with a concert at the 19th annual Litchfield Jazz Festival.

Please consider joining us and becoming part of the process!

MARIO PAVONE NONET: Street Songs / The Accordion Project

Mario Pavone - Bass / Compositions
Matt Mitchell - Piano
Adam Matlock - Accordion
Carl Testa - Bass
Steve Johns - Drums

Brass Quartet:
Dave Ballou - Trumpet, Cornet, Flugelhorn / Arrangements
Leise Ballou - French Horn
Peter Mceachern - Trombone
Gary Buttery - Tuba

Thursday, June 19 @ 7:30pm
Studio 59
55 Barber St
Torrington, CT
http://www.studio59ct.com
http://www.studio59live.com
Tickets: (860) 482-6801


Wednesday, July 16 @ 8:00pm
Café Nine
250 State St
New Haven, CT
bookcafenine@gmail.com
http://www.cafenine.com/event/553707-mario-pavone-street-songs-new-haven/
(203) 789-8281
Tickets: http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/553707


Saturday, July 26, 2014 @ 7:00pm

This Saturday evening concert is dedicated to Michael Duva, who also [in addition to music promoter Josef Kaempf] left us way too early, just after Christmas 2013. Michael was a music promoter who for 15 years (1979-1994) hosted the finest New York city A-list jazz musicians at his legendary "hillside jazz club" in Waterbury, CT. He did it purely for the music!

Five Points Gallery
33 Main St
Torrington, CT
http://www.fivepointsgallery.org
(860) 924-4004


July 27 - August 1, 2014 @ Litchfield Jazz Camp
In residence / senior faculty, Litchfield Jazz Camp
Canterbury School
New Milford, CT

(Students are invited to register for the exciting "downtown composition" course with myself and trumpeter/composers Dave Ballou and Russ Johnson.)

"The non-traditional atmosphere of this course encourages participants to experiment, push beyond limits, genres and categories, to take risks, and to develop their own deeply personal musical expression."

Sunday, August 10 @ 1:30pm
19th Annual Litchfield Jazz Festival
Goshen Fairgrounds
Route 63
Goshen, CT
http://www.litchfieldjazzfestival.com and in JT's Jazz Festivals forum
(860) 361-6285

[FWIW, the Litchfield Jazz Festival's website shows a start time of 1:45pm. It also lists all nine musicians but calls the group an octet.]

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I just read in my local newspaper that Mario Pavone will be at Cafe Nine in New Haven on Wednesday the 16th. I think I'll stop by. The listing did not mention who will be with him. The last time I saw him was at The Knitting Factory in NYC, probably ten or twelve years ago. I remember hanging at the bar and having a nice conversation with him and his son. Nice guy. Iirc Steve Reynolds was there that night as well. Mario is from Waterbury, Ct. Didn't know that until recently.

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Whoo hoo! Just purchased tickets for the gig in New Haven. The charge was $12.00 each. Apparently it's going to be The Street Songs/Accordion Project. Nine players are listed. Nice.

"Featuring - Mario Pavone, bass / compositions. Matt Mitchell, piano. Adam Matlock, accordion. Carl Testa, bass. Steve Johns, drums. Brass Quartet - Dave Ballou, cornet/flugelhorn. Peter McEachern, trombone. Leise Ballou, french horn. Gary Buttery, tuba.

The music is based on my reflection of growing up in post WWll industrial and multicultural melting pot in Waterbury,CT ..... and hearing those Italian, Portugese and Polish accordions .... That front stoop music.The CD will be released worldwide on May 6th (2014) and is already slated for reviews from Jazz Times, all about jazz / nyc and on Owen McNally's. NPR JAZZ CORRIDOR. 'Pavone's music has the rhythmic and harmonic grids of be-bop and all that descends from it, and the cathartic tracing-in-air of free jazz' —Ben Ratliff (New York Times)"

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Jimmy, I was just going to post the details. Here are some links for that show in New Haven on July 16:

Café Nine: http://www.cafenine.com/event/553707-mario-pavone-street-songs-new-haven/

Tickets: http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/553707

Mario Pavone: http://www.mariopavone.com/home.html

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Thanks, Rita. Maybe that info will lure our friend relyles down from West Hartford.

Jimmy---

YVW. I'm glad you got tickets instead of dropping by! And yes, relyles wrote that he'd loved that band, so he might be tempted to see it again in New Haven on July 16.

[Fred K]

I was at the Cornelia St. Cafe' show on Saturday, the Mario Pavone Pulse Quartet with his son Michael Pavone on Guitar, Ellery Eskelin and Gerald Cleaver. It was very good.

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For more info. on the three Pavone groups that played in NYC last week, see this Gigs thread:

Mario Pavone "Fest," Cornelia Street Café | July 10–12, 2014

[Jimmy Cantiello]

Full house last night at Cafe Nine. Never been there before. Small but nice joint. The only issue I had was their small dark stage that more or less hid the musicians that were not in the front line, mainly because of poor lighting. The stage could barely contain the nine piece band. Good acoustics, though.

The crowd was mostly older with a respectable representation of younger people. Mario was on it the whole evening but the standouts for me were Dave Ballou on cornet/flugelhorn and the young Adam Matlock. The kid played his ass off as did Mr. Ballou, who also did the arrangements. Adam Matlock made the accordion sing. He made that squeezebox sound like horns.

On the strength of this outing Joanne wants to go to the upcoming Litchfield Jazz Festival to hear some more from Mario Pavone & Company.