Here’s the full upcoming schedule through July for OOYH. All performances are Tuesday nights at The Windup Space from 9:30pm until Midnight and FREE. Hope to see you out. Enjoy!
May 17: John Dierker-reeds; Jacqueline Pollauf-harp; Brother Jake Leckie-bass
May 24: Danny Gouker-trumpet; Kevin Gift-keyboards; Alex Weber-bass; Ethan Snyder-drums
May 31: Solo/Duo/Trio Night w/ Cam Collins-sax; Blake Cramer-vibes; Chad Hochberg-drums The first set will be a combination of solos and duos (Matt will explain the process) followed by a trio for the second set.
June 7: Patrick McAvinue-violin; Matt Frazao-guitar; Anthony Pirog-guitar; Will Redman-drums; Devin Gray-drums
June 14: Susan Alcorn-pedal steel guitar; Chris Pumphrey-rhodes; Nathan Ellman-Bell-drums
June 21: Chad Hochberg’s Going Away OOYH!!! Cam Collins-reeds; Eric Trudel-reeds; Matt Frazao-guitar; Jon Birkholz-keyboards; Adam Hopkins-bass; Chad Hochberg-drums The first set will be five duos…everyone as a duo with Chad. Second set will be the full sextet.
June 28: High/Low Night–Low Team: John Dierker-reeds; Andrew Delclos-bassoon; Colin Renick-bari sax; Brian Brunsman-bass; Adam Hopkins-bass; Nathan Ellman-Bell-low drums High Team: Brent Madsen-piccolo trumpet; Eric Trudel-flute; Matt Rynes-clarinet; Patrick McAvinue-violin; Alan Munshower-high drums First set is High Team, second set is Low Team, third set is both teams in an epic battle of High vs. Low.
July 5: Mike Cerri-trumpet; Liz Meredith-viola; Janel Leppin-cello; Savino Palumbo-keys; Lauren Shusterich-voice
July 12: Brent Madsen-trumpet; Jon Lipscomb-guitar; Mike Kuhl-drums
July 19: Ben Frock-trumpet; Zack Branch-cello; Brian Brunsman-bass; Ethan Snyder-drums
July 26: Derrick Michaels-sax; Michael Ronstadt-cello; Erik Spangler-electronics, melodica; Mike Ross-drums
We have a special performance this coming Tuesday, May 10…trying something a little bit different for the night. A great band called Father Figures is coming through Baltimore on tour, and it worked out for them to join us on a Tuesday night. They have a full set of their own music (which is definitely worth checking out) so they’re playing that at 8:00pm then OOYH will proceed as normal at 9:30pm. But we’ll be splitting up their band and mixing in some of our favorite Baltimore musicians to stay true to the idea of OOYH. Should be great. It’s all FREE so come at 8:00pm and stay until it’s over…as always this occurs at The Windup Space (12 W North Ave) Schedule for the night and more info about Father Figures:
Tuesday, May 10 @ The Windup Space
8:00pm–Father Figures
9:30pm–Adam Schatz, Jas Walton-saxophones; Jon Lipscomb-guitar; Nathan Ellman-Bell-drums
11:00pm–John Dierker-reeds; Ross Edwards-rhodes; Spencer Zahn-bass; Ian Chang-drums
Father Figures is a band of five friends from Brooklyn, making music that blends the composed and improvised into something that is wild, yet accessible. It is Zombie Jazz, and it is not your grandfather’s music… unless your grandfather juggled knives. Always melodic and strong willed, Father Figures manages sounds into sculptures to make you move your feet, then break a vase, and can neatly package these sounds into a 30 minute set ideal for a dirty basement, or an hour long set ideal for a slightly cleaner warehouse. But they’ll actually play anywhere, and won’t be stopped.
After meeting at NYU, Father Figures studied with instrumental monsters Ralph Alessi, Dave Pietro & Wayne Krantz to help develop their approach to collective improvisation and build a rock solid group sound as a foundation for creative composition from every band member. As a listener, it will be unclear what is improvised and what is not, and that mystery is what carries Father Figures live performance to new heights.
Father Figures is:
Adam Schatz (tenor sax, effects)
Jas Walton (tenor sax)
Ross Edwards (keys)
Spencer Zahn (bass)
Ian Chang (drums)
There’s a new video up in the Media section. This is a clip from last night’s performance of Eric Trudel-reeds; Patrick McAvinue-violin; Zach Swanson-bass; and Alan Munshower-drums. This was a GREAT group…check out the short video to see.
Full schedule for May/June/July will be posted over the weekend. Next week we have a special performance featuring Father Figures from NY…we’ll be mixing them up with some Bmore musicians and see what happens. Details for that coming soon.
Another great show coming to Baltimore at our favorite venue The Windup Space on Wednesday April 27. This one is extra exciting for me because Party Pack! is a trio I am a part of with Dustin Carlson-guitar, and Nathan Ellman-Bell-drums. We don’t get to play very often since Dustin lives in NY, but he’ll be performing with Will McEvoy’s Mutasm so Party Pack! gets in on the fun as well.
Will writes amazing music, and his semi-large ensemble is made up of some of my favorite NY (and not NY) based musicians. The group is Will McEvoy-bass; Nathaniel Morgan-alto; Patrick Breiner-tenor; Brad Henkl-trumpet; Dustin Carlson-guitar; Cody Brown-drums. If you missed them last time they were in town, I highly recommend checking them out at this show. You can hear some clips on this website, but they don’t quite compare to the live show. You want to see this.
Party Pack! is a trio of Dustin Carlson-guitar; Adam Hopkins-bass; and Nathan Ellman-Bell-drums. We are pretty much a rock band…but there is a lot of improvisation and really open sections, so you can call it whatever you want. It is always a party, though…we promise. I’ve attached a video of PP opening for the Oxes last year, which was filmed at our first public performance. Lineup for the night is roughly:
9:30pm–Nathan Bell
10:30pm–Mutasm
11:30pm–Party Pack!
Wednesday April 27, Windup Space, 12 W North Ave, Baltimore MD
The Ullmann/Swell 4 featuring Barry Altschul & Hill Greene have been together since 2004 and continue to tour the U.S., Canada and Europe. Entering their eighth season together, their cohesiveness, imagination and compositions have become the standard for what original music should be. The fearlessness and dedication of these musicians, mining the rich treasure trove of sounds and rhythms take them and their audiences to ever-expanding worlds.
Gebhard Ullmann
Gebhard Ullmann has more that 20 CDs as a leader and sideman to his credit, including “Tá lam,” which was nominated for best jazz CD of the year by the German Record Critics’ Award. He received several awards for his work including the Julius Hemphill Composition Award (1999), the Deutsche Phono-Akademie Award (1983), one of the first SWF (German radio station) jazz awards (1987), and several awards from the city of Berlin (1990s). He has toured throughout Europe, as well as Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Southeast Asia, Canada and Mexico. Ullmann has been a recording artist on the Soul Note label since 1993 and divides his time between his homes in New York and Berlin.
Steve Swell
Steve has been a leading voice on the trombone in the New York music scene, playing with numerous outstanding artists such as Tim Berne, Elliot Sharp, Butch Morris and William Parker. Swell also leads several projects of his own such as his Unified Theory Of Sound, Slammin’ the Infinite, as well as a new project called Fire Into Music with Jemeel Moondoc, William Parker and Hamid Drake. His CD “Suite For Players, Listeners and Other Dreamers” was ranked No. 2 in the 2004 Cadence Readers’ Poll. The Jazz Journalists Association nominated him for Trombonist of the Year in 2008. Steve was selected for the Trombone category in the 2010 Downbeat Critics’ Poll. Steve also teaches in the NYC public school system working with special education kids. Swell studied trombone in the mid-seventies with Roswell Rudd in New York City after attending Jersey City State Teacher’s College. He then moved into professional music life in NYC eventually joining Lionel Hampton’s Band in 1983 then Buddy Rich’s Band in 1984. Also during that time he performed with Jaki Byard and the Appollo Stompers, Makanda Ken McIntyre’s small ensemble, and Jemeel Moondoc’s Jus Grew Orchestra.
Hill Greene
Hill Greene has performed with Jimmy Scott, serving as his musical director and was concertmaster in Cecil Taylor’s group “Phtongos.” He has also worked with Gloria Lynne, Jacky Terrasson, The Inkspots, Rashied Ali, Leroy Jenkins, Jimmy Ponder, Eddie Gladden, Vanessa Rubin, Yoron Israel, Cindy Blackman, Electric Symphony, Charles Gayle, Jack Walrath, Don Pullen, Dave Douglas, Bobby Watson, Greg Osby, Kenny Barron, Joanne Brackeen, Carla Cook, Josh Roseman, John Hicks, Village Vanguard Orchestra, Oscar Brown Jr. and The Jazz Expressions.
Barry Altschul
Barry Altschul is widely regarded as one of the best percussionists in improvised music. In the early 1970s, Altschul was the drummer for Circle, whose members included Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Anthony Braxton. Altschul’s drumming with that band was stylistically all-encompassing, in his own words, “from ragtime to no time,” thanks to his background in traditional jazz styles, which gave him a solid grounding on which to build his free playing. Altschul was largely self-taught until 1960, when he began study with Charlie Persip. From 1964 until 1970, Altschul played regularly with pianist Paul Bley and their relationship continued intermittently through the 1970s and 80s. In 1972, under Holland’s leadership, Altschul recorded the classic album “Conference of the Birds” with Braxton and saxophonist Sam Rivers. Around this time, he also made records with Bley, bassist Alan Silva, and pianist Andrew Hill, among others. In the 1980s, Altschul made records of his own for Soul Note and continued his sideman work with such musicians as the Russian-born pianist Simon Nabotov and Kenny Drew. Altschul’s 1985 album “That’s Nice” shows him to be an exciting and good-humored bandleader in a rather modern-mainstream vein. www.creativedifferences.us
