Thursday - February 20
119 Gallery
119 Chelmsford Street, Lowell, Massachusetts 01851
8:00 PM
Jack Wright (saxophones)
Kevin Frenette (guitar)
Kit Demos (bass)
John McLellan (drums)
Following an academic career and then radical politics, in the late 1970's Jack Wright directed his energies into playing the saxophone, and is today one of the few musicians that has played improvised music exclusively since that time. Through years of touring in Europe and North America, often performing for audiences in towns where improvised music had never been heard, he came to be regarded as the "Johnny Appleseed of Improvised Music", inspiring countless others. He has deliberately avoided the socio-aesthetic limitations of musical careerism, yet at he is unquestionably an original and virtuosic saxophonist. ...
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Thursday - February 20
119 Gallery
119 Chelmsford Street, Lowell, Massachusetts 01851
8:00 PM
Jack Wright (saxophones)
Kevin Frenette (guitar)
Kit Demos (bass)
John McLellan (drums)
Following an academic career and then radical politics, in the late 1970's Jack Wright directed his energies into playing the saxophone, and is today one of the few musicians that has played improvised music exclusively since that time. Through years of touring in Europe and North America, often performing for audiences in towns where improvised music had never been heard, he came to be regarded as the "Johnny Appleseed of Improvised Music", inspiring countless others. He has deliberately avoided the socio-aesthetic limitations of musical careerism, yet at he is unquestionably an original and virtuosic saxophonist.
Boston area guitarist Kevin Frenette has performed throughout the Northeast USA making music that is inspired by both avant-garde jazz and contemporary improvisation. He studied guitar, composition, and music theory at UMASS-Dartmouth where he received a BA in Theory/Composition. He has performed and/or recorded with such artists as Tatsuya Nakatani, Jack Wright, Joe Giardullo, Pandelis Karayorgis, Daniel Levin, Forbes Graham, Luther Gray, Harvey Sorgen and Dan DeChellis. In 2007, Fuller Street Music released Kevin’s first date as a leader: CONNECTIONS. That album featured Frenette with Tatsuya Nakatani on percussion, Andy McWain on piano and Todd Keating on bass.
Kit Demos- bass (b.1972) born in Bristol, Connecticut, raised in New York, Coastal Connecticut and Maine is currently expanding on an already broad and varied musical career. He worked for over a decade playing bouzouki and singing professionally with a traditional Greek music group Opa! Opa! all the while performing and composing for free jazz groups large and small. A privately trained classical and jazz performance student since the age of 6 through college, he has built and designed his own analog synthesizers from the component level, studied physics, electrical engineering, and modern performance with Portland Maine based trio Mystic Out-bop Review, started his own record label, and continues to develop his bop influenced jazz chops with an ever-evolving vocabulary of extended bass technique.
John McLellan was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and raised in Massachusetts; his resume is expansive and varied, including work with Joe and Mat Maneri, Roswell Rudd, Bern Nix, Roy Campbell, William Parker, Ken Vandermark, Denman Maroney, Ben Monder, and the Either/Orchestra. He has performed at festivals throughout the country, including the Newport Jazz Festival, the Iowa City Jazz Festival, and New York's Vision Festival. John's inventive drumming can be heard on his duo record with saxophonist Joe McPhee, Grand Marquis on Boxholder Records and Mat Maneri's latest release on Thirsty Ear Records, Pentagon.
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