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Do you want to know who Dizzy Gillespie  idolized? Did you ever wonder who inspired Kenny Clarke and Art Blakey? Who was the pianist that mentored Monk, Bud Powell, Tad Dameron, Elmo Hope, Sarah Vaughan and Mel Torme? Who was Art Tatum’s idol and Nat Cole’s mentor? What musical quartet pioneered the concept adopted later by the Modern Jazz Quartet? Were you ever curious to know who taught saxophone to Stanley Turrentine or who taught piano to Ahmad Jamal? What community music school trained Robert McFerrin, Sr. for his history-making debut with the Metropolitan Opera? What virtually unknown pianist was a significant influence on young John Coltrane, Shirley Scott, McCoy Tyner, Bobby Timmons and Ray Bryant when he moved to Philadelphia from Pittsburgh in the 1940s?  Would you be surprised to know that Erroll Garner attended classes at the Julliard School of Music in New York and was at the top of his class in writing and arranging proficiency?

 

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For almost 100 years the Pittsburgh region has been a metacenter of jazz originality that is second to no other in the history of jazz.  One of the best kept secrets in jazz folklore, the Pittsburgh Jazz Legacy has heretofore remained mythical.  We have dubbed it “the greatest story never told” since it has not been represented in writing before now in such a way as to be accessible to anyone seeking to know more about it.  When it was happening, little did we know how priceless the memories would become when the times were gone.

 

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Event Details

Hypercolor

Time: March 10, 2015 from 9pm to 11:45pm
Location: Howler's Coyote CAfe
Street: 4509 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield
City/Town: Pittsburgh PA 15224
Website or Map: http://www.howlerscoyotecafe.…
Phone: 412-682-0320
Event Type: concert
Organized By: Manny Theiner
Latest Activity: Mar 4, 2015

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Monday March 10 9 pm $7 21+
Howler's Coyote Cafe, 4509 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield

from New York City on Tzadik Records,

jazz-rockers

HYPERCOLOR
https://hypercolorband.wordpress.com/sounds/

with special guests
((microwaves))
and Billy Castle

Review from All About Jazz:

"...The trio consists of musical brainiacs James Ilgenfritz and Lukas Ligeti; genre omnivores whose own work and collaborations draw as heavily from the worlds of free improvisation, contemporary classical, various ethnic musics, and art-rock as they do from jazz. How guitarist Eyal Maoz, best known as one of the most distinctive young musicians in John Zorn's orbit, has remained an underground sort of figure is beyond me. Like his bandmates, his playing is distinctive and virtuosic, and his recordings to date have been consistently fresh and restlessly eclectic. Take, for example Hope and Destruction (Tzadik, 2009) which successfully fused traditional Yiddish melodies and modern metal with the hyperactive rhythms of 70s disco-funk. 

Hypercolor (Tzadik, 2015) is similarly eclectic. The trio eliminates the overt references to dance music, and replaces them with a punkish sort of old school jazz-rock energy. The album is rife with the sort of strutting attitude that made Tony Williams' Lifetime (in all of its concatenations) so much fun to listen to. The end result, though, is more along the lines of Fred Frith's great trio, Massacre, or perhaps the Nels Cline Singers."

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