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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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Ben Goldberg's Invisible Guy Trio

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Ben Goldberg's Invisible Guy Trio

Time: February 8, 2016 from 8pm to 10:30pm
Location: Thunderbird Cafe
Street: 4023 Butler St, Lawrenceville
City/Town: Pittsburgh
Website or Map: http://www.thunderbirdcafe.net
Phone: 412-682-0177
Event Type: concert
Organized By: Manny Theiner
Latest Activity: Feb 7, 2016

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progressive jazz from San Francisco
BEN GOLDBERG'S INVISIBLE GUY TRIO
Monday February 8 8:00 pm $16 advance/$20 door 21+


Thunderbird Cafe, 4023 Butler St. Lawrenceville 412-682-0177


tickets: http://www.thunderbirdcafe.net/showdetails.php?eventID=1666

http://www.bengoldberg.net/
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-IIMcHz5cA

Clarinetist Ben Goldberg, pianist/keyboardist Michael Coleman,and drummer Hamir Atwal came together in the innovative jazz and experimental music world of the San Francisco Bay Area. Eventually they founded this trio, Invisible Guy, which is in strict pursuit of beautiful melody. Michael Coleman says: “Melody is the knife that cuts through to truth. Then there is the importance of breath, and personal expression.” Reviewing a 2014 concert, Howard Reich of the Chicago Tribune said the group is "an unusually focused ensemble inventing a musical syntax for itself." Invisible Guy's first record, Knuckle Sandwich,will come out in Spring of 2016.

Goldberg is known for his 1990s San Francisco-based group New Klezmer Trio with Dan Seamans and Kenny Wollesen. which played traditional tunes and original compositions and recorded three CDs: Masks and Faces, Melt Zonk Rewire, and Short for Something, all on John Zorn's Tzadik Records. The group reconvened in 2009 to record Speech Communcation, a work in memory of Goldberg's father. Other groups Goldberg has formed include Tin Hat Trio (with Carla Kihlstedt and Mark Orton), Plays Monk (with Scott Amendola and Devin Hoff), Go Home (with Charlie Hunter and Ron Miles), Myra Melford's Be Bread and Nels Cline's New Monastery. His Orphic Machine project, a song cycle based on the writings of Allen Grossman, premiered at the Jewish Music Festival in March 2012 and was also performed in Los Angeles. In 2011, Goldberg was named the #1 rising star clarinetist by the Down Beat Magazine critic's poll.

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