DAROL ANGER and his JAZZ GUYS

PHOTO: IRENE YOUNG

With:
Adam Levy, Guitar or Bevan Manson, Piano
Derek Jones, Bass
Jason Lewis, Drums

Darol Anger has assembled some of the San Francisco Bay Area's most creative jazz talents to de/reconstruct standards and his originals, in a band of intense musical interaction, pyrotechnical jazz fireworks, warm emotion, and goofy humor.

Darol performed with his Jazz Guys on the San Francisco Jazz Festival's summer series in July 2001, and was the summer festival's first artist to receive a composition commission. The ten-minute jazz composition, entitled Redwood, reflects the unique qualities of San Francisco's Redwood Park, where Darol performed with pianist Jack Perla, drummer Deszon Claiborne, and bassist Jon Evans. ....Here is Tom Montgomery's review of that concert, at Jambase.com.

BEVAN MANSON
One of the rare truly unique jazz pianists and composers, Bevan Manson has garnered a reputation in the Boston and San Francisco Bay area for his innovative approach to jazz. He has worked with Jerry Bergonzi, Howard McGhee, Bob Brookmeyer, Cecil McBee, Harvie Swartz, Larry Coryell, Gunther Schuller, the Turtle Island String Quartet, Grey Sargent, The Fringe, Orange Then Blue, and Bruce Gertz. His own trio, whose album “Rhythm Chowder”, released on Iris Records, has won plaudits in Europe and America. A graduate of the Eastman School Of Music, he taught jazz, composition, and orchestration at the New England Conservatoy Of Music before moving to the Bay Area to head the Jazz program at the University Of California at Berkeley. He was a winner of the 1989 Great American Jazz Piano Contest at the Florida International Jazz Festival.
ADAM LEVY
Unless you've been living in a cave for the past two years, you've heard Adam Levy's soulful guitar playing - he was featured on Tracy Chapman's hugely popular, "Give Me One Reason." Levy has the "blue Midas touch," bringing heartfelt blues traces to any style of music he plays. Levy has been an instructor at the National Guitar Workshop since 1990. He has led classes covering blues, rock, and jazz, always with an emphasis on improvisation. He is the author of Jazz Guitar Sight Reading [Alfred], and wrote several instructional articles for Guitar Player before joining GP this year as Associate Editor. He toured and recorded with Tracy Chapman and is featured on her latest album, New Beginning. Levy currently lives in San Francisco, where he performs regularly with his jazz trio and several other notable bands, including the The Hot Club of San Francisco.
TODD SICKAFOOSE-Bass
San Francisco bassist Todd Sickafoose plays and records with a number of the most creative new improvising groups on the west coast including the Scott Amendola Band, Jenny Scheinman Quartet, and the Tony Furtado Project. Sickafoose also plays as a member of Noe Venable & the Ruiners. Sickafoose studied bass with Charlie Haden and composition with, among others, Wadada Leo Smith and Mel Powell. The LA WEEKLY recently cited Sickafoose as an "innovative orchestrator of abstractionist colorations . . . the melodies are strong, the rhythms sophisticated." The Weekly also identified Sickafoose as "a hard-driving, technically indomitable bassist: at 24, he's already hard to ignore." (January 1999) .
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