8pm
Josh Allen - tenor saxophone
9pm Tom Weeks Trio
Curt Brown - electronics, Sam Genovese - electronics
Tom Weeks - alto & bartitone saxophone
Joshua Allen has created his own personal language on the tenor saxophone, with an emphasis on polytonal and asymmetrical phrasing, as well as extending the range and sonic ability of the instrument. He does this with constant emphasis and study of the overtone series, and the generation of multiphonics from the application of this process. He is currently teaching Fellowship students at the Brubeck Institute at the University of Pacific. He was born in Berkeley, California in 1972. Like many of today’s prominent musicians, Mr. Allen was a product of the Berkeley public school system, studying saxophone starting at the age of nine under Phil Hardymon. He went on to study with such prominent Bay Area musicians as Bill Aron, Joe Henderson, and Rory Snyder. With his focus squarely on jazz composition and performance, Mr. Allen moved to Southern California in the early nineties to study with Rick Helzer at San Diego State. He became active in the Latin Jazz community, and worked with various musicians such as Dennis Chambers, and Eddie Palmieri. Mr. Allen’s return to the Bay Area in the mid 90s to finish his Bachelors degree at Sonoma State. His association with saxophonist Marco Eneidi led to working relationships with musicians such as Glen Spearmann, Matthew Goodheart, Damon Smith, and eventually Cecil Taylor.
Tom Weeks is a saxophone and guitar player from Danville, California (in the San Francisco Bay Area), and is currently a Jazz Composition major at Berklee College of Music. Before attending Berklee, he studied history and music at San Francisco State University and Diablo Valley College, and has performed with such musicians as Rory Snyder, Dave Eshelman, Steed Cowart, Joe Livotti and Bruce Mishkit. As a composer and player, Tom is mainly interested in combining traditional jazz with hardcore punk, metal, free improvisation, experimental, and film and video game music. He has played in numerous punk and experimental groups in the Bay Area, and led and composed for the progressive rock/punk band Star Destroyer, with which he toured the western US several times.
Cost: $6-15 sliding