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Shane Endsley Celebrates The Release of His New Recording At Joe's Pub

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Trumpeter/Composer Shane Endsley Celebrates The Release of His New Recording Shane Endsley and The Music Band—Then The Other At Joe's Pub on June 1 @ 7:30 PM!

Featuring Shane Endsley (trumpet, compositions), Matt Brewer (bass), Ted Poor (drums), and special guest Gerald Clayton (piano)

“What's most remarkable about the quartet's latest, Then the Other, is its uncluttered directness; where many a modern composer props up his music with concepts and themes, Endsley is content to simply write songs, with bold melodies and stark, precise outlines which contain without constricting." —The Philadelphia City Paper

“He's an interior and economical soloist, averse not only to empty flash but also to wasted effort. And yet his music doesn't come across as rigid, cold or self-effacing. Quite the opposite, actually. . . . intelligence and control but never a sense of the contrived." —The New York Times (on The Music Band's recent performance at The Cornelia Street Cafe)

“The group's debut, Then The Other, is a plainspoken yet highly nourishing set of 21st- century NYC jazz"—Time Out New York

“There's a lot of joy in the music of trumpeter/composer Shane Endsley, a broadly expressive maestro . . . Endsley . . . creates a perfect framework for his band's inventiveness. . ." —The Hartford Courant

“ . . . a joyous tribute to music—jazz and otherwise" —All About Jazz (on The Music Band's performance at The 2011 Winter Jazzfest)

“Jazz keeps slowly widening, and the young trumpeter Shane Endsley is working calmly and effectively at the perimeter."—The New York Times

On June 1 at Joe's Pub Shane Endsley continues the celebration of his new recording on Kneebody's new label, Low Electrical Records, Shane Endsley and The Music Band—Then The Other. Endsley will be appearing with special guest Gerald Clayton (piano), Matt Brewer (bass), and Ted Poor (drums).

In addition to his work with the Grammy-nominated band Kneebody, and leading The Music Band, Endsley has been working with some of today's most exemplary and hippest musicians, including Chris Speed, Charlie Hunter and Ben Allison. With the release of Then The Other, featuring Craig Taborn (piano), Matt Brewer (bass) and Ted Poor (drums), Endsley once again hits the ground running as a bandleader with an album of acoustic quartet music that switch-hits with tunes that are lively and euphonious, to music that posseses a hushed qui vive.

Then The Other opens majestically with “Big," on which, “the band plays heftily and throws a lot of paint on the canvas," explains Endsley. Living in the Endsley household means hearing a lot of old-time and finger picking guitar music; specifically, a bit of the Appalachians' culture has seeped into Endsley's writing, manifesting itself in the joyous original, “Kings County Ramble" (Endsley's solo here is worth the price of admission alone). Then The Other continues with “Young Benjamin," perhaps the most tender sounding piece in this collection, which gets its name from two of Endsley's favorite musicians who were the first to play it, Adam Benjamin and Tim Young.

Other highlights on Then The Other include the medium bounce of “House," that Endsley has a penchant for these days; “Pedals," originally written for piano, and now a mercurial Kneebody-esque ensemble piece; the through-composed title track that Endsley calls, “a good bedtime piece": and the upbeat and quintessential Endsley melody of “Gallery Piece," that offers some of the most energetic and fun playing on the record.

Endsley comments on forming The Music Band and the new recording, Then The Other: “The Music Band is a long overdue step for me. This group has just recorded my second CD as a leader, the previous one being ten years old now. As the band name might suggest, this project will be an exercise in simplicity. It's a new group and the plan is to bring in some material that doesn't require too much head scratching from the players but rather, sets us comfortably off into some lyrical improvising. I want us to get the tunes going and then be able to come off the page, to not be laden with intense structure. Having said that, I should probably say that the music will not be banal or mundane. It will just be designed to be easily digestible so that we can all enjoy the unrestricted artistry of young masters like Craig Taborn (piano), Matt Brewer (bass), and Ted Poor (drums)."

Shane Endsley and The Music Band—Then The Other available NOW on Kneebody's Low Electrical Records.

More on Shane Endsley: Shane Endsley resides in Brooklyn, NY, where he is steadily building his reputation as one of the most unique voices on the trumpet today. DownBeat Magazine named him as one of the “Top 25" trumpeters of his generation in 2007, and he is a founding member of the Grammy-nominated band Kneebody (for their Twelve Songs By Charles Ives—on the Winter & Winter label,with Theo Bleckmann), also recently nominated for Best Jazz Group in the 2010 DownBeat Reader's Poll. Over the past year Endsley has been working heavily with Chris Speed, Charlie Hunter and Ben Allison (Endsley is featured on Allison's recording, Think Free, on Palmetto). A truly modern and dynamic musician, he can be found on recordings ranging from modern instrumentalists Steve Coleman, Dave Binney, and Donny McCaslin, to folk and rock icons like Ani DiFranco, Erin McKeown, and Pearl Jam. Shane is also an accomplished drummer and composer who is constantly expanding his musical vocabulary with the rich experiences offered by New York City. He dove into the intricate ornamental style of the Balkan brass bands with the powerhouse 10 piece group, Slavic Soul Party and has ventured into the lilting rhythms of Brazilian Forro and Maracatu with Scott Kettner of Nation Beat and Maracatu NY.

“Kneebody flies above the label zone, crafting instrumental, postmodern music that jukes convention and genre . . . maybe even reinventing music a little in the process"—The Onion

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