Free Live Music on Thursdays at Noon and at 6:00 P.M
BOSTON, MA - Jazz Revelation Records presents the 3rd Annual Kendall Square Concert Series, and is collaborating for the first time with the Institute of Contemporary Art to present Harborwalk Sounds: Berklee at the ICA. Both series offer FREE live music on Thursdays throughout the summer (complete schedule of dates and times below). Artists include Berklee student and alumni jazz, world, Latin, and r&b musicians, some of whom are featured on the new Jazz Revelation Records CD The New Old School, including Jake Hertzog, MUNDuO, Mateo Lugo, Zili Misik, Daniel Ori, Alex Terrier, and Juan Ospina.
Jazz Revelation Records (JRR), Berklee's student-run jazz record label, was formed in the spring of 2003. The label is made possible by a grant funded by the college. Under previous management, Jazz Revelation Records successfully released the compilation CDs Rebirth, Two, and Ars Nova. Under the direction of current president Michael Borgida, the label has just released its fourth album, The New Old School. For the new CD, JRR gathered eight young, passionate, and committed artists from around the world, all speaking the traditional language of jazz in a new way.
The Kendall Square Concert Series take place at 300 Athenaeum St., Kendall Square, Cambridge, every Thursday, noon to 2:00 p.m., June 7 - September 13. The Kendall Square Concert Series is sponsored by BioMed Realty Trust, Watermark Residences, and ConstellationCenter. For more information, please call (617) 577-7354.
Harborwalk Sounds: Berklee at the ICA takes place at the museum's Putnam Investments Plaza, 100 Northern Avenue, on Boston's waterfront, three Thursdays a month, 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., June 14 - August 23. For more information, please call the ICA at (617) 478-3100.
Schedule for Kendall Square Concert Series and Harborwalk Sounds: Berklee at the ICA
June 7: Matt Witek - Kendall Square at noon Matt Witek is a drummer, composer and bandleader from Massena, New York. He has played in several prestigious groups around Boston, and has had the opportunity to travel for Berklee to numerous cities and venues. Most recently, his quartet was invited to travel to Eilat, Israel, to perform at the Red Sea Jazz Festival. The quartet will also be facilitating Berklee clinics and scholarship auditions in Tel Aviv. While fusing South American rhythms and jazz influences, Witek's group the KMQuartet discovers a fresh and multicultural sound.
June 14: Mike Tucker - Kendall Square at noon; ICA at 6:00 p.m. Saxophonist Mike Tucker is turning heads in a big way, earning the praise of some of the finest jazz players alive, including Gary Burton, Joe Lovano, and Pat Metheny. Tucker received standing ovations at the 2005 Nancy Jazz Festival in Lorraine, France, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington D. C. He has gained recognition with performances in Japan, Germany, Costa Rica, and at the JVC Jazz Festival in New York City and the Tanglewood Jazz Festival. In 2006, the Mike Tucker Quartet was featured in a live broadcast on XM Satellite Radio, and released their debut album Collage.
June 21: Jake Hertzog - Kendall Square at noon; ICA at 6:00 p.m. Jake Hertzog is a guitarist, composer, and bandleader from Champaign IL, who graduated from Berklee in 2007. In 2006, Hertzog was declared the grand-prize winner of the Montreux Jazz Guitar Competition, held at the Montreux Jazz Festival. He will perform at the festival again this year in July. Hertzog has performed with several big bands, and released two albums under his own name, Rate of Ascension and Expressions, which are both available online. His music is also featured on the Jazz Revelation Records CDs Ars Nova, and The New Old School.
June 28: Gordon Au - Kendall Square at noon; ICA at 6:00 p.m. Gordon Au began to play traditional jazz in middle school, and, by the time he finished high school, he had toured Japan and Australia, and played with jazz greats Gerald Wilson, Benny Green, and Ernie Watts. Au is currently studying jazz composition at Berklee, where he is a recipient of the World Scholarship and the Herb Pomeroy, Clark Terry, and Art Farmer Awards for composition and performance. He was recently selected to join the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, which restarts in New Orleans this fall under the artistic direction of Terence Blanchard.
July 5: MUNDuO - Kendall Square at noon; ICA at 6:00 p.m. MUNDuO is led by pianist Jim Funnell, who was born in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges and grew up in England, France, and Germany. Funnell began playing piano at 5 and started playing local gigs in Paris when he was 14. He later formed the NJR Trio, which enjoyed success playing at the Concours National de Jazz de la Defense in Paris, and the Jazz Vienne Festival. He then studied classical piano at the French National Conservatory until he was awarded a scholarship from Berklee. Funnell also performs solo and with the group Dile.
July 12: Moontit - Kendall Square at noon Formed in Boston in 2006, Moontit began as a trio of friends - guitarist Mateo Lugo, bassist Daniel Wright, and drummer Alonso Zayas Bazan - exploring their creativity and musical ideas. The group recently added Matan Chapnizka on the tenor sax and Dov Manski on keyboards, conjuring up a new palette of sound that has turned Moontit into an uncommon quintet. Their world is one that anyone would enjoy being a part of, where creativity thrives and emotion drives improvisations through the spectrum of human experiences.
July 19: Tiwa Savage - Kendall Square at noon; ICA at 6:00 p.m. Born in Nigeria and raised in London, Tiwa Savage is an R&B/soul singer known for her electric performances. Before coming to Berklee, she spent years honing her stage presence as a background vocalist for George Michael, Mary J. Blige, Chaka Khan, Kelly Clarkson, Sheila E, and others. Savage has also shared the stage with Sting, Destiny's Child, Black Eyed Peas, and Robbie Williams. Savage, who just graduated from Berklee, will release a new album shortly. July 26: Eleonora Bianchini - Kendall Square at noon; ICA at 6:00 p.m. Originally from Perugia, Italy, Eleonora Bianchini is a young singer who creates a warm and charming atmosphere through her voice. She is inspired by many Brazilian and Latin American artists, including Rosa Passos, Caetano Veloso, Mayte Martin, and Eva Ayllon. Bianchini has collaborated with artists and Berklee faculty members such as Oscar Stagnaro, Leo Blanco, and Dan Moretti, and has also recorded with Danilo Perez's new Big Band project. She is currently recording a project that features her own compositions in different South American styles, with lyrics in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.
August 2: Daniel Ori - Kendall Square at noon Originally from Kfar Saba, Israel, bassist and composer Daniel Ori's first exposure to music was attending piano recitals at his grandmother's apartment in Tel-Aviv. At 14, he started playing the electric bass, which led him to Rimon School of Music, where he studied jazz performance for three years. Ori has since been active in the Israeli music scene, both as a writer and performer. Currently, he resides in Boston, where he is finishing his degree as a scholarship student at Berklee, majoring in contemporary writing and production.
August 9: Zili Misik - Kendall Square at noon; ICA at 6:00 p.m. Reconnecting Haitian mizik rasin, Jamaican roots reggae, Afro-Brazilian samba, Afro-Cuban son, and African American spirituals, blues, jazz, and neo-soul, Zili Misik, led by Kera Washington, and including students Rajdulari Barnes, Krystal Johnson, Hinako Sato, and alumnae Joy Roster, Lexi Havlin and Jobeth Umali, honors its influences while creating a sound that is uniquely its own. The group takes its name from the Haitian spiritual entity “ Ezili," who is envisaged as mother, lover, and warrior. Zili Misik's songs are sensual, political, self-reflective, positive, and the lyrics invoke love, gliding seamlessly from English to Kreyl to Portuguese to Spanish.
August 16: Ricardo Vogt - Kendall Square at noon; ICA at 6:00 p.m. Singer and Guitarist Ricardo Vogt from Santa Cruz, RS, Brazil, started playing piano at 4 and guitar at 9. He moved to Boston after being awarded the World Tour Scholarship from Berklee while attending the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Vogt is a faculty member at the St. Norbert College Summer Guitar Camp, and has taught at the California Brazil Camp, along with masters Guinga, Paulo Sergio Santos, and Carlinhos Pandeiro de Ouro. He currently performs as a duet with Downbeat Award-winning singer Leala Cyr, and recently joined Eliane Elias's group. Vogt is sponsored by Godin Guitars.
August 23: Berklee Monterey Quartet - Kendall Square at noon; ICA at 6:00 p.m. Each fall, Berklee chooses four of its finest students to perform at the Monterey Jazz Festival. With graduation still ahead, the members are already highly sought after, with dozens of top-name professional credits, major awards, and concerts. Former members of the Quartet have gone on to perform and record with such artists as Terence Blanchard, Gary Burton, Mariah Carey, Ravi Coltrane, Roy Hargrove, Roy Haynes, Patti LaBelle, Chuck Mangione, Manhattan Transfer, Mingus Big Band, John Scofield, and Steve Turre, among others.
August 30: TBA - Kendall Square at noon
September 6: Alex Terrier Quartet - Kendall Square at noon Saxophonist Alex Terrier is a native of Paris, France. Terrier graduated from the Lycee de Sevres and studied at the National School of Music before earning a scholarship to attend Berklee, where he was awarded the Joseph Viola Scholarship and the Herb Pomeroy Award. He performed with, and composed for, three of the best jazz bands at the college: the Concert Jazz Orchestra, the Rainbow Big Band, and the Rainbow All Stars. Terrier toured Costa Rica last year and recorded Stop Requested for Aphrodite Records, his first album as a leader.
September 13: Juan Ospina - Kendall Square at noon Juan A. Ospina was born in Bogot, Colombia. In 1998, he began his formal musical studies at Bogot's Universidad Javeriana, and after two years moved to Barcelona, Spain, to continue his jazz and classical studies. In 2004, he returned to Bogot for a year before moving to Boston, where he is currently majoring in jazz composition at Berklee. In the spring of 2006, Ospina received a Jazz Performance Award from the Piano Department, and was the 2007 recipient of the prestigious Herb Pomeroy Award, given by the Jazz Composition Department.
BOSTON, MA - Jazz Revelation Records presents the 3rd Annual Kendall Square Concert Series, and is collaborating for the first time with the Institute of Contemporary Art to present Harborwalk Sounds: Berklee at the ICA. Both series offer FREE live music on Thursdays throughout the summer (complete schedule of dates and times below). Artists include Berklee student and alumni jazz, world, Latin, and r&b musicians, some of whom are featured on the new Jazz Revelation Records CD The New Old School, including Jake Hertzog, MUNDuO, Mateo Lugo, Zili Misik, Daniel Ori, Alex Terrier, and Juan Ospina.
Jazz Revelation Records (JRR), Berklee's student-run jazz record label, was formed in the spring of 2003. The label is made possible by a grant funded by the college. Under previous management, Jazz Revelation Records successfully released the compilation CDs Rebirth, Two, and Ars Nova. Under the direction of current president Michael Borgida, the label has just released its fourth album, The New Old School. For the new CD, JRR gathered eight young, passionate, and committed artists from around the world, all speaking the traditional language of jazz in a new way.
The Kendall Square Concert Series take place at 300 Athenaeum St., Kendall Square, Cambridge, every Thursday, noon to 2:00 p.m., June 7 - September 13. The Kendall Square Concert Series is sponsored by BioMed Realty Trust, Watermark Residences, and ConstellationCenter. For more information, please call (617) 577-7354.
Harborwalk Sounds: Berklee at the ICA takes place at the museum's Putnam Investments Plaza, 100 Northern Avenue, on Boston's waterfront, three Thursdays a month, 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., June 14 - August 23. For more information, please call the ICA at (617) 478-3100.
Schedule for Kendall Square Concert Series and Harborwalk Sounds: Berklee at the ICA
June 7: Matt Witek - Kendall Square at noon Matt Witek is a drummer, composer and bandleader from Massena, New York. He has played in several prestigious groups around Boston, and has had the opportunity to travel for Berklee to numerous cities and venues. Most recently, his quartet was invited to travel to Eilat, Israel, to perform at the Red Sea Jazz Festival. The quartet will also be facilitating Berklee clinics and scholarship auditions in Tel Aviv. While fusing South American rhythms and jazz influences, Witek's group the KMQuartet discovers a fresh and multicultural sound.
June 14: Mike Tucker - Kendall Square at noon; ICA at 6:00 p.m. Saxophonist Mike Tucker is turning heads in a big way, earning the praise of some of the finest jazz players alive, including Gary Burton, Joe Lovano, and Pat Metheny. Tucker received standing ovations at the 2005 Nancy Jazz Festival in Lorraine, France, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington D. C. He has gained recognition with performances in Japan, Germany, Costa Rica, and at the JVC Jazz Festival in New York City and the Tanglewood Jazz Festival. In 2006, the Mike Tucker Quartet was featured in a live broadcast on XM Satellite Radio, and released their debut album Collage.
June 21: Jake Hertzog - Kendall Square at noon; ICA at 6:00 p.m. Jake Hertzog is a guitarist, composer, and bandleader from Champaign IL, who graduated from Berklee in 2007. In 2006, Hertzog was declared the grand-prize winner of the Montreux Jazz Guitar Competition, held at the Montreux Jazz Festival. He will perform at the festival again this year in July. Hertzog has performed with several big bands, and released two albums under his own name, Rate of Ascension and Expressions, which are both available online. His music is also featured on the Jazz Revelation Records CDs Ars Nova, and The New Old School.
June 28: Gordon Au - Kendall Square at noon; ICA at 6:00 p.m. Gordon Au began to play traditional jazz in middle school, and, by the time he finished high school, he had toured Japan and Australia, and played with jazz greats Gerald Wilson, Benny Green, and Ernie Watts. Au is currently studying jazz composition at Berklee, where he is a recipient of the World Scholarship and the Herb Pomeroy, Clark Terry, and Art Farmer Awards for composition and performance. He was recently selected to join the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, which restarts in New Orleans this fall under the artistic direction of Terence Blanchard.
July 5: MUNDuO - Kendall Square at noon; ICA at 6:00 p.m. MUNDuO is led by pianist Jim Funnell, who was born in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges and grew up in England, France, and Germany. Funnell began playing piano at 5 and started playing local gigs in Paris when he was 14. He later formed the NJR Trio, which enjoyed success playing at the Concours National de Jazz de la Defense in Paris, and the Jazz Vienne Festival. He then studied classical piano at the French National Conservatory until he was awarded a scholarship from Berklee. Funnell also performs solo and with the group Dile.
July 12: Moontit - Kendall Square at noon Formed in Boston in 2006, Moontit began as a trio of friends - guitarist Mateo Lugo, bassist Daniel Wright, and drummer Alonso Zayas Bazan - exploring their creativity and musical ideas. The group recently added Matan Chapnizka on the tenor sax and Dov Manski on keyboards, conjuring up a new palette of sound that has turned Moontit into an uncommon quintet. Their world is one that anyone would enjoy being a part of, where creativity thrives and emotion drives improvisations through the spectrum of human experiences.
July 19: Tiwa Savage - Kendall Square at noon; ICA at 6:00 p.m. Born in Nigeria and raised in London, Tiwa Savage is an R&B/soul singer known for her electric performances. Before coming to Berklee, she spent years honing her stage presence as a background vocalist for George Michael, Mary J. Blige, Chaka Khan, Kelly Clarkson, Sheila E, and others. Savage has also shared the stage with Sting, Destiny's Child, Black Eyed Peas, and Robbie Williams. Savage, who just graduated from Berklee, will release a new album shortly. July 26: Eleonora Bianchini - Kendall Square at noon; ICA at 6:00 p.m. Originally from Perugia, Italy, Eleonora Bianchini is a young singer who creates a warm and charming atmosphere through her voice. She is inspired by many Brazilian and Latin American artists, including Rosa Passos, Caetano Veloso, Mayte Martin, and Eva Ayllon. Bianchini has collaborated with artists and Berklee faculty members such as Oscar Stagnaro, Leo Blanco, and Dan Moretti, and has also recorded with Danilo Perez's new Big Band project. She is currently recording a project that features her own compositions in different South American styles, with lyrics in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.
August 2: Daniel Ori - Kendall Square at noon Originally from Kfar Saba, Israel, bassist and composer Daniel Ori's first exposure to music was attending piano recitals at his grandmother's apartment in Tel-Aviv. At 14, he started playing the electric bass, which led him to Rimon School of Music, where he studied jazz performance for three years. Ori has since been active in the Israeli music scene, both as a writer and performer. Currently, he resides in Boston, where he is finishing his degree as a scholarship student at Berklee, majoring in contemporary writing and production.
August 9: Zili Misik - Kendall Square at noon; ICA at 6:00 p.m. Reconnecting Haitian mizik rasin, Jamaican roots reggae, Afro-Brazilian samba, Afro-Cuban son, and African American spirituals, blues, jazz, and neo-soul, Zili Misik, led by Kera Washington, and including students Rajdulari Barnes, Krystal Johnson, Hinako Sato, and alumnae Joy Roster, Lexi Havlin and Jobeth Umali, honors its influences while creating a sound that is uniquely its own. The group takes its name from the Haitian spiritual entity “ Ezili," who is envisaged as mother, lover, and warrior. Zili Misik's songs are sensual, political, self-reflective, positive, and the lyrics invoke love, gliding seamlessly from English to Kreyl to Portuguese to Spanish.
August 16: Ricardo Vogt - Kendall Square at noon; ICA at 6:00 p.m. Singer and Guitarist Ricardo Vogt from Santa Cruz, RS, Brazil, started playing piano at 4 and guitar at 9. He moved to Boston after being awarded the World Tour Scholarship from Berklee while attending the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Vogt is a faculty member at the St. Norbert College Summer Guitar Camp, and has taught at the California Brazil Camp, along with masters Guinga, Paulo Sergio Santos, and Carlinhos Pandeiro de Ouro. He currently performs as a duet with Downbeat Award-winning singer Leala Cyr, and recently joined Eliane Elias's group. Vogt is sponsored by Godin Guitars.
August 23: Berklee Monterey Quartet - Kendall Square at noon; ICA at 6:00 p.m. Each fall, Berklee chooses four of its finest students to perform at the Monterey Jazz Festival. With graduation still ahead, the members are already highly sought after, with dozens of top-name professional credits, major awards, and concerts. Former members of the Quartet have gone on to perform and record with such artists as Terence Blanchard, Gary Burton, Mariah Carey, Ravi Coltrane, Roy Hargrove, Roy Haynes, Patti LaBelle, Chuck Mangione, Manhattan Transfer, Mingus Big Band, John Scofield, and Steve Turre, among others.
August 30: TBA - Kendall Square at noon
September 6: Alex Terrier Quartet - Kendall Square at noon Saxophonist Alex Terrier is a native of Paris, France. Terrier graduated from the Lycee de Sevres and studied at the National School of Music before earning a scholarship to attend Berklee, where he was awarded the Joseph Viola Scholarship and the Herb Pomeroy Award. He performed with, and composed for, three of the best jazz bands at the college: the Concert Jazz Orchestra, the Rainbow Big Band, and the Rainbow All Stars. Terrier toured Costa Rica last year and recorded Stop Requested for Aphrodite Records, his first album as a leader.
September 13: Juan Ospina - Kendall Square at noon Juan A. Ospina was born in Bogot, Colombia. In 1998, he began his formal musical studies at Bogot's Universidad Javeriana, and after two years moved to Barcelona, Spain, to continue his jazz and classical studies. In 2004, he returned to Bogot for a year before moving to Boston, where he is currently majoring in jazz composition at Berklee. In the spring of 2006, Ospina received a Jazz Performance Award from the Piano Department, and was the 2007 recipient of the prestigious Herb Pomeroy Award, given by the Jazz Composition Department.
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