A new, co-operative Jazz 4tet convened by bassist Kit Demos w/ special guest cornetist Stephen Haynes.

The 2nd convening, the music is deeply grounded in the relational, with a strong and engaging collective voice. Expect spontaneous offerings of groove and melody throughout.  This Music Series: An Appetite for Adventure continues…   Kit Demos / bass - Stephen Haynes / cornets, flugelhorn, leader (coming up from Hartford, Ct.) Pandelis Karayorgis / piano, keyboards  Eric Rosenthal / drums and percussion   If Stephen were living here you’d know of him better because he’d be performing often enough, that important! Fact is, he’s gigging in NY and environs, besides teaching, respectfully enough that it’s time to perform NOW for us – been just before the Pandemic anyway—time to know why he’s a master and creator in demand!   And a New England / Boston collaboration: Initiated by a key and other metro-area musicians, to create a unique creative evening.    And if not totally familiar with OUR musicians, now’s the chance to get to know our scene! Bringing in the New Year with such New Music!   Kit Demos Chrys 'Kit” Demos bass, DIY analog microtonal synthesizer, Boston-based, with extensive collaborations across the music spectrum. "constantly researches the possibilities of electronics and new territories for the acoustic bass. All of that research opens doors to rethinking music in the moment. The results of his research are so musically organic that they give the impression they are inevitable, integral of the moment." - S. Vandermark Stephen Haynes is an improviser, arts organizer and recording artist.  His practice ranges from small groups to large orchestras with a focus on working directly with composers in the development of new music. His work is featured on Pillars, Tyshawn Sorey’s groundbreaking work for octet released on Firehouse 12 Records. He is also a founding member of Adam Rudolph’s East Coast version of Go: Organic Orchestra. Haynes records for New Atlantis Records, most recently releasing Pomegranate, a quintet with Joe Morris, Ben Stapp, William Parker and Warren Smith. His pocket brass band, Knuckleball, features three cornets, tuba and drums with Taylor Ho Bynum, Herb Robertson, Ben Stapp and Eric Rosenthal. Expect a new recording release by this ensemble during 2021. Haynes’ primary focus – since 2013 – has been the cornet. He performs on Schilke XA1 Shepherds Crook and Eb Soprano cornets as well as the 1040 FL flugelhorn and X4L Bb trumpet. Across all of his instruments, he relies upon a set of custom-designed Schilke mouthpieces. Over the past 40 years, he has worked with a range of vanguard composers including Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor, George Russell, Butch Morris, Rhys Chatham, LaMonte Young and Earle Brown. This Music (TM) Series is a Boston musician’s initiative to recognize the creativity of many who haven’t been given the stage as leaders, often younger than the Jazz scene veterans; those with acknowledgment who can create a new project and musical ideas; and the unsung “gems” who aren’t in the public’ eye and deserve to be. The emphasis is on the freer forms, the adventurous (to help find a “home”).   Pandelis Karayorgis Born in Athens, Greece in 1962, moved to Boston in 1985. Prior to that, studied piano and performed in various jazz groups in Athens while pursuing a degree in Economics. Earned BM and MM degrees in music from Boston's New England Conservatory while studying with Paul Bley, Jimmy Giuffre, George Russell, Dave Holland and Joe Maneri (composition In the last thirty years mostly led or co-led numerous groups in performances at festivals and clubs in Europe and the United States and Canada. Recordings appear on labels such as Hat Art, HatOLOGY, Clean Feed, Not Two, Leo Records, Nuscope, Boxholder, Okkadisk, Cadence, Accurate, Leo Lab, Ayler and more recently on <a href="http://driffrecords.com/">Driff Records</a>, an artist-run label co-founded by Pandelis Karayorgis and Jorrit Dijkstra. Some of the most extensive recording/performing collaborations have been with Nate McBride, Curt Newton, Ken Vandermark, Mat Maneri, Guillermo Gregorio, Jorrit Dijkstra, Jeb Bishop, Luther Gray, Jef Charland, Randy Peterson and Dave Rempis. Notable projects include <a href="https://karayorgis.com/Pages/Projects/Chicago_Quintet.html">The Pandelis Karayorgis Quintet</a>, <a href="https://karayorgis.com/Pages/Projects/The_Whammies.html">The Whammies</a>, <a href="https://karayorgis.com/Pages/Projects/trio.html">The Pandelis Karayorgis Trio</a> (whose first trio CD "Heart And Sack" was featured on National Public Radio's program Fresh Air),<a href="https://karayorgis.com/Pages/Projects/mi3.html"> the mi3</a>, <a href="https://karayorgis.com/Pages/Projects/ConstructionParty.html">Construction Party</a>, <a href="https://karayorgis.com/Pages/Projects/System_Of_5.html">System of 5</a>, the quartet <a href="https://karayorgis.com/Pages/Projects/Matchbox.html">Matchbox</a>, the large group <a href="https://karayorgis.com/Pages/CDPages/Bathysphere.html">Bathysphere</a> and more recently, the quintet Cutout, the Pools and Cliff trios and the Double trio CliffPools.   Eric Rosenthal The former pupil of Ed Blackwell provides examined and performed a lot more than American jazz drumming; he in addition has delved into Western world African traditional and South Indian traditional percussion. Rosenthal provides performed and improvised with Anthony Braxton, Mat Maneri, Pandelis Karayorgis, Mario Pavone, as well as the Either/Orchestra. He provides performed around THE UNITED STATES and European countries, and made an appearance in Greece on the Patras Jazz Celebration, at Montreal’s North Ocean Jazz festival, also at Finland’s Pori Celebration. Besides making his very own improvised music recordings, he also shows up on CDs using the Hypnotic Clambake as well as the Zairean soukous music group Freestyle.The later ’90s found Rosenthal busy within the group Naftule’s Wish. The music group provides two produces on John Zorn’s Tzadik label, Seek out the Golden Dreydl and Smash, Clap!

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