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http://amazingthings.org/event/stan-strickland-quartet/

"a rambunctious combo featuring a stellar cast of Boston improvisers"
-Andrew Gilbert, The Boston Globe

"lightning was striking all evening long" - Stu Vandermark, Boston Jazz Scene

A collective ensemble, The Outnumbered began in 2008 when California saxophonist and composer Jason Robinson partnered with Boston-based creative music stalwarts Charlie Kohlhase, Josh Rosen, and Curt Newton. Tonight, the remarkable bassist Aaron Darrell will join the group. Focused on developing and performing original music, the Outnumbered seamlessly moves between beautiful melodies, dissonant abstraction, heavy grooves, and freer rhythmic soundscapes. Their music is robust, beautiful, and focused.

Reservations recommended

Concerts at the Taylor House B&B
50 Burroughs Street
Boston (Jamiaca Plain), MA 02130
(617) 983-9334

$15 donation and elegant wine/dessert reception after.

Bus 39 from Copley Square stops at the end of our street. Green St Stop on the Orange Line is a 10 minute walk

"a rambunctious combo featuring a stellar cast of Boston improvisers"
-Andrew Gilbert, The Boston Globe

"lightning was striking all evening long" - Stu Vandermark, Boston Jazz Scene

A collective ensemble, The Outnumbered began in 2008 when California saxophonist and composer Jason Robinson partnered with Boston-based creative music stalwarts Charlie Kohlhase, Josh Rosen, and Curt Newton. Shortly after, the remarkable bassist Bruno Raberg joined the group. Focused on developing and performing original music, the Outnumbered seamlessly moves between beautiful melodies, dissonant abstraction, heavy grooves, and freer rhythmic soundscapes. Their music is robust, beautiful, and focused.

"a rambunctious combo featuring a stellar cast of Boston improvisers"
-Andrew Gilbert, The Boston Globe

"lightning was striking all evening long" - Stu Vandermark, Boston Jazz Scene

A collective ensemble, The Outnumbered began in 2008 when California saxophonist and composer Jason Robinson partnered with Boston-based creative music stalwarts Charlie Kohlhase, Josh Rosen, and Curt Newton. Shortly after, the remarkable bassist Bruno Raberg joined the group. Focused on developing and performing original music, the Outnumbered seamlessly moves between beautiful melodies, dissonant abstraction, heavy grooves, and freer rhythmic soundscapes. Their music is robust, beautiful, and focused.

"a rambunctious combo featuring a stellar cast of Boston improvisers"
-Andrew Gilbert, The Boston Globe

"lightning was striking all evening long" - Stu Vandermark, Boston Jazz Scene

A collective ensemble, The Outnumbered began in 2008 when California saxophonist and composer Jason Robinson partnered with Boston-based creative music stalwarts Charlie Kohlhase, Josh Rosen, and Curt Newton. Shortly after, the remarkable bassist Bruno Raberg joined the group. Focused on developing and performing original music, the Outnumbered seamlessly moves between beautiful melodies, dissonant abstraction, heavy grooves, and freer rhythmic soundscapes. Their music is robust, beautiful, and focused.

Ampersand 8 will be a night of cutting edge jazz and improvised music. Taking place on May 1 at the Bartos Theater at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, it will feature the Outnumbered, a group of some of New England’s finest post-modern jazz musicians. The Outnumbered showcases the varied compositions of Jason Robinson, Josh Rosen and Charlie Kohlhase as well as musical contributions from Curt Newton and Bruno Raberg. Opening will be Carl Testa, a key member of the New Haven improvisation scene, performing on solo bass and electronics.

"With the soul of an improv jam session, these two are one of the tastiest, new treats to come along in a while. Fine stuff that adults will love hearing when they are in an off-the-clock mode. Check it out." Chris Spector, Midwest Record

"finishing each other’s thoughts and phrases as these tunes wend their way from churchy, soul-jazz to more abstract precincts. Rosen and Strickland are more than just in sync - they often sound like a single musician playing two instruments." -Kevin R. Convey, Boston Herald

Adventure In Sound presents completely improvised sets of music drawing on a wide range of influences, sounds and atmospheres both electric and acoustic. Since 2008, the group has had many performances in the Boston area, including a monthly residence at The Outpost 186 in Cambridge, MA, all the while building an intense and loyal following. Adventure In Sound has shared the stage with brilliant innovators such as Ben Monder, Bill McHenry and David Fiuczynski.

A collective ensemble, The Outnumbered began in 2008 when California saxophonist and composer Jason Robinson partnered with Boston-based creative music stalwarts Charlie Kohlhase, Josh Rosen, and Curt Newton. Shortly after, the re- markable bassist Bruno Raberg joined the group. Focused on developing and performing original music, the Outnumbered seamlessly moves be- tween beautiful melodies, dissonant abstraction, heavy grooves, and freer rhythmic soundscapes. Their music is robust, beautiful, and focused.

"With the soul of an improv jam session, these two are one of the tastiest, new treats to come along in a while. Fine stuff that adults will love hearing when they are in an off-the-clock mode. Check it out." Chris Spector, Midwest Record

"finishing each other’s thoughts and phrases as these tunes wend their way from churchy, soul-jazz to more abstract precincts. Rosen and Strickland are more than just in sync - they often sound like a single musician playing two instruments." -Kevin R. Convey, Boston Herald

Adventure In Sound presents completely improvised sets of music drawing on a wide range of influences, sounds and atmospheres both electric and acoustic. Since 2008, the group has put on a number of performances in the Boston area and has held a monthly residence at The Outpost 186 in Cambridge, MA all the while building an intense and loyal following. In 2011, Adventure In Sound continued its move forward by presenting shared bills with brilliant innovators such as Ben Monder, Bill McHenry and David Fiuczynski. In 2011 and 2012 The group featuring collaborations with special guests such as Stan Strickland and bassist Sean Farias. The group continues it's move forward towards new explorations for 2013 and beyond.

"With the soul of an improv jam session, these two are one of the tastiest, new treats to come along in a while. Fine stuff that adults will love hearing when they are in an off-the-clock mode. Check it out." Chris Spector, Midwest Record

"finishing each other’s thoughts and phrases as these tunes wend their way from churchy, soul-jazz to more abstract precincts. Rosen and Strickland are more than just in sync - they often sound like a single musician playing two instruments." -Kevin R. Convey, Boston Herald

"a rambunctious combo featuring a stellar cast of Boston improvisers"
-Andrew Gilbert, The Boston Globe

Charlie Kohlhase, saxophones
Jason Robinson, saxophones, flute
Josh Rosen, piano
Bruno Raberg, bass
Curt Newton, drums

A collective ensemble, The Outnumbered began in 2008 when California saxophonist and composer Jason Robinson partnered with Boston-based creative music stalwarts Charlie Kohlhase, Josh Rosen, and Curt Newton. Shortly after, the remarkable bassist Bruno Raberg joined the group. Focused on developing and performing original music, the Outnumbered seamlessly moves between beautiful melodies, dissonant abstraction, heavy grooves, and freer rhythmic soundscapes. Their music is robust, beautiful, and focused.

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The tour will feature songs and arrangements by Nerses Nalbandian, the Maestro of Ethiopia for decades.  This music hasn't been played for 40 or 50 years.  We are honored to be chosen by Mr. Nalbandian's family and Francis Falceto, the auteur of the Ethiopiques series, to bring these wonderful arrangements back to life, in some cases with the vocalists and instrumentalists who originated them.
          An Armenian who grew up in Syria, Mr. Nalbandian was hired by the Emperor Haile Selassie to teach, compose and conduct music in Ethiopia from the 1930s through his death in 1977.  There he joined his uncle Kevork, the first European-style maestro "imported" to help create miliatary bands for the Emperor.  The younger Nalbandian arranged hundreds of songs, trained scores of musicians and ultimately led the orchestra at the Haile Selassie National Theater.

           Mr. Nalbandian was versatile and skilled musician, who began as a violinist until a hand injury redirected his efforts.  He was deeply interested in Anatolian music and in deciphering the Medieval notation of Armenian church music, and wrote a 930 page manuscript on the subject.
          Capable of playing almost any band instrument, he also loved conducting choirs, and did so steadily at the St. George Armenian Church in Addis Ababa.  This choir, which still exists, was the first to sing "Africa," the original anthem of the Organization of African Unity, which Mr. Nalbandian wrote.  (E/O leader Russ Gershon has written a new arrangement of this song for the upcoming tour.)  The choir also performed Western classics like the Messiah and Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore.
          A fan of Xavier Cugat and Ray Charles, Mr. Naldbandian gave the Theater Orchestra a style influenced by modern American sounds, thereby laying the groundwork for the Ethiopian pop explosion of the 1960s.  He wrote the score for the first Ethiopian film, and music for several musicals.
          Mr. Nalbandian was interested in Ethiopian traditional instruments, including the well known masinko and krar, and the little known instruments of the Asosa region of Ethiopia.
          
         The E/O looks forward eagerly to this unique cross-cultural project, our Pan-American ensemble and Ethiopian collaborators paying tribute to the work of an Armenian musician who found a home in Ethiopia, as the E/O has found a creative home there.

Adventures in Sound is Dave Tronzo, guitar, slide guitar, prepared guitar, radio; Phil Grenadier, trumpet, flugelhorn, pocket trumpet, weird mutes; Josh Rosen, piano, keys, effects, ipod; Bruno Raberg, bass, effects; Dave Fox, drums, percussion, toys....

Also joining will be Bruno Raberg, bass and Mark Walker, drums!

The Infinite Ensemble is a cutting edge contemporary jazz group featuring: Alfred Marra, vibes; Patrick Osborne, Saxophone; Josh Rosen, keys; Sven Larson, bass; Dave Fox, drums.

Original compositions and improvisations.

Adventures in Sound is Dave Tronzo, guitar, slide guitar, prepared guitar, radio; Phil Grenadier, trumpet, flugelhorn, pocket trumpet, weird mutes; Josh Rosen, piano, keys, effects, ipod; Bruno Raberg, bass, effects; Dave Fox, drums, percussion, toys....

Josh Rosen and Stan Strickland will be joined by master percussionist Bob Weiner in a special evening of improvisations, original compositions and rearranged cover tunes.

3play+ presents a Spring Concert with Phil Grenadier, trumpet; Josh Rosen, piano; Lello Molinari, bass; Marcello Pellitteri, drums

Join Josh and Stan at the beautiful, serene Taylor House in Jamaica Plain. Exquisite Dessert Reception after the concert! Their new CD, Instinct, will be available at the show.

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