Dave Allen Trio

USA

2013.09.28 09:30-10:30 pm

Venue: B10 Live, North District, OCT-LOFT

Artists：

Dave Allen – Guitar，Composer

BRIAN HURLEY – Bass

Al Gordon- Drums

Dave Allen

New York based guitarist and composer Dave Allen has been praised by critics as “an exciting and unique player in the mold of Pat Metheny, Ben Monder and Adam Rogers with fantastic technique, strong melodic sense, great compositions, and an exceptional team of musicians”. At the age of 16, Allen was recognized by Guitar Player Magazine as a talent to watch. He has released two critically acclaimed recordings, “Untold Stories” and “Real and Imagined” on the Fresh Sound label, which feature original compositions and a well-crafted group sound. He is known as a player and composer who writes challenging, forward-thinking music for groups that include some of the best musicians on the modern Jazz scene. Allen has performed or recorded with Mark Turner, Ravi Coltrane, Seamus Blake, David Liebman, Jeff Ballard, Donny McCaslin, Drew Gress, Nasheet Waits, Tom Rainey, Tony Malaby, Jaleel Shaw, Clarence Penn and many others. He has toured with his own groups throughout the U.S. and Europe.

Brian Hurley

Brian Hurley is a Canadian jazz bassist and composer, based in Montreal. For many years an important presence in Montreal, New York, and Shanghai–the guitarist Sonny Greenwich has called him “one of Canada’s premier bassists”, and Handel Lee, founder of Three on the Bund (Shanghai) called him “the best bassist in Asia”– he has performed and recorded with Joe Lovano, Ben Monder, Don Thompson, Ed Bickert, Sonny Greenwich, Peter Leitch, Terry Clarke, Sadik Hakim, Conrad Herwig, Pete Bernstein, Roberta Gambarini, Joe Sullivan, Yannick Rieu, Claude Ranger, Bernie Senensky, Remi Bolduc, Kong Hong Wei (“Golden Buddah”), Cindy Blackman, Wallace Roney, Xiao Ke, Wray Downes, Pete Yellin, and many others; and has appeared in nightclubs such as House of Jazz, L’Air du Temps, Modavie, Diese Onze (Montreal), hotels and restaurants such as Ritz Carlton, Omni, Holiday Inn Crown Plaza, Ramada Renaissance and Jazz festivals like Montreal International Jazz Festival,Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival, Ottawa Jazz Festival.

Al Gordon

Drummer – born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1970 –Studied with Joe Harris, Babe Fabrizi and Roger Humphries. Performed with both the Gene Ludwig and the Danny Fogel organ trios . Father Jack owned Red Raven Jazz club in the Northside of Pittsburgh.
1971-1977 United States Marine Corps Band (President’s Own), attended band school Quantico Virgina,
1978-1980 San Diego – studied with Jim Plank, Tim Shea and Duncan Moore, performed with Hollis Gentry, Butch Lacy, Kevin Lettau, Mark Dresser, Tony “Batman” Ortega, Performed regularly at LA Costa Country Club and Solana Beach Café.
1980-1988 California State University studied privately with Eddie Moore, Vince Lateano, Mike Clark, Gaylord Birch and Richie Goldberg, performed with Joachim Young, Hal Stein, Noel Jewkes, Madeline Eastman, Al Molina. Recorded several albums with Jack Jive, appeared both Concord and Sacramento Jazz Festivals. House drummer at Pier 23 Café. Recorded jingles for Kawasaki, Pacific Bell, and Peanuts/Garfield TV show with Ed Bogus at both Fantasy and Russian Hill recording studios.

1988-1990 – Carnival Cruise Lines/Sea Escape Cruises, Miami Florida, show band drummer.
1991- 2000 – New York City studied with Billy Higgins,Art Taylor, Mike Clark. Performed with Junior Cook, Lee Greene, Sal Bonafede, Larry Ham, Ted Trimble, Ralph & Dave Lalama, Rob Bargad, Peggy Stern, Pete Malinverni, Pat O’Leary,Jed Levy, Jerry Weldon, Bobby Forester, Mary Davis, Debbie Sullivan, Jeff Fuller, Harold Danko, Mike Asetta, Renato Chicco, Ugonna Ukegwo, Bruce Barth, Diana Krall and John Ray at various venues New York Area.
2000-2002 – Pequot Casino Hartford Casino performed nightly with Bill Brown, Debbie Sullivan and Mary Davis trios. Worked variety shows as needed. Performed at the Hartford Jazz Festival. Organized “Music on the Green” series for Fishers Island New York shows such as Peter on the Wolf with full Orchestra, Shawnn Montiero, Samba Do Brasil and Harold Danko trio.
2002-2008 – Now performing in Hong Kong, SAR & Shanghai, China at JZ Club, CJW, Park 97 and Ritz Carlton Hotel. Leader of the “Soul Crusaders” featuring Eddy Goltz, Sean Higgins, Ernesta Dunbar. Also performed with Eric Wyatt, JQ. Whitcomb, Brian Hurley, Victor Noriega, Nicholas Bouloukas, Danny Woody, Sinne, Sonya Hensley, Coco, Alec Haavick, Denise Minninfield, Sugar Mama, Peng Fay and Alice Day.
Hong Kong at Peel Fresco, Gecko, Grappa’s, Vibe, Fringe Club, Backstage with Ted Lo, Eugene Pao, Bob Mocarsky, Paulo Levy, Skip Moy, Charlie Huntley, and Jezrael. Currently touring with the incredible B-3 organist “Bill Heid”.

Xinghai Modern Music Grand Orchestra

China

2013.9.28 08:00-09:00pm

Venue: B10 Live, North District, OCT-LOFT

Conductor：Benoit Stasiaczyk

This music group was founded by modern music department in 2007. Benoit STASIACZYK, who took charge of the jazz major, was the conductor of this music group. It is the first formed music group of Xinghai Conservatory of Music.

It caught high attention from the university and society since its foundation in 2007 and it was invited to participate in numerous concerts including ‘Falling in Love with China Benoit STASIACZYK Jazz Music Concert’, ‘Blue Sky – Xinghai Jazz and Latin Special Concert’ and ‘12355 Pressure-reduced Special Concert’, which cause a favorable response.

Xinghai Modern Music Grand Orchestra aims at disseminating and developing jazz music. Ever since the conductor, Benoit STASIACZYK founded the group, he always encourages the music to create increasingly original works of excellence. For one thing, it accumulates the experience and techniques of playing and analyzing the works of traditional classic jazz bands; for the other thing, Benoit STASIACZYK and other young jazz composers created original works independently for the major music repertoire. The original works that Xinghai Modern Music Grand Orchestra has created and performed reached 30 plus until now. One of its original works Motion was selected to represent Modern Music Department of Xinghai Conservatory of Music to participate the 1st Guangdong Colleges Secondary and Primary Schools Instrumental Competition and won the 1st prize in the Professional Ensemble Group.

Xinghai Modern Music Grand Orchestra, a leading music group of jazz music in China, has won high reputation in the society and expects to contribute more to the jazz music in China in the future.