Freddie Bryant – guitar/voice.
Sylvia Cuenca – drums.
Doug Miller – bass.

Cover charge – $20; byob.
Students – $10.
For a reservation, call the bookshop at 415-586-3733.

Freddie’s Kaleidoscope West Trio presents Poems, Groove and Song:
a special program curated for Bird and Beckett’s intimate space.

The music is based on a kaleidoscope of influences from straight-ahead to blues, New Orleans grooves to Brazilian, Latin and world rhythms with songs from his recent album SOLO BOSSA, his acclaimed song cycle UPPER WEST SIDE LOVE STORY and LIVE GROOVES…EPIC TALES.

Freddie received a master’s degree in classical guitar from Yale School of Music and is in demand in the New York jazz and Brazilian scenes where he has worked with Eliane Elias, Tom Harrell and many others. He was a member of Ben Riley’s Monk Legacy Septet and has played with the Mingus Orchestra for two decades. His impressive array of guitar styles are featured on numerous CDs and albums showcasing his work on acoustic and electric guitars. His ten albums spotlight his intimate solo guitar to intricate ensemble work that brings an orchestral sound to a jazz ensemble.  His touring has brought him to 55 countries where he collaborated with musicians from a variety of backgrounds, including Indian classical musicians, African singers, oud players, traditional Arab groups and klezmer bands. 

For more info visit his website: www.freddiebryant.com

About Live Grhttops://www.freddiebryant.comooves…Epic Tales, noted jazz journalist, Bill Milkowski wrote, “A multi-directional musician…shifts easily from straight ahead jazz to Indian ragas, acoustic world music, bossa novas and grooving sambas…guitarist Freddie Bryant and the Kaleidoscope Trio expand his ever-widening musical palette on Live Grooves…Epic Tales.”

Upper West Side Love Story: a song cycle was featured in a two-page spread in the Daily News and DOWNBEAT included it on its “Best CDs of 2023” list writing “His project…speaks to joys and tribulations common to us all…over more than 90 minutes (it) delivers blues, hip-hop, Afro-Cuban, Afrobeat, reggae and spoken word. His passionate lyrics and colorful music suffuse his reflections on a neighborhood so gentrified he had to leave.” Carlo Wolff – Downbeat.

“Guitarist Freddie Bryant is a rhythmic and melodic sponge. Put him in any musical situation, be it classical, jazz, funk, Senegalese, etc., and he’ll tend to become one with the music.” — Jason Koransky, www.downbeatjazz.com