Tim Price, alto sax
Tod Dickow/Charlie McCarthy, tenor sax*
Bob Brumbeloe, guitar
Jim Kerwin, bass
Curt Moore, drums

* Charlie McCarthy subbing tonight;
Tod is rehabbing from surgery to repair
some nerves in his right forearm, and may
be able to play on a few tunes.

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Students $10
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An all-star band of jazz players renders a batch of compositions from the unique musical mind of pianist Lenny Tristano, with arrangements by the leader, alto player Tim Price.

Lennie Tristano studied for bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music in Chicago before moving to New York City in 1946. He played with leading bebop musicians and formed his own small bands, which soon displayed some of his early interests – contrapuntal interaction of instruments, harmonic flexibility and rhythmic complexity. His quintet in 1949 recorded the first free group improvisations. Tristano’s innovations continued in 1951, with the first overdubbed, improvised jazz recordings, and two years later, when he recorded an atonal improvised solo piano piece that was based on the development of motifs rather than on harmonies. He developed further via polyrhythms and chromaticism into the 1960s, but was infrequently recorded.

Tim Price, alto saxophone, has performed as a freelance woodwind and keyboard performer, composer, arranger, and conductor, with many artists including jazz musicians James Moody, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Gary Foster, Bill Yeager, Kim Richmond, Eddie Marshall, Dmitri Metheny and John Tchichai, as well as many pop artists, including Natalie Cole, Donna Summer, the Temptations, the Four Tops, Barry White, Johnny Mathis and Smokey Robinson.

Tod Dickow, tenor saxophone, performs in a wide variety of settings ranging from big bands to small combos adding a dynamic voice as an accomplished soloist and accompanist. As a frequent guest of the band Charged Particles, Tod has performed with Randy Brecker performing at many of the top Jazz venues in the world, such as Ronnie Scott’s, Birdland, Dimitrou’s Jazz Alley, Vibrato, Blues Alley, Dazzle Denver, Key’s Jazz Bistro, The Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society and SF Jazz.

Charlie McCarthy, tenor saxophone, plays club dates in small combos and works in all manner of studio and concert settings. He’s played and recorded with Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Henderson, Sarah Vaughan, Bobbie Hutcherson, George Shearing, Madeline Eastman, Radcliffe (the Cal Tjader Alumni Band), Frank Sinatra, Nancy Wilson, Bruce Forman, Lena Horne and Joe Williams,and has  worked local runs of touring Broadway shows and regional tours of Rosemary Clooney, the Beach Boys, Van Morrison and more.

Bob Brumbeloe, guitar, has been performing locally and statewide for decades. In San Francisco during the mid-90s, he was a member of the Storyville jazz club’s house band, performing with such artists as James Moody, Harold Land, Ernie Watts, Charles McPherson, Bud Shank, and George Cables, among others. He’s also been privileged to work with cabaret and Broadway artists including Mary Wilson (of the Supremes), Melissa Errico, and Paula West.

Jim Kerwin, bass, plays in a wide variety of musical styles, equally at ease playing Rock, Jazz, Classical and Bluegrass. Among his many accomplishments, he’s toured with the Larry Blackshere trio and the David Grisman Quintet (with whom he continues to play), and has performed and recorded with a world of string artists such as Martin Taylor, Stephane Grappelli, Jerry Garcia and many others.

Curt Moore, drums, has been playing drums for over 50 years, and has shared the stage and recording studio with a wide variety of artists spanning many musical styles. He has over 100 recordings to his credit. Some of the artists he has recorded and performed with include Francisco Aguabella, Count Basie Orchestra, Chuck Berry, Ray Brown, Joyce Cooling, John Clayton, Richard Davis, Ian Dogole, Pete Escovedo, Bruce Forman, among others.