On Tuesday, August 26 at 8:00pm, Tom's Place presents
Damon Smith, solo bass
and a trio of
Scott R Looney (piano)
Darren Johnston (trumpet) and
Damon Smith,
Damon Smith is here on a short visit from St. Louis. While he's here, we're putting on a CD release event for "Wheat Fields of Kleylehof", a Marco Eneidi Quintet recording from the vault (recorded in 2004 by Scott R Looney).
Tonight Damon will team up with Darren Johnston and Scott R Looney (all three principals on Wheat Fields of Kleylehof) in celebration of the release. The performance will be in two parts:
Set 1
Untitled by Cecil Taylor
Damon Smith solo double bass
set 2
Darren Johnston - trumpet
Scott R. Looney - piano
Damon Smith - double bass
"Untitled" was written by Cecil for Marco Eneidi and recorded by Marco's
Quintet on their record "Final Disconnect Notice". Damon recorded a duo version with the great AACM drummer Alvin Fielder, available at
https://balancepointacoustics.bandcamp.com/track/variations-on-untitled-by-cecil-taylor
Damon wrote these liner notes for Wheat Fields of Kleylehof:
"Offend these people ..."
... said Franz West to Marco at an opening at a blue chip gallery while shoving a stack of Euros into his hand. Marco worked for him for a time when he moved to Vienna from Oakland. West & Eneidi were a great match in many ways. The world is a worse place without their dark, mischievous & hilarious viewpoints. They had a similar over the top, over-achieving approach to their work. My first real improvised music concert was a trio with Marco and Gino Robair. I went in right at the deep end and never looked back. Marco was a mentor for me, I basically apprenticed for him for years, helping him organize concerts and playing together often in all sorts of groups. He taught me the way Cecil Taylor's notation system works (as well as gviing me the opportunity to play with Cecil!) and many other things. I still use his turntable, a Technics SL-Q3, to this day.
Right around the time of that first trio concert, the Quiet Storm All Stars appeared: Aaron Bennett, Charles Sharp & John Finkbeiner. We played many shows together, sharing bills but rarely together. A short time later, the great bassist Adam Lane came to the Bay Area and Finkbeiner & Bennett were often in his bands. Adam subsequently moved to NYC and Lisa Mezzacappa showed up around that time; the All Stars began playing in her bands and made equally great but very different music. We all used to play in Marco's large groups and at a certain point this quintet came about.It was the only time I got to work with Finkbeiner in a small group. Marco had been to Europe to play a concert with Han Bennink but had not moved there yet. He wrote this fantastic quintet music and put this group together to play it.
Tom's Place
3111 Deakin Street, Berkeley CA
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Admission: donation. All proceeds go directly to the musicians.
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Doors open at 7:30.
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