Free Range Presents: Dave Allen Quartet & Naru
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Free Range is a monthly concert series at Urban Movement Arts that occurs on the last Thursday of each month. The series is curated by guitarist and composer Eric McGarry; throughout the year we will present a wide variety of music and artists.
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Sponsored by Love City Brewing
First Unitarian Church
2125 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19103
Doors 7pm
$5, Refreshments Included
7/31 Features:
Dave Allen Quartet (Jay Epstein, Shane Aaserud, Matt Scarano)
GUITARIST / COMPOSER / EDUCATOR
Born in Philadelphia, Allen began performing and composing at the age of 15. After discovering the music of John Coltrane, Pat Metheny, and Keith Jarrett, he moved to New York City to attend the Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Jack Wilkins and John Abercrombie. Over the next twenty-five years Allen performed with many of the most respected musicians in jazz today, including Mark Turner, Miguel Zenon, Joey Baron, David Liebman, Ravi Coltrane, Dave Binney, Jeff Ballard, Seamus Blake, Donny McCaslin, Marcus Gilmore, Dan Weiss, Tyshawn Sorey, Drew Gress, and many others. He has toured with his
own projects and as a sideman throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He has released three critically acclaimed recordings, the most recent being “The Sky Above Her”, and has been
written about in the New York Times, Downbeat Magazine and Jazz Times Magazine. All About Jazz writes: "Allen has found a true voice, his effortless technique downplays the
apparent complexity, paradoxically creating a cool surface sheen that has a white heat glowing beneath it...music that seduces both the body and mind, again and again." As a composer, Allen is known for his challenging but lyrical music which features multi-
metered, rhythmic layering, as well as intricate harmonies. He has composed works based on the paintings of Willem de Kooning, the poetry of Wallace Stevens, and the films of Stan Brakage, as well as a suite for guitar, string quartet, and rhythm section, which has been performed in Istanbul, Berlin, and New York. Allen was the jazz composer in residence at The Kimmel Center in 2019. As an educator, Allen specializes in modern rhythmic concepts and harmonic vocabulary. Allen has been a faculty member of the New York Jazz Academy and The Bahcesahir University graduate program. He has also taught at New York University, Temple University, and The University of the Arts. His new book, “Advanced Rhythmic Concepts for Improvisers” will be published by Mel Bay in Spring of 2022. The book offers the advancing student a method to expand their rhythmic vocabulary and explore some of the more challenging aspects of the modern jazz idiom. It puts rhythm and time-feel front and center, and offers techniques for strengthening your inner metronome, enhancing your time-feel, expanding your rhythmic flexibility, and especially, learning how to improvise fluently in odd meters. The book includes over 120 audio tracks, with 62 backing tracks featuring a superb rhythm section for the student to play along with. There are multiple examples of grooves in each meter, as well as multi-meter exercises, arrangements of standards, an exploration of triplet groupings, polyrhythmic exercises, and full compositions.
Naru:
Naru ( meaning- to become)
is a duo project of keyboardist David Dzubinski (Calvin Weston, Corey Glover, Jiar-Rohm Parker Wells) and bassist Bert Harris (Byard Lancaster, Elliott Levin, Philly Gumbo) playing original and improvised music, finding its creative incitement from any and every possible vibrational space be it Sun Ra to Son House or Pop Archaic to Whispering Giants. Free Jazz, seizing upon fleeting moments of emotional utterance, creating improvisational blisters that echo of galactic consciousness supporting Earth's creation of higher beings that in turn will render themselves extinct so that others later will encounter their ancient monolithic puzzles of sound and space, solve their complexities, and in their turn absorb these sounds and vibrations to become a continuance of what has always been- Naru
Please follow @free_range_music to stay up to date.
Sponsored by Love City Brewing
First Unitarian Church
2125 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19103
Doors 7pm
$5, Refreshments Included
7/31 Features:
Dave Allen Quartet (Jay Epstein, Shane Aaserud, Matt Scarano)
GUITARIST / COMPOSER / EDUCATOR
Born in Philadelphia, Allen began performing and composing at the age of 15. After discovering the music of John Coltrane, Pat Metheny, and Keith Jarrett, he moved to New York City to attend the Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Jack Wilkins and John Abercrombie. Over the next twenty-five years Allen performed with many of the most respected musicians in jazz today, including Mark Turner, Miguel Zenon, Joey Baron, David Liebman, Ravi Coltrane, Dave Binney, Jeff Ballard, Seamus Blake, Donny McCaslin, Marcus Gilmore, Dan Weiss, Tyshawn Sorey, Drew Gress, and many others. He has toured with his
own projects and as a sideman throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He has released three critically acclaimed recordings, the most recent being “The Sky Above Her”, and has been
written about in the New York Times, Downbeat Magazine and Jazz Times Magazine. All About Jazz writes: "Allen has found a true voice, his effortless technique downplays the
apparent complexity, paradoxically creating a cool surface sheen that has a white heat glowing beneath it...music that seduces both the body and mind, again and again." As a composer, Allen is known for his challenging but lyrical music which features multi-
metered, rhythmic layering, as well as intricate harmonies. He has composed works based on the paintings of Willem de Kooning, the poetry of Wallace Stevens, and the films of Stan Brakage, as well as a suite for guitar, string quartet, and rhythm section, which has been performed in Istanbul, Berlin, and New York. Allen was the jazz composer in residence at The Kimmel Center in 2019. As an educator, Allen specializes in modern rhythmic concepts and harmonic vocabulary. Allen has been a faculty member of the New York Jazz Academy and The Bahcesahir University graduate program. He has also taught at New York University, Temple University, and The University of the Arts. His new book, “Advanced Rhythmic Concepts for Improvisers” will be published by Mel Bay in Spring of 2022. The book offers the advancing student a method to expand their rhythmic vocabulary and explore some of the more challenging aspects of the modern jazz idiom. It puts rhythm and time-feel front and center, and offers techniques for strengthening your inner metronome, enhancing your time-feel, expanding your rhythmic flexibility, and especially, learning how to improvise fluently in odd meters. The book includes over 120 audio tracks, with 62 backing tracks featuring a superb rhythm section for the student to play along with. There are multiple examples of grooves in each meter, as well as multi-meter exercises, arrangements of standards, an exploration of triplet groupings, polyrhythmic exercises, and full compositions.
Naru:
Naru ( meaning- to become)
is a duo project of keyboardist David Dzubinski (Calvin Weston, Corey Glover, Jiar-Rohm Parker Wells) and bassist Bert Harris (Byard Lancaster, Elliott Levin, Philly Gumbo) playing original and improvised music, finding its creative incitement from any and every possible vibrational space be it Sun Ra to Son House or Pop Archaic to Whispering Giants. Free Jazz, seizing upon fleeting moments of emotional utterance, creating improvisational blisters that echo of galactic consciousness supporting Earth's creation of higher beings that in turn will render themselves extinct so that others later will encounter their ancient monolithic puzzles of sound and space, solve their complexities, and in their turn absorb these sounds and vibrations to become a continuance of what has always been- Naru
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