Larry Karush will be performing in a Quintet on Friday, March 26th, at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center's Edye 2nd Space. The Quintet includes Karush on piano, Chris Colangelo on bass, Randy Gloss and Joey De Leon playing percussion, and Danilo Lozano palying the flute.
This concert will include performances of "Songs for the New City ll - lV" (with revisions created during Karush's 2008 artist-in-residency at the Ucross Foundation), a new version of "Seven Samba", featured solos by the ensemble members, as well as a little boogie-woogie in some form or another.
Larry Karush is an improvising pianist/composer with roots in Jazz, 20th century western music, African-based percussion, and the classical music of North India. From Carnegie Hall to the Purple Onion, he has performed Jazz with John Abercrombie, Jane Ira Bloom, Jay Clayton, Bennie Wallace, and Oregon, World Music with Kanai Dutta, Francisco Aguabella, and Glen Velez, and New Music with Steve Reich and Terry Riley, in addition to his solo piano performances.
His compositions and improvisations have been recorded on the ECM, Vanguard, Inner City, AudioQuest, Music of the World, Groovenote, and NAXOS labels. He has received grants and commissions from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the NEA/Arts International, Meet the Composer, the California Arts Council, and the City of Los Angeles. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition, and a nominee for the 2008 Herb Alpert Foundation Prize in Music.
He has performed concerts of original music for solo piano and his piano/bass/three world percussion ensemble, The Combination, throughout the United States in addition to festival appearances in Europe, Canada, and South Africa.
Mr. Karush has been a faculty artist-in-residence at the University of California Santa Barbara and Occidental College, and a composer-in-residence at the Wurlitzer (New Mexico) and Ucross (Wyoming) Foundations, and has presented lecture/demonstrations of his approach to integrating composition and multi-stylistic improvisation at the Universities of California, Tufts, Brandeis and New York, Reed and Berklee Colleges, and the California Institute for the Arts. He is currently on the faculty of Occidental College in Los Angeles.
He has received a great deal of critical acclaim:
"In Art of the Improviser, a riveting set of solo piano tracks, Karush draws together such disparate elements as bluegrass banjo, stride, tinges of Erik Satie, boogie-woogie, country and the blues. But his own vision one of the most fascinating in current jazz remains constant."--Los Angeles Times (Don Heckman)
"Elegant and earthy Š His music travels around the world carving out some real poetry. Highly recommended."--Cadence
" * * * * 1/2. Distinctive; smoothly incorporates world musics."--Downbeat
"Danceable think pieces. . . . Banjo Variations ingeniously bridges the ostinato fever of Steve Reich, the bright-hued energy of clawhammer banjo playing and stride piano, and the striking precision of Conlan Nancarrow."--Josef Woodard, liner notes for Art of the Improviser
Friday, March 26th. Two (separate) sets at 7 & 9 pm:
SMC Performing Arts Center (Edye 2nd Space)
1310 - 11th St.
Santa Monica 90401
Admission: 10.-
For tickets/info online: www.smc.edu/eventsinfo
by phone: 310.434.3000
Early purchase of tickets is highly recommended (especially for 7pm performance).
For more information on the artists:
www.LarryKarush.com
www.ChrisColangelo.com
www.RandyGloss.com
www.JoeyDeLeonJr.com
www.CubanFlute.com
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