Matthias Lupri Group w/Cuong Vu - Berklee First Night Performance

Matthias Lupri Group w/ Cuong Vu

Performing at First Night, Berklee Performance Center, Wed Dec 31, 6-8pm

Upon returning from a 2 week west coast tour of USA and Canada with his group and adventurous electronic trumpeter Cuong Vu(Pat Metheny), modern jazz vibraphonist Matthias Lupri will be performing music from his latest CD release “Same Time Twice" (Summit Records, DCD-337) with his group at the First Night Celebration at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston, Wednesday Dec 31, 6-8 pm, $15, call 617-542-1399, or see “First Night Boston" to reserve a 2004 button for “ALL" First Night Performances.

Matthias Lupri - vibraphone, Cuong Vu - trumpet, Nate Radley - guitar, Thomson Kneeland - acoustic bass, Jordan Perlson - drums

Upcoming in 2004

Litchfield Jazz Festival, Rochester Jazz Festival , Lake George Festival, West Virginia, Boston Gardner Museum, Portland, NYC, etc

“Lupri and company forge a decidedly progressive path on this splendid disc of well crafted originals" Bill Milkowski - JazzTimes

After a coast to coast tour of the Canadian Jazz Festivals and US dates summer 2002, modern jazz vibraphonist Matthias Lupri returned in the fall with his 3rd CD of original modern compositions entitled “Same Time Twice" on “Summit Records - DCD 337".

Modern original jazz with the sweet sounds of the vibraphone and the forward thinking players of today's NYC jazz scene. Critically acclaimed saxophonist Mark Turner and guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel have numerous albums out on Verve and Warner Bros, while the bass and drum team of Reuben Rogers and Gregory Hutchinson were with Joshua Redman's band for many years, and presently Dianne Reeves. #26 on the Jazz Week Charts and#24 Ejazz Canada.

Cuong Vu is considered to be “one of the most distinctive stylists on New York's Downtown music scene" (Downbeat, March 1998), and garnering rave reviews as one of the leaders of a new generation of innovative musicians. Most recently he was mentioned as one of the top 50 young Jazz Artists in an article called “The New Masters" from the British magazine, “Classic CD". He is heard most recently on the latest Pat Metheny Group