Results for "Skerik"

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Fontanelle: Vitamin F

by Dave Wayne
March 1, 2013

The sheer improbability of Vitamin F alone is almost reason enough to savor it. But this is one heck of a great jazz recording, so Fontanelle's back story is worth pondering. Formed out of the ruins of Jessamine, one of the few Seattle bands from the mid-1990s to buck the grunge craze, Fontanelle recorded three albums ...

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Live At The Royal Room

By Zony Mash

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2012
Track listing: Brand Spanking New; Stompin' At The Cranium; Let's Get Mashed; Cold Spell; Withdrawal Symptoms; Kinnikinnick; Inference; Spice Rack; Meet The Zony Mash; Slide By; Big Shoe; FYI; Diggin' Bones; Rotholz Cabaret; Happens Like That; Sex Fiend.

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Skerik's Bandalabra: Debut Album, Tour Dates

February 14, 2012

DEBUT ALBUM LIVE AT THE ROYAL ROOM OUT MARCH 13 ON ROYAL POTATO FAMILY Saxophonist extraordinaire Skerik has formed a new group called Skerik's Bandalabra. The band's first release, Live at the Royal Room, is out March 13 as a digital exclusive on Royal Potato Family. Click here to listen to “Charlie Don't Like It" off ...

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Marco Benevento: West Coast Tour Starts Today

December 2, 2011

TOUR STARTS TONIGHT IN THE LOFT AT UCSD Marco Benevento is wrapping 2011, as has become tradition, by visiting the West Coast for a nine date tour in December that starts tonight at UCSD's The Loft in San Diego. The pianist will have a new limited pressing 7-inch single available at these shows, as well. Side ...

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Garage a Trois: Colorado Dates in December

November 22, 2011

GARAGE A TROIS ANNOUNCE COLORADO DATES Garage A Trois, a post rock/freak jazz entity comprised of Seattle-based saxophonics master Skerik, Brooklyn sound-sculptor/keysman Marco Benevento, Texas-born punk rock vibraphone hero Mike Dillon and New Orleans funky drummer/beat scientist Stanton Moore, have announced five shows in Colorado this December. The run starts in Telluride, stops in Breckenridge, Ft. ...

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Garage a Trois: Always Be Happy But Stay Evil

Read "Always Be Happy But Stay Evil" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
May 1, 2011

Once the most cerebral of groovemeisters, when guitarist Charlie Hunter collaborated with saxophonist Skerik, vibraphonist Mike Dillon and drummer Stanton Moore, Garage a Trois reinvented itself two years ago when keyboardist Marco Benevento took the guitarist's place, a process that now continues with Always Be Happy But Stay Evil. In contrast to the kamikaze ...

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Garage A Trois: Always Be Happy, But Stay Evil

by Chris May
April 15, 2011

Garage A TroisAlways Be Happy, But Stay EvilRoyal Potato Family2011 The story of jazz/rock cominglings is a not a happy one, strewn, as it is, with compromise and the middle ground. But it does include some happy chapters, several of them set in the modern jam band ...

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Garage A Trois Announce New Album & Tour Dates

April 1, 2011

On April 12, Garage A Trois will release Always Be Happy, But Stay Evil via Royal Potato Family. Aptly described by photographer John Margaretten as “a transformative, punkalectic, pornographic seizure of sight and sound," the modern day post rock/freak jazz supergroup will support the album with west and east coast tour dates in April and May. ...

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The Dead Kenny Gs: Operation Long Leash

Read "Operation Long Leash" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
March 26, 2011

The powerhouse trio known as The Dead Kenny Gs answers the musical question: can a jazz band have an uplift mofo party plan? With its collective experience, the group certainly can take the music one step beyond. Like their inspired namesakes, the 1970/80s punk band The Dead Kennedys, saxophonist Skerik, drummer/vibraphonist Mike Dillon, and ...

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Marco Benevento & Friends: Live In NYC: The Sullivan Hall Residency

by Chris May
December 29, 2009

Marco Benevento & Friends Live In NYC: The Sullivan Hall Residency The Royal Potato Family 2009 In January 2008, coinciding with the release of his monumental gumbo of retro-modern jazz, rock, pop and funk, Invisible Baby (Hyena, 2008), pianist Marco Benevento took over New York's then brand new ...