Kenny Warren's Sweet World w/ JP Schlegelmilch

We believe that jazz is liberation music, a means of connecting us to our humanity, our communities and to nature. As an expression of radical love, free music empowers us to fight fascism, racism, militarism, and economic exploitation.

Kenny Warren - trumpet/compositions

Christopher Hoffman - cello

Nathan Ellman-Bell - drums

Sweet World's sound is a composite of its three members, each unique voices from New York's vibrant music scene. Melodic, rhythmic, jazz, folk and sonic exploration in the context of Kenny Warren's lively compositions. Their debut LP on Out of Your Head Records was hailed by the Best of Bandcamp as "the sonic representation of a beating heart".

Kenny Warren is a trumpeter and composer who has been active in NYC’s improvised music community since 2006. He has made over a dozen records of his music with various ensembles including 3 LPs with his avant-country outfit Laila and Smitty, a handful of self-produced solo records, and jazz records with his quartet and trio for Whirlwind Recordings and Out of Your Head Records. Longtime jazz writer for The Chicago Reader Peter Margasak calls Kenny “A player of great imagination and subtlety who always seems to focus on an ensemble-oriented sound even on his own recordings”. As a side-person Warren has recently recorded with The Angelica Sanchez Nonet, Stephan Crump’s Passerine and Slow Water, The Anna Webber/Angela Morris Large Ensemble, and Tony Malaby’s Jersey Condombe. He has toured internationally with Jamie Baum, Bonobo, and Slavic Soul Party who has held a weekly residency at Barbes in Brooklyn for over 20 years. Warren grew up in Denver, CO where he was inspired at a young age by the generosity and artistry of the late great Ron Miles.

Christopher Hoffman is a cellist, composer, producer, engineer and filmmaker. He currently performs in Henry Threadgill's Pulitzer Prize winning ensemble Zooid, Grammy-Nominated Anat Cohen Tentet, Kenny Warren's Sweet World, Darius Jones Quintet and his own projects. He has directed several music videos, 3 short films and BTS pieces for feature films. His short "You Dog Likes Me More Than You" is available to view on Amazon Prime and his short "Salamander" is currently screening in American and European festivals. He served as the Director of Production and Engineering at New School for 17 years. He has worked with Martin Scorsese, Yoko Ono, Jack Antonoff, Iron & Wine, Ryan Adams, Jack Huston, Marianne Faithfull, Michael Pitt & Pagoda, Marc Ribot, Butch Morris, Lee Konitz, Anna Webber, Ryan Scott, Anthony Coleman, Jeremiah Cymerman and many others.

Nathan Ellman-Bell is one of NYC’s most versatile and in demand drummers. He co-leads the avant-pop band Wild Idol with singer Nora Palka, and the Brooklyn jazz-rock band Slow Tiger. He plays with countless bands including those of Sebastien Amman, Olli Hirvonen, Kenny Warren, Michael Sarian, and Aleksi Glick. He is also a member of Brass Against who he has recorded and toured with extensively. In 2024 Brass Against spent 3 months in Europe on tour which included a five week run in support of the rock band Tool. Nathan grew up in Southern California and studied music at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.

JP Schlegelmilch is a Brooklyn-based pianist, accordionist, electric keyboardist and composer. In his various musical projects, JP seeks to synthesize his diverse musical interests, creating a personal and non-genre-specific music. Over the years JP has devoted himself to the study of jazz and classical music, while trying to maintain a sense of freedom to include influences from all music that he loves, including the rock music he obsessed over as a teenager.

Since moving to Brooklyn in 2006, JP has been performing with his own groups and has had the opportunity to perform with some of New York’s most esteemed improvising musicians.

JP’s current projects include Visitors, a power trio featuring JP on Yamaha Electric organ, Jim Black on drums, and Jonathan Goldberger on guitar. Their debut album was released on Skirl Records in 2018 and was included on Rolling Stone’s “Best Jazz Albums of 2018” list.

JP has also been playing organ in Matt Bauder’s Hearing Things, a band that specializes in “a kind of Middle Eastern flavored surf-rock with old school R &B honking and striptease-worthy themes” (Peter Margasak, the Chicago Reader).

New projects in the works include a quartet with piano, cello, violin and percussion. The music was inspired in part by the great composer Lou Harrison.

Doors are at 7pm and music will begin at 730! Seating is first come first served!

Thanks to support from Savings Bank of Walpole, this show has an Access For All option which lets you name your price (you can't buy multiples of this option at the same time, so to buy more than one ticket, it is necessary to do each additional ticket in a different transaction).

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