This Music Presents: Josh Berman // Eli Wallace // Ishmael Ali // Bill Harris w/Tomatillo

Name: This Music Presents: Josh Berman // Eli Wallace // Ishmael Ali // Bill Harris w/Tomatillo
Start: 2024-12-05T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-12-05T22:00:00-05:00
Location: Lilypad Inman

Schedule

Thu Dec 05 2024 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Lilypad Inman | Cambridge, MA

This Music (TM) Presents is a Boston musician’s initiative to recognize the creativity of many who haven’t been given the stage as leaders, often younger than the Jazz scene veterans; those with acknowledgment who can create a new project and musical ideas; and the unsung “gems” who aren’t in the public’ eye and deserve to be. The emphasis is on the freer forms, the adventurous (to help find a “home”).
IG: @this_music_presents
Tonight’s Performance:
Berman/Wallace/Ali/Harris (NYC/Chicago)
After convening for a recording session at Marmalade Studios in Chicago, IL, in 2021, the improvising quartet of Josh Berman, Eli Wallace, Ishmael Ali, and Bill Harris continue to hone their collective sonic identity through regular live concerts in Chicago. As documented on their first cassette release, An Ill-Fitting Garment, the group focuses on acoustic interplay, resulting in music featuring acousmatic moments that obfuscate who makes which sound, blurring and bending rhythms and pitches into a syncretic whole. Wallace’s ability to cull variegated sounds from the prepared piano matches Harris’s percussive textures and unique rhythmic sensibility. Berman and Ali find common ground in pitched and harmonic material that can sometimes disperse into territories resembling synth and electronic sounds. All four musicians trade roles during their musical interactions, sometimes falling into the background while interjecting with aberrant melodic statements at other times. The group strives to create a unified heuristic sound that simultaneously features each individual while constantly generating a sense of rhythmic propulsion, at times subtle, at times bombastic.

Eli Wallace - piano
Bill Harris - drums
Josh Berman - trumpet
Ishmael Ali - cello
IG: @ishmaelalimusic
@wc_harris_
@josh.berman.chicago
@crate_on
Tomatillo (Boston)
Latin + Middle Eastern jazz fusion
Martin Gohary - piano
Eric Barber - sax
Kathleen Jara - violin
Doug Harrison - bass
Carlos Herrand-Pou - drums
IG: @martin_gohary
@carloshpou
@dougkharrison
Saxophonist Eric Barber (b. 1972) has been recognized as part of a generation of artists whose artistic voice and output defy categorization. His versatility, unique approach to the saxophone and artistic fearlessness have made him a regular collaborator with some of the most innovative and unconventional figures in new music today, including Nels Cline, Mark Dresser, Vinny Golia, Wayne Horvitz, Art Jarvinen, Steuart Liebig, Poovalur Srinivasan, Wadada Leo Smith, Miroslav Tadic, Tom Varner, and Glen Velez. Eric grew up in Eugene and majored in music at the University of Oregon. He moved in 1997 to attend graduate school at California Institute of the Arts, and immediately became immersed in the thriving Los Angeles jazz and world music scenes.
Martin Gohary is an avant-garde pianist + composer whose uncompromising vision and relentless recording schedule have established him as a rising performer in the contemporary music scene. His music defies categorization, blending elements of 20th-century concert music, jazz, electronic, and experimental music into a unique and captivating sound. With each new release, Gohary pushes the boundaries of what is possible with the piano, exploring new techniques and textures that challenge both himself and his audience. His music is both challenging and accessible, and his performances are always thrilling and unpredictable. Martin started This Music Presents with Phil Morimoto as an
Kathleen Jara is an arts educator and violinist working to use sound and artistic creation as a social activism. She sees the artistic process as a means of teaching communication that crosses barriers of race, gender, age, income and culture.
Doug Harrison is a double bassist and composer originally from Belmont, Massachusetts. He recently completed a Masters degree at the Berklee Global Jazz Institute where he studied under Danilo Perez, John Patitucci, Linda May Han Oh and many other contemporary improvisors. He is currently developing a bass educational method and releasing the compositions from the final project of his Masters degree.
Carlos (Cabeto) Herrand Pou is a drummer, composer & teaching artist based in Boston, MA. He joined the National Conservatory of Music at age 15, and shortly after, he started to play with renowned local jazz musicians. After participating in the 2015 edition of Berklee on the Road, he was awarded a scholarship to join the prestigious Berklee College of Music, where he graduated with the highest honor majoring in Performance. While at Berklee, he studied with acclaimed drummers Terri Lyne Carrington, Francisco Mela, Neal Smith, and Yoron Israel. In 2017, he joined Berklee's famous Berklee Global Jazz Institute undergraduate program, where he studied under the tutelage of Danilo Perez, Joe Lovano, John Patitucci, Ben Street, Adam Cruz, and others. He received the Steve Gadd Award in 2017 and The Most Active Drummer in 2018. In 2023, he received his Master's Degree in Jazz and Contemporary Music from the Longy School of Music of Bard College as a Presidential & Equity Scholar.