OWB
2005 is thrilled to announce that
ERA JAZZU (www.jazz.pl)
is following up last year's triumph
with a new concert guaranteed to raise
funds while it keeps Poland on the
map as one of Europe's most dynamic
jazz centers. ERA JAZZU founder, Dioni
Piatkowski, has created a permanent
concert series and festival--featuring
prominent musicians such as Wynton
Marsalis, Wayne Shorter, Gato Barbieri,
Archie Shepp, the Kronos Quarter,
and Abbey Lincoln--and for OWB 2004
signed on Afro-jazz/rock greats, Osibisa,
and the Chicago-style AACM New Black
Jazz Trio. Exploding onto the music
scene in 1971, Osibisa (www.osibisa.co.uk)
members have been called "the
godfathers of world music", and
their unique blend of jazz, African,
reggae, rock, and pop has been described
as "crisscross rhythms that explode
with happiness". The New Black
Jazz Trio is linked to the Chicago
ethnic jazz scene, called "AACM",
and its members are virtuosos of percussion,
jazz violin, and saxophone, also playing
with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie,
Stevie Wonder, Sun Ra, and Paul Simon.
This year, on March 21 at 8pm at the
Teatr ROMA in Warsaw, well-known jazz
quarter Oregon will be performing
in celebration of their 35th anniversary
as a band. Formed in the 1970's, Oregon
has released 23 albums, starting with
1972's "Music of Another Present
Era" and continuing with the
more recent "Live at Yoshi's"
(2002) and "Best of the Vanguard
Years" (2000). They use a variety
of instruments--from the sitar and
tabla to the oboe and classical guitar--and
have been described as "relentlessly
innovative...transcending all musical
genres".
The quartet is composed of Paul McCandless
(composer, oboe and multiple instruments),
who has also played with the Paul
Winter Consort, Ralph Towner (guitarist/pianist),
Glen Moore (bassist), and Collin Walcott
(percussionist). They have performed
throughout the world at festivals
and in major concert halls, and McCandless
has appeared on 150 albums as a solo
artist. He began his solo career in
1978 with "All the Mornings Bring".
Paul won a Grammy along with Bela
Fleck in 1996 for Best Pop Instrumental,
and he has been nominated for two
more for his most recent work on "Oregon
in Moscow". He and his wife also
teach music at Full Circle, a residential
treatment home for troubled teenage
boys in Bolinas, California.
For more information see www.paulmccandless.com
and www.oregonband.com.
See
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