Peter Apfelbaum Sextet
Monday, July 16, 2007
visionary jazz composer and multi-instrumentalist
Door 7:30 P.M., Music 8:00 P.M. |
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$18.50
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"I've never come up with a name for the kind of music that I do," says Peter Apfelbaum, a composer and multi-instrumentalist known for his unique fusion of world music influences and the aesthetic of the jazz avant-garde. Latin rhythms, Middle Eastern modalities, Indian raga drones, reggae beats, free jazz energy, funk, and polyrhythms are but a small sample of the elements to be found in Peter's intricately structured pieces, full of time changes, harmonic and dynamic shifts, and constantly varying soloists.
Although he currently resides in New York, Peter is well known on the West Coast jazz scene. He's an alumus of the Berkeley High School Jazz Ensemble, and founded the famed Hieroglyphics Ensemble while he was a senior at the school in 1977. He was also a founding member of jazz great Don Cherry's Multikulti group. In addition to his own projects, Peter has played with a dizzying list of luminaries, including Kamikaze Ground Crew, Joe Bowie's Defunkt Big Band, O.J. Ekemode and the Nigerian All-Stars, the Groove Collective, the Trey Anastasio Band, and many more. Peter's most recent CD is It Is Written (ACT), recorded with the New York Hieroglyphics.
Tonight Peter appears with his sextet, featuring past and present members of his famed ensemble, the Hieroglyphics, including Jeff Cressman and his daughter Natalie on trombone, guitarist Will Bernard, bassist Patrice Blanchard, and Deszon X. Claiborne on drums.
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