Fri Jan 10
Matt Lavelle-Dave Ross Quartet
7PM / $15 | $1.50 Fees Get Access to the Live Stream
Matt Lavelle-Dave Ross Quartet
Check them out on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op8Fh4Hj55w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLLA8Df51aE
Showtime: 7 pm ET/6 pm CT/5 pm MT/4 pm PT/12 am GMT
In-person seats: $20 / $10 full-time students with valid ID
Attendees receive a link to the recording to view for one week.
Advance sales end 1 hr before show; remaining tickets may be purchased at door.
Streaming Cost is $15
The link will be revealed 15 minutes before the show
and will remain active through Jan 17
Donations welcome
Matt Lavelle: flugelhorn, alto and bass clarinet
Dave Ross: guitar
Julius Masri: drums
Pete Dennis: bass
The music will be aggressively filled with spiritual momentum sourced in Lavelle's and Ross's decades of music and life experience. A broad range of musical emotions and dynamics will absolutely be conveyed with urgency.
Matt Lavelle has been active in New York City music since 1990, shifting his focus downtown in the late 90s. Lavelle plays flugelhorn, bass and alto clarinet and is a composer and conductor. His journey in music began with Hildred Humphries, a swing era veteran saxophonist who played with Count Basie and Billie Holiday. He has played in ensembles led by Sabir Mateen since 2002.
Lavelle studied with Ornette Coleman from 2007-09. He was a member of the Bern Nix Quartet from 2010 until 2017. He was a big part of the return of Giuseppi Logan leading to a recording in 2010. In 2011 he created the 12 Houses Orchestra. As a leader Lavelle has recorded 12 albums and has been on 40 as a sideman. His solo alto clarinet album is the first one in jazz history. He has performed hundreds of times in New York, and toured Europe five times.
David Brandon Ross holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music in Boston and a degree in engineering design. Dave has been composing, performing and recording in the NYC avant improvised music scene since 2002 releasing numerous albums as a leader or sideman. He is a recipient of a Boston Grammy Award “Best Live Funk Band” with the band CHUCK in 1992. Dave has played throughout the US, Canada, Europe, South Africa and venues including Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center for the Arts, and Vision Festival NYC.
Julius Masri is a Philadelphia based multi-instrumentalist and performer/composer for the city's dance community. Born in Tripoli, Lebanon, he moved to the U.S. in 1990 and began drumming a year later. He studied with Philadelphia instructors Carl Mottola, Elaine Hoffman-Watts, and as an undergraduate at Bard College with AACM's Thurman Barker, Richard Teitelbaum, and Joan Tower. Julius plays drums, circuit modified Casio keyboards, Oud, Kamancheh (aka Rabab, Spike Fiddle), and various other instruments. He performs in groups such as grind/crust metal bands Night Raids, Nomad War Machine, free jazz groups Sirius Juju and Dromedaries, trombone and synth duo Superlith, and more. In 2021, he released a solo album "The Arabic Room" under the name of Mephisto Halabi. Julius is a recipient of a 2022 Yaddo Fellowship for composition and 2022 University of the Arts Creative Research and Innovation grant.
Pete Dennis is a musician, improviser, composer, visual artist and teacher. Living in West Philadelphia, Dennis is inspired by their beautiful community and the future, and William Parker, the works of Octavia E. Butler, their partner Abigail, and the knowledge that all vibrations carry to potential to transmit the truths of life and death. Dennis’s recorded creations are released using the project name Search for the Infinite Light and include Killing a Dixie Hummingbird (2019), World’s End Welcoming Committee (2021), and past? (2022). Current projects include 99 Futures, Oarsman, Mitamu, St. John’s Wort, and an ongoing poetry/bass duet performance with Abigail Swoboda. They believe that sound is the foundation of healing and would like to acknowledge all master improvisers of the past, present and future.
7PM / $15 | $1.50 Fees Get Access to the Live Stream