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Event Description

Kit Eakle presents: Djang-o-Sphere and A Brief History of Jazz Violin.

Musicians:
Kit Eakle, violin;
Karel Roessing piano;
Ryan Tandy, bass;
Damian Graham, drums.

Cover $15

Doors 7pm / Show 8pm

Genre: Violin Jazz..
Django Reinhardt may have invented Gypsy Jazz, but he saw himself as a mainstream jazzer, idolizing American Jazz heroes, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, AND Thelonious (Sphere) Monk. Djang-O-Sphere exposes those connections. Django, like Monk, was a composer, as much as a player. Django's post-WWII works, particularly, show more affinity with the Be-Boppers than the Gypsy Jazz tradition. Like Monk, Django's music is deeply personal and eccentric. Come out and share the delight in discovery of the affinity of these Father's of Jazz.


A second set will survey the music of Jazz Violinists from Grapelli to Ponty and from Stuff Smith to Regina Carter