Archive for category: Fall 2013 Concert Series

Wednesday, October 23 7 p.m.

Location: Paschal Winery, Jazz In The Vineyards

Cost: $25/$20 for Siskiyou Institute Members/$10 for students
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The Siskiyou Music Project welcomes back Nashville-based Americana-jazz father & son duo, Tim & Myles Thompson on Wednesday  October 23 at 7 p.m. at Paschal Winery.
Since forming as a duo in 2009, the father-son act has entertained audiences from coast-to-coast, performing high-energy instrumental and vocal duets of improvised originals and classics reminiscent of legendary artists such as Chet Atkins, Stéphane Grappelli, Chick Corea, Jackson Browne, and often times compared to Bela Fleck and Dixie Dreggs. Although influenced by the masters, their down-to-earth musical style is all their own — a one-of-a-kind combination of improvisational jazz, singer-songwriter, country, rock and World.
A native of northern Minnesota, Tim’s guitar playing, vocals and songwriting reveal his Midwestern musical roots with a hint of Americana Nashville. Audiences smile and tap their feet as he layers intricate melodies, chords and textures with his acoustic and electric guitars while his son,18-year-old Myles, answers and/or takes the lead with soaring and drifting echoes on violin. Tim’s unique technique, intricate and fun arrangements helped him win the International Fingerstyle Championship in 2008.
Tim has released seven solo albums — one showcasing his talents as a singer-songwriter. The duo “Tim & Myles Thompson” has released one CD “Road Runner” and most recently a DVD “Tim & Myles Thompson Live”. Tim’s music has been used in film (Casper’s Haunted Christmas), TV, and software (Flip Video Camera). Tim has performed with popular acts such as Crystal Gayle and Highway 101, appeared on National Public Radio stations around the country, and shared billing with guitar icons Tommy Emmanuel and Phil Keaggy. Myles’ touring career, which started at age 13, has taken him and his guitarist father coast-to-coast in the United States (including the Virgin Islands), as well as other countries such as England, Romania, Cyprus, Norway, and Canada, opening for popular acts such as Spyro Gyra, Smooth Jazz Saxophonist–Richard Elliot, Lou Marini (Blues Brothers) and country/pop legend Don Williams.
The father-son, give-and-take approach is fun-filled, leaving audiences inspired with a sense of family and friends.

Friday, September 27 at 7 p.m.

Location: The Artistic Piano Gallery in Medford.

Cost: $25/$20 for Siskiyou Institute Members/$10 for students

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The Siskiyou Music Project presents the Mark Levine Trio on Friday, September 27 at 7 p.m. at The Artistic Piano Gallery which is located at 1390 Biddle Rd #102  Medford, OR.

Mark spent significant time working with Joe Henderson, Blue Mitchell, David Liebman and Harold Land, composing all the while. Joe recorded two of Mark’s tunes on “Canyon Lady,” the late tenor giant’s only Latin jazz album. Mark returned the favor by playing two of Joe’s classic compositions, “Inner Urge,” and “A Shade Of Jade,” on his 2000 release, “Serengeti.”

His interest in Latin jazz led to work with Mongo Santamaria, Willie Bobo, Moacir Santos, Francisco Aguabella, Pete Escovedo, and Cal Tjader (including Cal’s Grammy-winning Concord Jazz recording “La Onda Va Bien”). Mark has continued to pursue the Latin side of his craft, attending Centro Nacional de Escuela de Arte in Havana, Cuba in 1997.

Twice, Mark has been the recipient of a National Endowment For The Arts Grants (1975 and 1977) and was awarded a “Jammie” as Best Bay Area Jazz trombonist, 1983-1984 (no, he no longer plays trombone, but he has taken up the gimbri, a Moroccan 3-stringed lute).

Mark Levine has played/recorded with Woody Shaw, Mongo Santamaria, Joe Henderson, Willie Bobo, Bobby Hutcherson, Moacir Santos, Freddie Hubbard, Cal Tjader, Wallace Roney, Tito Puente, Milt Jackson, Harold Land, David Liebman, Blue Mitchell, Pete Escovedo, James Moody, Art Farmer, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Fortune, Eddie Harris, Stefon Harris, Eddie Henderson, Clark Terry, Ingrid Jensen, Charlie Rouse, Bobby Watson, Chet Baker, Mark Murphy, Art Pepper, Julian Priester, Bobby Shew, Victor Fields, Steve Turre, Madeline Eastman, and Poncho Sanchez among others.

As an educator, Mark authored “The Jazz Piano Book,” which has become the bible for jazz pianists all over the world. Available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Korean. In 1996, he completed “The Jazz Theory Book,” with similar success.

Jazz Times named “The Jazz Theory Book” as the #1 choice in its “recommended basic jazz library.”

Mark’s faculty affiliations include:

San Francisco Conservatory of Music, 1992-2009
Monterey Jazz Festival Foundation Traveling Clinicians, Monterey, CA 2002-2007
University of California at Berkeley, 2000-present
Jamey Aebersold Jazz Camps, 1977-2002
Stanford Jazz Workshop, Stanford, CA, 1982-2003
Jazz Camp West, La Honda, CA, 1982-2002
Jazz Studio Summer Camp, Dworp, Belgium, 1993-2004
The Jazzschool, Berkeley, CA, 1997-2010
Jazz Flute Camp, Carmel Valley, CA, 2003-present
Mills College, Oakland, CA, 1986-present
Guest Clinician and residencies at schools in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Iceland, Mexico, Sweden, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Wales.

In the early ’90s, Mark produced The Jazz Masters Clinic Series, a combination workshop and master class taught by touring artists passing through the Bay Area. Featured artists included Cedar Walton, Mulgrew Miller, Kenny Barron, Elvin Jones, Eddie Palmieri, and Tommy Flanagan.

Additionally, Mark is the pianist on more than a dozen of Jamey Aebersold’s play-along series.

For this performance he will be joined by Greg d’Augelli on bass and Lou Langworthy on drums