Featuring Tom Wakeling on bass and Joe Bagg on piano
Sunday, June 23, 7 p.m.
Grizzly Peak Winery
Siskiyou Music Project welcomes the Dave Tull Trio featuring Joe Bagg on piano and Tom Wakeling on bass. This performance will take place at Grizzly Peak Winery in Ashland on Sunday, June 23 at 7 p.m.
Dave Tull’s latest release, “Texting and Driving” was the #2 most requested new album of 2018 on SiriusXM Real Jazz, and was featured by NPR’s Susan Stamberg on Weekend Edition. Singing from the drums, Dave brings to the stage a rare combination of joyous jazz songwriting, world-class singing and drumming. Think “Frishberg meets Gershwin”.
Dave’s songs have been called both “laugh out loud funny” and inspiring of “soul searching and introspection”, propelling “Texting and Driving” to #5 on the Billboard Jazz Chart, and #3 on the Billboard Comedy Chart in the same week! When Dave isn’t leading his own trio, he is the drummer for Barbra Streisand, and spent 10 years as the drummer and vocalist for Chuck Mangione. For more information on Dave Tull visit davidtull.com.
Pianist Joe Bagg studied with the legendary jazz pianist Kenny Barron at Rutgers University where he obtained his master’s degree in music. After that he spent some time in the Army as a Russian linguist stationed in Germany, moving back to the states to California where he has been a fixture on the Los Angeles jazz scene. In 1997, Joe started playing the Hammond B-3 organ, earning several appearances in downbeat magazine’s Critics and Readers Polls. Recently, he was featured performing on screen in the Clint Eastwood movies J. Edgar and Jersey Boys. In 2018, Joe recorded and started touring with actor Jeff Goldblum & the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, playing the London Jazz Festival, the Trianon in Paris, the Admiralspalast in Berlin, Glastonbury Festival and on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Today Show and the Late Late Show with James Corden. In 2019 he had the rare privilege of playing for the Queen of England at Royal Albert Hall.
Bassist Tom Wakeling’s musical travels have taken him throughout Europe, Asia, and North America to perform and record at major festivals, jazz clubs, and concert halls.
Tom has performed with many of the jazz greats, including Arturo Sandoval, Lee Konitz, Mel Torme, Benny Golson, James Moody, Herb Ellis, Mose Allison, Charlie Rouse, Houston Person, Ken Peplowski, Ernie Watts, Scott Hamilton, Charles McPherson, Carl Fontana, and Herb Geller.
Wakeling has shared the stage with some of the most significant jazz pianists and drummers of our time, including Albert “Tootie” Heath, Lewis Nash, Jeff Hamilton, Mickey Roker, Butch Miles, Grady Tate, Chuck Redd, Dave Frishberg, Bill Mays, Roger Kellaway, Mike Wofford, Larry Fuller, Bruce Barth, Randy Porter, and Art Lande.
An experienced and dynamic educator, Tom has served as a guest artist at the Wuhan (China) Conservatory of Music, Stanford University Jazz Workshop, Taichung University (Taiwan), Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, University of Kansas, Arizona State University, University of Nevada, University of British Columbia, Washington State University, the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, Centrum – Pt. Townsend Jazz Workshop, and Jazz Camp West, among others.
