Jazz Mafia HIts NYC

Friday Night, June 25th, 2010

Le Poisson Rouge, NYC

Adam Theis and Jazz Mafia performed 'Brass, Bows & Beats' for the first time in New York City, and with a 40 some odd piece orchestra. Fantastic! They just came East after playing the Playboy Jazz festival and after the gig in NY almost immediately bussed north the Montreal Jazz festival. They are also scheduled to play the Newport Jazz Festival.

Here is a little background on the group courtesy of Wikipedia.

" The Jazz Mafia is an American musical collective, based in the Mission District of San Francisco, California, that writes, plays, and arranges music in various jazz, electronica, soul, funk, big band, orchestral-crossover and hip-hop genres. Its founder and leader, trombonist and bass guitarist Adam Theis, participates in at least ten member bands, including Realistic Orchestra, Shotgun Wedding Quintet, Shotgun Wedding Hip-Hop Symphony, Jazz Mafia Horns, Supertaster, and The Joe Bagale Band.

^{In 2008 Theis was commissioned by SFJAZZ (a local jazz organization), under a grant from the Wallace Alexander Gerbode and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundations, to write a symphonic work that would be accessible to a diverse audience. The result, Brass, Bows, and Beats, is an hour-long piece for large brass band, string section, orchestra, turntablist, singers, rappers, and keyboardist.}

^{The premier, featuring a 60-piece orchestra at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, was sold out and received "ecstatic" reviews. The success of the first performance encouraged the group to continue performing, including 3 sold out performances in August, 2009 at Yoshi's, a large San Francisco Jazz club."}

Thanks For Reading.

Be well,

Ahron