Kamome LIVE - December 2, 2009

Tonight (11/24/09)

Tokyo Big Band

November 5

October 28

Airegin - Improvisation LIVE 09/10

LIVE with Arun Luthra August 27!

August Schedule

August 01 Yokosuka, Japan Jazz Festival - Norio Maeda's Band
August 05 ENcounter - Akasaka, Tokyo
August 06 Neil Stalnaker Quintet - KAMOME (Yokohama)
August 12 ENcounter - Akasaka, Tokyo
August 13 Osaka, Japan (private event)
August 15 Roppongi Hills Grand Hyatt, Tokyo
August 17 ENcounter - Akasaka, Tokyo
August 20 ENcounter - Akasaka, Tokyo
August 21 ENcounter - Akasaka, Tokyo
August 27 Kenny's (Tokyo) Neil Stalnaker Quintet & guests
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Sept 10 Airegin "N3" and guest CONGO (sax)
Sept 23 Stella Theater Orchestra (Lake Kawaguchi, Japan)
Oct 01 Tokyo Big Band - Akasaka B Flat
Oct 04 (?) Neil Stalnaker Quintet - KAMOME (Yokohama)
Nov 27 Tokyo Big Band - Akasaka B Flat
Dec 02 (?) Neil Stalnaker - Quintet KAMOME
Dec 12 Neil Stalnaker Quintet - Senzoku College of Music
Jan 28-29-30, 2010 Union of Composers Club, Moscow (Oleg Kireyev Quartet)

Yokosuka Jazz Festival

Hangin' out with Terumasu Hino, Lew Tabackin and Toshiko Akiyoshi after our concert last night at the Yokosuka Jazz Festival.

Facebook "Fan" Page

Neil Stalnaker on Facebook

Berklee International Radio Network (BIRN)

Happy to find out today that selections from my cd, "And Now the Bad News" are being played on channel 3 (Alumni) of the new Berklee International Radio Network. You can listen through iTunes.
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Neil Stalnaker Quintet
"Music of Horace Silver" vol. 4
KAMOME
Sets: 8pm & 9:30pm
Music Charge: \3000
http://www.yokohama-kamome.com/
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Pat Hallaran-tb
Yuichi Inoue-p
Jeff Curry-b
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Schedule
June 23 Jeff Curry Trio - Maronouchi Building
July 4-5 Century Court Club
July 6 Tim Lyddon Quintet - Shinjuku Jazz Spot "J"
July 11 "N3" Neil, M. Reznikoff(dr), Koniko K.(b) - Time&Style - Midtown
July 18 Roppongi Hills (private event)
July 27-29 Senzoku Concerts (Karuizawa)
August 1 Yokosuka, Japan Jazz Festival - Norio Maeda's Band
August 5 ENcounter - Akasaka, Tokyo
August 6 Neil Stalnaker Quintet - KAMOME (Yokohama)
August 12 ENcounter - Akasaka, Tokyo
August 13 Osaka, Japan (private event)
August 17 ENcounter - Akasaka, Tokyo
August 20 ENcounter - Akasaka, Tokyo
August 21 ENcounter - Akasaka, Tokyo
August 27 Kenny's (Tokyo) Neil Stalnaker Quintet & guests
September 10 Airegin "N3" and guest CONGO (sax)
September 23 Stella Theater Orchestra (Lake Kawaguchi, Japan)
October 1 Tokyo Big Band - Akasaka B Flat
October 4 (?) Neil Stalnaker Quintet - KAMOME (Yokohama)
November 27 Tokyo Big Band - Akasaka B Flat
December 2 (?) Neil Stalnaker - Quintet KAMOME
December 12 Neil Stalnaker Quintet - Senzoku College of Music
January 28-29-30, 2010 Union of Composers Club, Moscow
w/Oleg Kireyev Quartet


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Kamome/Music of Horace Silver August 6, 2009

Gig Review

Just a received a great review from Japan Times' writer Michael Pronko. Michael has a great website on the "jazz scene" in Japan.

Click here for the review

Time & Style - July 11

Tim Lyddon Quintet at "J" July 6, 2009

Tim Lyddon (New York pianist) Quintet
July 6th at Jazz Spot J club in Shinjuku
with Neil Stalnaker Trumpet, Steve Sacks Sax,
Hiroshi Yoshino bass,Daisuke Yoshioka drums, Tim Lyddon piano

Live : 1st 19:15 / 2nd 20:45 / 3rd 22:15 2000 yen cover

〒160-0022 新宿区新宿５−１−１ロイヤルマンションＢ１
（厚生年金会館並び　市ヶ谷寄り４つ目のビル）Tel　3354-0335　

Shinjuku 5-1-1 Royal Mansion B1 next to Kousenki Nenking Kaikan

We will be playing a variety of standards, originals and jazz standards including Horace Silver

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June 23 Jeff Curry Trio - Maronouchi Building
July 4-5 Century Court Club
July 6 Tim Lyddon Quintet - Shinjuku Jazz Spot "J"
July 11 "N3" Neil, M. Reznikoff(dr), Koniko K.(b) - Time&Style - Midtown
July 27-29 Senzoku Concer**ts (Karuizawa)
August 1 Yokosuka, Japan Jazz Festival - Norio Maeda's Band
August 6 Neil Stalnaker Quintet - KAMOME (Yokohama)
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Sittin-in Tonight

Went to see/hear the Morgan Fisher/Pascal D'Aboyer photo exhibition/LIVE tonight at Super Deluxe in Azabu. Later, went over to What the Dickens in Ebisu and "sat-in" with Derek Short's band.

Marunouchi Building Gig

Had a fun gig last night with the Jeff Curry Trio at the New Marunouchi Building in Tokyo. It was great playing again in a piano-less trio. No offense to all the piano players I know. It's been a while and felt good. Harmonically, I like that freedom. Also, it felt comfortable to play flugel in that group with the wood bass and wooden drums and in a large open space. Tone of the instruments seemed to match up well. I need to consistently play in a group like that because maybe sometimes I rely a little too much on listening to piano players for the form. When playing in this type of trio I sometimes feel like I get lost in the form or am on the edge. That used to bother me a lot more than it does these days. I just figure if we lose the form, that's how somebody on the bandstand was hearing it and let's go with that. It used to be a source of tension and stress. These days, my thinking has completely changed about those things. I love a quote I heard yesterday...

"If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original."

Ken Robinson

New Blog - "Brain Chow"

Pretty self-explanatory from the "header". Have a couple of other reasons for compiling all this info in one place. But, a little early to get into it. Enjoying where this little experiment is taking me though.....

Eddie Henderson at Kamome 6/2/09

Heard Eddie Henderson with "Tiger" Onitsuka's Quintet last night at Kamome in Yokohama. Always great to hear Eddie. One of the true masters on the horn. Looking forward to hearing him a few more times while he is around Tokyo this week.

Schedule Update

June 06 Foreign Correspondents' Club
June 08 Kamome
June 23 Jeff Curry Trio
July 27-29 Senzoku Univ. Faculty Concerts, Karuizawa, Japan
August 06 Kamome
Sept. 23 Stella Theater Orchestra (All Nippon Junior Jazz Competition)

Kamome/Music of Horace Silver June 8, 2009

Great Gig Last Night!

Wow! What a fun gig last night at Kenny's for the Ikebukuro Jazz Festival. 2 shows...both packed...guys in the band playin' their butts off! Thanks to all that came out and especially to the guys in the band. Yoshiko, thank you for this photo!

Tour - Shikoku/Kansai - May 18-25

Doing my 10th tour in Japan starting tomorrow.....May 18-25. Will be traveling by bullet train from Tokyo to Shikoku Island. We take the train from Tokyo and go to Okayama (about 4 hours...at about 150/mph). In Okayama we change to a more local kind of train for an hour ride across a huge bridge and into the countryside of Shikoku Island. Rehearsals May 18-21. Me, the bass player (from Lewisburg) and drummer will be staying at the leader's house. He has a great place out in the country. Has a special building for the music. Looks like a huge old cabin (1 huge room with high ceiling and log beams) but Japanese style with the tatami floor. I will rehearse there, hang-out in the evening and sleep there. Really feels like I'm camping out. The building and his house are surrounded by Japanese gardens. Looks very mysterious when you wake up early and the fog is laying in and around the trees. The leader plays the Japanese flute called shakuhachi. On the 22nd, we will travel to Kyoto. We will be staying in an old shrine called "Ritsu-In" (you can see some photos of the place at this website) and doing a concert on the 23rd in the shrine. I attached 5 photos: a traditional dish from Shikoku....deep fried shrimp/vegetables over local noodles (udon) with leeks and grated Japanese radish (not similar to the radishes we eat in the USA), a photo of a moth (maybe 6-8 inches wide..HUGE) I saw unexpectedly on the side of an old building last time I was in Shikoku, a photo of the building for rehearsing/hang/sleep and 2 photos of the shrine where I'm going to play/stay in Kyoto. It should be a great experience.

Some Shikoku Info:
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Practicing.....

Hangin' out at home practicing today. I like practicing trumpet only 10-20 minutes at a time but, several times from morning to night.

Used to see people practicing 2 or 3 hours at a time when I was in school. They always were talking the next day about their chops feeling so bad.....hahaha.

Gig Info on MusicBizJapan Site

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Performance at Ikebukuro Jazz Festival

Jazz Workshop May 23

Just got this email from Jonathan Katz and thought I would post it here for your info:

Jonathan Katz
http://www.jkatz.net/


Dear All,

Please excuse this sudden BCC e-mail notice/request.

I want to inform you about and ask you to put the word out to students/
colleagues about a "Sax & Improv clinic with Mini Duo Concert" I will
be doing with Dave Pietro at Ishimori Gakki.

It came together quite late and we are just starting to promote it now
and could use some help, hence this unsolicited solicitation.

This clinic will be open to participation by individual
instrumentalists as well as auditors. If you have any students, esp.
but not limited to sax players, who would appreciate the rare
opportunity to hear and get some individual instruction/attention from
a guy of Dave's caliber (oh yeah, I'll be there, too!), could you talk
up the clinic/concert to them? The fee is 2,500 yen.

For those of you who don't know, Dave is a road-hardened former
regular lead alto saxophonist with the big bands of Maynard Ferguson,
Lionel Hampton, Woody Herman & Toshiko Akiyoshi, and has been doing
clinics all over the US for many years, in addition to his performing/
writing projects and regular teaching gigs at NYU and Hofstra
University. Dave and I have been doing performance tours in Japan for
almost seven years now. But he is a RIDICULOUSLY good clinician
(teacher) and I've long been wanting to introduce aspiring players in
Japan to him.

The clinic will be the afternoon of Saturday May 23rd at Ishimori
Gakki, which is a 2-minute walk from Okubo Station on the JR Sobu line.

Here are some specific topics we have in mind. Of course, we could go
anywhere with the clinic depending on the questions, attending
players' needs, etc....

- Jazz Theory and Ear Training
- How to build a jazz vocabulary
- Telling a story
- The art of practicing
- Interpreting jazz articulations
- How to play in tune

If you could encourage your students to attend, that would be great. I
myself learn a lot from just watching Dave at work, so some of you may
want to attend yourself, esp. if you have a keen interest in teaching.

The clinic will be in the afternoon. I will send exact time details
when I get them. For more on Dave, see his website www.davepietro.com
& his video page on youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/AntimoMusic

Thanks for your time and consideration,

Jonathan

Tonight (April 16)

April 8, Kamome Gig

Upcoming Schedule

April 01 Encounter Club (Akasaka, Tokyo)
April 03 Akasaka Bflat (Akasaka, Tokyo) Tokyo Big Band
April 09 Kamome (Yokohama) Neil Stalnaker Quintet
April 10 Encounter Club (Akasaka, Tokyo)
April 15 Encounter Club (Akasaka, Tokyo)
April 16 Tokyo Main Dining (Shibuya, Tokyo) Trumpet/Piano Duo
April 24 Encounter Club (Akasaka, Tokyo)
April 25 Private Event (Shinjuku, Tokyo)
April 30 Encounter Club (Akasaka, Tokyo)

May 01 Encounter Club (Akasaka, Tokyo)
May 07 Encounter Club (Akasaka, Tokyo)
May 13 Encounter Club (Akasaka, Tokyo)
May 16 Toshima Jazz Festival - Kenny's(Ikebukuro) Neil's Quintet
May 18-25 Japan Tour (Shikoku - Kyoto)
May 27 Encounter Club (Akasaka, Tokyo)

June 06 Foreign Correspondents' Club Japan (Hibiya, Tokyo) Neil's Trio
June 08 Kamome (Yokohama) Neil Stalnaker Quintet

July 24-26 Senzoku Concerts (Karuizawa)

August 1 Yokosuka, Japan Jazz Festival - Norio Maeda's Band

This Week....Gigs

Airegin March 20, 2009

Doing another gig at one my favorite places to play in Japan. On March 20, Frederick, Jeff, Mike and myself will be doing some original music at AIREGIN in Yokohama. We've all played together before but, not in this combination. Frederick will be playing electric piano and using his MAC with the ABLETON software. Jeff uses electric and acoustic basses which gives us a lot of options with vibe and colors. Mike is really one of the most flexible players I've ever worked with. So, I'm really looking forward to this gig. Working on some tunes/tracks now. But, I don't want too much structure on this gig cause these guys are so creative and flexible. That's a great thing about playing at AIREGIN. The owner is really open to all kinds of music and never dictates what kind of music is being done in the club.

Neil Stalnaker-trpt
Frederick Viennot-keys
Jeff Curry-bass
Mike Reznikoff-drums
Airegin
March 20
3:30 & 5:00pm
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Friday Feb. 27 at Tokyo Main Dining

Elizabeth Gilbert on Creative Genius

01/11/09 "live at KAMOME

Really looking forward to this gig on Sunday. Always fun doing Horace Silver's music and especially with these musicians. I played recently with Shimazu Kennichi for the first time and it was a really comfortable vibe. He used to be the pianist for one of very favorite singers, Jimmy Scott. Tenor sax man Seiichi Nakamura and I played a swingin' gig on December 25th at the Azabu Public Concert Hall near Roppongi and we've also been playing Horace Silver's music together since September. Bassist Jeff Curry and I are both from West Virginia and have the same birthday, Feb. 6th. We've hooked up on dozens of gigs over the past few years. He's equally at home on electric or acoustic bass which gives lots of options on a gig. Ko Omura (drummer) and I have played together a few times in the past 2 years. This is the first time for Ko and I to do H. Silver's music together. I know Ko and Jeff gig together often and for them to play with Kennichi will be no problem. For me, it's so important to have the rhythm section feeling comfortable with each other.

This is the first gig at Kamome doing Horace Silver's music. I know that I will be back there on April 9 doing another program of Silver's music. So, for 1/11/09 I'm calling this gig vol. 1. April 9 will be vol.2 and hopefully we can continue to play that room and bring some fresh Horace Silver tunes each time.

Because of the holidays and everyone's busy schedules, rehearsal will be very limited for this gig. But, I think we're doing a lot of music that the musicians feel good about and will be enjoyable for the listener. For this gig we will most likely do these tunes:

Gregory Is Here
Peace
Summer In Central Park
Nutville
Room 608
Silver's Serenade
Senor Blues
and maybe I'll have some time this week to write an original that is "Silver-like".

Hope to see many folks at Kamome on Sunday 1/11/09.

今度の日曜日のライブ、本当に楽しみにしてます。ホレス・シルヴァーの曲を演奏するのはいつも楽しいのですが、特に今回のメンバーでやるのが楽しみです。ピアノの嶋津健一さんとはこの間初めてご一緒させて頂き、気楽な雰囲気でとてもやりやすかったです。彼は何と以前、僕が大好きなシンガーの一人、ジミー・スコットのピアニストでした。テナーの中村誠一さんとは、先月２５日、六本木の麻布区民ホールでのコンサートで共演させて頂いたり、去年の９月から一緒にホレス・シルヴァーの曲を演奏してきました。ベースのジェフ・カリーさんとは、同じウェスト・ヴァージニアの出身であり、何と誕生日が二人とも２月６日でもあります。過去数年間で、たくさんの仕事を一緒にしてきた仲間です。彼は、エレキとアコースティック、どちらでもいけるので、一つのライブにたくさんの味を提供してくれるのです。ドラムの大村亘さんとは、過去２年間に何度か一緒にプレイをしました。今回一緒にホレス・シルヴァーの曲を演奏するのは初めてです。大村さんとジェフはもう何度も一緒にプレイしているので、今回ピアノの嶋津さんと一緒にやるのも何の問題もないと思います。僕にとっては、リズムセクションが互いにやりやすい雰囲気であることが、何よりも大切なんです。

KAMOMEでホレス・シルヴァーの曲のライブをやるのは今回が初めてです。すでに４月９日にホレス・シルヴァーの新しいセットでまたライブをやることになっています。ですので、今度の１月１１日のライブをvol.1とし、４月９日がvol.2となります。その後もさらに同じ場所で毎回新しいホレス・シルヴァーの曲を提供し続けていけたらいいなと思っています。

年末年始で何かと忙しく、今回のライブでは限られたリハーサルしかできませんが、今回やる曲は我々みんながやり慣れて親しんでいる曲が多いですし、観客の皆様にも楽しんでいただけると思います。今回やると思われるのはだいたい次のような曲達です。

Gregory Is Here
Peace
Summer In Central Park
Nutville
Room 608
Silver's Serenade
Senor Blues
これに加えて、ひょっとしたら「シルヴァー調」のオリジナル曲を準備できるかもしれません。

それでは、１月１１日日曜日、KAMOMEでたくさんの皆様にお会いできますよう。