9th ANNUAL
DEER ISLE JAZZ FESTIVAL
Friday, the Danza Quartet will take the stage. The Danza Quartet is a New Orleans-based quartet led by pianist Tom McDermott and clarinetist Evan Christopher. It explores, among other styles, the music of New Orleans (ragtime, r&b, and traditional jazz), French West Indian biguine, Brazilian choro, and Trinidadian calypso. Dance music from the New World, with multi-thematic forms that keeps things surprising.
McDermott and Christopher as a duo have performed a similar repertoire around the world, including Rio de Janeiro, New York City, Berlin and Salzburg. For their sidemen they draw from a pool of world-class sideman such as Shannon Powell (who has drummed with Diana Krall and Harry Connick, Jr, among many others), and Matt Perrine (arguably the finest sousaphonist in the world).
The Danza Quartet takes a rarified approach to this music, but they are anything but musty....prepare to be invigorated! Larry Blumenfeld of The Wall Street Journal writes Mc Dermott is "as comfortable and expert playing a Brazilian choro as he is digging into a Jelly Roll Morton rag. And he can explain the connections between the two."
Saturday legendary trumpeter Roy Campbell brings his Pyramid Trio, including Opera House favorite, bassist William Parker, featured at the 2004 DI Jazz Festival (and as a Haystack artist-in-residence). Daniel Piotrowski writes: "Many want to canonize jazz as America's classical music, but vanguard musicians such as Roy Campbell reinforce the case that jazz is this country's contribution to so-called 'world music.' . . . (The) Pyramid Trio . . . draw(s) from within, using diverse rhythms, melodies, and instruments to create something that is more than jazz. They blur borders with every note."
Click to read more about Roy Campbell at All About Jazz or Indie Jazz.
Buy tickets online or call 207-367-2788.
