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February 16, 2006

This concert featured a performance by The Project, with Shea Marshall (keys), Bob Powers (trumpet & guitar), John Dawson (sax), Dan Mock, (drums) and Kale Gans (bass). The Project is dedicated to performing new jazz music including original compositions and arrangements as well as transcriptions of recent music from artists such as Ben Allison, Joshua Redman, and Kneebody's Shane Endsley.

The concert also featured a solo set by Sun Ra Arkestra bassist Juini Booth. Yes, Sun Ra. Really. Drummer Rob Moore joined Juini on stage and they played a couple of drum-infused-electro-bass free form tunes. Juini Booth has expanded the range of the contrabass into a refined personal language of intense acoustic awareness and spatiality of sound. Firmly rooted in the forefront of the American jazz tradition, Booth's music also integrates influences from world music emerging beyond the boundaries of categories to express the poetics of universal humanness. Booth has performed and toured for over 30 years with jazz musicians from Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers to Tony Williams Lifetime, Coleman Hawkins, Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, McCoy Tyner and more. Booth is currently focusing on composing new works for contrabass, and collaborative projects with artists of other disciplines, as well as teaching and recording.