Sat December 17, 2016
*WBeez* ft Will Bernard, Wil Blades & More (+Evan Lanam & The Live Oaks)
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WBEEZ
Featuring
Will Bernard- Guitar (Stanton Moore Trio)
Wil Blades- Organ (Lonnie Smith)
Deszon Claiborne- Drums
Mike Olmos- Trumpet (New Mastersounds)
Daniel Casares- Saxaphone (New Mastersounds)
and
Evan Lanam and the Live Oaks
Will Bernard
“Will Bernard is one of the best-kept jazz-guitar secrets on the planet.” – Dan Uuellette, Billboard
He began playing and recording on an international level as a member of Peter Apfelbaum’s Hieroglyphics Ensemble,who made their recorded debut with Don Cherry on “Multikulti” (A&M 1989). Since then, Bernard has participated in a host of boundary stretching groups, ranging from jazz, hip-hop and world music to experimental music, with many stops in between. In the 90’s Bernard recorded and performed with many projects under the direction of acclaimed producer Lee Townsend and worked with groups ranging from the Hindustani-influenced Jai Uttal to the political hip-hop group the Coup. The most commercially successful of these projects was the group T.J. Kirk (with Charlie Hunter) whose sophomore album “If Four Was One” on Warner bros. was nominated for a Grammy in 1997. Will made further inroads with the Stanton Moore trio which toured extensively and made 3 albums on Telarc and a Hal Leonard drum instructional video and book.
Wil Blades
That influence harkens back to Blades’ roots in Chicago, where he grew up playing drums and guitar in rock and funk bands. He moved west to study jazz at the New College of California, where he studied with bassist Herbie Lewis. “It was a real old school jazz education,” Blades recalls. “With Herbie, it was almost a Mr. Miyagi thing, life lessons where I’d be wondering, ‘Why am I cleaning the music room right now?’ But as I got older I started to appreciate these fundamental, basic lessons that were actually very deep and useful, more so than what scale to play over what chord.”
Blades had begun adding the organ to his repertoire at the time, and it was Lewis who pressured him to choose one instrument to focus on. He had discovered the instrument through rock records by the likes of Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix, which led him to Jimmy Smith and other jazz innovators. At the same time, Medeski Martin and Wood had emerged with a new, more radical approach to the organ trio, which Blades found equally intriguing. “Something about the sound of the organ really turned me on,” he says. “There was just something about it that I really dug, and I can’t really explain it.”
Over the past fifteen years, Blades has grown to be one of the most in-demand organ players on the Bay Area scene. In addition to leading his own trio, he works regularly in duo situations with drummers Billy Martin (Medeski Martin and Wood) and Scott Amendola (Nels Cline Singers); and in trios led by guitarist Will Bernard and drummer Stanton Moore. He’s performed and recorded with a host of jazz and blues greats including Melvin Sparks, Idris Muhammad, Joe Louis Walker, Don Braden, Donald Harrison, Nicholas Payton, Karl Denson, Charlie Hunter, Jason Marsalis, Herlin Riley, and many others.
Evan Lanam & the Live Oaks
It all began in the 2nd grade when Evan was seven years old, he joined the school choir and every year they would sing the National Anthem at the San Francisco Giants game. His music teacher forced him to sing California Dreamin' by the Mama's and Papa's in front of the entire school and eventuallysuggested to his parents to buy him a drum set. Now 28, Evan has been in dozens of bands, has written hundreds of songs for himself and co-writes with other songwriters (Drew Southern, Kenny Crowley, Hot Mountain Dips, Mystery Flavors) and is more than ever, gigging and collaborating all around California with all sorts of established musicians on all sorts of stages. His first show as a solo-artist was at the Great American Music Hall (Evan & the Eccentrics) and since has played most of medium-sized venues in the Bay Area including Slims, Brick & Mortar, and recently for the 2nd time, The Chapel, where he was the drummer/back up vocals for Rock & Roll music icon Cyril Jordan (founder of the Flaming Groovies). Americana is the style of music which closely defines Evan's songs. His influences are extremely vast but mostly reminiscent of late 60's, early 70's Rock & Roll. His sometimes 7 piece band, Evan Lanam & the Live Oaks, recently released a 7 song E.P. titled, Back Focus.
$12 ADV/$15 DOOR
21+
show less
Featuring
Will Bernard- Guitar (Stanton Moore Trio)
Wil Blades- Organ (Lonnie Smith)
Deszon Claiborne- Drums
Mike Olmos- Trumpet (New Mastersounds)
Daniel Casares- Saxaphone (New Mastersounds)
and
Evan Lanam and the Live Oaks
Will Bernard
“Will Bernard is one of the best-kept jazz-guitar secrets on the planet.” – Dan Uuellette, Billboard
He began playing and recording on an international level as a member of Peter Apfelbaum’s Hieroglyphics Ensemble,who made their recorded debut with Don Cherry on “Multikulti” (A&M 1989). Since then, Bernard has participated in a host of boundary stretching groups, ranging from jazz, hip-hop and world music to experimental music, with many stops in between. In the 90’s Bernard recorded and performed with many projects under the direction of acclaimed producer Lee Townsend and worked with groups ranging from the Hindustani-influenced Jai Uttal to the political hip-hop group the Coup. The most commercially successful of these projects was the group T.J. Kirk (with Charlie Hunter) whose sophomore album “If Four Was One” on Warner bros. was nominated for a Grammy in 1997. Will made further inroads with the Stanton Moore trio which toured extensively and made 3 albums on Telarc and a Hal Leonard drum instructional video and book.
Wil Blades
That influence harkens back to Blades’ roots in Chicago, where he grew up playing drums and guitar in rock and funk bands. He moved west to study jazz at the New College of California, where he studied with bassist Herbie Lewis. “It was a real old school jazz education,” Blades recalls. “With Herbie, it was almost a Mr. Miyagi thing, life lessons where I’d be wondering, ‘Why am I cleaning the music room right now?’ But as I got older I started to appreciate these fundamental, basic lessons that were actually very deep and useful, more so than what scale to play over what chord.”
Blades had begun adding the organ to his repertoire at the time, and it was Lewis who pressured him to choose one instrument to focus on. He had discovered the instrument through rock records by the likes of Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix, which led him to Jimmy Smith and other jazz innovators. At the same time, Medeski Martin and Wood had emerged with a new, more radical approach to the organ trio, which Blades found equally intriguing. “Something about the sound of the organ really turned me on,” he says. “There was just something about it that I really dug, and I can’t really explain it.”
Over the past fifteen years, Blades has grown to be one of the most in-demand organ players on the Bay Area scene. In addition to leading his own trio, he works regularly in duo situations with drummers Billy Martin (Medeski Martin and Wood) and Scott Amendola (Nels Cline Singers); and in trios led by guitarist Will Bernard and drummer Stanton Moore. He’s performed and recorded with a host of jazz and blues greats including Melvin Sparks, Idris Muhammad, Joe Louis Walker, Don Braden, Donald Harrison, Nicholas Payton, Karl Denson, Charlie Hunter, Jason Marsalis, Herlin Riley, and many others.
Evan Lanam & the Live Oaks
It all began in the 2nd grade when Evan was seven years old, he joined the school choir and every year they would sing the National Anthem at the San Francisco Giants game. His music teacher forced him to sing California Dreamin' by the Mama's and Papa's in front of the entire school and eventuallysuggested to his parents to buy him a drum set. Now 28, Evan has been in dozens of bands, has written hundreds of songs for himself and co-writes with other songwriters (Drew Southern, Kenny Crowley, Hot Mountain Dips, Mystery Flavors) and is more than ever, gigging and collaborating all around California with all sorts of established musicians on all sorts of stages. His first show as a solo-artist was at the Great American Music Hall (Evan & the Eccentrics) and since has played most of medium-sized venues in the Bay Area including Slims, Brick & Mortar, and recently for the 2nd time, The Chapel, where he was the drummer/back up vocals for Rock & Roll music icon Cyril Jordan (founder of the Flaming Groovies). Americana is the style of music which closely defines Evan's songs. His influences are extremely vast but mostly reminiscent of late 60's, early 70's Rock & Roll. His sometimes 7 piece band, Evan Lanam & the Live Oaks, recently released a 7 song E.P. titled, Back Focus.
$12 ADV/$15 DOOR
21+
WBEEZ
Featuring
Will Bernard- Guitar (Stanton Moore Trio)
Wil Blades- Organ (Lonnie Smith)
Deszon Claiborne- Drums
Mike Olmos- Trumpet (New Mastersounds)
Daniel Casares- Saxaphone (New Mastersounds)
and
Evan Lanam and the Live Oaks
Will Bernard
“Will Bernard is one of the best-kept jazz-guitar secrets on the planet.” – Dan Uuellette, Billboard
He began playing and recording on an international level as a member of Peter Apfelbaum’s Hieroglyphics Ensemble,who made their recorded debut with Don Cherry on “Multikulti” (A&M 1989). Since then, Bernard has participated in a host of boundary stretching groups, ranging from jazz, hip-hop and world music to experimental music, with many stops in between. In the 90’s Bernard recorded and performed with many projects under the direction of acclaimed producer Lee Townsend and worked with groups ranging from the Hindustani-influenced Jai Uttal to the political hip-hop group the Coup. The most commercially successful of these projects was the group T.J. Kirk (with Charlie Hunter) whose sophomore album “If Four Was One” on Warner bros. was nominated for a Grammy in 1997. Will made further inroads with the Stanton Moore trio which toured extensively and made 3 albums on Telarc and a Hal Leonard drum instructional video and book.
Wil Blades
That influence harkens back to Blades’ roots in Chicago, where he grew up playing drums and guitar in rock and funk bands. He moved west to study jazz at the New College of California, where he studied with bassist Herbie Lewis. “It was a real old school jazz education,” Blades recalls. “With Herbie, it was almost a Mr. Miyagi thing, life lessons where I’d be wondering, ‘Why am I cleaning the music room right now?’ But as I got older I started to appreciate these fundamental, basic lessons that were actually very deep and useful, more so than what scale to play over what chord.”
Blades had begun adding the organ to his repertoire at the time, and it was Lewis who pressured him to choose one instrument to focus on. He had discovered the instrument through rock records by the likes of Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix, which led him to Jimmy Smith and other jazz innovators. At the same time, Medeski Martin and Wood had emerged with a new, more radical approach to the organ trio, which Blades found equally intriguing. “Something about the sound of the organ really turned me on,” he says. “There was just something about it that I really dug, and I can’t really explain it.”
Over the past fifteen years, Blades has grown to be one of the most in-demand organ players on the Bay Area scene. In addition to leading his own trio, he works regularly in duo situations with drummers Billy Martin (Medeski Martin and Wood) and Scott Amendola (Nels Cline Singers); and in trios led by guitarist Will Bernard and drummer Stanton Moore. He’s performed and recorded with a host of jazz and blues greats including Melvin Sparks, Idris Muhammad, Joe Louis Walker, Don Braden, Donald Harrison, Nicholas Payton, Karl Denson, Charlie Hunter, Jason Marsalis, Herlin Riley, and many others.
Evan Lanam & the Live Oaks
It all began in the 2nd grade when Evan was seven years old, he joined the school choir and every year they would sing the National Anthem at the San Francisco Giants game. His music teacher forced him to sing California Dreamin' by the Mama's and Papa's in front of the entire school and eventuallysuggested to his parents to buy him a drum set. Now 28, Evan has been in dozens of bands, has written hundreds of songs for himself and co-writes with other songwriters (Drew Southern, Kenny Crowley, Hot Mountain Dips, Mystery Flavors) and is more than ever, gigging and collaborating all around California with all sorts of established musicians on all sorts of stages. His first show as a solo-artist was at the Great American Music Hall (Evan & the Eccentrics) and since has played most of medium-sized venues in the Bay Area including Slims, Brick & Mortar, and recently for the 2nd time, The Chapel, where he was the drummer/back up vocals for Rock & Roll music icon Cyril Jordan (founder of the Flaming Groovies). Americana is the style of music which closely defines Evan's songs. His influences are extremely vast but mostly reminiscent of late 60's, early 70's Rock & Roll. His sometimes 7 piece band, Evan Lanam & the Live Oaks, recently released a 7 song E.P. titled, Back Focus.
$12 ADV/$15 DOOR
21+
read more
Featuring
Will Bernard- Guitar (Stanton Moore Trio)
Wil Blades- Organ (Lonnie Smith)
Deszon Claiborne- Drums
Mike Olmos- Trumpet (New Mastersounds)
Daniel Casares- Saxaphone (New Mastersounds)
and
Evan Lanam and the Live Oaks
Will Bernard
“Will Bernard is one of the best-kept jazz-guitar secrets on the planet.” – Dan Uuellette, Billboard
He began playing and recording on an international level as a member of Peter Apfelbaum’s Hieroglyphics Ensemble,who made their recorded debut with Don Cherry on “Multikulti” (A&M 1989). Since then, Bernard has participated in a host of boundary stretching groups, ranging from jazz, hip-hop and world music to experimental music, with many stops in between. In the 90’s Bernard recorded and performed with many projects under the direction of acclaimed producer Lee Townsend and worked with groups ranging from the Hindustani-influenced Jai Uttal to the political hip-hop group the Coup. The most commercially successful of these projects was the group T.J. Kirk (with Charlie Hunter) whose sophomore album “If Four Was One” on Warner bros. was nominated for a Grammy in 1997. Will made further inroads with the Stanton Moore trio which toured extensively and made 3 albums on Telarc and a Hal Leonard drum instructional video and book.
Wil Blades
That influence harkens back to Blades’ roots in Chicago, where he grew up playing drums and guitar in rock and funk bands. He moved west to study jazz at the New College of California, where he studied with bassist Herbie Lewis. “It was a real old school jazz education,” Blades recalls. “With Herbie, it was almost a Mr. Miyagi thing, life lessons where I’d be wondering, ‘Why am I cleaning the music room right now?’ But as I got older I started to appreciate these fundamental, basic lessons that were actually very deep and useful, more so than what scale to play over what chord.”
Blades had begun adding the organ to his repertoire at the time, and it was Lewis who pressured him to choose one instrument to focus on. He had discovered the instrument through rock records by the likes of Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix, which led him to Jimmy Smith and other jazz innovators. At the same time, Medeski Martin and Wood had emerged with a new, more radical approach to the organ trio, which Blades found equally intriguing. “Something about the sound of the organ really turned me on,” he says. “There was just something about it that I really dug, and I can’t really explain it.”
Over the past fifteen years, Blades has grown to be one of the most in-demand organ players on the Bay Area scene. In addition to leading his own trio, he works regularly in duo situations with drummers Billy Martin (Medeski Martin and Wood) and Scott Amendola (Nels Cline Singers); and in trios led by guitarist Will Bernard and drummer Stanton Moore. He’s performed and recorded with a host of jazz and blues greats including Melvin Sparks, Idris Muhammad, Joe Louis Walker, Don Braden, Donald Harrison, Nicholas Payton, Karl Denson, Charlie Hunter, Jason Marsalis, Herlin Riley, and many others.
Evan Lanam & the Live Oaks
It all began in the 2nd grade when Evan was seven years old, he joined the school choir and every year they would sing the National Anthem at the San Francisco Giants game. His music teacher forced him to sing California Dreamin' by the Mama's and Papa's in front of the entire school and eventuallysuggested to his parents to buy him a drum set. Now 28, Evan has been in dozens of bands, has written hundreds of songs for himself and co-writes with other songwriters (Drew Southern, Kenny Crowley, Hot Mountain Dips, Mystery Flavors) and is more than ever, gigging and collaborating all around California with all sorts of established musicians on all sorts of stages. His first show as a solo-artist was at the Great American Music Hall (Evan & the Eccentrics) and since has played most of medium-sized venues in the Bay Area including Slims, Brick & Mortar, and recently for the 2nd time, The Chapel, where he was the drummer/back up vocals for Rock & Roll music icon Cyril Jordan (founder of the Flaming Groovies). Americana is the style of music which closely defines Evan's songs. His influences are extremely vast but mostly reminiscent of late 60's, early 70's Rock & Roll. His sometimes 7 piece band, Evan Lanam & the Live Oaks, recently released a 7 song E.P. titled, Back Focus.
$12 ADV/$15 DOOR
21+
show less
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1601 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
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