HONORED TO PRESENT
JOSH BREAKSTONE
"The Cello Project"
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JOSH BREAKSTONE - GUITAR
MIKE RICHMOND - CELLO CHRIS CONNER - BASS JOHN TRENTACOSTA - DRUMS November 11th - FRIDAY MUSEUM HILL CAFE Doors - 6:00pm / Concert - 7:00pm TICKETS: $25.00 / $20.00 SFMC members RESERVATIONS: 505-983-6820 |
"Fire in velvet. A fitting description of Joshua Breakstone's jazz guitar," wrote Paul Weidman in The Santa Fe New Mexican. "His flowing lines on up-tempo cookers are impeccably clean and fiery, bearing the mark of a first-rate improviser, while his chordal work on heart-breaker ballads is the final word in finesse," has raved Guitar Player magazine. Japan's Jazz Hihyo (aka Jazz Critique) recognizes that "The style in which Joshua develops his fluid single-note solos used to be thought of as the Grant Green school, but now this man leads the school". Downbeat also has written that "There is no shortage of young, knock-out jazz guitarists about us these days. And Joshua Breakstone is among the best of them." Josh says: "I was exposed to jazz regularly as a kid, but it never caught my ear, until I heard Lee Morgan. Lee's sound was exciting and made me want to hear more jazz. The first jazz people who turned me on were trumpet players, then I heard Charlie Parker. The fire Lee Morgan played with grabbed me immediately and the way both he and Clifford Brown fully articulated each note has been an ideal toward which I work with regard to the sound I try and get on the guitar. When I heard Bird, I knew I wanted to play like him in the sense of playing things which are meaningful, emotional, and, more than anything else, irresistibly beautiful."
In 2009 Joshua's "Jazz Etudes: Studies For The Beginning Improviser" was released by Cherry Lane Music. It has become a standard text in colleges and universities the world over. "In teaching, either in clinics or individually, I describe to students the progression we make as jazz musicians, starting with learning to improvise, to invent melody over any harmonic terrain, which could be a lifetime of work right there. But when we take a step back it dawns on us that to become an improviser is not really to have accomplished anything at all- after all, the goal in jazz is self expression and the development of a unique voice, to say something in one's own way. It's only in the taking of this leap- from being an instrumentalist who improvises to being a musician who uses improvisation as a means of communicating- that we go from being essentially craftsmen, to becoming artists. I don't worry about trying to be this thing or that other thing, my idea has always been to try and say something straight from my heart. It's always been my conviction that if you say something unique, in your own way, and honestly, there will always be an audience for you."
Breakstone has released three albums featuring the cello quartet, including the just released Eighty-Eight. The Cello Quartet is the subject of a documentary by Colorado Public Television and PBS, entitled, "Joshua Breakstone, Soft Hands: Jazz Ethereal" which will be aired in November. Performing selections from their three releases as well as some new surprises.
The Cello Quartet will also perform at the Outpost Performance Space on Thursday, November 10th at 7:30pm.
In 2009 Joshua's "Jazz Etudes: Studies For The Beginning Improviser" was released by Cherry Lane Music. It has become a standard text in colleges and universities the world over. "In teaching, either in clinics or individually, I describe to students the progression we make as jazz musicians, starting with learning to improvise, to invent melody over any harmonic terrain, which could be a lifetime of work right there. But when we take a step back it dawns on us that to become an improviser is not really to have accomplished anything at all- after all, the goal in jazz is self expression and the development of a unique voice, to say something in one's own way. It's only in the taking of this leap- from being an instrumentalist who improvises to being a musician who uses improvisation as a means of communicating- that we go from being essentially craftsmen, to becoming artists. I don't worry about trying to be this thing or that other thing, my idea has always been to try and say something straight from my heart. It's always been my conviction that if you say something unique, in your own way, and honestly, there will always be an audience for you."
Breakstone has released three albums featuring the cello quartet, including the just released Eighty-Eight. The Cello Quartet is the subject of a documentary by Colorado Public Television and PBS, entitled, "Joshua Breakstone, Soft Hands: Jazz Ethereal" which will be aired in November. Performing selections from their three releases as well as some new surprises.
The Cello Quartet will also perform at the Outpost Performance Space on Thursday, November 10th at 7:30pm.
WITH SINCERE THANKS - TO OUR WONDERFUL SPONSORS AND GRANTOR
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DICK and LAURIE MEYER
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BRUCE JOHNSON
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