Hearts and Minds
Rich Halley’s Outside Music Ensemble
Dan Clucas/Ralph Thomas/Michael Vlatkovich/Andrew Jones/Tim DuRoche
Noah Simpson Trio
Sunday, 10/20
The 1905
Jazz and free jazz all day long!!
11:30 – 1:30 Jazz brunch: Noah Simpson
3- 5pm Afternoon show: Dan Clucas (LA)/Ralph Thomas/Michael Vlatkovich/Andrew Jones/Tim DuRoche
5 – 7pm Early Show: Rich Halley‘s Outside Music Ensemble
8 -11pm Late show: Hearts and Minds (Chicago)
Noah Simpson trio
Energetic, attentive, and dynamic define Noah Simpson’s trumpet playing.
Rooted in the jazz tradition and heavily influenced by modern Black American music, Simpson takes a very modern approach to the trumpet. Noah has performed with such artists as Bernard Purdie, George Benson, George Colligan, Ron Artis II, and others.
3- 5pm Afternoon show: Dan Clucas (LA)/Ralph Thomas/Michael Vlatkovich/Andrew Jones/Tim DuRoche
5 – 7pm Early Show: Rich Halley‘s Outside Music Ensemble
8 -11pm Late show: Hearts and Minds (Chicago)
Noah Simpson trio
Energetic, attentive, and dynamic define Noah Simpson’s trumpet playing.
Rooted in the jazz tradition and heavily influenced by modern Black American music, Simpson takes a very modern approach to the trumpet. Noah has performed with such artists as Bernard Purdie, George Benson, George Colligan, Ron Artis II, and others.
Dan Clucas is a trumpet player and composer living and working in Los Angeles. Born in Anaheim, California in 1966, he began playing trumpet at age ten, soon thereafter discovering the music of Dizzy Gillespie, which in turn led to a lifelong study of and respect for the African American music known as jazz. While he strives for individual statement in his music, Clucas also strives to acknowledge the imprint of past masters, from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington to Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra. He has studied with Bobby Bradford and Wadada Leo Smith, and has performed and recorded over the last two decades with such L.A. luminaries as Nels Cline, Alex Cline, Steuart Liebig, Vinny Golia, Joe Baiza, Rich West, and Michael Vlatkovich, to name a few.
Michael Vlatkovich, trombonist, composer, and arranger, is one of the leading talents among Los Angeles improvisational players. Located on the West Coast since 1973, he is an emotionally charged performer, comfortable in a variety of jazz and world music styles. Vlatkovich has performed extensively in the United States, Canada, and Europe. His improvisionally free music expresses raw power and beauty in a minimally structured format. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Vlatkovich began studying music with the school band in the third grade. He distinguished himself in high school and was awarded a music scholarship to attend the St. Louis Institute of Music. Prior to his education at the Institute, Michael took part in an intensive six week workshop with internationally acclaimed saxophonist Oliver Nelson and guest soloists, Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, Roland Hanna, Ron Carter, and Phil Woods. Among his fellow students were Hamiett Bluett, Joe Bowie, Julius Hemphill, and Oliver Lake.In addition to leading his own diverse imaginative ensembles, Vlatkovich has performed with a wide array of singers and instrumentalists including Peggy Lee, Brian Setzer, Ricky Lee Jones, Solomon Burke, Medesky, Martin, and Wood, Boingo, Don Preston, Bobby Bradford, Gerry Hemingway, Vinny Golia, Andrew Cryrlle, Rob Blakeslee, Rich Halley, among many others. The trombonist has also performed on sound tracks for a variety of television and film projects including The Mask, Jingle All The Way, and the critically acclaimed John Cassavette’s film the Tempest. Most recently the trombonist has been performing with his own ensembles, and co-leading Transvalue with poet Charles Britt. Vlatkovich is also a regular member of the Rich Halley 4 and the Bobby Bradford Motet.
Andrew Jones is a Phoenix-born musician living in Portland, OR where he writes, arranges and plays in a wide variety of musical contexts primarily on electric and double bass. He’s played, toured and/or recorded with LA drummer and performance artist Corey Fogel, Tokyo-based pianist Jacob Koller, jazz vocalist Dennis Rowland, downtempo electronica artist Coppe and Brooklyn Art-rockers Barbez. Since moving to the NW he continued to work in ridiculously disparate settings such as “modern jazzers” Ian Christiansen Quartet, Blake Lyman trio, Andrew Durkin’s Protohuman, Cameron Morgan Trio and Scott Cutshall’s Phraseology- experimental rock bands like AU, U-Sco and Pinkish as well as more “mainstream PDX” acts like Portland Cello Project and Boy and Bean. He also writes, sings and plays double bass and electronics alongside drummer Chris Johnedis in his own project called The Crenshaw.
Tim DuRoche is a jazz drummer, sound artist, and radio host based in the Pacific NW. Since moving to Portland in 2000, DuRoche has worked extensively with an array of US and European avant-garde jazz innovators, including Burton Greene, Roscoe Mitchell, Thollem McDonas, George Sams, Lori Goldston, Rich Halley, Eri Yamamoto, Dominic Duval, Bill McHenry, Matana Roberts, Paul Plimley-Lisle Ellis, Torsten Muller-Urs Leimgruber, Elliott Sharp, Jon Raskin, Perry Robinson, Phillip Greenlief, Marco Eneidi, Didier Petit, and Frank Gratkowski, among others. Local ensembles include Get Smashing Love Power, Battle Hymns and Gardens (with saxophonists Reed Wallsmith and Joe Cunningham, and bassist Jon Shaw of Blue Cranes), and a decade long association with the late bassist André St. James. Tim hosts The New Thing, a weekly radio show for KMHD Jazz Radio 89.1 FM, spotlighting the evolution and revolutions of jazz and freedom since 1959. Recent releases include the Thollem/André St James/Tim DuRoche (ESP-Disk), with Ryan Meagher’s Evil Twin (PJcE Records), Timeless Memories from Joel Futterman / Ike Levin / Tim DuRoche (Charles Lester Music), and the Kin Trio with Sunjae Lee and André St. James (PJCE Records)
Rich Halley‘s Outside Music Ensemble
The Outside Music Ensemble was formed in 1999 to perform creative music in outdoor settings. For 14 years, the group performed annual walk-in concerts on top of the butte in Powell Butte Nature Park at the east edge of Portland, Oregon.
With an instrumentation of four horns and two percussionists, the Outside Music Ensemble is based around rhythm and the harmonic/melodic explorations of the horns. The group includes Rich Halley, saxophones; Michael Vlatkovich, trombone; Troy Grugett, saxophones; Jim Knodle, trumpet; Dave Storrs, percussion; and Carson Halley, percussion.
Rich Halley is a Portland based saxophonist and composer who leads the Rich Halley 4 as well as the Outside Music Ensemble. He has released 22 critically acclaimed recordings as a leader. Rich has played with Matthew Shipp, Tony Malaby, Vinny Golia, Bobby Bradford, Nels Cline, Julius Hemphill, Michael Bisio, Andrew Hill and Oliver Lake.
Michael Vlatkovich is an internationally known trombonist and composer based in Los Angeles for many years, but now living in Portland. He has performed with Peggy Lee, Brian Setzer, ROVA Saxophone Quartet, Bobby Bradford and Gerry Hemingway.
Jim Knodle is a Seattle based trumpeter who plays in a variety of creative music settings. He has performed with William Parker, Vinny Golia, Perry Robinson and Wayne Horvitz.
Troy Grugett is a Seattle based alto and baritone saxophonist who also plays percussion. Troy performs with a number of groups in the Seattle area.
Dave Storrs is a drummer and percussionist based in Corvallis, Oregon where he teaches music. He leads several groups and is the proprietor of Louie records.
Carson Halley is a drummer based in Portland and is a member of the Rich Halley 4. Carson has performed with a variety of jazz and alternative groups including Bobby Bradford and Vinny Golia.
Hearts and Minds (CHI)
Called a “singularly original unit gleefully trapezing between sound and swing”, Hearts & Minds combines brash fluidity, raw lyricism, and emphatic grooves.
Hearts & Minds is a collective conceived by long-time collaborators Jason Stein (bass clarinet) and Paul Giallorenzo (synthesizer/e piano), joined by drummer @Chad Taylor.
After years of shows throughout the US and Europe with original drummer Frank Rosaly, Hearts and Minds released their debut recording in 2016 on the Austin-based label Astral Spirits.
Following Rosaly’s relocation to Amsterdam shortly thereafter, Stein and Giallorenzo began working with ex-Chicagoan drummer Chad Taylor and since then, have played multiple shows throughout the US and are planning to release their second album for Astral Spirits in September of 2018.
