Larry
Karush & Art Lande
two solo piano performances
Monday, September 29th,
2008
7:30
pm
Ceraso
Gallery
& Studio
$12
Larry Karush is an improvising
pianist/composer with roots in Jazz, 20th century western music,
African-based percussion, and the music of North India. From Carnegie
Hall to the Purple Onion, he has performed Jazz with John Abercrombie,
Jane Ira Bloom, Eddie Gomez, Jay Clayton, Bennie Wallace and Oregon,
World Music with Kanai Dutta, Francisco Aguabella, Geetha Ramanathan
and Glen Velez, and New Music with Steve Reich.
His compositions and performances have been recorded on the ECM,
Vanguard, Inner City, AudioQuest, Music of the World and NAXOS labels.
He has received grants for his creative work from the New York
Foundation for the Arts, the NEA/Arts International, Meet the Composer,
the California Arts Council, and is the recent recipient of a
Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition.
He has performed solo piano concerts of original music (and with his
piano/bass/three world percussion ensemble, The Combination) throughout
the United States in addition to festival appearances in Canada,
Europe, and South Africa.
Grammy-nominated Art Lande is considered one of the premiere
improvisational jazz pianists today. He began piano at age 4, studied
at Williams College & moved to San Francisco in 1969. He has
mostly carved out his own singular path throughout his career, taking
the innovations of Bill Evans several steps further. In 1973 he
recorded with Jan Garbarek and Ted Curson and in the mid-1970's had
started his own jazz school. In 1976 he formed the quartet Rubisa
Patrol which recorded for ECM and lasted until 1983. After teaching for
three years in Switzerland, Lande in 1987 moved to Boulder, Colorado.
He appears in many of the "Who's Who in Jazz" encyclopedias available
today for his role in the development of "Chamber Jazz."