Rashied Ali is playing with a new quintet at tonic tomorrow. Outside of Teepe, all the names are new to me:
Rashied Ali Quintet
$12
With Ali (drums), Greg Murphy (piano), Joris Teepe (bass), Jumaane Smith (trumpet) & Lawrence Clark (tenor sax). The master jazz drummer leads a new group.
Hey Pete, Lawrence Clark used to be my roommate in Boston, he's one of my best friends. He's an excellent tenor player with a big ass tone. His playing was definnitely more focused on straight ahead stuff, but he told me recently that playing with Rashied has really been opening him up, I would definitely like to hear that.
Joris Teepe used to live in the same building as me uptown, I'm not really familiar with his playing but he used to co-lead a group with Don Braden for a while, I think they put out a few records on Criss Cross or something.
Greg Murphy was the pianist in Prima Materia, the (possibly defunct?) band Rashied used to co-lead with Louie Belogenis. Jumaane Smith is a student in the Juilliard School's jazz program, and played with Prima Materia at the Vision Festival in 2001.
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