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Daniel Rosenboom Quintet | Blue Whale

Daniel Rosenboom Quintet
Blue Whale
February 9, 2013

Gavin Templeton, Woodwinds
Alex Noice, Electric Guitar
Kai Kurosawa, Bear Trax
Dan Schnelle, Drums

Eron Rauch, Photography Exhibition and Set Design

I love The Blue Whale. Tonight: @daniel_rosenboom Quintent. Live music and photo installation @bluewhalemusic

Daniel Rosenboom Quintet | Blue Whale

Daniel Rosenboom Quintet | Blue Whale

Daniel Rosenboom Quintet | Blue Whale

Daniel Rosenboom Quintet | Blue Whale

Daniel Rosenboom Quintet | Blue Whale

Blue Whale. Daniel Rosenboom Quintet. Awesome.

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Quartetto Fantastico & Rootsystem | Blue Whale

Rootsystem
October 2011 residency at the Blue Whale

October 5, 2011
with Quartetto Fantastico

Featuring Live Painting
Ngene Mwaura
Joe Wu
John Park

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Scored Presents “The Wizard”

Scored Presents “The Wizard”
Blue Whale
July 25. 2011

Mark de Clive-Lowe on Keys
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson on Viola/Violin
Dexter Story on Drums
Todd Thille on Visuals

Scored Presents "The Wizard"

Scored Presents "The Wizard"

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Scored Presents "The Wizard"

Scored Presents "The Wizard"

Live scoring of THE WIZARD OF OZ in it’s many glorious versions

Musical direction MARK de CLIVE-LOWE
w/ MIGUEL ATWOOD-FERGUSON
& DEXTER STORY
9pm (doors 8pm) / $10 gets you into Emerald City
for 1 extended journey down the yellow brick road

“The Wizard of Oz is such an archetypal fantasy story and movie.
Judy Garland along with Victor Fleming brought us the definitive cinematic experience of it along with a timeless soundtrack of classic story-telling songs.

I can’t remember first time I saw it, but it’s always super fresh. It’s been created for screen 19 times including silent film and animated versions and it’s a storyline we’re all well familiar with.

For this performance though, we’ll be visiting several versions, mashed up and intertwined along with a completely improvised soundtrack performed by myself MdCL www.markdeclivelowe.net, drummer DEXTER STORY www.dexterstory.com and viola player (composer, conductor) MIGUEL ATWOOD-FERGUSON http://miguelatwood-fergus​on.bandcamp.com/

MIGUEL and DEXTER are two of my favorite musicians anywhere. You know Miguel from lovingly arranged full orchestral interpretations of J DILLA’s creations in MOCHILLA’s TIMELESS Suite For Ma Dukes www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh g_fPD-Lhc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN​V9OSsMiWw
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to his own recent acclaimed large shows with the likes of Flying Lotus, Jose James, Pharoahe Monch, Bilal, Zap Mama and countless others to the mighty Build An Ark.

DEXTER STORY is also such a creative force – a multi-instrumentalist performing with numerous different artists in as many different styles, he’s one of my favorite people to improvise and create with bar none.

We’re truly looking forward to an evening of spontaneous and limitless music-making inspired by the fantastic story that is L. Frank Baum’s THE WIZARD OF OZ.”
(MdCL)

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We Love LA | Blue Whale

We Love LA
Blue Whale
June 22, 2011

Jesse Palter
Sam Barsh
Nick Rosen
James Williams

Hear | See | Read


We Love LA, Blue Whale, Song 1, Set 2

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Never Can Say Goodbye

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Outkast cover

We Love LA, Blue Whale, Song 5, Set 2
Hold My Hand
Jesse Palter Original


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It was plain on entering that there’d been some adjustments. The show was advertised as a duo of young old friends Nick Rosen (bass) and Joey Dosik (sax). No sax behind the microphones as the musicians were warming up, though, and there were four: skinny Rosen in V-tee and geek specs, a disgruntled-looking pianist in a little straw hat, an aloof drummer in plaid short sleeves and a ball cap, and a dark-haired looker squeezed into a styly dress singing lyrics off a web tablet.

“Yeah, Joey couldn’t make it,” Rosen told me, walking over to the bar for a pre-set snackdown. “He plays keyboards too, and he’s got all these funky soul chords. So he’s out on tour doing that with Nikka Costa.”

I first saw Rosen in 2003, onstage with Dosik and an all-star L.A. band gathered to support the long-disappeared avant bassist Henry Grimes. Still teenagers then, Rosen and Dosik had acted as prime movers behind Grimes’ comeback; they went on to study at CalArts and Michigan and do what career musicians do — starve and build skill.

And make contacts. For this forced opportunity, Rosen called up some musicians from back East he’d run into who had recently relocated to SoCal, and dubbed the instant quartet We Love L.A.

First impressions proved wrongsville. For one thing, you wouldn’t have guessed these semi-random four would have locked together so smoothly, a synchronicity partly due to the looker and the keysman sharing an established act. She was Jesse Palter, winner of every vocal prize according to Rosen; her impassive demeanor complemented warm freshness of tone, perfect pitch and supercharged Schoenbergian scatting — when she chose blue notes, she knew exactly what and why. The piano guy, Sam Barsh, got his gruntle back once the action started, kicking out a leg, throwing back his head, even jumping up to boogie around like Stevie Wonder on a melodica whose mouthpiece snaked at the end of a crinkled footlong hose. Drummer James Williams’ visual disconnect sure didn’t extend to the music: Sitting on four sticks for maximum accessibility or alertness, he spattered strokes around a toy-size kit to generate a loose groove so open that we wanted to shuck our shoes; a tambourine shaken out of sight made our toe-tap impulse seem like a command from beyond.

Bassists love drummers who make it easy, and Rosen took full advantage down and up the upright’s neck, putting a lid on the beat or blocking out evenly spaced statements of melodic concentration. That’s why musicians and audiences love HIM: He’s a communicator, not a juggler.

I’d speculate that the gently bouncing first tune belonged to Rosen, since Barsh was reading the chords off a single page ripped from a spiral notebook. But a substantial hunk of the material showcased the pianist, whose soft touch poured out waterfalls of spontaneous romance with subflavors of suburban blues and strangely wistful funk.

Palter, meanwhile, coolly mined multiple traditions — “It Could Happen to You,” Radiohead and Jobim — without earning the stigma of eclecticism. And I can’t figure how she knew that “Never Can Say Goodbye,” with its lurking pitfall changes, ranks as one of my favorite pieces of songcraft.

Nice call, Nick. Made accident seem like good luck.

PHOTO OF NICK ROSEN’S ARM AND JESSE PALTER BY D.D. DARKE.

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Blue Whale

Micki, Jason, Chris, and I went to see Nick Rosen, Sam Barsh, Gene Coye, and Maurice Brown jam some fine tunes at the Blue Whale.

February 16, 2011

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