$10 Cover @ the Door / Start 8:30pm / Doors 8pm / Seated Show
Creative reinterpretations of Charlie Parker's repertoire on the centennial of his birth and 65th anniversary of his untimely passing. We're preparing for a California-Arizona tour in March and will debut some new material.
Allan Chase is a jazz saxophonist, composer, college music teacher, and administrator. He has performed jazz and improvised music since 1974 with his own groups and as a member of the Lewis Nash-Allan Chase Duo (1979-80), Your Neighborhood Saxophone Quartet (1981-present), Prima Materia with Rashied Ali (1992-2000), the Steve Lantner Quartet with Joe Morris and Luther Gray (2002- present), and many other groups. He appears as a soloist on over forty jazz and improvised music recordings, several rock and classical recordings, and several movie scores. He has made two CDs as a leader, Dark Clouds with Silver Linings (with Ron Horton, Tony Scherr, and Matt Wilson) and Phoenix (with Ron Horton, Adam Kolker, David Finck, and Lewis Nash).
Since 2008, Chase has chaired the Ear Training department at Berklee College of Music, and he works with the students of the Global Jazz Institute at Berklee. He has taught a wide range of college courses in jazz history, transcription and analysis, ear training, harmony, counterpoint, music theory, jazz composition and arranging, ensembles, and private lessons in saxophone and improvisation.
Allan Chase - alto, soprano & baritone saxes
Phil Grenadier - trumpet & flügelhorn
Bruno Råberg - bass
Austin McMahon - drums