$10 Donation @ the Door / Start 6:30pm / Doors 6pm / Seated Show
It will be a deep joy to play a set of trio music with my dear friends Richie Barshay and Max Ridley. Richie and Max are two of the most playful and musical people I know. They are curious and creative about all aspects of life and have gone deep into the music with the same open hearted orientation that they bring to all of their lives.
They are phenomenal musicians. I just need to say that. And they listen with a relaxed, affectionate awareness that allows them to respond to my playing with what seems like supernatural powers. I have made a couple recordings with them both. They are not on the same discs - here is the thing - they have never met.
And so I want you to be there to witness how jazz musicians like them can discover each other with ease and warmth and energy, and daring. Bass and drums and piano. No horn this night. I will have the unobstructed territory to set up, paint and build the structures we play together.
And I think it is worth mentioning that we will play unrehearsed, only meeting in the space of the new sounds we are creating together. We will use as our forms tunes we know, even without naming them, so there is no holding back.
Hope to see you at the Lilypad,
Bert Seager
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Bert Seager
Bert Seager is an internationally recognized jazz performer and composer. His seventeen compact discs have won him unanimous critical acclaim from the New York Times, Keyboard Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe and many other publications.
Bert’s compositions, improvisations and teaching reflect both an inward and outward-looking view of life and music. He plays a varied program of originals, jazz classics and spontaneous music: always striving for transparency – framing each song’s improvised narrative in a playful conversation.
Bert has performed and recorded with jazz numerous luminaries. He has toured with his band extensively both in the United States and internationally in China, Hungary, Bulgaria, Ecuador, Peru, Canada, Israel, Jordan, and Japan.
Bert is on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, and has been a recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts grant for jazz.
He is also a three-time winner of an extended residency in music composition at MacDowell, the artists’ colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
He is a graduate of Haverford College and earned a masters degree from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1984.
Richie Barshay
Richie Barshay
Richie Barshay began drumming inside kitchen cabinets at an early age, and continues banging on things worldwide to this day. Noted for his work with the Herbie Hancock Quartet in the 2000s, he's been dubbed "a major rhythm voice on the rise" by Downbeat magazine, and The Guardian (UK) praises "the arrival of a major innovator who also knows how to have fun." Find him on stage and recordings with Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Esperanza Spalding, The Klezmatics, Fred Hersch, Kenny Werner, Lee Konitz, Natalie Merchant, Bobby McFerrin, and Pete Seeger among others. Since 2004 he has led outreach projects across 5 continents as an American Musical Envoy with the U.S. State Department. He can be heard on over 80 recordings as a sideman, and his two self-produced albums: Homework featuring Herbie Hancock (2004), and Sanctuary featuring Chick Corea (2014). Based in New York City and Northampton, MA, he is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher and maintains a private practice for performing artists and others to regain better mind-body coordination and ease of movement.
Max Ridley
Max Ridley is a bass player from and based in Boston. He started playing bass through a love of punk rock and fell in love with jazz in high school at the Boston Arts Academy. He was awarded full-tuition scholarships to study at Berklee College of Music for both an undergraduate and graduate degree. He earned his graduate degree from Berklee’s Global Jazz Institute under the direction of master pianist and educator Danilo Perez. He has shared the stage with renown musicians such as Kenny Werner, Jeff Coffin, Terri Lyne Carrington, Donny McCaslin, Tia Fuller, and Jerry Bergoniz. He has performed in venues such as the Blue Note, Boston Symphony Hall, the Kennedy Center and the Umbria Jazz Festival. He has toured all around the US and a little bit outside of it, both by van and by plane and has slept on gross floors and fancy beds (and vice versa). He also spent some time living in Valencia, Spain and considers that a second home and musical community.