$10 Donation @ the Door / Start 9:30pm / Doors 9pm / Seated Show
Eric Dahlman – Trumpet
Dahlman is a performer, band leader, composer and recording artist with three CD’s. He has performed with free jazz icon Hal Russell & his NRG Ensemble, Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, Travis Chandler Philharmonic, Auddity, Rakalam Bob Moses, The Calypso Invaders, Little Mystery, and others. Dahlman has three albums thus far; “Tunnel Sessions”, Glacier” and “Ripped Echos”. He has appeared on Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty’s Discovery Channel soundtrack “Bridges". His music appears in the documentary film “The Bear Cult” (2015 Hyperion). Dahlman studied with Ingrid Monson, Dave Frank, Anthony Davis & John Luther Adams.
Erik van Dam - Woodwinds
Erik Van Dam plays flute, baritone, tenor, alto, and soprano saxophones. Having studied with the highly acclaimed Joe Lovano and later Hal Crook, Erik has gone on to draw inspiration from many influences, including Lovano, Sam Rivers, and Eric Dolphy. Erik has crafted a sound of his own. He has also spent time working and performing with Bob Moses, Bill Lowe, Stan Strickland, and Fred Ho’s Monkey Orchestra. Former performance ensembles include Erik’s jazz trio TRIOSOPHY, his all improvisational quartet SRUTI, as well as "The Sonic Construct Funk Project, and a nine piece rock group "Strange Changes. " Erik has performed internationally in Tokyo, Paris, Jamaica, and Bulgaria. Erik currently performs at many venues in Massachusetts with different small jazz combos. In addition to being a musician, Erik is an avid creative painter and sculptor who teaches art professionally in a local school system.
Eric Dahlman – Trumpet
Eric is a performer, band leader, composer and recording artist with three CD’s. He has performed with free jazz icon Hal Russell & his NRG Ensemble, Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, Travis Chandler Philharmonic, Auddity, Rakalam Bob Moses. Dahlman has appeared on Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty’s Discovery Channel soundtrack “Bridges". His music appears in the documentary film “The Bear Cult” (2015 Hyperion). Eric studied with Ingrid Monson, Dave Frank, Anthony Davis & John Luther Adams.
John Dalton - Drums
John Dalton is a Boston based musician, composer, and educator. He has performed at the New Bedford Jazz Festival, Fete Music hall, the Zeiterion Theater, Boston University, Wally’s Cafe Jazz Club, Shrine World Music venue in Harlem and Cafe 939 at Berklee College of Music. He has performed or shared the bill with artists such as Jim Robitaille, Dino Govoni, Amanda Monaco, John Sullivan, Barry Altschul, Dennis Montgomery, Jerome Harris, Stefano Battaglia, Kaya Meller, Kamil Piotrowicz, Anastassiya Petrova, and royal hartigan. John has also received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Medford Arts Council, and the Somerville Arts Council for work with his modular ensemble Spheres of Influence, which performs original compositions, standards, as well as arrangements of well-known repertoire.
johndaltonspheresofinfluence.com
Scott Samenfeld - Bass
Samenfeld is a long-time Boston based musician, composer and band leader. He moved to Boston in 1970 from the New York City area where he studied with guitarist Harry Lahey, pianists Keith McDonald and Gabe Julian and bassist Bill Holliday. He studied at Berklee College of Music and was a member of Razzmatazz a jazz, rock, fusion group and Trillium, an avante garde power trio in the 70s. He taught for many years including 5 years at the Guitar Workshop in Boston, the Open Road School, an alternative high school in Waltham, and the Cambridge School in Weston. He formed his group Muse Stew in 1990 which still performs his original compositions regularly. He has also led the Cal Tjader project featuring the music of the great Latin vibraphist. He has held down the bass chair of the Sounds of Swing big band for almost 40 years.
Phil Morimoto – Guitar
Morimoto is a guitarist, composer, performer and congregator of musicians. After graduating from Berklee in 1983 Phil retrained his approach to guitar using the finger-picking approach and broke away from the confines of using scales, rehearsed chord progressions or lines while improvising. Phil aims to create in-time powerful musical experiences through improvisation in collaboration with other free-improvisation minded players. He regularly performs at the Lilypad.
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