Jeff Robinson - Tenor Sax
Jeff Song - Cello, Bass
Jeff Allison - Drums
In 2005, JEF grew from collaborations between Song and Robinson (who had played in a Boston rock band in the 1980s). A lison (who had also worked with Robinson on several projects) was recruited based on his excellent first name (he's also a fantastic drummer). JEF plays improvised music that dances in the space between jazz, rock, funk, classical, soul, and everything in between.
Jeff Song Cellist and bass guitarist Jeff Song has performed around the globe and has appeared on over a dozen recordings – his original music featured in theater, radio, television, and the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. As bassist for Ute Lemper, he performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Istanbul Jazz Festival, L’Opéra de Vichy, and The Palermo Festival Di Verdura. Song has also performed solo, with his own groups (Lowbrow, Trio Ex Nihilo, The Blooming), and with various artists including Dave Bryant, Taylor Ho Bynum, Cuong Vu, Jason Kao Hwang, Curt Newton, Tom Hall, Matt Turner, Neil Leonard, Dean Laabs, Ken Field, David Tronzo, Miya Masaoka, Leni Stern and Bob Moses. He has also played sideman to rockers and singer/songwriters including Sarah Levecque and Adam Sherman. A professional theater actor and composer, Song has appeared on several stages including American Repertory Theater, SpeakEasy Stage, Lyric Stage Boston, Company One, Boston Playwrights’ Theater, Baltimore Center Stage, and Studio Theatre (DC). A New England Foundation for the Arts grant recipient, Song holds an MM from New England Conservatory of Music where he studied with Ran Blake and Joe Maneri.
Jeff Allison Born in Delaware, drummer Jeff Allison has played with countless bands in and around Boston since the mid 80s. He has played and recorded with the likes of American Beauties, Vapors of Morphine, Kevin Connolly, Mule Variations, The Ghost Truckers, Sarah Mendelsohn, and fills in with many other bands. A graduate of Berklee College of Music with a degree in Music Production and Engineering, Allison has worked as a Soundware Engineer for Kurzweil Music Systems and many other sound design companies. As a keyboard programmer and sound designer, he has worked for Peter Gabriel on seven tours, and has worked with the artist in the studio. Allison also works as a session drummer, owns and operates his own home recording studio where he records and mixes projects for singer/songwriters, and composes for film and TV. He lives in Melrose with his wife and son, and their cat Luca and dog Arlo.
Jeff Robinson St. Louis, Missouri native Jeff Robinson, saxophonist, composer, radio disc jockey, actor, director, playwright, and poet, Jeff started the band the Jeff Robinson Trio in 1995 as a bridge between music and theatre. The “Trio” accompanied the poets at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, MA, and had a weekly residency lasting more than 20 years. The Jeff Robinson Trio has performed with some of the best poets in the United States of America, including Gil Scott Heron, Patricia Smith, Amiri Baraka, and Quincy Troupe, amongst thousands more. He is also a radio host at WCRB 99.5 FM Classical Radio Boston. Jeff is an alumnus of Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, where he studied with saxophonists Bill Pierce and George Garzone. He studied theater with Oleg Tabakov, Artistic Director of the legendary Moscow Art Theatre Company, and Shakespeare scholar Kristin Linklater. Jeff’s one-person show about jazz legend Charlie “Bird” Parker entitled “Live Bird” has appeared off-Broadway and in Charlie Parker’s hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. “I knew Charlie as a man, not simply a musical genius. Jeff portrays the Charlie I knew.” – Widow Doris Parker