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   Pasache Music presents Jazz Fridays at The Copa  Jan. 30th.9:00 P.M.      Richie Barshay Roundtable Richie Barshay, percussionist, most noted as a member of the Herbie Hancock Quartet since 2003, has established himself as a prominent musical voice of his generation. Regarded as "a player to watch" by JazzTimes magazine, he maintains a busy international schedule with some of today's top artists including Hancock, The Klezmatics, Kenny Werner and Chick Corea among others. In September of 2004 he was named an American Musical Envoy by the U.S. State Department, along with the renowned Latin-Jazz ensemble Insight. Now based in New York City after 5 years on the Boston music scene, Richie began playing Jazz and Afro-Latin music during his youth and has expanded his focus to Indian rhythmic concepts and tabla, inspiring his 2005 recording debut "Homework" and the launching of his new band, The Richie Barshay Project.Barshay RountableCopacabana Brazilian Steakhouse29 N. Main St. Port Chester, NY 10573

   Pasache Music presentsJazz Fridays at The Copa Jan. 23rd. 9:00 P.M. Adam NiewoodJazz Ensemble
Copacabana Brazilian Steakhouse29 N. Main St. Port Chester, NY 10573

    Pasache Music presentsJazz Fridays at The Copa 
January 16th. All Friday Shows  Now Start At 9:00 P.M.Clay Ross' Matuto Featuring:  Edward Pérez (Bass)Richie Barshay (Drums)

 

 

 

Copacabana Brazilian Steakhouse
29  N. Main Street.  Port Chester, NY 10573

(914) 939-6894

 

 

Brooklyn based guitarist and composer Clay Ross is carving a unique niche for himself on the international music scene. His passion for music has taken him far from his South Carolina Roots and lead him to embrace influences from around the world. He has toured extensively as a U.S. Jazz Ambassador and as a member of Cyro Baptista’s world renowned percussion ensemble “Beat the Donkey.” With his new group, “Matuto,” Clay mixes the best of bluegrass and baiao for a sound like a carnival in the Appalachian mountains.

After studying classical composition at the College of Charleston, Clay became an integral part of the South Carolina jazz scene. Mixing elements of rock, blues, bluegrass, and funk, his original groups were highly praised in the local press and popular on the regional club circuit. With his bands “Otus,” “Gradual Lean,” and “Mickey Baker Project,” Clay developed his chops and shared the stage with national acts passing through.

After a brief move to Paris, and a few memorable performances in the Pigalle Squats, Clay moved to NYC in 2002. There, he honed his skills with the city’s most amazing young talents. He recorded and released the jazz quartet album “The Random Puller,” which featured nine original compositions.  The album met with critical praise and won Ross invitations to perform internationally at clubs and concert halls in Rio De Janeiro, Istanbul, and Milan. It also helped him to secure regular performances at established NYC venues such as 55bar, Barbes, The Bar Next Door, and The Stone.

Shortly after arriving in NYC, Clay began exploring an increasing love for Brazilian Music. In 2004 he co-founded the “Agora Quartet,” a group that combines jazz and northeastern Brazilian rhythms. The group won the prestigious title of Latin Jazz Ambassadors through Lincoln Center and the U.S. State Department and embarked on a U.S. sponsored tour through Macedonia, Kosovo, Greece, and Turkey. Based on the success of these tours, Clay was invited to return, not once, but twice, and used these opportunities to embrace the rich musical influences of the Balkans.

In 2005, Clay was invited to become a full time member of Cyro Baptista’s “Beat the Donkey,” and received critical praise for performances at major concert halls and music festivals around the world.

In 2007, Clay joined “Nation Beat,” at the Porto Musical Festival During Carnival in Recife, Brazil. There, he participated in an unprecedented cultural exchange between Nation Beat and the traditional “maracatu” percussion group Estrella Brillante.  Clay is a featured guest on Nation Beat’s ground-breaking new album “Legends of the Preacher” (modiba), and is now helping to define a sound that combines Northeastern Brazilian Rhythms and American Folk.

After traveling in Brazil, Clay returned with a pan-american perspective on his country roots. “Matuto” is Brazilian slang for Country Bumpkin. It’s also the name of Clay Ross’ new Album and Band. It’s where exotic Brazilian percussion instruments commingle with blues drenched vocals and country fiddle tunes.  It’s a sound you may recognize, but like nothing you’ve ever heard before.

 

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Pasache  Music presents                          
Jazz  Fridays

at

The Copa

 Copacabana Brazilian Steakhouse

29 N. Main St. Port Chester, NY 10598

Reservations  (914) 939 6894

December 19th.

Seating starts at

10:00 P.M. 

Edward Pérez Quartet

Contemporary Jazz, World Jazz  and Afro Peruvian Jazz

Hailed by Jazz Times magazine for his “great dexterity,” and cited by critic Thomas Conrad for his musicality, New York bassist and composer Edward Perez is sought by fellow musicians for his creativity and experience in a great diversity of musical styles. In addition to his work with his own jazz quintet and his role as musical director of the afro-Peruvian band, Alcatraz, Perez’s bass lines have been the choice of a stunning array of bandleaders including jazz vocal legend Mark Murphy, latin-jazz Grammy nominees Hector Martignon and Jane Bunnett, Colombian singer Lucia Pulido, trumpet virtuoso Joe Burgstaller of the Canadian Brass, and a host of modern jazz musicians including Martin Bejerano, Anat Cohen, Javier Vercher, Misha Piatigorsky, and Gilad Hekselman.

December 12th.

Seating starts at

John Ellis grew up with a love of baseball, dewberry cobbler, and turkey and stuffing.  Raised in rural tobacco country in North Carolina, he was more familiar with the sounds of hunting rifles and the dangers of snapping turtles than he was with the sounds and dangers of jazz.  He was a pretty unlikely candidate for a career in music at all, as a matter of fact, but somewhere between singing hymns in his father’s church, fooling around with Scott Joplin Rags on the piano, and marching in the high school band, he began to realize that music was the only thing he really wanted to do. 

As a sophomore in high school he began his serious study of music at the North Carolina School of the Arts, where his now famous brother, David Ellis, had studied a couple years earlier in the Fine Arts department.  There, John apprenticed with the world-renowned saxophonist James Houlik, who is still one of his most important mentors.  After four years at NCSA, John moved to New Orleans, hoping to begin a serious study of jazz. 

He spent one year at the University of New Orleans under the direction of legendary jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis, and soon after, John joined Mr. Marsalis’s band, traveling to promote the record “Whistle Stop” and performing at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. 

His jazz education then took him out of the classroom and onto road, as John traveled to Singapore for three months to play with pianist Jeremy Montiero, who was opening a jazz club there.  Soon after his return, John was chosen to be in one of seven duos to perform in the inaugural year of the Jazz Ambassadors program, sponsored by the USIA and The Kennedy Center. He traveled as a cultural ambassador to South Africa, Namibia, Swaziland, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, and Kenya with guitarist Todd Duke.

John returned to New Orleans and began performing with his own group there, releasing his debut record entitled, “Language of Love” in 1996.  He was also selected that same year to be one of 13 semi-finalists in the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition. Blown away by the level of the other saxophonists John met there, he decided to move to New York to continue his education.  He attended the New School jazz program from ’97 through ’99, studying with George Garzone, Reggie Workman, and Joe Chambers among many others. 

Upon John’s graduation in ’99, he was immediately asked to return to New Orleans for a year to teach saxophone at Loyola University while Tony Dagradi was away on sabbatical.  He quickly reintegrated himself into the scene in New Orleans, playing and recording albums with the bands of both Jason Marsalis and Roland Guerin.  Not wanting to stray to long from New York however, John returned shortly after the school year ended, and before the year was out he had begun playing and traveling with 8-string guitar wizard Charlie Hunter and with R&B sensation Bilal Oliver.  He also released his next album, “Roots, Branches, and Leaves”, which explores the source of John’s musical identity through arrangements of folk songs sung to him in his childhood.  It features Nicholas Payton, Jason Marsalis, Roland Guerin, Aaron Goldberg, and Bilal, and it was released on the Spanish label Fresh Sound / New Talent

From December of 1999 to May of 2006, John traveled and recorded with several incarnations of Charlie Hunter’s groups, appearing on four of Charlie’s albums, “Songs From The Analog Playground”, “Right Now Move”, “Friends Seen And Unseen”, and “Copperopolis”.  Through Charlie’s tours and recordings John had the chance to work with a wide variety of musicians including Norah Jones, Mos Def, Theryl DeClouet, Kurt Elling, Steven Chopek, Chris Lovejoy, Jans Ingber, Dean Bowman, Curtis Fowlkes, Johnny Vidakovich, Terreon Gully, Gregoire Maret, Alan Ferber, Ron Miles, Josh Roseman, Sam Newsome, and Derrek Phillips.  By the end of his time with Charlie, John was playing tenor saxophone, melodica, bass clarinet, and Wurlitzer in the band.  He also made time to reenter the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition in 2002, where this time he finished in second place.

In February of 2005 as John was ending his tenure with Charlie, he released his third album as a leader called “One Foot in the Swamp”.  This record featured Nicholas Payton, John Scofield, Aaron Goldberg, Jason Marsalis, Roland Guerin, and Gregoire Maret, and it was his first nationally distributed record, appearing on the Hyena record label.  When John left Charlie’s band in May of ’06, his departure corresponded with his second release for Hyena called “By A Thread”, which featured Mike Moreno, Terreon Gully, Reuben Rogers, and Aaron Goldberg.  Both records were met with critical acclaim, and John has been touring to support these projects for the last several years.

Be on the lookout for John’s forthcoming release, “Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow” which features Jason Marsalis, Gary Versace, and Matt Perrine.  It should be out sometime in late 2007 or early 2008.

One of the most exciting tenor saxophone players on the current jazz scene, the world is going to hear a great deal more from John Ellis. As both a composer and a musician, Ellis is part of a fresh vanguard of jazz players carrying the music forward to a new generation of jazz fans.

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29  N. Main Street.  Port Chester, NY 10573

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