For Immediate Release: Contact: David Kuehn, Executive Director Cotuit Center for the Arts Phone: (508) 428-0669 Email: [email protected]Website: ArtsOnTheCape.org Rhythm Future Quartet at Cotuit Center for the Arts Cotuit Center for the Arts presents the Rhythm Future Quartet, on Friday, September 16, at 7:30 PM. The Rhythm Future Quartet performs dynamic and fiery arrangements of traditional gypsy jazz, gypsy jazz-influenced jazz standards and world music, and original compositions. Violinist Jason Anick and guitarist Olli Soikkeli, the front men and lead soloists for the group, are each virtuoso players in his own right. Anick has been praised as “easily one of the best jazz violinists of his generation,” and a composer whose “compositional voice is as distinctive as his virtuoso playing.” The Boston Globe praised Anick as having “a compositional voice as distinctive as his virtuoso playing.” An instructor at Berklee College of Music, Anick has shared the stage with an array of artists including Grammy award winning guitarist John Jorgenson, Stevie Wonder, The Jim Kweskin Jug Band, and Tommy Emmanuel. The Wall Street Journal described Soikkeli as “a riveting Finnish guitarist who combines astonishing dexterity and speed with pure soul in a way that places him among the worthiest current day successors to the legacy of the great Django.” He recently made the move from Scandinavia to New York City, where he quickly became a top call guitarist in the bustling Brooklyn jazz scene. He has performed alongside rising star Cyrille Aimee, world-renowned Gypsy guitarist Stochelo Rosenberg, Bucky Pizzarelli, and many others. Gypsy jazz was developed by Romani guitarist and composer Jean “Django” Reinhardt in France in the 1930s and ‘40s. It combines a
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For Immediate Release:Contact: David Kuehn, Executive DirectorCotuit Center for the ArtsPhone: (508) 428-0669Email: [email protected]: ArtsOnTheCape.org
Rhythm Future Quartet at Cotuit Center for the Arts
Cotuit Center for the Arts presents the Rhythm Future Quartet, on Friday, September 16, at 7:30 PM.
The Rhythm Future Quartet performs dynamic and fiery arrangements of traditional gypsy jazz, gypsy jazz-influenced jazz standards and world music, and original compositions. Violinist Jason Anick and guitarist Olli Soikkeli, the front men and lead soloists for the group, are each virtuoso players in his own right.
Anick has been praised as “easily one of the best jazz violinists of his generation,” and a composer whose “compositional voice is as distinctive as his virtuoso playing.” The Boston Globe praised Anick as having “a compositional voice as distinctive as his virtuoso playing.” An instructor at Berklee College of Music, Anick has shared the stage with an array of artists including Grammy award winning guitarist John Jorgenson, Stevie Wonder, The Jim Kweskin Jug Band, and Tommy Emmanuel.
The Wall Street Journal described Soikkeli as “a riveting Finnish guitarist who combines astonishing dexterity and speed with pure soul in a way that places him among the worthiest current day successors to the legacy of the great Django.” He recently made the move from Scandinavia to New York City, where he quickly became a top call guitarist in the bustling Brooklyn jazz scene. He has performed alongside rising star Cyrille Aimee, world-renowned Gypsy guitarist Stochelo Rosenberg, Bucky Pizzarelli, and many others.
Gypsy jazz was developed by Romani guitarist and composer Jean “Django” Reinhardt in France in the 1930s and ‘40s. It combines a dark, chromatic gypsy flavor with swing articulation, with rhythm guitar taking the place of drums. The quartet is named after the Reinhardt tune of the same name. “It was one of his more quirky and harmonically interesting pieces, very wild and outside of what was going on,” said Anick. The name also relates to the youth of the players and the way they are pushing the style of the music into the future, much as Django himself did, giving gypsy jazz their own interpretation.
“What inspires us is the acoustic instrumentation, the energy, the rhythmic drive, and the sound,” said Anick. “We play traditional gypsy jazz, as well as some foot-tapping, very danceable swing music, Latin music, and our own contemporary gypsy jazz style.”
Max O’Rourke, who plays second guitar, was the winner of the 2015 Saga Award from DjangoFest Northwest, and at 19 has already toured/recorded with many of the top American Gypsy Jazz musicians including John Jorgenson and Gonzalo Bergara. Greg Loughman, who plays bass is a top
call bassist in Boston and has been heard with such luminaries as Sheila Jordan, Curtis Fuller, and George Garzone.
The band recently released their second album, “Travels,” which features group originals that build on musical sources from outside the conventional Gypsy jazz terrain. “Travels” reflects both the accumulated knowledge garnered from the group’s worldwide touring as well as the international influences that inspired new rhythmic and harmonic possibilities within their compositions and arrangements.
Tickets are $28, $25 for seniors and veterans, and $22 for members. Premium tables with wine are available, as well as dinner/show packages with Villagio at the Regatta. Cotuit Center for the Arts is at 4404 Route 28 in Cotuit. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit artsonthecape.org or call 508-428-0669.
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What: Rhythm Future Quartet
Where: Cotuit Center for the Arts, 4404 Route 28, Cotuit
When: Friday, September 16, 7:30 PM
Admission:$28, $25 for seniors and veterans, and $22 for members. A dinner/show package with Villagio at the Regatta is available.
