Mandala - The Music of Keith Jarrett





While pianist Keith Jarrett is known primarily for his brilliant reinventions of standards, he is also a prolific composer with a large body of original work, much of it composed for the two quartets he led in the 1970's, the "American" quartet with Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian, and the "European" quartet with Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson, and Jon Christensen. Mandala approaches these Jarrett originals with deep respect for the seminal pianist’s ability to thread staggeringly complex lines with a sublime sense of simplicity.



Composer and woodwind multi-instrumentalist Sheldon Brown has been involved in the San Francisco Bay Area creative music scene for over 20 years. In June of 2014 he premiered his extended composition "Blood of the Air" at the 32nd Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival.

Since 1994 he has led Sheldon Brown Group, which performs his own compositions, and he recently formed Sheldon Brown Quintet, which performs the music of Herbie Nichols, and Distant Intervals, based on poetic speech melodies.

The Sheldon Brown Group has performed several times at Yoshiʼs, and as part of the San Francisco Jazz Festivalʼs Summer in the City series.

Brown has performed with Cuban pianist Omar Sosa, recorded on 5 of Sosaʼs albums, and played with him at many famous venues, such as The North Sea Jazz Festival in Den Haag, New Morning in Paris, and Tribute to the Love Generation in Tokyo.

Brown performs with many groups in the Bay Area, including: Electric Squeezebox Orchestra, Clarinet Thing, Darren Johnston Quintet, Goldberg/Brown/Anderson, Ian Carey Quintet + 1, Club Foot Orchestra, Laurie Antonioli, Azesu (featuring Orestes Vilato), Mike Pattonʼs Mondo Cane, Admiral Ted Brinkley's Large Group, and the Aaron Germain Quartet.

Sheldon appeared here previously with Hemispheres, Mandala, Clarinet Thing, Ratzo Harris, Michael Wilcox, Ian Carey, Darren Johnston, Fred Randolph, Alon Nechushtan, the Sheldon Brown Quintet, and the Sheldon Brown Group.



Born and raised in Buffalo, New York, Matt Clark holds a BFA in Jazz Studies from Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Highly regarded as a pianist and arranger, he has performed and/or recorded with such jazz icons as Bobby Hutcherson, Benny Golson, Eddie Marshall, Jon Faddis, David “Fathead” Newman, Gene Bertoncini, Joshua Redman, and Teddy Edwards, as well as practically everyone who appeared at Jazz at Pearl's in it's heyday.

He was here previously with Larry Schneider, Steve Heckman, Noel Jewkes, Mitch Marcus, Mandala, Sheldon Brown, Harvey Wainapel, Karen & Norbert Stachel, and the Robb Fisher - Matt Clark Trio.



Michael Wilcox, 6 string electric bass.

Michael has performed with Richie Cole, the Fifth Dimension, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Oakland Eastbay Symphony, Eddie Duran, Jules Broussard, Tom Coster, and Larry Schneider. He was an Adjunct Faculty member in the Jazz Department at San Jose State University for five years (1989-1994), and also taught extensively at the Jazzschool in Berkeley.

He has appeared at Chez Hanny with the Sheldon Brown Group, Mandala, Lee Waterman and Jazz Caliente, and the Michael Wilcox Trio.



Drummer and composer Bryan Bowman has performed with Eric Reed, Mary Stallings, Matt Penman, Paul McCandless, Donald “Duck” Bailey, Ratzo Harris, Matt Clark, Art Hirahara, Mark Levine, Larry Vuckovich, Noel Jewkes, Sam Bevan, Peter Horvath, Keith Saunders, Peter Barshay, John Wiitala, Gary Brown, Jeff Chambers, Bob Kenmotsu, Sheldon Brown, Jeff Massanari, Randy Vincent, Grant Levin, Ben Stolorow, Leonard Thompson, Scott Foster, Fred Randolph, Michael Wilcox, Adam Shulman, John Wiitala, Hafez Modirzadeh, Dean Reilly, Masaru Koga, Harvey Wainapel, Steve Heckman, Mike Abraham, Dave Creamer, and John Shifflet.

Bryan studied music at The Berklee College of Music in Boston, CSU Long Beach, CSU Chico, and the Ali Akbar College of Music.

His CD "Like Minds", was released in 2015.

He appeared here previously with Steve Lockwood, Michael Wilcox, Mandala, Homespun Trio, Noel Jewkes, Charlie McCarthy, Harvey Wainapel, and the Bryan Bowman Quintet.

http://www.bryanlbowman.com/



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