Jeff Denson Secret World Quintet at Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists

Jazz in the Neighborhood is proud to present Jeff Denson's Secret World Quintet at the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Hall (1924 Cedar St.) in Berkeley. Featuring Jeff on bass, Erik Jekabson on trumpet, Paul Hanson on bassoon, Joshua White on piano, and Jon Arkin on drums, the music of Jeff Denson’s Secret World pushes through the boundaries of conventions in music. By inventively mixing the world of composed and improvised music, Jeff Denson creates a unique language of his own, where intoxicating melodies and rhythms transport the listener away to unknown lands where vivid hues of tone paints the aural canvas of the inner ear. The music is steeped in the jazz tradition, but diverges from the jazz tradition and creates its unique fingerprint in the handling of the juxtaposition of the composed and improvised material, the roles and uses of the instruments within the compositions, its musical forms and the unmistakably memorable melodic language of Jeff Denson....

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Jazz in the Neighborhood is proud to present Jeff Denson's Secret World Quintet at the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Hall (1924 Cedar St.) in Berkeley. Featuring Jeff on bass, Erik Jekabson on trumpet, Paul Hanson on bassoon, Joshua White on piano, and Jon Arkin on drums, the music of Jeff Denson’s Secret World pushes through the boundaries of conventions in music. By inventively mixing the world of composed and improvised music, Jeff Denson creates a unique language of his own, where intoxicating melodies and rhythms transport the listener away to unknown lands where vivid hues of tone paints the aural canvas of the inner ear. The music is steeped in the jazz tradition, but diverges from the jazz tradition and creates its unique fingerprint in the handling of the juxtaposition of the composed and improvised material, the roles and uses of the instruments within the compositions, its musical forms and the unmistakably memorable melodic language of Jeff Denson.

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