photo by Clifton Romig
photo by Clifton Romig
The newest record, "onward"
features Greg
Sankovich, Ross
Wilson, Lincoln
Adler, Russ
Gold, Alan Hall, Michaelle Goerlitz, Myles Boisen, and Kurt.
It's our best record yet. It was recorded at Fantasy Studios in
Berkeley by Adam Muñoz
and produced by Greg, Lincoln, and Kurt.
Purchase: You
can buy Kurt
Ribak's CDs, downloads, etc. online on iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon
and all the other usual online sources.
Try this Songwhip
link for streams and downloads of the Kurt Ribak
recordings, and this other
Songwhip link for recordings of the Kurt
Ribak Trio.
Stores that carry our CDs include Bird
& Beckett Books & Records, 653
Chenery St., San Francisco, and Down Home Music, 10341
San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito, CA.
Streaming: You can also stream us on
Spotify, Apple Music and Pandora, as well as other
sources. Try this Songwhip
link for streams and downloads of the Kurt Ribak
recordings, and this other
Songwhip link for recordings of the Kurt
Ribak Trio.
My friend Randy Odell needs
help.
I've played with Randy for
over 30 years. He's a favorite drummer
of mine, and one of my favorite people.
Here's what's happening, in Randy's own
words:
"I've had a very swollen knee and ever increasing pain for a couple of weeks, and now can barely walk with a cane. I’m pretty much bedridden. I made it to an urgent care clinic and it’s severe Osteoarthritis, bone on bone. I'm exploring my options, which include knee replacement. Yikes.
I've had to sub out all my gigs for now and don't really know when I'll be able to play drums again. But I will.
Meanwhile, if of interest:
My friend Julie Ann Accornero also needs support
SFJAZZ wrote some
really nice stuff about my band:
“Joyous,
grooving, bluesy, sophisticated and
masterful" could all be accurately use to
describe bassist and composer Kurt Ribak’s
music, but perhaps an assessment is best
left to the man himself, who calls his
rollicking mix of bebop sophistication and
body-moving grooves “Charles Mingus meets
The Meters.” Ribak brings his superb
working quartet, performing music from
their most recent album "Onward."
A Berkeley
native, Ribak parlayed his formative musical
experiences as a cellist and member of the San
Francisco Boys Chorus into a passion for the bass,
studying at Cal Berkeley and Boston’s Berklee
College of Music before returning to the East Bay
and establishing a well-deserved reputation as one
of the most respected creative forces on the
scene. At the top of his creative game, Ribak
suffered a devastating injury in a 2012 car
accident that shattered his left arm and led to a
dozen surgeries, leaving the bassist’s musical
future in serious doubt. Through extensive
physical rehab and endless persistence, Ribak
re-learned to play and eventually returned to the
bandstand, and it is this hard-won struggle to
reclaim his life and career that led to Onward,
his most personal statement to date. With a
renewed sense of urgency and the accompaniment of
his telepathic quartet, including saxophonist
Lincoln Adler and keyboardist Greg Sankovich, Kurt
Ribak is back for the long haul."
There's also a blog post SFJAZZ asked me to write about my injury and recovery here: https://www.sfjazz.org/onthecorner/kurt-ribak-interview/.
videos - we have a
YouTube
Channel
Haven't seen us
before and want to see if it's your
thing? Or revisit some of our
shows? Check out our YouTube channel,
or watch the selected videos below. The
Youtube
Channel features a bunch
of performances from our Freight & Salvage
shows and a Yoshi's show.
Curious what you missed last
time at The Freight & Salvage? Want
another chance to see last year's show?
Check out our YouTube
channel. It features a bunch of
performances from our Freight &
Salvage show last year.
interviews
of Kurt Ribak
These video interviews were made by Lincoln Adler - www.LincolnAdler.com.
Lincoln plays with us often and is the saxophonist of Times 4, the
jazz-funk group Greg
Sankovich also plays in.
Kurt's ability to take you on a journey
from the deepest waters of the Caribbean to the funky
alleys of the urban jungle in one listening makes him
a truly gifted original in my book." -
Chris Cortez, KCSM FM announcer
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