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credit: El Rey - based on a photo by David Meiland
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credit: El Rey - based on a photo by David Meiland
Kurt Ribak Trio CDs
Our second CD, titled "more,
" is at all the same locations as the first CD. The new CD has gotten repeated airplay on
KCSM 91.1 FM and KRKD 103.3 FM.
Downloads
You can download the Kurt Ribak Trio
recordings at iTunes
and emusic.com,
as well as elsewhere. We've been getting some attention at emusic - the
recording is rated four out of five stars. You can do a trial
membership for cheap, and recordings are way cheaper to download at
emusic than with iTunes. The new recording is
available for sale at iTunes, emusic, and elsewhere.
Live downloads
You can go to BayTaper.com
or http://mefeedia.com/feeds/21779/
to download our July 2, 2006 show at the Fillmore Jazz Festival. There
are also some excellent photos there. The show
is rated five stars out of five.
Click on the covers above to go to the CDBaby website, where the recordings are for sale.
Sunday,
April 27, 7 PM to 10:30 PM - and the last Sunday of every
month
Kurt Ribak Trio - Original Jazz plus classic Blues and
R&B
The Riptide
http://www.riptidesf.com
3639 Taraval @ 47th Ave.
San Francisco, CA
No Cover
Wednesday, April
30, 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Kurt Ribak Trio - Original
jazz
Jupiter
2181 Shattuck Avenue (at Center Street), Berkeley,
across from the Berkeley main BART station
510-THE-TAPS for directions
510-THE-ROCK for information on music and specials
http://www.jupiterbeer.com
No cover
21 and over
This is always a fun place to play. Jupiter is a very popular place - they've got an excellent beer selection, food, a patio area, and lots of attractive twentysomethings. It's near the UC campus and is easily accessible by BART. Have some beer and food, people watch or hang out with friends, and listen to us play. We will be playing in the patio barring inclement weather.
Greg Sankovich will be on keyboards, with Matt Willis on drums.Saturday, May 3
- 8 PM to
11:15 PM
Kurt Ribak Quartet - Original
jazz
Downtown Restaurant
http://www.downtownrestaurant.com
2102 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 649-3810
Sunday, May 4,
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM - and the first Sunday of every month
Kurt Ribak Trio -
Original jazz
Chaya Brasserie
http://www.thechaya.com/
location
& info
132 The Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 777-8688
Chaya is known for its "Japanese-inspired French cuisine." The food and service are outstanding, they have some very nice wines, and they have some great views of the Bay Bridge.
Greg Sankovich will be on keyboards, with Matt Willis on drums. These guys get a great musical dialog going.
NOTE: There is a change of managers handling music at Chaya. We don't know whether we will have a gig there after June. As a result, this would be a really good time to come see us at Chaya!
Chaya has a specially
priced menu at the bar while we are playing, so you can drink and dine
on a smaller budget than Chaya normally requires. I've had
friends comment that the happy
hour arrangement is one of the best values in the city.
Beware, though
- you sit in the dining room area, it's a lot more expensive.
This gig is very accessible by public transit. It is near the F Market streetcar line (It's a block and a half away from Market) and the Embarcadero BART station. It is also very close to the Ferry Building. The ferry can be a wonderful way to get to and from San Francisco. I strongly encourage people to use any of these means for getting to the gig. For those of you in the East Bay, this is a very easy gig to get to by public transit. Besides, this way you don't need to worry so much about having a few drinks!
Saturday, May 17,
9:30 PM to 12:30 AM
Kurt Ribak Quartet -
original jazz
The Albatross
1822 San Pablo Avenue (two blocks north of University, west side of the
street)
Berkeley, CA 94710
510-843-2473 (510-THE-BIRD)
http://www.albatrosspub.com/
21 and over
$5.00 Cover charge
The Albatross (aka The Bird) has been around since 1964. Current owners Wendy Halambeck and Linda Zsilavetz did a wonderful job of revitalizing the place without losing the charm it had.
There are lots of board games available, lots of room for darts, a nice fireplace in the back, and food. It's a very friendly, comfortable place. They now have a hard liquor license, so it is a great place to have a single malt scotch or the like.
Band personnel is Greg Sankovich on keyboards, Rob Hart on drums and Lincoln Adler on saxophones.Saturday, May 24,
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM - note this is a SATURDAY
appearance at Chaya - also note later hours.
Kurt Ribak Trio -
Original jazz
Chaya Brasserie
http://www.thechaya.com/
location
& info
132 The Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 777-8688
Chaya is known for its "Japanese-inspired French cuisine." The food and service are outstanding, they have some very nice wines, and they have some great views of the Bay Bridge.
Fred Harris will be on keyboards, with Rob Hart on drums. Fred and I go way back, to the days of being the house band at Club Deluxe. Fred is a monster keyboardist and is a great guy.
NOTE: There is a change of managers handling music at Chaya. We don't know whether we will have a gig there after June. As a result, this would be a really good time to come to Chaya!
Chaya has a specially
priced menu at the bar while we are playing, so you can drink and dine
on a smaller budget than Chaya normally requires. I've had
friends comment that the happy
hour arrangement is one of the best values in the city.
Beware, though
- you sit in the dining room area, it's a lot more expensive.
This gig is very accessible by public transit. It is near the F Market streetcar line (It's a block and a half away from Market) and the Embarcadero BART station. It is also very close to the Ferry Building. The ferry can be a wonderful way to get to and from San Francisco. For those of you in the East Bay, this is a very easy gig to get to by public transit. Besides, this way you don't need to worry so much about having a few drinks!
Sunday,
May 25, 7 PM to 10:30 PM - and the last Sunday of every
month
Kurt Ribak Trio - Original Jazz plus classic Blues and
R&B
The Riptide
http://www.riptidesf.com
3639 Taraval @ 47th Ave.
San Francisco, CA
No Cover
Wednesday, May 28, 6:00 to 9:00 PM - and the
last Wednesday of every month
Kurt Ribak Trio - Original
jazz
Cato's Ale House
http://www.mrcato.com/
3891 Piedmont Ave., Oakland, CA
510-655-3349
all ages, no cover
We
play the last Wednesday of every month. Cato's is a beer and wine place
with a lot of good bar
grub as well. Their beer selection is excellent, and you can bring your
kids if you wish. Dave Casini is on vibes with Hal Richards
on woodwinds.
Thursday, May 29,
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Kurt Ribak Trio -
original jazz
Napa Downtown Association's "Chef's Market Concert Series"
First Street Bridge
Napa, CA
General
info
Directions
This will be a trio gig
with Greg Sankovich on keyboards and TBA. It should be fun to
be playing in Napa. I've been wanting to perform more in
the wine country - this will be a good opportunity.
"One of the perks of being an
unemployed musician is that you get to play much less bad
music."
- Jack Daney
Quotes about Kurt - > "Hugging Kurt is a like a big bear with no hair" - Monica, age 5, to her father
Kurt as a sideman - aka - Other People's Music
Sheilani Alix
Sheilani Alix often appears with us, and she often hires me
and Greg Sankovich to back her. She does a killer version of
the Curtis Mayfield song "People
Get Ready."
Here's Sheilani singing "The Nearness of You."
Lorna K
I have played with Lorna K for over a
decade - she hasn't been playing
out much lately but has been working on a CD project - "Lorna
K and the
Dunes." The recording features her take on songs by Brian
Wilson of the
Beach Boys as well as some radical reinterpretations of songs including
Duke
Ellington's "What Am I Here For."
Lorna appeared at The Plush Room in the York Hotel in San Francisco last December in one of the final events before the venue closes. The instrumentalists on the recording and on the Plush Room date were Greg Sankovich on piano and Hammond Organ, Kurt Ribak on upright bass, Tom Griesser on clarinet and saxophone, and Bryan Bowman on drums.
Alex Walsh's CD "Light Another Candle" is pop - a lot of it sounds like Mott the Hoople meets the Replacements to me. This was recorded in 2003. I play electric bass and upright on it.
Brian Schindele's CD The Moral is original straightahead jazz. I like it - the title tune kicks off the CD with some great drumming. This CD features Brian, drummer Tim Vaughan, Sheldon Brown on tenor sax, Tom Griesser playing sax on one track, Dave Scott on trumpet, cornet, and flugelhorn, Larry Leight on trombone, and Connie Champagne as featured guest vocalist on a ballad track.
I regularly played with Stephen Bigger at Moraga Valley Presbyterian Church, where he was music director. "Lights on the Horizon" is a CD of his contemporary Christian songwriting. Stephen sings lead on a number of the tunes, but he also features Amy Beth Nickelson and Katie O'Gorman, two very talented young members of the congregation at Moraga Valley.
T-shirts
We have a few Kurt Ribak Trio
t-shirts remaining. These are a seven-color print on Hanes Beefy-T
shirts, so these are a
quality product. These echo the artwork of the first CD. They are
black,
with the three-colored hand on the front and the words "Kurt Ribak
Trio"
on the back. They come in women's sizes and cut from small to L and
men's
from small to medium. e-mail me at: kurt@ribak.com
if you would like to buy a shirt, or catch up with me at a gig. Check
them out here. Drummer Tim Solook and his wife Lisa are
modeling them at our Fillmore Jazz Festival gig.
Bay Area Jazz Resources
Groove Yard Record Store and
Newsletter
Rick Ballard operates the Groove Yard at 5555 Claremont in
Oakland. It's between the Rockridge and Temescal districts. It's a
great jazz record store for used vinyl and new and used CDs by local as
well as national
and international artists. Rick has an e-mail newsletter. E-mail him at
groove2@earthlink.net
and request to be added and be up on the concerts, CDs, etc.
KCSM - FM Radio and Jazz Datebook
You can always check out who's playing in the Bay Area with KCSM-FM's Jazz
Datebook.
You can listen to KCSM-FM at 91.1 FM. They are 24 hours jazz, no commercials. They are a huge contributor to the vitality of the Bay Area jazz scene. You can listen online at http://www.kcsm.org/jazz91/listen.php
We're like, all up in literature and stuff
Mark Coggins is the author of the August Riordan series of mystery novels. The August Riordan character is a wise-cracking tough guy PI who is also a jazz bassist.
I got to know Coggins a while ago and he asked if he could use some of my music for a KQED podcast of "Candy from Strangers", the third book in the August Riordan series. William P. Arney of the Noir City Film Festival reads the first chapter with my music accompanying the story - specifically, "Prelude to a B Movie" and "Pseudoafrocubanismo," which appeared on the Kurt Ribak Trio debut CD.
The podcast is permanently at the following location: http://www.kqed.org/arts/writersblock/episode.jsp?id=13480
iTunes users can access The Writers' Block via the following URL: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=82023860
Pulp Fiction
Also check out the Word for Word
Theater Company performance of "Angel Face". This is a stage
setting of a Cornell Woolrich story that originally appeared in the
classic pulp magazine Black Mask. Black
Mask featured many of the best noir writers including Dashiell Hammett
and Raymond Chandler.
The Writers' Block is also distributed through NPR here: http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=5593982
To go directly to the
audio, use either of these:
stream: http://www.kqed.org/.stream/real/topics/arts/writers-block/0701-coggins-bloc
k.rm.ram or
download: http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/151/510076/7092336/
KQED_7092336.mp3
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Music Videos - Old and Not So...
The
Mighty Boosh - Jazz Trance - Courtesy of the
BBC - link sent by
Dave Casini - thanks!
see... banjo does get the ladies all hot and bothered - check out this Eddie Peabody video
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These guys were my favorite rock 'n roll band back in the day
See
How We Are
The one and only... The
Cramps! These guys have some
brilliant videos.
Ultra Twist
- it's warped and dumb but I love it!
Like
a Bad Girl Should
Garbageman
Put Down
the Duckie - Sesame Street
Rubber
Ducky - Sesame Street
Superstition
- a burning version by Stevie Wonder on Sesame Street
Other videos
Hello Cthulhu is what happens when you cross Hello Kitty with H.P. Lovecraft, with a special holiday greeting from Hello Cthulhu.
Jack Sheldon's "Jazz Christmas" is a seasonal gem.And here is comic Rob Paravonian's rant about Pachelbel's Canon in D - great stuff if like me you are deeply sick of Pachelbel's Canon. Bush Pilot - thanks to my pal David Javelosa for forwarding this to me.
Japanese War Tubas and other sonic oddities....
My Bald Head
Here we have a website with a directory of musicians with bald/shaved
heads. takeitfromthehead.com
The site is maintained by Pete Levin, keyboardist for the late Gil
Evans, Paul Simon, Jimmy Giuffre, Annie Lennox, Tony Levin Band, Lenny
White and the brother of the famous bassist (also bald) Tony Levin.
Pete Levin contacted me and asked if I would like to be on the site, so
there I am, right up there with the pop singer Seal, the thrash-metal
guitarist Kerry King of Slayer, and Dixieland clarinetist Pete Fountain.
Click on the covers above to go to the CDBaby website, where the recordings are for sale.
photo: Susan Bigger
photo: Mark Thomas
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