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The new 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.
You can buy Kurt Ribak's CDs,
downloads, etc. online at CDBaby, on iTunes and all the other
usual online sources, at The
Groove Yard in Oakland at 5555 Claremont in Oakland, at Bird & Beckett Books & Records,
653 Chenery St., San Francisco, at Down Home Music, 10341 San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito, CA.
Gigs
Wednesday,
June 5, 8:30 PM -
11 PM
Wednesday,
July 24, 8:30 PM -
11 PM
The pickPocket
Ensemble - "world cafe music"
http://www.pickpocketensemble.com
Revolution
Cafe
3248 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94110
No Cover
I played on the pickPocket Ensemble's record "memory." Their music is
like a musical Rorschach blot - leader Rick Corrigan writes
all the music. Yates Brown is on
guitar, John Slattery percussion, Matthew Souther trumpet.
My old friend Chloe Allen is on
violin. I've known her since my days in the
circus.
Some people hear Roma (Gypsy) music, and I've met
folks from central Europe who say the group's music is
what they grew up with. The tunes are really
good, regardless. Cafe Revolution is very much a
bohemian kind of joint in the Mission.
Promotional events for our
June 20 SFJAZZ and September 24
Freight & Salvage gigs:
Kurt Ribak free in-store
performance at Down Home Music in El Cerrito
Saturday, June 8, 2 PM
to about 3:45 PM.
Down Home Music - https://www.downhomemusic.com
10341 San Pablo
Avenue, El Cerrito, CA
free - all ages
If you haven't
been to Down Home
Music in El Cerrito, you are missing
out big time. This store is one of my
favorite things about the Bay Area. They
call themselves "The World's Jukebox." They
aren't kidding. You want Tuvan
throat-singing records? They got 'em.
Gospel music recordings from the 1920s?
ditto. Congolese Rumba? Yep.
Vinyl? Oh yes. 78s? Go to their
swap meet!
We'll be promoting our upcoming SFJAZZ
show and our recording "ONWARD".
Greg Sankovich will be on keys, Lincoln
Adler on sax.
I (Kurt) will be interviewed by Alisa Clancy on KCSM's "Morning Cup of Jazz." She has interviewed me several times in the past - people have commented on our on-air rapport. Plus you get to hear me talk when I probably haven't had much sleep and am likely to say something I hadn't planned to say.
Below: Our two
biggest shows of the year:
Kurt Ribak Quintet plays
the San Francisco
Jazz Festival!
Thursday, June 20 - Two
sets, 7:00 PM and 8:30 PM
SFJAZZ Joe Henderson Lab
http://www.sfjazz.org
201 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
tickets - https://www.sfjazz.org/tickets/productions/kurt-ribak-quartet/
all ages, $34.50 - $25.00 for SFJAZZ members
More details to come, but this show will be in SFJAZZ's
small room - the Joe Henderson Lab. It's the glass
room you see from the street . We'll have most of
the same folks as at our Freight & Salvage
show last year -
Greg Sankovich keyboards, Lincoln
Adler sax, Myles Boisen electric
guitar and lap steel guitar, and Kurt on bass
and vocals.
SFJAZZ wrote some really nice stuff about us -
“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.
Buy our CDs online - or buy
downloads:
Video 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.
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