photo by Clifton Romig
photo by Clifton Romig
Kurt Ribak Quintet played
the San Francisco Jazz Festival Thursday,
June 20.
Kurt Ribak and his
Mighty Combo played a return engagement at
Berkeley's historic Freight & Salvage
Coffeehouse September 24.
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."
There's also a blog post SFJAZZ asked me to about my injury and recovery here: https://www.sfjazz.org/onthecorner/kurt-ribak-interview/.
The Mighty Combo is Greg Sankovich keyboards, Lincoln Adler sax, Ross Wilson brass, Myles Boisen guitar and lap steel guitar, David Rokeach drums, Michaelle Goerlitz percussion, and Kurt on bass and vocals. The members of this band have played with Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Wild Mango, Tom Waits, kd lang, Benny Velarde, and many more stars as well.
Curious what you missed last time at The Freight? Or do you 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.
RECORDINGS:
You can buy Kurt
Ribak's recordings: at CDBaby
or by the download there, on iTunes, emusic.com, Spotify, and
all the other usual online sources.
At The Groove Yard in Oakland at 5555 Claremont in Oakland, CA
At Down Home Music, 10341 San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito, CA
At Bird & Beckett Books & Records,653 Chenery, San Francisco, CA
Performances, 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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