April 8, 2010
8:00 pm
$8
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PLOTZ!
Jim Connolly/T. Taylor Duo
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One of Southern California's most exciting up-and-coming bands,
PLOTZ! blends the sounds of Eastern European folk music with creative
jazz improvisation and progressive rock. The six members of PLOTZ! have
backgrounds in many different styles of music, including jazz,
world-percussion, classical, rock, metal, experimental, and many
others. Dedicated to a unified and harmonized world-view, PLOTZ! draws
inspiration for original compositions from styles, stories, and
experiences from all over the world, from ancient Greek mythology and
Iceni history to the experience of modern city life and surfing.
Bringing rock-god energy and intensity to every performance, PLOTZ!
explodes off the stage in a jubilant musical celebration of life!
With
Daniel Rosenboom on trumpets, Gavin Templeton on saxophones, Brian
Walsh on clarinets and saxophones, Jake Vossler on guitars, Orest
Balaban on bass, and Austin Wrinkle on drums, PLOTZ! is made up of some
of California's most accomplished and innovative young musicians. Each
member of PLOTZ! is a composer in his own right, and each has been
trained at some of America's most respected musical institutions,
including the Eastman School of Music and California Institute of the
Arts.
Formed in March of 2005 PLOTZ! has played all
over Southern California on various stages, clubs, and colleges. In
early 2007, they released their first studio album, Extraordinary
Renditions on their own PLOTZ! Music Productions label. This CD won
international acclaim when it received "Best International Instrumental
CD" in the 2007 Toronto Exclusive Magazine Music Awards, as well as
"Best Instrumental CD" and "Best Instrumental Song" (Splash, by Daniel
Rosenboom) in the 2007 M.A.V.R.I.C. Awards in Ventura County, CA.
PLOTZ! recently released a new album, Live 2008, in the fall of 2008.
Get PLOTZ!'s albums from CD Baby, or download it from iTunes and other
international digital distributors!
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Jim Connolly is a composer and performer living in Santa Barbara, California. He writes music for The Gove County Philharmonic, The Gove County String Quartet and Lit Moon Theatre.
He has composed for choir, musical saw, five string violin, string
quartet and various chamber ensembles. He plays the double bass, saw,
banjo, piano and sings. He attended New England Conservatory.
Jim
has received five Independent Theater Awards, numerous commissions,
grants, ASCAP Plus Awards and in 2001 was listed as one of the
twenty-five most intriguing people in Santa Barbara.
He has
collaborated or performed with Nate Birkey, Gilles Apap, Jeff Kaiser,
Brad Dutz, Headless Household, Jeff Bridges, Vinny Golia, Eugene
Chadbourne, Cougar Estrada, Anna Abbey and his brother Kevin Connolly.
T. Taylor is a composer/performer whose instrument of choice
is the tenor saxophone. He has performed solo and with
instrumentalists, multi-media artists and dancers on stages as diverse
as the Palais de Tokyo, in Paris, France; the Toihaus Theater in Salzburg, Austria; and Jazz on the Park, in New York City.
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