JAZZBINA PULA JAZZ FESTIVAL 2008

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JAZZBINA: International Jazz Festival Pula 2008

MAIN PROGRAM

08 OCT::Caffe bar Cabahia::21.00::DAMIR IMAMOVIC TRIO (BiH)

25 OCT::Club Uljanik::21.00::MARC RIBOT TRIO (USA)

10 NOV::Caffe bar Cabahia::21.00::DE REIZENDE VERKOPER (NL)

15 NOV::Club Uljanik::21.00::BOBBY PREVITE'S NEW BUMP (USA)

9 DEC::Caffe bar Cabahia::21.00::JAMIE SAFT TRIO (USA)

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17 October::Rock Caffe::21.00::ZOAMBO ZOET WORKESTRAO (Slo)

07 November::Rock Caffe::21.00::LELA KAPLOWITZ GROUP (Cro)

14 November::Rock Caffe::21.00::HOT CLUB ZAGREB (Cro)

05 December::Rock Caffe::21.00::BEBE NA VOLE (Cro)

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Sounds Like: :::UPCOMING SHOW:::JAZZBINA: International Jazz Festival Pula 2008

25 October::Club Uljanik, Pula::21.00 h

MARC RIBOT TRIO (USA)

Marc Ribot trio lineup: Marc Ribot - guitar; Henry Grimes – bass; Chad Taylor – drums

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Marc Ribot’s new experimental trio will draw on the improvising telepathy developed performing together in 2 1/2 years of “spiritual unity” to reach new heights and depths of free/punk/jazz. The trio format will allow for greater compositional flexibility,

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MARC RIBOT BIO

Marc Ribot (pronounced REE-bow) was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1954. As a teen, he played guitar in various garage bands while studying with his mentor, Haitian classical guitarist and composer Frantz Casseus. After moving to New York City in 1978, Ribot was a member of the soul/punk Realtones, and from 1984 – 1989, of John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards. Between 1979 and 1985, Ribot also worked as a sidemusician with Brother Jack McDuff, Wilson Pickett, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Chuck Berry, and many others.Ribot’s recording credits include Tom Waits, Soloman Burke, John Lurie, Elvis Costello, Marianne Faithful, Arto Lindsay, Caetano Veloso, Laurie Anderson, David Sylvian, Susana Baca, McCoy Tyner, T-Bone Burnett, The Jazz Passengers, The Lounge Lizards, Evan Lurie, Chocolate Genius, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Cibo Mato, Medeski Martin & Wood, James Carter, Vinicio Caposella (Italy), Auktyon (Russia), Vinicius Cantuaria, Sierra Maestra (Cuba), Alain Bashung (France), Joe Henry, Alan Toussaint, Marisa Monte, Allen Ginsburg, Trey Anastasio, Madeline Peyroux, Patti Scialfa, Sam Phillips, Akiko Yano, The Black Keys, and many others. Ribot frequently collaborates with producer T Bone Burnett, most recently on Alison Krauss and Robert Plant’s grammy award winning “Raising Sand” and regularly works with composer John Zorn.
::::::VIDEO: Marc Ribot w/ Lounge Lizards - Voice Of ChunkRibot’s own recording projects have included the bands Rootless Cosmopolitans (Island Antilles), Shrek (Tzadik), and Los Cubanos Postizos (Atlantic). Marc’s solo recordings include “Marc Ribot Plays The Complete Works of Frantz Casseus” (Les Disques Du Crepuscule), “The Book of Heads” (Tzadik), “”Don’t Blame Me” (DIW), described as “a record filled with savory and unlikely amusements” by Village Voice, “Saints” (Atlantic), and most recently “Exercises in Futility” (Tzadik).
::::::VIDEO: Marc Ribot - The Dying Cowboy / excerpt from superb music documantary "The Lost String"Marc has performed on scores such as “Walk The Line (Mangold),” “Everything is Illuminated,” and “The Departed” (Scorcese).” Marc has also recently composed original scores for the PBS documentary “Revolucion: Cinco Miradas,” and the film “Drunkboat,” starring John Malkovich and John Goodman. Past scoring project include Yoshiko Chuma’s “Altogether Different” dance piece, a documentary film by Greg Feldman titled “Joe Schmoe,” a feature film by director Joe Brewster titled “The Killing Zone”, and “In as Much as Life is Borrowed”, a dance piece by famed Belgian choreographer, Wim Vanderkeybus.Marc’s talents have also been showcased with a full symphony orchestra. Composer Stewart Wallace wrote a guitar concerto with orchestra specifically for Marc. The piece was premiered by the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC in July of 2004 and also appeared at The Cabrillo Festival in Santa Cruz, CA in August of 2005.Marc is currently touring with two bands, the Albert Ayler tribute project “Spiritual Unity” (Pi Recordings), featuring original Ayler bassist Henry Grimes, and Ceramic Dog featuring bassist Shahzad Ismaily an drummer Ches Smith. Ceramic Dog will release their debut album “Party Intellectuals” this May on Pi Recordings in the North America, and Enja in Europe and Japan.

HENRY GRIMES BIO

Master bassist Henry Grimes, missing from the music world since the late '6O's, has made an unprecedented comeback after receiving the gift of a bass from fellow musician William Parker in December ‘O3 to replace the instrument Henry had given up some 2O years earlier. Between the mid-'5O's and the mid-'6O's, the Philadelphia-born, Juilliard-educated Henry Grimes played brilliantly on some 5O albums with an enormous range of musicians, including Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Haynes, Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, Charles Mingus (yes, Charles Mingus), Gerry Mulligan, Sunny Murray, Perry Robinson, Sonny Rollins, Roswell Rudd, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, Charles Tyler, McCoy Tyner, Rev. Frank Wright, and many more ... and then one day, for reasons largely related to troubles in the music world in those days, he walked away.
::::::VIDEO: Henry Grimes, Gerry Mulligan, Art Farmer & Dave BaileyMany years passed with nothing heard from the great Henry Grimes while he was living in a single-room occupancy hotel in downtown Los Angeles and doing survival work not related to music (construction, maintenance, custodial, etc.). Yet after a very short while with his new bass, he emerged from his room to begin playing concerts with Bobby Bradford, Nels and Alex Cline, Joseph Jarman, and others at Billy Higgins's World Stage, the Howling Monk, the Jazz Bakery, and Schindler House in the Los Angeles area. On his triumphant return to New York City in May, Henry Grimes played as special guest on two nights of the six-night Vision Festival, gave live concerts and lengthy interviews on the air daily during a five-day WKCR Henry Grimes Radio Festival, and offered a bass clinic before 5O New York-area bassists who haven't stopped talking about him since. He followed this with three virtually sold-out nights at Iridium in New York City leading his own band. In New York, Henry Grimes has been working for the first time with Rob Brown, Roy Campbell, Jr., Andrew Cyrille, Sabir Mateen, William Parker, Marc Ribot, Warren Smith, and more. He's played at the Vermont Jazz Center and Harvard University and toured six cities in Italy and one in Slovenia in December, 'O3. To the astonishment and joy of all, the man is playing at the very height of his artistic powers (or indeed anyone's), just as though he had never stopped at all!This past spring, "The New York Times" ran a nearly full-page profile of Henry Grimes; ABC-TV News broadcast an interview and concert footage from the Vision Festival; National Public Radio's Felix Contreras featured him on Morning Edition; Michael Fitzgerald, co-author of the award-winning biography "Rat Race Blues: The Musical Life of Gigi Gryce," is writing a book about him; and David Gunderson is at work on a Henry Grimes documentary. Henry also received a Meet the Composer grant for his work in one of the California concerts this fall, and he was designated “Musician of the Year” by “All About Jazz” / New York at the end of ‘O3. Henry Grimes now lives, works and teaches in New York City.

CHAD TAYLOR BIO

CHAD TAYLOR (drums, vibraphone) was born in Tempe, Arizona in 1973, moved to Chicago with his family when he was 1O years old, and has been playing professionally since he was 14. In 1991, he moved to New York to play with Lou Donaldson, Julian “Junior" Mance, Leon Parker, and Mark Turner, helped form the free-improvisation group the Life Ensemble in 1993, and returned home in 1996 to help develop the Chicago Underground Orchestra.Since then he has also worked with Fred Anderson, Derek Bailey, David Boykins, Bobby Bradford, Peter Brotzmann, Roy Campbell, Eugene Chadbourne, Ernest Dawkins, Malachi Favors, Henry Grimes, Leroy Jenkins, Rob Mazurek, Joe McPhee, Roscoe Mitchell, Jemeel Moondoc, Marc Ribot, John Zorn, and many other extraordinary improvisers. He is also part of Chicago's post-rock scene, where he has recorded and/or collaborated with Brokeback, Isotope 217, Mouse on Mars, StereoLab, Tortoise, Jim O'Rourke, and Sam Prekop. He is currently a member of the Chicago Underground Duo, Trio, Quartet and Orchestra. Chad leads his own group, called Active Ingredients, whose CD “Titration" was released on Delmark Records in 'O3.

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:::UPCOMING SHOW:::JAZZBINA: International Jazz Festival Pula 2008

15 November::Club Uljanik, Pula::21.00 h

BOBBY PREVITE & THE NEW BUMP (USA)

Bobby Previte & The New Bump lineup: Bobby Previte - drums; Ellery Eskelin – tenor saxophone; Bill Ware – vibemaster; Brad Jones - groove king

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BOBBY PREVITE BIO

Bobby Previte "can break your heart with one cymbal crash."Introduction, education, fellowships, and teaching

Bobby Previte is a composer/performer who for twenty years has led ensembles throughout the world. He has received two NEA grants for composition, two NYFA grants for composition, a NYSCA and Jerome Foundation/American Composer's Forum grant for composition (for THE SEPARATION), seven fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, and ASCAP composer grants every year since 2000.Mr. Previte studied music at the University of Buffalo, where instructors included Morton Feldman and John Cage, and majored in percussion under Jan Williams. As a student he performed with Williams' percussion ensemble in the “Evenings for New Music” series under the direction of Lucas Foss, and was a guest artist with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Michael Tilson-Thomas, receiving his B.A in 1973, cum laude.Previte has given master classes at The Eastman School of Music, The New School, Cornish University, The School of Jazz, Perth, Australia, The University of Buffalo, Istanbul Conservatory, and the Lucerne School of Music.Selected brief performance and recording history since 1979

Since moving to New York City in 1979, he has played hundreds of concerts all over the world and recorded dozens of records as a performer and leader. In the 1980s and early 1990s he recorded four records of his music for Gramavision, four for Enja, one for Sound Aspects, and one for KOCH. He received commissions from the Moscow Circus, (Broadway première: Gershwin Theater, New York City, 1992), and scored films such as CHAIN LETTERS, directed by Mark Rappaport, (première: New York Film Festival). He has worked with some of the brightest lights both in and beyond the world of music, from helping the composer John Adams to assemble the special ensemble needed for the Lincoln Center debut of Adams' opera I WAS LOOKING AT THE CEILING to appearing with William Shatner in a skit on “Saturday Night Live,” and as “The Drummer” in the Robert Altman film, SHORT CUTS.From 1999-2005 Previte toured a quintet, Bump the Renaissance, with Ray Anderson, Marty Ehrlich, Wayne Horvitz, and the legendary bassist Steve Swallow. Palmetto Records has released two recordings of that band, JUST ADD WATER and COUNTERCLOCKWISE. Other touring included two European and two American tours with Groundtruther, a collaboration with the eight string guitarist Charlie Hunter with Previte on electronic drums, Previte's Circus Band at the Frankfurt Festival in 2004, and three weeks in Europe in 2004 with the multi-instrumentalist and composer Elliott Sharp. In April 2005 Mr. Previte was in residence in Cheltenham, England, and lead a local ensemble at the Cheltenham Festival as well as introducing The Beta Popes, a power trio with Jamie Saft and Skerik. In 2006 THE COALITION OF THE WILLING was released on Ropeadope Records, featuring the band of the same name. The Coalition toured Europe in April 2006 and the USA three times in that year.
::::::VIDEO: Bobby Previte w/Jamie Saft Blues Explosion "Can't Stand to Have You Near Me"Mr. Previte has been discussed in many of the world's major newspapers, magazines, radio and television shows, and as well as in numerous books on music. He has presented his work at festivals around the world-Montreux, North Sea, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Rio de Janiero, Sydney, Hong Kong, Berlin, and Paris.Larger works and current activities

Completing a commission from The City of Birmingham, UK for their year 2000 millennium celebration, Mr. Previte created THE 23 CONSTELLATIONS OF JOAN MIRÓ. Composed at the MacDowell Colony and scored for the Constellations Ensemble of eight musicians and conductor, this work was released on Tzadik Records' “Composer Series.” Mr. Previte was awarded a United Kingdom Arts Council grant for a two week UK tour for the ensemble in 2004. The work was also presented at the Teatro Nationale in Milan in May 2005.In April, 2006, MY FIRST AND GREATEST LOVE AFFAIR, for children's choir, was commissioned and premièred by the Young People's Chorus of New York City at their “Transient Glory” concert and was featured on John Schaeffer's WNYC radio show, “Soundcheck.”Previte's newest production, in collaboration with writer/director Andrea Kleine and designer Anna Kiraly, is THE SEPARATION, an examination of religion in society, scored for early music choir, pipe organ, and electric band. Based on both a re-arrangement of the 15th century composer Guilliaume Dufay's “Missa Sancti Jacobi” and a re-imagination of Olivier Messiaen's “La Nativité du Seigneur,” this work premièred at the Walker Art Center on February 2, 2007, with subsequent performances there and at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo NY.In April 2007, with support from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, he curated APRIL IN NEW YORK, a week-long series of duets with harpist Zeena Parkins, Elliott Sharp, and others. In July 2007 he and the video artist Benton-C Bainbridge performed DIALED IN, a solo electronic drum and video show, at the Lincoln Center Scanners Festival.In August 2007 Previte recorded a new sextet version of the Bump the Renaissance band featuring Ellery Eskelin, Steve Bernstein, Bill Ware, Brad Jones, and Jim Pugliese. In September 2007 he released two new recordings: ALTITUDE, featuring John Medeski, the final CD in the Groundtruther trilogy, LATITUDE, LONGITUDE, ALTITUDE, on Thirsty Ear Records, and DOOM JAZZ, music to the futurist drama of the same name, a collaboration with Jamie Saft, on Veal Records. In November 2007, Previte toured Europe with the Pan-Atlantic Band, an acoustic quintet featuring some of the great improvisers of Europe, and Previte and Bainbridge performed DIALED IN at EMPAC in Troy, NY. Also in fall 2007 Previte created music for PATERSON, by the video artists eteam.IPrevite released two DVD's of his work in 2007: the live performance of THE SEPARATION, and a five DVD set of the APRIL IN NEW YORK concerts.Forthcoming in 2008 are the DIALED IN DVD, a live concert DVD of DOOM JAZZ, and THE SEPARATION studio version CD to be recorded and released late in 2008. He will tour Europe with his new Bump band in May and November of 2008. Previte and Andrea Kleine are at work on their second collaboration, KARAOKE REMIX. Previte, Steve Swallow and the guitarist Nels Cline will record in June for Palmetto.He continues to travel and perform widely.

ELLERY ESKELIN BIO

Ellery Eskelin “continues to be the most inventive American tenor player in creative music.” (Downbeat). Increasingly interested in exploring new and unusual instrumentation in an attempt to place the saxophone in unique contexts for improvising, Eskelin has led projects that have included musicians such as Marc Ribot, Han Bennink, Melvin Gibbs, Mark Dresser, Erik Friedlander, Gerry Hemingway, Mark Helias and Sylvie Courvoisier. In 1994 he formed his current working band including accordionist Andrea Parkins and drummer Jim Black. The band tours regularly and has performed hundreds of concerts in the US, Canada and throughout Europe. Eskelin's recordings as a leader and have been consistently singled out by the major jazz magazines in the US and abroad.

BILL WARE BIO

Beginning in the 80s and 90s, Vibraphonist Bill Ware has continued being a prime mover and shaker on the downtown New York scene. In 1987, Ware became a charter member of the highly acclaimed Jazz Passengers. In 1993 Ware hooked up with the acid jazz outfit the Groove Collective, who debuted on record the same year, and also landed a gig with the reunited Steely Dan, with whom he worked until 1995. With Jazz Passengers' rhythm section of Brad Jones and E.J. Rodriguez, Ware formed a side project called Vibes, which played dark, pulsating jazzfunk; they debuted on record in 1998 on a Knitting Factory album of the same name. Ware followed it in 1999 with Keeping Up With the Jones' (on Cathexis0. 2001 brought Sir Duke, an Ellington tribute recorded with only guitarist Marc Ribot as accompaniment; the following year, Ware released his fourth album for Knitting Factory, aptly titled Four, which featured numerous guests, including Deborah Harry.

BRAD JONES BIO

Bassist/Composer Brad Chri stopher Jones has worked with a diverse array of artists that include Ornette Coleman, Elvis Costello, Elvin Jones, Deborah Harry, David Byrne, Muhal Richard Abrams, Sheryl Crow, Dave Douglas, Vernon Reid, John Zorn, Marc Ribot, and The Jazz Passengers. He has recorded three CDs as a leader with two separate projects: "Uncivilized Poise"(Knitting Factory Records) with his band Aka Alias, "Pouring My Heart In" (Senoj Music) with The Brad Jones Quartet, and the soon-to-be-released follow-up to the first Aka Alias recording entitled "The Embodiment.”

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JAZZBINA: International Jazz Festival Pula 2008

9 December::Caffe bar Cabahia, Pula::21.00h

JAMIE SAFT TRIO (USA)

Jamie Saft trio lineup: Jamie Saft - piano; Greg Cohen – bass; Ben Perowsky – drums

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Featuring Ben Perowsky on drums and Greg Cohen on acoustic bass, this is Saft's acoustic piano trio. The trio has 2 releases on Tzadik- "Astaroth- the Jamie Saft Trio Plays Masada Book II" and "Trouble- The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan". Recently included in the "Music For Youth Tribute to Bob Dylan" at Lincoln Center, the trio has enjoyed great success and glowing reviews for both Tzadik releases and recent live performances.

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JAMIE SAFT BIO

Jamie Saft (piano, organs, analog synthesis, bass and guitar, steel guitars) is a native of Queens, New York. Since returning to New York in 1993, Saft's stylistic versatility, multi-instrumentalist capabilities, and production skills have been featured with Bobby Previte, John Zorn, the B-52's, Laurie Anderson, The Beastie Boys, Jerry Granelli, Dave Douglas, Holly Palmer, Marc Ribot's Los Cubanos Postisos, Elysian Fields, Boomish, Black Beatle, Pramrod Sexena, Liminal, Antony and the Johnsons, Chocolate Genius, JoJo Mayer's Nerve, E-Z Pour Spout, Cuong Vu, Chris Speed Trio Iffy, Jane Ira Bloom, and the Groove Collective.Saft was the pianist for the New York and Paris premiers of John Adams' opera "I Was Looking at the Ceiling and then I Saw the Sky" at Lincoln Center and MC93 Bobingy. Saft has released two solo records on Tzadik. The most recent is called "Breadcrumb Sins'" and the first is called "Sovlanut" featuring Chris Speed, Jim Black, and Jonathan Maron. Saft also co-led the Saft/Vu release of "Ragged Jack" on Avant with Cuong Vu. Saft has recently composed a number of original film scores and music for television. Recent films scored include the Oscar nominated film "Murderball" and Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner "God Grew Tired Of Us". Saft has also contributed score music for Nickelodean, MTV, and A&E.Saft was also a member of Prohibited Beatz, a New York based organization which cultivates Drum 'n' Bass, techno, and electronica with a strong emphasis on live performance and realtime audio deconstruction. Saft was an original member of Nerve, a live d'n'b unit and has also performed with Boomish (a like minded live electronica group). Saft also moonlights as a producer and studio engineer at his studio Frank Booth.:::

GREG COHEN BIO

Greg Cohen is a jazz bassist. He is perhaps best known for his work with John Zorn's Masada quartet; more recently he has been touring with Ornette Coleman, and performed on Coleman's much-praised Sound Grammar album. He has also often played traditional jazz, including work with Ken Peplowski, Kenny Davern and the filmmaker/clarinettist Woody Allen. He has worked with many musicians, including Tom Waits, David Byrne, and Elvis Costello.His bass playing credits include work with artists such as Dagmar Krause, David Sanborn, Susana Baca, Gal Costa, Marisa Monte, Laurie Anderson, Willie Nelson, Bill Frisell, Norah Jones, Dave Douglas, Tricky, Jesse Harris, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts, Joey Baron, Donovan, Crystal Gayle, Bob Dylan, Alan Watts, Lee Konitz, Richie Havens, Dino Saluzzi, Lou Reed, Odetta and Danny Barker.In August/September 2006 he was musical director of the Century of Song series at the German arts festival RuhrTriennale. He invited songwriters and performers such as David Byrne, Holly Cole and Laurie Anderson.Greg Cohen is a regular member of Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band, which plays every Monday evening at Manhattan's Carlyle Hotel. He appears in the documentary film Wild Man Blues (directed by Barbara Kopple), which documents a 1996 European tour by Allen and his band. Cohen appears on the group's CD The Bunk Project (1993) and the soundtrack of Wild Man Blues (1997). Cohen is a resident of Manhattan, New York.:::

BEN PEROWSKY BIO

Ben Perowsky plays the drums. He's played them since he was 3 years old. He was born in New York City. He has played with a lot of very famous musicians and has had a lot of fun. When he was very young, he started playing professionally with big stars like jazz great James Moody, pop songstress Rickie Lee Jones and soul/jazz hit maker Roy Ayers. Ben grew up listening to many kinds of music. You can tell when you hear him play.Besides the many bands he plays for, he has a few of his own bands. He writes music for them. One is a new four piece band with accordion, clarinet and bass. They're good. Another band is called Moodswing orchestra. They're good too. There are 7 musicians in that band. Ben put out a cd of a smaller version of this band on his own record label called El Destructo. There is more music on the way.Some other bands/people that Ben is playing with today are in a list below. Some that he has played with in the past are in a list below that.NOW: Joan As Police Woman (she sings her songs and will save the world) / Uri Caine (he plays piano, composes and decomposes dead classical people) / Steven Bernstein's Millenial Territory Orchestra (they romp and sizzzle) / Ed Pastorini's 101 Crustaceans (they play Ed's really good weird songs) / Chris Speed's Iffy (they play loud, soft and beautiful) / John Zorn (he's avantegarde, experimental and radical) / David Torn (he plays a lot of guitars and makes recordings) / Brice Goggin (he makes records) / Sylvie Courvoisier (she plays the shit in and out of the piano) / Tom Macintosh (he writes music and is a living legend) / Frank Perowsky (he's Ben's dad. he plays great tenor sax and clarinet, and writes music too)BEFORE: Liminal (with GoodandEvil - Danny Blume and Chris Kelly - brooklyn studio moguls) / Elysian Fields (with Jennifer Charles and Oren Bloedow, they're very cool) / Lost Tribe (co-lead with Adam Rogers and they made 3 cds) / Mike Stern, John Scofield, Pat Martino, and Vernon Reid (they can play guitars) / Bob Berg, Don Byron, Dave Douglas, and Ronnie Cuber (they can play horns) / Salif Kieta (he's an african popstar) / Walter Becker (he's a "Steely Dan") / John Cale (he's in the Velvet Underground) / John Lurie's Lounge Lizards (they wore suits)Records as the leader: Ben Perowsky Trio (jazzkey music ltd.) / Camp Songs (tzadik) / El Destructo vol. 1 (el destructo records)Ben wrote music for dance that was shown at - Creative Time (Brooklyn Anchorage), Context, Next Stage, Dixon Place, the Knitting Factory and Lincoln Center. Ben Plays Zildjian Cymbals, Vic Firth drumsticks and handmade bells by Pete Engelhart.:::::::::::::::::