Member Since: 8/11/2007
Band Website: plutoniumrecords.net
Band Members: Mark Weaver (tuba/low brass) currently playing with "UFO Ensemble" (with Bill Clark trumpet/flugelhorn, Katie Harlow cello, Jason Aspeslet drums), with vocalist Patti Littlefield in voice/tuba duo "Resonance", in "The Rumble Trio" with Ben Wright and Mike Balistreri, and traditional jazz band "Jazz a la Carte" (with Doc Rock trombone, Dick Trask saxophone, Kent Erickson trumpet, Wayne Shrubsall banjo, Bob Delich drums)........ over the years Mark has performed with: Christopher Adler, Brian Allen, Jeremy Barnes, Anthony Braxton, Dan Clucas, J.A. Deane, Harris Eisenstadt, Lisa Gill, Malcolm Goldstein, Chris Jonas, Jeff Kaiser, Andrew Lafkas, Alan Lechusza, Butch Morris, Tatsuya Nakatani, Roswell Rudd, Sara Schoenbeck, Damon Smith, Biggi Vinkeloe, Michael Vlatkovich, Lewis Winn...in addition to countless sidewalk jams and busks...Mark's playing appears on pfMENTUM, Plutonium, Zerx, Balance Point Acoustics, Newsonic, Nine Winds, Black Phone, Carrot Top, Snowdonia and Leaf record labels...
Influences: Ahmed Abdullah, Mahmoud Ahmed, Henry Red Allen, Gene Ammons, Ray Anderson, Count Basie, Harry Beckett, Tim Berne, Ed Blackwell, Rob Blakeslee, Arthur Blythe, Anthony Braxton, Red Callender, John Carter, Ornette Coleman, Tom Cora, Joe Daley, Tadd Dameron, Carlo Actis Dato, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Paul Desmond, Giannantonio de Vincenzo, Bill Dixon, Duke Ellington, Alemayehu Eshete, Ellery Eskelin, Gil Evans, Glenn Ferris, Michel Godard, Paul Gonsalves, Julius Hemphill, Fletcher Henderson, Andrew Hill, John Hollenbeck, Fred Hopkins, Howling Wolf, Roland Kirk, Steve Lacy, Yusef Lateef, Booker Little, Boban Markovic, Fred McDowell, Jackie McLean, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Jelly Roll Morton, Herbie Nichols, William Parker, Harry Partch, Charley Patton, Scot Ray, Dewey Redman, Sam Rivers, Roswell Rudd, George Russell, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Woody Shaw, Horace Silver, Tomasz Stanko, Sun Ra, Henry Threadgill, Gianluigi Trovesi, Don van Vliet, Abdul Wadud, Mal Waldron, Lester Young ...
Sounds Like: "Weaver can sound like a keyboard bass, a vacuum cleaner, or a stylus lifting roughly off an LP." (Larry Nai)
Record Label: plutonium records
Type of Label: Indie