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Everything's A Little Glorious

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The Sun as seen from the third floor of 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusettes, Room 354.
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Drawing heavily from avant-pop and contemporary classical music, the Boston-based instrumental quartet declares their music "chamber rock for the new millennium." Focusing solely on original compositions, Everything's A Little Glorious (EALG) "strives to push boundaries of beauty and emotion", alternately using spare and simple textures or loud, dense noise. Some of EALG's music incorporates group improvisation, but tightly in service of their compositions; most songs last about three minutes.

Since its members came together in 2005 as graduate students at the New England Conservatory, EALG has worked hardest to produce a cohesive sound. Its instrumentation of alto saxophone, trombone, electric guitar and string bass affords a wide palette of colors, and with four very different musical backgrounds of rock, jazz, folk, and classical music, the musicians of EALG have much material to cover. They instead prefer to "create music that is [their] own."

EALG was recently named an "Honors Ensemble" at New England Conservatory, a select award given on the basis of competitive auditions. Besides an upcoming concert in NEC's Jordan Hall, Everything's A Little Glorious and its members have performed at the Boston Public Library, Ryle's, the Lily Pad, Rutman's Violins, Matt Murphy's Pub, and New York's Summer Stage, Stone, SOB's, Galapagos, and LA venues The Knitting Factory, Tangiers, and Spaceland.

EALG musicians play regularly with the Boston Afrobeat Society, jazz hip-hop group the Saltines, Calfornia-based rock band The Bloody Heads, the Sven Trio, Lucky No. 1 Band, and the Luso-Austro Orchestra. Members of EALG have performed with Jose Luis Martinez (founding member of Los Van Van), legendary balafonist Famoro Dioubate, Roscoe Mitchell (Art Ensemble of Chicago), Ron Miles, Art Lande, George Russell and noted classical ensemble Summit Brass.

For booking inquiries, please contact Matt Plummer at (617) 407-2957 or send a message through Myspace.

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Member Since: 2/26/2006
Band Members: Ashley Paul ://% alto sax
Matt Plummer ..3....^ trombone
Jameson Swanagon //&//!@ guitar
Ben Davis ~@@$@ bass

Ashley
A longtime fondness of bunnies and magic led miss paul on a quest into the dungeons of the NY city subway stations spending many countless hours serenading passers by with visions of puddles and dragon songs. Having finally determined that love is harder to find with the rats and fluster Ashley has come back to the light, now filling her days and nights with studious meditations on cloud heretics. When not actively pursuing her dream of a melodica/glockenspiel symphony Ashley enjoys screaming and making music with Everythings a Little Glorious.

Matt
Matt Plummer is from the cold yet wonderful land of the Twin Cities. Then he moved to Colorado, where he played the trombone in classical, free improvisation, salsa, jazz and reggae bands. He played with jazz musician Art Lande in The Boy-Girl Band, as well as his own groups Tonic Brass, Canoe, and a free jazz collective Rubato. Among others, he has recorded with Summit Brass, the Michael Pagan Big Band and the Colorado Jazz Orchestra. Matt has studied with Bill Stanley, Art Lande, Hankus Netsky, Norman Bolter, Allan Chase, and John McNeil. He is now a resident of Jamaica Plain Mass. and playing with Everything Is A Little Glorious and a graduate student at New England Conservatory. Matt likes to be involved with the musicians' union, music collectives like THE COALITION, and political work.

Jameson
Jameson Swanagon spent most of his first 22 years on the Central Coast of California. The climate there is mild. In 2005 the guitarist moved to Boston to pursue a Masters Degree at the New England Conservatory of Music in the field of Contemporary Improvisation. Back in the mild climate, Jameson co-leads a rock group (via airplane and media mailings) called Bloody Heads. In Boston, when it is hot and wet, or cold and dry, he is a member of the free-improvising group, Sven Trio, and the chamber-rock quartet, Everything Is A Little Glorious. He has studied with Brad Shepik, Ran Blake, Dominique Eade, Anthony Coleman, and Joe Morris. Jameson currently lives in Cambridge with his wife, Danae

Ben
Bassist Ben Davis likes to play glorious music. He grew up in a musical family; his father is a professional American roots musician. Originally from Saratoga Springs NY, he is currently a student at the New England Conservatory and studying with Jerry Leake and Don Palma. He has spent over ten years playing jazz, classical music, folk and bluegrass.


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FRIDAY FRIDAY::::: EALG, PROM NIGHT. PROM NIGHT

THIS FRIDAY AT BROOKLINE TAI-CHI***Everything's A Little Glorious*** with special guests Prom Night8PM, Friday, January 26 Brookline Tai Chi (1615 Beacon St., Brookline, MA)directions: http://map...
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