jazz
9:30pm – Midnite
$10 donation

Gill Aharon &
FISHLUNG PIANO SERIES
presents:

TRE CORDA featuring

Tim Ray - piano
Greg Hopkins - trumpet
Dan Levin - cello

Tre Corda is a trio of some of New England’s finest and most diverse musicians, brought together to perform compositions and arrangements by pianist Tim Ray and the members of the trio. Their works blend composition and improvisation in new and unexpected ways, using the musical vocabulary of classical composers like Bartok and Stravinsky, as well as songs and ideas from the worlds of jazz and popular musics. Their selections are inventive, spirited and often humorous, and early favorites from their repertoire include a theme and variations based on Wayne Shorter’s “Nefertiti”, and Tim’s outrageous setting of the standard “Blue Moon”. The name of the group comes from classical piano notation, as an instruction to the pianist to release the soft pedal and let all three strings vibrate freely (literally “three strings” or “three sounds”), and suggests that the trio’s members, individually and collectively, are free to explore their own creative path - independent of boundaries and categories that limit musical expression. Their new self-titled CD is available on the website AgitatedCatMusic.com.

Production: Gill Aharon - fish.lung@verizon.net