[Gbrooks-promo] Concert Reminder- This Saturday July 3rd- George Brooks Summit

[George Brooks]

Concert dates in Berkeley and Mexico!!!


George Brooks Summit CD release celebration for Spirit and Spice

Saturday, July 3rd 8pm

Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse
2020 Addison Street
Berkeley CA 94704
510-644-2020
Tickets 22.50 advance/ 23.50 at the door

with
George Brooks - saxophone/compositions
Fareed Haque - guitar
Frank Martin - piano
Kai Eckhardt - bass
Steve Smith - drums
Salar Nader - tabla
Anantha Krishnan -mridangam

George Brooks celebrates the release of “Spirit and Spice”, his  
fourth CD as a leader and the second for his Earth Brother Music  
label, featuring Fareed Haque, guitar; Kai Eckhardt, bass and Steve  
Smith on drums. Guests on the album include Zakir Hussain and Swapan  
Chaudhuri on tabla, Kala Ramnath on violin, Ronu Majumdar on bamboo  
flute and Niladri Kumar on sitar.

George Brooks Summit features some of the finest musicians working in  
jazz and global fusion. On bass is Kai Eckhardt who was the  
foundation of the John McLaughlin trio that introduced the world to  
Trilok Gurtu. He has since recorded and performed with Billy Cobham,  
Larry Coryell, Wayne Shorter, Al Dimeola, Maria Joao and many others.  
On guitar is Fareed Haque, who has performed with everyone from Sting  
to Paquito de Rivera and Joe Zawinul to Nigel Kennedy. Trap drummer  
Steve Smith may be best known as the drummer from rock super group  
Journey, but he is also the leader of fusion juggernaut Vital  
Information and a consistent winner of awards and jazz polls world  
wide, including Modern Drummers “ top 25 drummers of all time”.

Rounding out the July 3rd performance is Bay Area piano stalwart  
Frank Martin who has performed with Sting, Stevie Wonder and Narada  
Michael Walden, along with young Afghani tabla wizard Salar Nader,  
who has been touring and recording with the Kronos Quartet and DJ  
Cheb-I-Saba and south Indian percussionist Anantha Krishnan.


George Brooks - George Brooks is a prolific and diverse saxophonist  
and composer, acclaimed for successfully bridging the worlds of jazz  
and Indian classical music. He is the founder of several important  
Indian fusion groups including Summit with Zakir Hussain and Steve  
Smith; Bombay Jazz with Larry Coryell and Ronu Majumdar; and the  
Kirwani Quartet with Dutch harpist Gwyneth Wentink and Indian flute  
maestro Hariprasad Chaurasia. 2010 brings the release of George’s new  
CD Spirit and Spice and
the Raga Bop Trio CD featuring George, drummer Steve Smith and south  
Indian electric guitar phenomenon, Prasanna.


Sunday, July 4th 8pm
  1er. Muestra Internacional de Jazz de la Ciudad de México, DF

George Brooks - saxophone
Fareed Haque - guitar
Frank Martin - piano
Kai Eckhardt - bass
Steve Smith - drums


Monday, July 5th 8pm

Jazz Las Casas, San Cristobal Las Casas, Mexico

George Brooks - saxophone
Fareed Haque - guitar
Frank Martin - piano
Kai Eckhardt - bass
Steve Smith - drums

http://www.georgebrooks.com

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