$10 Cover @ the Door ($5 Students) / Start 6:30pm / Doors 6pm / Seated Show
Bert Seager's Residency is a changeable feast of jazz musicians that pianist Bert Seager brings together each month on the first Wednesday for an early set of jazz (6:30PM to 7:30PM) at the Lilypad. The music is intended to bring listeners into unexpected sonic landscapes and more familiar spaces through with songs, forms and improvisations. . Often combined in new ways with dance rhythms from many cultures, the music makes one wonder what Schubert would have sounded like had he lived in Peru and played odd meters, or if Ravel had lived in Ghana and had been able to improvise over chord changes. The joyful expression of this musical intimacy, the shimmering transparency of the sound, and the sense that these musicians are as much involved in listening as in playing makes for compelling and memorable performances.
Bert Seager, pianist, composer, recording artist, and educator, is a member of the faculty at the New England Conservatory. Bert has led performances in international jazz festivals in Canada, Peru, Bulgaria, Jordan, Ecuador, Israel, China and Japan. As a composer, he is a three-time recipient of the prestigious MacDowell Colony fellowship, an artists residency program in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He has recorded 18 compact discs which have all been released internationally to critical acclaim. Cadence Magazine says Bert’s music is filled with “effervescent optimism.” And the Boston Globe wrote that his “kind of exuberance makes the jazz world go round.”
Bert Seager - piano and composition
Max Ridley - upright bass
Dor Herskovits - drums
Ari Lerner - vocals