$15 Cover @ the Door / Start 4pm / Doors 3:45pm / Seated Show

This performance marks the return of Peruvian born drummer and percussionist, Jorge Perez-Albela to the Lilypad. 

In his own words: “I am truly honored to present you an amazing band with American legend trombonist, professor Bill Lowe, Nigerian saxophonist Temidayo Balogun, and heavyweight American bassist Ron Mahdi.

Come and join us for a very special evening of jazz!”

Bill Lowe, Trombone

Temidayo Balogun, Sax

Ron Mahdi, Upright Bass

Jorge Perez-Albela, Drums

Jorge Perez-Albela

Born in Lima, Peru, Jorge Pérez-Albela began playing drums at age 16.

In 1994, following his passion for Jazz, Pérez-Albela relocated to the United States to study at the Berklee College of Music.

Jorge has performed and or recorded with Grammy-winners: Maria Schneider, Danilo Perez, Ruben Blades, The Either Orchestra, Claudio Ragazzi, Gian Marco and Eva Ayllon.
 As well as world renowned artists: George Garzone, Avishai Cohen, Daniel Blake, Tim Ray, Rufus Reid, Eddie Gomez, Jorge Roeder, Sissy Castrogiovanni, Mili Bermejo, Geoffrey Keezer, Bert Seager, Claudia Acuna, Sofia Rei, Joey Blake, Tania Libertad, Eric Kurimski, Bruce Bartlett, John Lockwood, Jason Palmer and Grace Kelly.

A Boston resident, Pérez-Albela is actively involved in the city’s jazz scene and frequently commutes to New York City for performances in venues such as: The Blue Note, The Jazz Standard, The Jazz Gallery, Sweet Rhythm, Tonic, Jordan Hall, Scullers jazz club, The Regattabar and The Berklee Performance center. 

Jorge has been featured in WBUR's "Kind World", NPR's "Toast of The Nation", PRI/BBC "The World",  GBH "Eric in the Evening" and Peruvian National TV "Sonidos Del Mundo".

In 2010, Pérez-Albela joined the faculty for the Summer Performance Program at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. 

Jorge proudly directs a music mentorship program for "at risk" students in Brookline, Massachusetts that begun in 1997. He has taught at The New England Conservatory, The Panama Jazz Festival, The Internal Compass Jazz Seminar in Israel, La Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Lima, The National Conservatory in Lima, Perú; The National Conservatory in Santo Domingo, The Jerusalem Academy in Israel and at the Portsmouth Dance and Percussion Festival in New Hampshire.

@jorgeperezalbela

Bill Lowe

Bass trombonist and tubaist Bill Lowe has been a major force in the music world for over thirty years as a performer, composer, producer, and educator. He has worked with most of the masters of African-American creative music, across all genres and musical cliques, from musical legends like Dizzy Gillespie, Eartha Kitt, and Clark Terry, to the leaders of the avant-garde like Muhal Richard Abrams, Henry Threadgill, and Cecil Taylor, to under-heralded greats like George Russell, James Jabbo Ware and Bill Barron. He has co-led the Boston Jazz Repertory Orchestra, the Bill Lowe/Phillipe Cretian Quintet, and JUBA, co-produced Boston’s annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert, and composed several major works, including his opera, Reb’s Last Funeral, his ongoing interdisciplinary project Signifyin’ Natives, and the music/theater piece Crossing John at the Crossroads. As an educator, Lowe has taught at several major universities, lectured throughout the world from Cuba to Paris, and mentored countless young musicians.

Ron Mahdi

Acoustic and electric jazz bassist Ron Mahdi is an active clinician, longtime Berklee educator and in-demand sideman who has toured with Roy Haynes, Dr. Donald Byrd, Nnenna Freelon and Teodross Avery. A Berklee graduate himself, Mr. Mahdi has been a member of the school's bass and ensemble faculty since 1982. He has performed with such artists as Chet Baker, Donald Brown, Bill Pierce, Kevin Eubanks, Jeff Watts, Roy Hargrove, James Williams, Lenny White, Art Farmer, and George Coleman and recorded with musicians including Jay Branford and the Consuelo-Jon Quintet.

Temidayo Balogun

Balogun is a pan-African saxophonist, pianist, talking drummer, composer, and educator from Osun state, Nigeria. In 2021, he moved to the US to study for a graduate degree in jazz and contemporary music at the Longy School of Music where he studied closely with Noah Preminger, Eric Hofbauer, and Ben Scwendener. Temidayo has had the privilege of working on different projects by musical artists as well as bands across different genres of music as an instrumentalist, a music director, and producer, like Yinka Davies, Taye Mayegha, Tosin Aribisala, The Lagos jazz series quintet, Generayshun, The Native Brains, Ope and the Stereo Choir, Jazz in My Room, and Makanda Project based in Boston.

Temidayo formed a new band called AKÉDE in 2021 and is set to release a studio record in the summer of 2023. In 2020, Temidayo released two self-produced singles on digital platforms, Adura Owuro and Abiamo.

As an artist, composer, and seeker, Temidayo considers his music both rhythmically and harmonically rooted in the Yoruba’s diverse cultural practices and other West-African musical genres.