The next of the This Music/TM series

A New Music Quartet: Polyrhythmic, polymodal improvisational dialogues.

Todd Brunel clarinets and tenor

David Eure: violin

Gene Roma percussion

Chris Rathbun double bass

The quartet came about originally after the untimely passing of a good friend.

Sonic dialogues are woven through integrated listening. The quartet plays free and uses free interpretations of traditional standards, with each musician spinning a deep story through creative development.

As these stories connect, the listener is given a powerful rendering. All musical barriers are broken and what emerges is a uniquely crafted sound experience!

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear Boston musical gems you can become familiar with now – why you are contacted!

Chris and David have been working on their improvisational dialogue for decades as the trio plays free and free interpretations of traditional standards, weaving sonic tapestries though integrated listening. Each musician absorbs the music and spins a deep story through creative development. All musical barriers are broken and what emerges is a unique cross genre sound. This is a must listen event!

This Music (TM) Series is a Boston musician’s initiative to recognize the creativity of many who haven’t been given the stage as leaders, often younger than the Jazz scene veterans; those with acknowledgement who can create a new project and musical ideas; and the unsung “gems” who aren’t in the public’ eye and deserve to be. The emphasis is on the freer forms, the adventurous (to help find a “home”).

Todd Brunel: many of his concerts can be characterized as musically adventurous, often pushing musical boundaries, collaborating with those who are open minded and seek to be transformed by the spirit of the music.

Todd is an adjunct faculty member of clarinet and saxophone at Middlesex Community College in Bedford, MA and a former music specialist with the Arlington Public Schools and the Boston Public Schools. He isalso the director of music at Saint Thomas Aquinas High School in Dover, Hew Hampshire. He performs extensively as a classical and jazz musician, working with The Irish Tenors, folk icon Judy Collins, GBH Television, The Huntington Theater, The Greater Boston Stage Company, The Front Porch Arts Collective, The Reagle Music Theater of Greater Boston and The Wheelock Family Theater. He was a member of the band for the Front Porch Arts Collective productions of Aint Misbehavin' that received the 2023 Elliot Norton Award for ‘Best Musical’.

Besides solo performances as a band leader, his current original music projects include: Know Orchestra, The ChagallPac Performing Arts Collaborative, Peter Cassino and Friends, The David Haas Group: Coalition of the Willing, Tom Casale's No Bad

2020 Grant Recipient: Arlington Cultural Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Brunel: Clarinetist, saxophonist, woodwind doubler, educator, arranger.

-'tremendous virtuosity and heart' The Boston Globe

David Eure currently teaches jazz violin at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School and School of Continuing Education. Eure bridges the classical and jazz divide, and following his work with jazz pianist Yasko Kubota, Eure continues to explore African and Latin American cultural roots.

Eure has performed concerts with Yusef Lateef, Wayne Newton, Yasko Kubota, Aaron Goldberg, Burt Teague, Jimi Bell, Richard Doron Johnson, Avi Rothbard, Carlos del Pino, Jorge Najarro, Osmany Paredes, Gary Valente, Cecil McBee, George Russell Jr., Kim Trusty, Frank Wilkins, Joan Watson-Jones, and Christine Correa.

David virtually transforms the violin into a human voice, embodying a soulful sound with precision, clarity and finesse. He effortlessly bridges classical and jazz styles with elegant aplomb.

Chris Rathbun has enjoyed decades of bass playing from orchestra and chamber music to blues, free improvisation, be-bop, Bluegrass, Dixie-Land, swing, Broadway shows, cabaret, Klezmer, Latin, and world music. He has performed with internationally recognized jazz treasures, ""Papa"" Jo Jones, ""Tiny"" Grimes (Art Tatum), Tom Lindsay (Coleman Hawkins), Joe Marani (Louis Armstrong), Herb Pomeroy (Duke Ellington), ""Sir Charles"" Thompson (Charlie Parker), Benny Waters (NEC 1922), Bob Wilber, Sabby Lewis, Bobby Greene, Makoto Ozone, Marie Marcus, Terri Lynne Carrington, Rebecca Parris, The Artie Shaw Orchestra, and stars of show business- A B.M., NEC, (Double Bass Performance and Third Stream Music).

Gene Roma:

Gene Roma, drummer and percussionist, has had a long career sharing the stage with many local and international performers. After more than five decades, some of his credits include touring for 25 plus years with many broadway shows, performances with great jazz artists like Count Basie, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Zoot Sims, Charlie Ventura, Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel, Herb Pomeroy…to name a few. Singers, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennet, Jack Jones, Maureen McGovern, Thelma Houston, Aretha Franklin , Rebecca Paris and many others. Classical performances with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops and a memorable week with The Boston Symphony under the direction of Seiji Ozawa. Most recently Gene and his wife, conductor Janet Glazener Roma have returned from three consecutive tours in Asia, bringing broadway shows to cities in China for the first time ever.

Tonight Gene is happy to be sharing the stage with Chris, David and Todd !!!

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