Concert Dates: 07/19/08 - 07/19/08
Ticket Cost: Free Admission
Show Time(s): 2:00pm
Event Description: Anyone interested in experiencing an afternoon of innovative contemporary music is invited to attend this performance of the New York-based trio The Blur Division. The band is certain to once again demonstrate the limitless possibilities of three exploratory musicians getting together to craft their own original compositions which reconcile history with the future, tradition with technology, and jazz with a unique approach that resists categorization.
Artist / Group Bio:
Since 1996, The Blur Division has emerged as a strikingly resourceful and multi-faceted group of musicians merely by virtue of their willingness to disregard style or genre in their individual and collective pursuit of creative experimentation. The group has steadily gained prominence in the music community recording their independently released CD, playing a wide variety of gigs, opening for such internationally prestigious jazz acts as Christian McBride and Larry Coryell, receiving regional radio play and national television exposure, and eliciting unanimous praise from the critics. Based on the strength of their live performances, the bands energetic and positive spirit has particularly allowed them to indulge their naturally exploratory approach to music making, and likewise communicate effectively with each other and the audience.
Although the influences evident in the music of The Blur Division are wide reaching and diverse, their surface characteristics remain secondary to the most significant thread which ties it all together: the band members mind set of inclusiveness which has enabled them to reconcile their own natural impulses with the vast wealth of information and technologies now instantly available to them. The bands ultimate goal has been to make stimulating discoveries concerning their own individual approach to the world of sound, and in the process make their own singular contribution toward bridging the already narrowing gaps between the disparate segments of the global community. And of course, to enlighten and uplift their listeners while doing so.
Musicians: James Bennett 6 String Electric Bass
Chris Cuvier Piano & Synthesizer
Chris Howard Drums & Percussion
Artist's Website: http://www.theblurdivision.com
Jazz Style: Various Jazz Styles
Sunken Meadow State Park Address: Sunken Meadow Parkway Kings Park NY 11754 U.S.
Phone: 631.269.4443
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