JOHN ESPOSITO

CONCERT CANCELLED

Due to Michael Stuart having a car accident ( car wrecked, saxophonist fine) we have to cancel our concert at Bard College Monday April 16. I will be in contact to announce the rescheduling of the event. Hopefully next week. So don’t come tomorrow, we won’t be there. But we surely are improvising right now. All the best, John

Concert Announcement:

Hello, music lovers- I’m happy to announce that I am playing a concert of new compositions with my trio and a very special guest artist from Toronto ( that’s near Canada). I hope you can come. All the best, John

     Michael Stuart - Saxophone
    John Esposito - piano
    Ira Coleman - bass
    Peter O’Brien - drums
 

Stuart has played, toured and/or recorded with some of the finest musicians in the world including Jimmy McGriff, Jay McShann, Sadik Hakim, Junior Mance, Kenny Garrett, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Franklin Kiermyer, Kenny Wheeler, Pepper Adams, Sam Rivers, Clark Terry, and Elvin Jones, as well as Canadian names Russ Little (who is Stuart’s brother), Keith Blackley, Sonny Greenwich, Hagood Hardy, Ted Moses, Rick Tait, and Doug Riley.

In 1977 and 1978 Stuart toured and recorded with the great Elvin Jones as a member of The Jazz Machine, playing in Germany, Sweden, France, Denmark, the United States, Austria, Italy and The Netherlands. In 1991, he toured the Soviet Union as a featured member of The Dave McMurdo Jazz Orchestra. A jazz special for television recorded in Budapest, Hungary followed in 1992, and a tour of Germany in 1993.

 Monday April 16, 8 pm
Blum Hall, Blum Music Institute
Blythewood Ave, Bard College
Annandale-On-Hudson (not actually on it), NY
 Admission Free
 

* Announcing New Sunjump Release Calling Coltrane

The second part of the 1996 Studio session that yielded Sangeeta Michael Berardi’s Earthship reveals more of this under-recorded, highly original guitarist. Recorded at Nevessa Studio, Woostock, NY by Ted Orr and remastered by Scott Petito at NRS Studio, Catskill, NY in 2011. Includes five compositions by Berardi, two by Esposito and “Wise One” by John Coltrane. An unusual mix of quintet pieces and duets, including several incandescent guitar/drums explorations. The band is Sangeeta Michael Berardi, electric guitar and pedals; James Finn, tenor sax and flute; John Esposito, piano and drums; Hilliard Greene, bass; and Peter O’Brien, drums. Cover and interior art, paintings, drawings and poems by Sangeeta.

* Announcing New Sunjump Release Tahrir:

The second trio recording by Marx, Siegel and Esposito. As on their previous release Inyo, which was remarkable for its freshness of conception, most of the music started as a series of melodic sketches. Everything else - the harmony, the rhythmic interpretation and the overall shape of the pieces - was improvised. The music references Jazz, Asian, African and European Classical traditions.
     Tahrir features nine new compositions by John Esposito and a new Jeff Marx original. John Esposito - piano, prepared piano, Jeff Marx - mezzo soprano & tenor saxes & flutes, and Jeff Siegel - drums and percussion.

Recorded July 20/21 and December 3, 2011 and mixed & mastered by Scott Petito at NRS, Catskill, NY.
Cover art by Laura Steele.
CD graphic design by Bruce Sconzo.

Current Recording Projects

• John is currently working with Scott Petito at NRS Studios mixing Tiger Tracks, a 1987 unreleased studio recording by Second Sight. Their previous studio session Flying With The Comet is available as a Sunjump CD as well as in its originally released form as a Direct Metal Teldec vinyl audiophile, vintage record. as before, the band is Dave Douglas, trumpet; Jeff Marx, sax; John Esposito, piano; Allen Murphy, bass; Jeff Siegel, drums; and Frederick Berryhill, percussion.

• John is also engaged in producing a CD of music made for film maker Burrill Crohn’s upcoming documentary on guitarist Sangeeta Michael Berardi’s life and work as a painter/poet/ musician. The film trailer, Playing With Parkinson’s, can be viewed at www.burrillcrohn.com. The CD, tentatively titled Mr P, will be a documentation of Sangeeta’s latest music, the production of which was temporarily halted by his developing Parkinson’s Disease. The band is: Sangeeta acoustic and electric guitars, voice and Tibetan singing bowls; Kendra Shank, vocals and electronic loops; Rosi Hertlein, violin and vocals; Mitch Kessler, soprano, alto & tenor saxes, bass clarinet & flute; John Esposito, piano and prepared piano; Hilliard greene, bass; and Peter O’Brien, drums. Sangeeta’s two previous CDs, recorded in 1996, are Earthship and Calling Coltrane, both Sunjump Records releases.

Marx/Siegel/Esposito Spring Tour