Click on the links below for information on each project.

  • Itinerary
  • Db3
  • Db4
  • Dave Burrel l Plays the Burrell/Larson Songbook
  • Rosenbach Museum & Library
  • Dave Burrell/Billy Martin
  • Suite for Strings & Brass
  • Dave Burrell Solo
  • Dave Burrell Italian Trio
  • Full Blown Trio
  • Body & Soul: Original Film Score
  • Windward Passages
  • A Jazz Life
  • Discography
  • Read the new Fresh Out Media interview with Dave!

    Bookings: Alberto Lofoco at lalo@exb.it
    +39 338 481 7055

    Dates Event Location
    SEPTEMBER 2010
    9 Dave Burrell's 70th Birthday Celebration
    Dave Burrell Trio
    William Parker and Sabir Mateen
    Philadelphia Art Alliance
    18th/Rittenhouse Square
    Philadelphia, PA
    8:00 pm
    www.arsnovaworkshop.org
    10 Dave Burrell's 70th Birthday Celebration
    Dave Burrell Trio
    William Parker and Sabir Mateen
    Philadelphia Art Alliance
    18th/Rittenhouse Square
    Philadelphia, PA
    8:00 pm
    www.arsnovaworkshop.org
    OCTOBER 2010
    1 The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield
    William Parker Ensemble
    Sabir Mateen/Lewis Barnes/Darryl Foster
    Amiri Baraka/Leena Conquest/Dave Burrell/Hamid Drake
    Aum Fidelity Record Release Concert
    New York City, NY
    15 Dave Burrell, solo piano Joe's Movement Emporium
    Mt. Rainer, MD
    22 Dave Burrell Trio An Die Musik
    Baltimore, MD
    8pm & 9:30pm
    29 Dave Burrell, solo piano "The Piano Hour Series"
    Sala Vanni
    Piazza del Carmine
    Firenze (Florence)
    Italy
    www.musicusconcentus.it
    NOVEMBER 2010
    6 Dave Burrell/Silke Eberhard Duo Jazzclub Schlot
    Berlin, Germany
    9 Dave Burrell, solo piano Take Five Club
    via Catoleniria 15
    Bologna, Italy
    8pm & 10pm
    JANUARY 2011
    19 Dave Burrell, composer/pianist
    Commissioned Work:
    "Jazz Portraits of Civil War Heroes for piano and bass violin by Dave Burrell"
    Dave Burrell Duo w/violinist Odessa Balan
    Rosenbach Museum & Library
    20th & Delancy Streets
    Philadelphia, PA
    6pm
    22 Dave Burrell, composer/pianist
    Commissioned Work:
    "Jazz Portraits of Civil War Heroes for piano and bass violin by Dave Burrell"
    Dave Burrell Duo w/violinist Odessa Balan
    Rosenbach Museum & Library
    20th & Delancy Streets
    Philadelphia, PA
    3pm
    MARCH 2011
    26 Dave Burrell with special guests The Stone
    Avenue C and 2nd Street
    New York City, NY
    8pm & 10pm


    Dave Burrell and Monika Larsson 2007
    Dave Burrell and Monika Larsson 2007

    Db3
    Dave Burrell, piano/music director
    Harrison Bankhead, bass
    Gerald Cleaver, drums

    CD: Dave Burrell Db3 "MOMENTUM" (HIGH TWO Recordings)

    Db4
    Dave Burrell, piano/music director
    Giovanni Falzone, trumpet
    Harrison Bankhead, bass
    Gerald Cleaver, drums

    Most recent performance: "The Complete Dave Burrell at Bordeaux" Bordeaux Jazz Festival May 16, 2008

    DAVE BURRELL PLAYS THE BURRELL/LARSSON SONGBOOK

    Dave and Leena have toured regularly in Europe since November 2005.  

    This critically acclaimed duo recorded in December, 2008 for RAI Trade, Italy. Release date: spring 2009

    Most recent performances:



    ROSENBACH MUSEUM AND LIBRARY
    Musician-in-Residence

    Click Here to watch distinguished composer Dave Burrell perform at the Rosenbach Museum & Library.
    Commissioned work:

    DAVE BURRELL/BILLY MARTIN

    CD: Dave Burrell/Billy Martin: Consequences

    AMULET Records ( www.AmuletRecords.com) (2006)

    Recent Performances:

    DAVE BURRELL SOLO
    Solo piano recordings:
    HIGH WON HIGH TWO (1968)
    ONLY ME (1973)
    BLACK SPRING (1977)
    TEARDROPS FOR JIMMY (1978)
    WINDWARD PASSAGES (1979)
    JELLY ROLL JOYS (1991)
    LIVE AT CARAMOOR (1996)
    MARGY PARGY (2005)

    Recent performances:
  • Upcoming performances: DAVE BURRELL ITALIAN TRIO LA VIE DE BOHEME
    Dave Burrell, piano/music director
    Giovanni Falzone, trumpet
    Paolo Botti, viola

    Dave Burrell's La Vie de Boheme (BYG) 1969
    Re-arrangement of Puccini's score to La Boheme for piano, trumpet and viola.

    Recent performances:
    Bordeaux Jazz Festival, Bordeaux, France. November 9, 2006
    Stazione Leopolda (www.youtube.com/daveburrell) Florence, Italy May 13, 2007
    Bordeaux Jazz Festival w/ special guest Harrison Bankhead, double bass violin, May 16, 2008

    FULL BLOWN TRIO
    Dave Burrell piano/music director
    William Parker, bass
    Andrew Cyrille, drums
    CD: Dave Burrell Full-Blown Trio: EXPANSION (HIGH TWO Recordings) (2004)

    Next Performance:
    June 6: Montreal, Canada with W. Parker and Naseet Waits

    BODY AND SOUL: ORIGINAL FILM SCORE
    Black/white film by Oscar Micheaux (1925) starring Paul Robeson (his film debut)
    Dave Burrell, composer/pianist and Db3
    Premiere live performance at the Syracuse Film Festival in April, 2005.
    Dave Burrell Trio w/Michael Formanek and Tani Tabbal.
    Selections from this work appears on Dave Burrell Db3 MOMENTUM" (HIGH TWO Recordings)

    SUITE FOR STRINGS AND BRASS
    "Suite in Three Movements: Blackmail Tango, Existence and Transformation"
    Dave Burrell, piano/music director
    Orchestration for larger ensemble w/strings/horns in progress.

    WINDWARD PASSAGES
    Jazz Opera in Three Acts
    Dave Burrell, composer and arranger, piano
    Monika Larsson, book and libretto

    Orchestrated for 21 piece orchestra, 8 principal voices, dancers and chorus.
    The story-line promotes racial harmony as it deals with racial discord through cross-cultural confrontations.

    Selections from this work appear on:
    WINDWARD PASSAGES (HatHut, Switzerland)
    BALLADS (DIW, Japan)
    SPIRITUALS (DIW, Japan)
    TENORS (DIW, Japan)
    LUCKY FOUR (Enja, Germany)
    THE LAST OF THE HIPMEN (Delta, Germany)
    REMEMBRANCES (DIW, Japan)
    JELLY ROLL JOYS (Gazell, USA)
    IN CONCERT (Victo, Canada)
    PICASSO (DIW, Japan)
    WINDWARD PASSAGES (Black Saint, Italy)
    LIVE AT CARAMOOR (Sonoris, USA)
    ESQUISSES FOR A WALK (Nocturne, France)

    For more about this work, please refer to:

    Workshops were held at PIM Spacio Scenico Theatre, Milan Italy December 8 thru 12, 2008



    A JAZZ LIFE
    Monika Larsson is writing a book, A Jazz Life, where she chronologizes Dave Burrell’s recordings.
    Through interviews and vivid recollections from Dave’s avant-garde beginnings (East Village, New York City) in the mid-60’s to the present, Monika creates a living history of Burrell’s legacy.



    DISCOGRAPHY - 1966-69
    DISCOGRAPHY - 1970-79
    DISCOGRAPHY - 1980-89
    DISCOGRAPHY - 1990-99
    DISCOGRAPHY - 2000-07

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