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| Dates | Event | Location |
| OCTOBER 2008 | ||
| 23 | William Parker: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield w/Amiri Baraka/Leena Conquest Foster/Sabir Mateen/Lewis Barnes Dave Burrell/William Parker/Hamid Drake |
Strasbourg Jazz Festival Strasbourg, France |
| 24 | William Parker: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield w/Amiri Baraka/Leena Conquest Foster/Sabir Mateen/Lewis Barnes Dave Burrell/WIlliam Parker/Hamid Drake |
Madrid Jazz Festival Colegio San Juan Evangelista Madrid, Spain |
| 25 | William Parker: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield w/Amiri Baraka/Leena Conquest Foster/Sabir Mateen/Lewis Barnes Dave Burrell/WIlliam Parker/Hamid Drake |
Jazz and Wine Festival Cormones, Italy |
| 26 | Amiri Baraka Quartet Dave Burrell, piano William Parker, bass Hamid Drake, drums |
Teatro Candiani Mestre, Italy |
| 27 | Amiri Baraka Quartet Darryl Foster, tenor and soprano sax Dave Burrell, piano William Parker, bass |
Marble Jazz Festival Teatro Centro Lucia Botticino, Italy |
| 28 | Dave Burrell Plays His Songs feat. Leena Conquest Dave Burrell, composer/arranger/pianist Leena Conquest, voice and dance w/special guest Lewis Barnes, trumpet |
Marble Jazz Festival Teatro Centro Lucia Botticino, Italy |
| 29 | William Parker: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield w/Amiri Baraka/Leena Conquest Foster/Sabir Mateen/Lewis Barnes Dave Burrell/WIlliam Parker/Hamid Drake |
Marble Jazz Festival Teatro Centro Lucia Botticino, Italy |
| 31 | William Parker: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield w/Amiri Baraka/Leena Conquest Foster/Sabir Mateen/Lewis Barnes Dave Burrell/WIlliam Parker/Hamid Drake |
Diagonal Festival Catanzaro, Italy |
| NOVEMBER 2008 | ||
| 2 | Amiri Baraka Quartet Dave Burrell, piano William Parker, bass Hamid Drake, drums |
Times Zones Bari, Italy |
Db3
Dave Burrell, piano/music director
Harrison Bankhead, bass
Guillermo Brown, drums
CD: Dave Burrell Db3 "MOMENTUM" (HIGH TWO Recordings)
Recent performances with special guest Leena Conquest:
January 26, 2008 TEATRO ARCINBOLDI, Milan, Italy
January 28, 2008 Catania, Sicily, Italy
Next performance: Sardinia, Italy July 19, 2008
Db4
Dave Burrell, piano/music director
Harrison Bankhead, bass
Guillermo Brown, drums
Giovanni Falzone, trumpet
Next performance: "The Complete Dave Burrell at Bordeaux" Bordeaux Jazz Festival May 16, 2008
LEENA CONQUEST SINGS THE SONGS OF DAVE BURRELL
Dave Burrell, piano/music director
Leena Conquest, voice, dance
Monika Larsson, lyrics
The Burrell/Larsson writing team has redefined their ballads from their earlier collaborations
(Crucificado, Black Robert, Teardrops for Jimmy). Today, they have added new contemporary
compositions to their repertoire, presented in 'cabaret' style. Dave and Leena have toured
regularly in Europe since November 2005.
This critically acclaimed duo will record for HIGH TWO in the spring of 2008.
Recent performances in March, 2008: Parco della Musica "Dialoghi," RAI boraodcast. Rome,Italy;
"Jazz per Due", Pavia, Italy; Ruvo di Puglia, Italy
Upcoming performances in May, 2008: Le jardin au bor du Lac, Segrate, Italy; Avellino, Italy;
Limmitationes, Rudersdorf, Austria; Salon Philharmonica, Prague, Czech Republic,
Bordeaux Jazz festival, France
ROSENBACH MUSEUM AND LIBRARY
Artist-in-Residence
Commissioned work:
"Bill of Sale for a Slave" (2006)
Syllables of the Poetry of Marianne Moore
Dave Burrell, composer/pianist and Michael Formanek, bass.
Premiere performances: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 and February 23, 2008
Rosenbach Museum, 20th and Delancey, Philadelphia, PA
Upcoming performance of Syllables of the Poetry of Marianne Moore: Philadelphia Museum of Art, June 13
DAVE BURRELL/BILLY MARTIN
Dave Burrell, piano
Billy Martin, drums
CD: Dave Burrell/Billy Martin: Consequences
AMULET Records (2006)
Recent Performances: Tonic, New York City, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
Vision XI Festival, New York City, New York
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 performance: "Dave Burrell Interprets Jelly Roll Morton"
JazzImprov Live! 2007 Conference New York City, NY October 26, 2007
Next performance: The Complete Dave Burrell at Bordeaux, May 16, 2008
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
Upcoming performance: Bordeaux Jazz Festival May 17 w/ special guest Harrison Bankhead, double bass violin
FULL BLOWN TRIO
Dave Burrell piano/music director
William Parker, bass
Guillermo Brown, drums.
CD: Dave Burrell Full-Blown Trio: EXPANSION (HIGH TWO Recordings) (2004)
BODY AND SOUL 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 PIANO AND VIOLIN
Suite in Three Movements for Piano, Violin Duo
Dave Burrell, piano/music director
Orchestration for larger ensemble w/strings/horns/vocals in progress.
WINDWARD PASSAGES
Jazz Opera in Three Acts
Dave Burrell, composer and arranger.
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)
BALLADS (DIW)
SPIRITUALS (DIW)
TENORS (DIW)
LUCKY FOUR (Enja)
THE LAST OF THE HIPMEN (Delta)
REMEMBRANCES (DIW)
JELLY ROLL JOYS (Gazell)
IN CONCERT (Victo)
PICASSO (DIW)
WINDWARD PASSAGES (Black Saint)
LIVE AT CARAMOOR (Sonoris)
ESQUISSES FOR A WALK (Nocturne)
Upcoming performance: Showcase of Windward Passages in Milan and Catania, Italy October, 2008
Premeiere performance: Showcase of Windward Passages, Teatro Manzoni, Milan, Italy January 25, 2009.
For more about this work, please refer to:
Gary Giddins, Visions of Jazz – The First Century, “Dave Burrell – Brotherly Love”. (Oxford Press)
Francis Davis, Bebop and Nothingness, “Dave Burrell – Well-tempered” (Shirmer Books)
Lee Jeske, Downbeat Magazine, “Candy Girl’s Son Makes Good”
Roger Riggins, Coda Magazine, “Dave Burrell”
Bret Primack, Keyboard, “A Jazz Piano Odyssey from Harlem to Hawaii”.
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.