New York, NY (Top40 Charts) To celebrate the upcoming release of her new CD, Indo Latin Jazz Live in Concert, Mariah Parker will be performing three concerts in Northern California in January and February of 2017. According to Latin Beat Magazine, Mariah Parker's Indo Latin Jazz Ensemble "blends the rhythmic syncopations of Latin jazz music with the entrancing, asymmetrical meters of East Indian rhythms resulting in first-class world music. Intriguing melodies that draw musical inspirations from the tempos of Brazil, Cuba, India, and Spain make for an uplifting serene yet passionate musical journey into an ideal world."
Concerts
Sunday, January 22, 2017, 7:00 PM
Freight and Salvage
2020 Addison Street
Berkeley, California
Tickets: $24 in advance, $28 at the door
Ticket Link: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1266981?utm_medium=bks
For more info, call (510) 644-2020 or visit www.thefreight.org
Event page: https://thefreight.org/170122
Featuring Mariah Parker (composition, piano, santur), Paul McCandless (woodwinds), Matthew Montfort (guitar), Kash Killion (bass, cello), and percussionists Ian Dogole, Brian Rice, and Michaelle Goerlitz.
Sunday, January 29, 2017, 7:00 PM
Don Quixote's International
Music Hall
6275 Highway 9
Felton, California
Tickets: $20
For tickets and more info, visit www.donquixotesmusic.info
Featuring Mariah Parker (composition, piano, santur), Paul McCandless (woodwinds), Matthew Montfort (guitar), Kash Killion (bass, cello), and Ian Dogole (percussion).
Saturday, February 4, 2017, 8:00 PM
Occidental Center for the Arts
3850 Doris Murphy Ct.
Occidental, California
Tickets: $20
Ticket Link: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2723016
For more info, visit https://www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org
Event page: https://www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org/mariah-parkers-indo-latin-jazz-ensemble/
Featuring Mariah Parker (composition, piano, santur), Paul McCandless (woodwinds), Matthew Montfort (guitar), Kash Killion (bass, cello), and Ian Dogole (percussion).
Indo Latin Jazz Live in Concert CD Release 1/20/17
In 2009, Mariah Parker launched her Indo Latin Jazz Ensemble with a sold-out debut concert at Yoshi's in Oakland, California. Mariah's new release for AncientFuture.com records, "Indo Latin Jazz Live in Concert," captures the magic of that first performance, as well as subsequent Northern California concerts at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, the Throckmorton Theater in Mill Valley and a studio session at Bob Weir's TRI Studios in San Rafael. These multi-track live recordings were painstakingly mixed and mastered over a seven-year period by veteran Ancient
Future producer Matthew Montfort. Indo Latin Jazz Live in Concert is a follow-up recording to Sangria, Mariah's debut CD, which received airplay on over 468 New World, Jazz, and Latin radio programs, and earned over 365 reviews and media placements, including two songs that ascended to the Smooth Jazz Now Top 100 Songs of 2009 Chart.
"Parker, who holds a degree in music from UC
Santa Cruz, wrote the eight instrumental compositions on this exquisite collection of pieces that fuse Latin rhythms with influences from South
America and
India with a dash of straight-up American jazz. It's an intoxicating blend of East and West performed by musicians of astounding virtuosity. Like all the best jazz bands, this group is as disciplined as it is innovative, stopping on a dime when the composition calls for it and soaring into gorgeous landscapes of free association the next moment that are as pleasing as they are adventurous. This is sophisticated stuff, an album of global fusion performed by a group with character, charisma and the confidence that comes across when world-class musicians at the top of their games come together and create magic in the here and now of a live performance." — Marin Independent Journal
Full review of Indo Latin Jazz Live in Concert available at https://www.marinij.com/article/NO/20160428/FEATURES/160429811