BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1171189:Event:31938 DTSTAMP:20260429T161444Z SUMMARY:Bitches Brew with Special Guest Nancy Loedy, ThanksGiving Spec ial DESCRIPTION:ALCHEMIST\n\n11/26/2009 10:30 PM at Bitches Brew with Spec ial Guest Nancy Loedy, ThanksGiving Special\n\nBitches Brew Tonight Th ey are going to play Acoustic Jazz Classics Especially for Thanksgivin g and maybe a Little Miles In The Mix jazz/fusion quintet formed in 20 07, re-creates the sounds and music from Miles’ Electric Period, fro m A Silent Way through the Jack Johnson sessions and on to the live sh ows in Montreaux. The band features Steven Branson on soprano and teno r sax, Patrick Battstone on Fender Rhodes, and Tony Betancourt on guit ar. We use several different bass players, such as David Gold and Aaro n Bellamy, and several drummers, such as Dave Fox, Gillian DeLear and Ian MacMillan. With luck, we are occaisionally joined by Nancy Loedy o n alto, giving us two horns. Also, for a more main stream session, we had Terkel Norgaard with us last summer at Church of Boston – check out the tunes and the photos! (and check out his other bands BTN Trio, DoerigHvidNoergaard Trio, and Trio Shades.) Steven Branson, who is th e leader because he had the idea to form this band and does the bookin gs, attended Berklee from 1972 to 1975 and has since played with bands in the Boston and New York areas. He continues to study sax with Berk lee woodwind chair, has his own CDs out, and was a former Art Blakey a nd Tony Williams side man, Billy Pierce. Patrick Battstone has played “just about everything” since 1968; attended Berklee in 1973 and l ater studied with Charlie Bonacos, Serge Conus and M. Chaloff, Joanne Brackeen, and Paul Bley. His band, with Grover Mooney and Jay Hoffman, was the first to open the 1369 Jazz club in 1975. Battstone also form ed a band from playing the MIT Festival Jazz ensemble in 1995 and play ed weekly sessions at the Muddy Charles, an MIT pub. Battstone and Dav id Gold, our bass player, have played together “since last century, man.” Tony Betancourt attended Berklee from 1979 to 1981, and studie d with Charlie Banacos, Mike Stern, Mick Goodrich and Rick Danko. Curr ently, he plays with Baron Browne, Leo Blanco and Steve Langone in The Cuban Jazz Project. His recording projects have included Tony Levin, Jim Weider, Mavis Staples, Merl Saunders & Jerry Bergonzi. Check out h is web page, Cuban Jazz Project Ian McMillan, our drumer from the begi nning to through 2008 and still plays with us from time to time, was p art of the two year odyssey of the Midway Groove Thang and has since p layed with Carla Ryder and Clydesdale Cowboys. Yusaku Yoshimura, our b ass player from the beginning through 2008, attended Berklee and has e njoyed fame in Japan for his keyboard skills, and now has ventured to Boston playing bass. We are fortunate to have people like Gillian Dele ar (drums), Jeremy Esposito (durms), Aaron Bellamy (bass), John Frazie r (trumpet), and others sit in with us from time to time. As the media has said: “Together, Bitches Brew forms an interesting and exciting chemistry that has to be seen as well as heard.” Translation: we ca n really get into a groove and be cooking!\n\nFor more information vis it http://neighborsforneighbors.org/events/bitches-brew-with-special DTSTART:20091127T030000Z DTEND:20091127T060000Z CATEGORIES:jazz, and, blues LOCATION:The Alchemist Lounge WEBSITE:http://www.myspace.com/alchemistloungejp URL:http://www.myspace.com/alchemistloungejp CONTACT:617-477-5741 ORGANIZER;CN=Lyndon:http://neighborsforneighbors.org/profile/Lyndon ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/2245120705?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN=Lyndon:ht tp://neighborsforneighbors.org/profile/Lyndon END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR