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Kit Eakle’s DjangoSphere
Oct 27, 2019
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What’s a Djangosphere you ask???
​DjangoSphere is a project, led by veteran jazz violinist Kit Eakle, in tribute to Thelonious Sphere Monk, and “Django” Jean Reinhardt.
Django and Monk are perhaps the most individual and original voices in mid-20th century Jazz. Eakle has recently finished recording a NEW DjangoSphere CD with guitar great, Howard Alden.
Kit Eakle’s first incarnation of this group recorded DjangoSphere in 2014 with Mark Holzinger, guitar, Alex Baum, bass, and John Waller, percussion. DjangoSphere plays from the repertoire of both Django and Monk and also includes originals by all band members in the spirit of those two great and original Masters.
The group also may include a pianist and/or ‘cellist. Since violinist Eakle currently spends equal amounts of time in The San Francisco Bay Area, where he directs the international Jazz Violin concert series,
Point Richmond Jazz, and Vancouver, the personnel may vary.
In Vancouver he has performed with Miles Black on piano, and Graham Clarke on bass, Michael Dunn, Don Ogilvie, or Bruce Clausen on guitar. In San Francisco, Eakle has performed with Mark Holzinger on guitar, John Burr on piano, Lewis Patzner on ‘cello, John Waller, and Jack Dorsey, percussion, and Simon Planting, Alex Baum and Karen Cullen on bass.
All versions of DjangoSphere are wrapped in the unique violin sound of Kit Eakle and his prototype Ultra-Light Violin by one of America’s foremost luthier’s, Joseph Curtin.
What ever the grouping the music derives from a deep appreciation of Django and Monk. Read on to discover the connection between these two jazz composers around which Eakle has built this project!
“What would have happened if legendary Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt wandered into Minton’s Playhouse during his only tour of the US in 1946 and jammed with pianist/composer Thelonious Monk at the Harlem nightspot that served as an essential forum for the birth of modern jazz? The resulting encounter might have sounded something like what jazz violinist Kit Eakle delivers on DjangoSphere, a rhythmically dexterous rollercoaster ride that artfully melds the sounds of two irreducibly brilliant artists.”
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| Category: | Concerts |
| Date: | Oct 27, 2019 |
| Time: | 7:00pm - 9:30pm |
| Address: | #8 464 Island Highway East Parksville |
| Location: | Ground Zero Acoustic Lounge |
| Cost: | $25 |
| Website: | Open Site |
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