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NEW YORK: sugarbar • QUEENS COLLEGE • RIVERSIDE CHURCH
MYSPACE • MUSIC SAMPLES • WEBSITE
TOM SCOTT • MOBY • B-52'S • ANTHONY JACKSON • BRANDON FIELDS...
THE NEW CD RECORDING HAS BEGUN!!!
Alphonso Johnson, Pat Kelley, Jimmy Haslip, Brian Bromberg...
endorsements
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New
York, NY
USA
8:30 and 10 PM - $10
call for reservations
(212) 579-0222
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6th
ASHFORD & SIMPSON’S
SUGAR BAR
THE PAUL PERESS PROJECT
GLENN ALEXANDER - guitar
ADAM HOLZMAN - keys
FRANK GRAVIS - bass
PAUL PERESS - drums
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GLENN ALEXANDER
Lisa Loeb, Michael Bolton, Elvis Costello, Conan O'Brien Band...
FRANK GRAVIS
David Sanborn, Herbie Mann, Hiram Bullock
ADAM HOLZMAN
Miles Davis, Chaka Khan, Robben Ford
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Queens, NY
USA
12 PM - Free
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info
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11th
QUEENS COLLEGE
LeFrak Concert Hall
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
BICENTENIAL GALA CONCERT
DAVID AMRAM
RUBY DEE
LORCA PERESS
MAURICE PERESS
PAUL PERESS
SAM WATERSTON
ERIC WEISSBURG
Compositions BY:
• AARON COPELAND
• DUKE ELLINGTON
• EARL ROBINSON
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Earl Robinson's Lonesome Train honors the story of the final train journey made by fallen president Lincoln, wending its way through the byways of America, allowing a people’s chorus led by a balladeer; a narrator and a gospel preacher and his choir; and a barn dance caller and fiddler to honor Lincoln’s message of “a new nation conceived in liberty” is front and center. |
New York, NY
USA
8
PM - $10 to $15
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12th
RIVERSIDE CHURCH
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
BICENTENIAL GALA CONCERT
DAVID AMRAM
RUBY DEE
LORCA PERESS
MAURICE PERESS
PAUL PERESS
SAM WATERSTON
ERIC WEISSBURG
Compositions BY:
• AARON COPELAND
• DUKE ELLINGTON
• EARL ROBINSON
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February 12, 2009, will be the 200th birthday of the great emancipator Abraham Lincoln. In celebration of this historic event, please join us for a very special evening of American Music.
The concert features
Eric Weissburg on banjo,
famous for his "Dueling Banjos" theme song from the movie Deliverance... |
New
York, NY
USA
8:30 and 10 PM - $10
call for reservations
(212) 579-0222
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FRIDAY, MARCH 6th
ASHFORD & SIMPSON’S
SUGAR BAR
THE PAUL PERESS PROJECT
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...featuring all originals tunes from the new CD!
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Tom Scott - Jive Samba
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BAKED POTATO - BRANDON FIELDS
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MOBY SHREDS - WHOLE LOTTA LOVE
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B-52'S - FARM SANCTUARY GALA
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PAUL PERESS PROJECT - ST KITTS '05
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PAUL PERESS PROJECT II - ST KITTS '05
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BAKED POTATO - STEVE WEINGART
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PAUL PERESS PROJECT - ST KITTS '02
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BACK IN NYC!
We're back at Ashford & Simpson's SugarBar this Friday, featuring a who's who of NYC cats: Frank Gravis, Glenn Alexander, and Adam Holzman - goin' b' fun!!!
CALIFORNIA:
I got to work with Alphonso Johnson - one of my hero's - a couple of weeks back...(I first saw him, playing with Billy Cobham, Tom Scott, Steve Khan, and Mark Soskin, when I was 17 years old at Carnegie Hall. That was before I had even gotten my first drum set! I've gone on to play with 3 of the 5 since then...) Joining me at Spaghettini's Jazz Club, with Alphonso, was my good friend Pat Kelley, and also a great new music connection, Bill Cantos, who played and sang his @$$ off!!! Definitely check out some of Pat and Bill's solo CD's if you haven't yet:
PAT KELLEY ... BILL CANTOS
I also hung at NAMM with some great friends, and got to salivate over some new gear that's just hit the market. Spent time with Stanley Clark, Verdine White, Herbie Hancock, Pat Kelley, Jeff Millar-Sax, Dean Parks, Kevin Walt...
CD:
I'm still in the midst of recording
the new CD. I'm tracking drums in my NYC studio, and I'll be adding some tracks out west as well. Glenn Alexander, Tom Kennedy, Gerald Veasley, Tommy McDonnell, a full horn section, and other very special guests shall be featured. All the tunes are originals. :)
PHOTOS:
I've decided to feature photos of great bass players in this newsletter, starting with Alphonso Johnson from our gig last month...
Hope to see and hear from you soon...
Paul
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Gigging at Spaghettini's in January:
Paul Peress, Pat Kelley, Alphonso Johnson
Gigging on the old stage at Spaghettini's:
Mitch Forman, Paul Peress, Rick Zunegar, Jimmy Haslip
Hangin' in the Caribbean with friends:
Boo Hinson, Gerald Veasley, Paul Peress, Phil Magnotti
NYC's Summer on the Hudson Festival:
Paul Peress, and Ruben Rodriguez
Independence Square, Basseterre, British West Indies:
Paul Peress and Anthony Jackson
The Late LaVeLee Jazz Club, Los Angeles, CA:
Paul Peress and Jimmy Haslip
My first gig at Spaghettini's!!!
Brian Bromberg, Paul Peress, Russell Ferrante
9 Years Ago in the Caribbean:
Paul Peress and Matt Garrison
First time playing LaVeLee - talk about big hair!!!:
Brandon Fields, Paul Peress, Jimmy Johnson, Russell Ferrante
Bennett Studios 2004:
Helio Alves, Paul Peress, Lincoln Goines
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“A Master Drummer and a Must See Artist”
---LOS ANGELES TIMES ©2005
"The Paul Peress Group - in my taste - is the best
band that's ever played in the 14 years of the Kaslo Jazz Festival.
These guys were stellar!
The interaction between them, the connection with the audience, was all
just amazing."
---KASLO JAZZ ETC FESTIVAL, British Columbia - Gusti
Callis, Director
"Kenny Rogers brought the curtain down on the St.
Kitts Music Festival, along with some great performances by Lonnie Liston
Smith and Paul Peress."
---SUN ST. KITTS & NEVIS ©2005
"The first time Paul Peress and I played together,
we had an incredible musical connection - something magical was happening!
It felt like we had been playing together for years. There aren't many
drummers who care about the music at the level that Paul does. I will
remember that night for the rest of my life."
---Abe Laboriel ©2005
“Paul Peress brought the curtain down with his
diverse group of musicians from South America and the US and his funky,
jazzy, multi-cultural sounds.
Peress' expert drumming skills did not go unnoticed and received
resounding applause from the crowd.”
---THE ST LUCIA STAR ©2002 - BET Jazz St Lucia
Festival
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