PRE-SALE TICKETS HERE: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/212330
Rare collaborative show with MC Busdriver and a VERY Special Electronic Guest (hint: we’ve worked with him before and it’s awesome).
One solo set by Kneebody
One set with Kneebody + Busdriver
One set with Kneebody + Special Guest.
21+
$15 Cover
LITTLE TEMPLE
4519 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90029
(323) 660-4540
www.littletemple.com
FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/events/115182491927794/
Small venue. This show will sell out.
w/ Alex Pinto Trio
PREORDER TICKETS:
$12 with discount code “LNLSF”/ $15 regular / $30 VIP
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/198139
Doors 8pm / Show 8:30pm
KNEEBODY clinics have been met with wide acclaim and have taken place at schools across the country including Eastman School of Music, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), New York City’s School for Improvisational Music and more.
Clinic topics include approaches to composing and arranging original music; developing, maintaining and evolving a personal sound and approach to music; making the transition from student musician to professional; developing a career that is both creative and practical in today’s scene; and Kneebody’s improvisational language, including their complex system of musical cues.
Kneebody Clinic
PHOENIX COLLEGE
Sessions Hall – Music Building Room M138
Phoenix College (1202 W. Thomas Rd.)
*This is a free event open to students and musicians*
For more information about this clinic, please contact Milas Yoes at milas.yoes@pcmail.maricopa.edu or call 602-285-7271.
Click this link and see that Shane Endsley’s fantastic album “Then the Other” was mentioned in the LA TIMES as one of the best Jazz albums of 2011. Congrats Shane! Here’s a link where you can listen to it and buy it!
Working with these two artists is always a thrill and it’s always easy to get to music quickly. That’s what we needed to do when we played with Busdriver and Daedelus at the Little Temple in Silverlake earlier this month. We had the day to get the music together. So we set a time and met at the club and rehearsed the music for the night. The set with Daedelus was really fun to put together. He had a bunch of pre written songs that he played us. These are songs that he can deconstruct in the moment – loop bits – and isolate sounds making them easy to play over. We picked about 6 or 7 and then we worked out general shapes and then had a good idea of what to play. This Spring we’re going to record an album with Daedelus, so this was a good night to start to get ready for that. With Busidriver, there are around ten or eleven songs that we have arranged with him over the years. He posted on his facebook something to the effect of ” come hear me perform some of these classics for the last time…”. Anyhow, he’s really fun to play with and super easy and reactive. I really hope that someday we get a chance to work together in the studio. Here’s a clip of the last song we played that night called “Imaginary Places” (the clip was masterfully shot and edited by Alex Chaloff):
Psyched for our show on December 4th in LA with Busdriver and our special guest 
. Here’s the link for the info. Kneebody with Busdriver sounds like this:
We were honored to have been recognized in the 2011 Downbeat Readers Poll for Jazz Group, Adam Benjamin for Electric Keyboard and Kaveh Rastegar for Electric Bass.
We recently played a sold out 3 night run of shows at the Blue Whale in LA. These shows were so much fun. Night 3 of the residency was documented by Alex Chaloff. We sifted through the amazing footage that he shot that night and all of the clips are now viewable on youtube. Here’s a link to all of them. Also here’s a clip of us playing Shane’s tune Teddy Ruxpin:
