Catch Adam Larrabee This Weekend
Adam Larrabee’s compositions based on Bulgarian, Turkish and Middle Eastern music require intense focus and concentration to perform. Rehearsals are of utmost importance, but considering at least three members of the quintet are “full-time daddies” as well as first-call musicians, it can be difficult to work around everyone’s schedule. Larrabee (gtr), J.C. Kuhl (sax), John […]
Adam Larrabee’s compositions based on Bulgarian, Turkish and Middle Eastern music require intense focus and concentration to perform. Rehearsals are of utmost importance, but considering at least three members of the quintet are “full-time daddies” as well as first-call musicians, it can be difficult to work around everyone’s schedule. Larrabee (gtr), J.C. Kuhl (sax), John Winn (sax), Randall Pharr (bs), and Brian Jones (dr) may not be playing as many Balkan tunes as Larrabee had hoped to this Sunday at Commercial Taphouse, but the music will still be polished and stunning. Although “the more adventurous” ones, as Larrabee describes them, will be omitted, the set will likely contain several Larrabee and Jones originals.
The Taphouse has heard Brian Jones’s original music for years. If walls could talk, these would rave about his various interesting instrumentations, his unique and intense compositions, and his drum solos which often draw almost humorous inspiration from the chatter of the bar flies. Larrabee’s music, on the other hand, is new to the Taphouse, at least in this decade. Teaching at the New England Conservatory for the last 9 years, he has been living in Boston, but he has adapted quickly to teaching and playing in Richmond for the first time since his graduate studies at VCU.
The same group, minus Kuhl, can be heard at Bogart’s tonight, Friday, as The John Winn-tet. Larrabee expects to play “mostly a mix of standards, obscure pop covers and original jazz pieces and arrangements.” John Winn’s smooth vocals are sure to delight on a few numbers as well.
If you can’t catch either of these dates, Larrabee plays duo with Bob Hallahan every Tuesday night from 8-10 at Infuzion, the hip new club in Scott’s Addition.
The John Winn-tet
Friday, February 29
Bogart’s Back Room
9:30 pm
21+, $5 cover
[where: 203 N. Lombardy St., Richmond, VA 23220]
Adam Larrabee, John Winn, J.C. Kuhl, Randall Pharr, Brian Jones
Sunday, March 2
Commercial Taphouse
9 pm
All ages, no cover
[where: 111 N. Robinson St., Richmond, VA 23220]
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