SmallsLIVE Presents: THE SPIKE WILNER TRIO en concierto en Bogui Jazz (Domingo, 24 de noviembre 2013)
SmallsLIVE Presents: THE SPIKE WILNER TRIO en el concierto en Bogui Jazz
Domingo, 24 de noviembre 2013 a las 20:30 h
Entrada Anticipada: 10 euros
Entrada En Taquilla: 12 euros
Spike Wilner PIANO
Yotam Silverstein GUITARRA
Paul Gill CONTRABAJO
El Trío Toca un elegante repertorio de standards de jazz y Blues.
Para Bogui, es un honor y privilegio presentar por primera vez en Madrid el trío de Spike Wilner, pianista, compositor y propietario de Smalls, el reconocido club de jazz de Nueva York que actualmente mantiene viva la llama del “autentico jazzbar neoyorkino.” En el siguiente link de la prestigiosa revista All About Jazz se reseña el ambicioso proyecto de SmallsLive en torno a la documentación grabada de sus conciertos.
AquÍ podéis ver varios videos de actuaciones en SmallsLIVE en Nueva York:
Video de Spike Wilner Trio Live en Smalls:
El trío de Spike Wilner con Paul Gill al contrabajo y Mark Taylor a la batería las 3 de la madrugada en Smalls, NYC:
Spike Wilner, Brief Bio:
Michael "Spike" Wilner, was born in the city of Manhattan, New York. His father is a professor of Hematology and his mother a clinical social worker. Spike hails from a direct line to a famous rabbinical dynasty founded by his great-great-great grandfather, Moses Sofer, who was a Kabbala master & mystic. His grandmother, Marie Wilner, was a well respected painter in the Abstract Impressionist style. She was active on the New York art scene of the 1930's through the 1960's and created an enigmatic body of work.
Spike was inspired to play ragtime piano at a young age after seeing a docudrama on the life of Scott Joplin. This led to a life-long passion for piano playing, ragtime and jazz music. Spike made his performance debut at the age of 14 by playing Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag at the St. Louis Ragtime Festival, then held on the Goldenrod Showboat moored on the Mississippi River. Spike continued his music studies through high-school and participated in its award winning jazz band.
Spike entered into the first class of the, now legendary, New School For Social Research's Jazz and Contemporary Music Program, then led by the late Arnie Lawrence. In this original class, Spike met and befriended many of today's prominent members of the current jazz scene. This included: Brad Mehldau, Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein, Jesse Davis, Chris Potter, Jorge Rossi, Sam Yahel, Joe Strasser, Roy Hargrove, John Popper (of the Blues Travlers), Eric Schenkman (of the Spin Doctors).
Spike entered into a period of intense study and worked with many great teachers. Of the most important were: Barry Harris, Jaki Byard, Kenny Werner, Walter Davis Jr., Kenny Barron, Mark Thompson, Harry Whitaker, Fred Hersch, Johnny O'Neal and Terry Waldo.
Spike performed with and has led many bands in New York City at many famous, now closed, jazz clubs including The Village Gate, The Angry Squire, Visiones, Augies, The West End Gate and The Village Corner. Spike also toured with The Artie Shaw Big Band, The Glen Miller Orchestra, Maynard Furgeson & Lennie Cuje.
Spike has several recordings out under his name including A Blues of Many Colors (Freshsound/New Talent), Planet Jazz (Sharp Nine), Three To Go (Positone), La Tendresse (Positone), Live At Smalls (SmallsLIVE). Spike has published a folio of transcriptions of the work of Willie The Lion Smith entitled The Lion Of The Piano: 9 Compostions by Willie The Lion Smith. Spike completed his Masters Degree in Piano Performance at the State University of New York in Purchase, New York in 2007.
In 1994, Spike began to work a regular gig at Smalls Jazz Club. This became his permanent musical home and led to his current position as partner and manager of the club. Spike now spends most of his time at Smalls making sure that it keeps on running. Each Tuesday he performs with his group.
Spike's company SmallsLIVE LLC is a digital media company with the purpose of distributing live recorded music from Smalls Jazz Club. SmallsLIVE currently has a catalog of 40 HD titles, broadcasts live shows every night on the internet via www.smallslive.com. SmallsLIVE has also documented every show at Smalls Jazz Club since September of 2007. The audio/video archive now has more than 7000 recordings and represents from than 550 prominent jazz artists.
Spike Wilner is an optimist and Zen Buddhist. He firmly believes in living a life as a "field of merit" and focusing on positive loving and compassionate influence on others for universal spiritual growth. He believes that music, particularly jazz music, is a way to communicate this positive message to the whole world.