Marty Fogel's Mixed Bag Quartet plays album 'Now and Then'

Saturday, January 4, 2025

Gallery Opens 7pm / Music 7:30pm

$15-30 Sliding / Under 21 Free

BYOB

The Mixed Bag Quartet plays Marty’s original compositions. Released in June of 2023, recordings 'Now and Then', and 'Now and Then 2' are available on YouTube and most major streaming platforms. 'Now and Then' was also released as a CD. These releases and this concert features the playing of the Mixed Bag Quartet, with Tom Cleary on piano, Geza Carr on drums and Jeremy Hill on bass.

Marty Fogel (saxophones, clarinet, flute) has played and toured

internationally with major jazz artists, trumpeter Don Cherry and baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan. He also spent several years performing and recording in the band of the legendary rock artist Lou Reed. Marty was a cofounder of The Everyman Band, an innovative and internationally acclaimed group which toured throughout Europe and recorded two albums for ECM Records. He also recorded a CD under his own name entitled, “many bobbing heads at last...." which was released on CMP Records. Marty has been on stage performing in a wide variety of musical styles with artists such as Ed Blackwell, David Bowie, Trilok Gurtu, John Lee Hooker, David Torn, Nana Vasconcelos, and Colin Walcott. He has also backed The Four Tops, The Spinners and The Temptations.

Marty has also been a recipient of a performance grant from the National Endowment for the Arts which funded several concerts of his original music.

The Bruce Sklar Trio with special guest saxophonist and composer Daniel Ian Smith will be performing in the wonderful Phoenix Gallery in Waterbury VT on December 20, 2024. Plan now for a wonderful night on the town. BYOB and festive dress encouraged!

Friday, December 20, 2024

Gallery Opens at 7:00pm, Music Begins at 7:30pm

Watch an excerpt here!

We are pleased to offer the option to Bring Your Own Beverage and a charcuterie board from Salt & Rind!  Thank you Britt and Luke! Let's gather to celebrate each other and the solstice. 

Daniel Ian Smith is a saxophonist, flutist, educator and composer with over 30 years of experience. He is a Professor at the acclaimed Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA where he has taught for almost 30 years. Smith is in demand as a clinician, guest soloist, and lecturer with appearances throughout the United States, Japan, Germany, Canada, Mexico, Israel and England. In 1992, he founded Big and Phat Jazz Productions to serve as the production company for his Jazz in the Sanctuary Concert Series, an independent record label Big and Phat Jazz Productions, and his ensembles and touring projects. The recordings and performances by his ensemble The New World Jazz Composers Octet (NWJCO) have received rave reviews in DownBeat, JazzTimes, Cadence, ArtsFuse and All About Jazz magazines. His groups The New World Jazz Composers Octet, and The Latin Side of Billy Strayhorn have been featured at festivals and concert halls locally and internationally. 

Joining Daniel and Bruce will be bassist Jeremy Hill , and drummer Timothy Gilmore, two of New england's very best. https://danieliansmith.com/

Thank you to our sponsor, Salt & Rind, in downtown Waterbury!

"The improvising quartet of Josh Berman, Eli Wallace, Ishmael Ali, and Bill Harris focuses on acoustic interplay, resulting in music featuring acousmatic moments that obfuscate who makes which sound, blurring and bending rhythms and pitches into a syncretic whole. The group strives to create a unified heuristic sound that simultaneously features each individual while constantly generating a sense of rhythmic propulsion, at times subtle, at times bombastic."

trumpet - keys - cello - drums

"Arthur Brooks Ensemble V is an elastic group founded & led by Arthur Brooks to play his compositions & improvisations. This iteration will feature Brooks, Michael Chorney, Bill Heminway, Jeremy Harlos, Anthony Santor & Matt Weston. This group carries on the radical musical tradition & evolution of Brooks’ mentors & peers such as Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor, Milford Graves, Frank Wright, William Parker, Ted Daniel and more."

Outer Sounds is a concert series curated by Greg Davis at The Phoenix Gallery & Music Hall in Waterbury VT. Greg is an internationally recognized electronic musician from Burlington & owner of Autumn Records in Winooski.

Former poet laureate of Belfast, Maine, Afrofuturist/Oro-shamanic poet and bass clarinetist Toussaint St. Negritude dazzles with this debut collection of poems, featuring an ensemble of cosmic tones the late Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks once called “full of sweet sounds and surprises.” Through the inspiration of life, jazz, and nature, Mountain Spells is about the intrinsic clarity of emancipation, expressing all found intersections of what the author sees and experiences, and how this Black/queer/high-hat-wearing artist envisions the world through the lens of spirituality, the African diaspora, and nature as his home. Each poem, written in Vermont, expresses the whole cosmos of collective liberation. “I listened to the birds, to the sky, what the leaves were telling me,” says St. Negritude, and captured it all in improvisational, freeform, and musical poetry, lovely and changing as the seasons themselves.

Jordan Sand is a double bassist, vocalist, composer and improviser living in Trondheim, Norway. Her solo music, described as "Joni Mitchell meets Ligeti" (Omaha Under the Radar), blends song, free improv and noise to haunting effects. Blurring the lines between her bowed bass and siren voice, Sand delivers new stories from a familiar acoustic space, fusing strings and chords into an organ-like sound that transcends the sum of two parts.

In November 2024 Sand brings a song cycle of modern myths to Waterbury, spinning scenes of apocalyptic mother hares and desert wanderers and proliferating scraps of sound into static worlds for contemplation and rest.

Mikahely is a singer-songwriter who hails from the beautiful island of Madagascar, but his music is out of this world! A self-taught musician, he draws inspiration from traditional Malagasy rhythms to create his own unique and healing sounds on guitar and valiha (a zither-like instrument made from bamboo). Singing his all original music in his native language of Malagasy, Mikahely transcends boundaries. Having toured in Madagascar and Europe, he now brings his music to new audiences in the United States. He is also featured in the documentary Guitar Madagascar.

October 7, 2024

Gallery Opens 7:00pm

Music Begins 7:30

Sliding Scale Donation of $15-30

Youth under 21 free

The Phoenix Art Gallery and Music Hall

5 Stowe Street Waterbury, VT 05676

Kath Bloom is some kind of legend. She comes from a special place where country, blues and folk are made beautifully translucent and emotive. Highly regarded but a bit of a mystery. The Connecticut based singer/songwriter has a special gift - her almost supernaturally beautiful, wavering soprano is one that has to be heard, she has a clear transparent moonlight tone combined with an earthly raw quality that can silence a room.

Kath made some very very limited edition albums in the 70’s and 80’s with the amazing (and equally dreamlike) guitarist Loren Mazzacane Connors, full of songs that float and melt into the ether. Impossibly beautiful. However, music was put on the back burner as life changed and she raised a family, trained ‘problem horses’ and taught special music programs to kids. Just as she was starting to write and release CDs again, Richard Linklater decided to use her song ‘Come Here’ in his 1995 film ‘Before Sunrise’. Life altered - not much - but the public consciousness was rightfully tweaked. Slowly her old recordings and new material have been seeping back into the world.

This includes a special tribute album by artists such as Josephine

Foster, Bill Callahan, Devendra Banhart, Meg Baird and Scout

Nibblet. Since 2017 she has been recording and performing with New Haven, CT based guitarist David Shapiro.

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Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic, is full, textured, committed and original. A relentless inquirer, her work drifts freely across borders that separate genre, discipline, time and geography.

Current and former collaborators and/or bosses include Earth, Nirvana, Mirah, Jessika Kenney, Ilan Volkov, Eyvind Kang, Stuart Dempster, David Byrne, Terry Riley, Jherek Bischoff, Malcom Goldstein, Steve Von Till, Lonnie Holley, Cat Power, Ellen Fullman, Maya Dunietz, Mik Quantius, Embryo, O Paon, Tara Jane O’Neil, Natacha Atlas, Broken Water, Ed Pias, Christian Rizzo and Sophie Laly, Threnody Ensemble, Cynthia Hopkins, 33 Fainting Spells, Vanessa Renwick, Mark Mitchell, Lynn Shelton, and many more.

Her work has been commissioned by and/or performed at the Kennedy Center, Sydney Festival, Cineteca Nacional de México, Tectonics Festival, Frye Art Museum, Time Based Art Festival (TBA), WNYC, The New Foundation, Paris Fashion Week, Northwest Film Forum, On the Boards, Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle Jewish Film Festival, Bumbershoot, Crossing Border Festival, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Joe’s Pub, the Stone, University of Chicago, and venues large and small throughout North America, Mexico, Australia, and Europe.

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Outer Sounds is a concert series curated by Greg Davis at The Phoenix Gallery & Music Hall in Waterbury VT. Greg is an internationally recognized electronic musician from Burlington & owner of Autumn Records in Winooski. He has been curating & programming concerts for 20+ years. He will utilize his connections to bring cutting edge musicians to The Phoenix. The Outer Sounds concert series will explore the worlds & intersections of electronic, experimental, avant-garde, improvised, ambient, drone, minimalist, free jazz, modern composition, psychedelic music and more. All concerts are intended to be accessible and open to anyone, regardless of knowledge or experience. We hope the music will encourage discussion, inquiry & feedback. Come with open ears, minds & hearts and listen to the Outer Sounds.