Berklee Performance Center Concerts

October 1 — Leo Blanco Group

— Faculty pianist Leo Blanco performs
original world jazz compositions with
his group including faculty members
Bruno Raberg, bass; Rick DiMuzio,
saxophone, Jamey Haddad, drums
and percussion and Eugene Friesen,
cello.

October 3 — American Fruit with
African Roots - Voice department
faculty member Lawrence “Larry’
Watson prepares for a national

tour to promote his Fall Release CD
American Fruit with African Roots.
The twelve cut CD is a musical social
history and social commentary cover-
ing our triumphs and failures. It will
be an evening to educate, entertain
and heal. This concert will feature
several never heard before composi-
tions from the soon to be released
CD and a medley of songs from his
first CD, The Journey. Larry's special
guest for the evening will be the
vocal legend Ms. Tata Vega, the voice
of “Shug” in the Spielberg Motion
picture, The Color Purple. She has
also been the lead singer for the
Andre Crouch Group. She will show-
case two songs from her upcoming
new Gospel CD and then she and
Larry will perform Watson’s com-

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position Half Empty Glass. The All
Star Band will be headed up by the
extraordinary drummer Les Cleveland.

October 11 — Dino Govoni & Friends
- Dino Govoni will be presenting an
evening of original jazz compositions
by Jeff Galindo, Andy McWain and
Dino Govoni in trio to quintet format.

October 15 - Syncopation Vocal Jazz
Quartet — Pop, jazz, and standards in
four-part harmony featuring vocalists
faculty members Christine Fawson,
David Thorne Scott, as well as alumi
Tsunenori “Lee” Abe, and student
Aubrey Logan will be performed with
a rhythm section.

October 16 — The Lazlo Gardony
Trio — Faculty pianist Laszlo Gardony,
faculty bassist John Lockwood and
Assistant Chair Percussion depart-
ment Yoron Israel will perform origi-
nals as well as original arrangements
of standards which feature original
harmonizations, grooves, improvisa-
tions, arrangements and a lot of
interplay between trio members.