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Multikulti Trio
In Tribute to Don Cherry
Renowned trumpeter/multi-instrumentalist Don Cherry made his first guest appearance with Peter Apfelbaum's Bay Area-based big band the Hieroglyphics Ensemble in 1988. A fruitful musical relationship was born, and Cherry recruited Apfelbaum and fellow Hieroglyphs Bo Freeman and Josh Jones to form Multikulti, Cherry's main touring group until his death in 1995. Since then, Apfelbaum and Jones have continued to perform together and will reunite with Freeman to celebrate their beloved, departed mentor, revisiting and offering fresh takes on material from their time as 3/4ths of Multikulti.
$25 General Admission
We are offering a limited number of tickets to attend this performance in person. Advance purchase is recommended. Masking is encouraged but not required.
PETER APFELBAUM
Born in Berkeley, California and based in Brooklyn, New York since 1998, multi-instrumentalist and composer Peter Apfelbaum is best known as leader of the genre-mashing big band, Hieroglyphics, which he formed while still in high school in 1977. The ensemble attracted international attention in the 1980's for its unique fusing of elements of world music with the aesthetics of the jazz avant-garde and has remained Apfelbaum's primary vehicle for composing throughout his career. In 2013, he formed the electronica-based, vocal-driven sextet Sparkler, which released its debut EP, "I Colored It In For You," on Bill Laswell's MOD Technologies label in 2017. Apfelbaum has worked with many of the leading figures in contemporary music, including the late Don Cherry, Kronos Quartet, Cecil Taylor, Harry Belafonte, Omar Sosa and Phish. He currently performs with Dafnis Prieto's various bands - he received a Grammy award in 2018 as part of Prieto's album "Back To The Sunset" - and Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra, among others. Since 2017 he has been an Artistic Director of the Woodstock, NY-based Creative Music Studio; in July 2023 he took over as conductor of the late CMS founder Karl Berger's 25-piece Creative Improvisers Orchestra, which performs monthly at the Shirt Factory in Kingston, NY.
JOSH JONES
Drummer and percussionist Josh Jones has been a Bay Area fixture since the 1970's and a longstanding member of Apfelbaum's various groups. In addition to leading the Josh Jones Latin Jazz Ensemble, he has worked with artists as diverse as Steve Coleman, Tupac Shakur, Omar Sosa, David Murray, Arthur Blythe, Yosvany Terry, Jacqui Naylor and AfroCuba de Matanzas. He has long been a much-respected educator, in recent years leading the student-based Josh Jones Salsa Big Band.