Every Tuesday, savor experimental musica universalis focused primarily on the group's original writing and sonic explorations. These aural wayfarers fear no boundary.
Jay Sanders ~ Guitar and Effects
Zack Page ~ Bass and Effects
Alan Hall ~ Drums and Percussion
Brian Felix is Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department at UNC Asheville, where he teaches classes on jazz theory and improvisation, jazz history, keyboard skills, music business, the Beatles and the Grateful Dead. He was co-leader of OM Trio, an acclaimed jazz-rock group that toured internationally between 1999-2004. More info at brianfelix.com.
Fly Casual Organ Trio will bring an evening of swinging and soulful organ jazz to Little Jumbo.
Brian Felix: Organ
Tim Fischer: Guitar
Evan Martin: Drums
Little Jumbo is pleased to welcome local resident, and international fiddle phenomenon Casey Driessen for a Sunday night residency.
Casey Driessen has never taken the standard path in his music career. Described by Zac Brown as “a mad scientist with a five-string fiddle.” Of the GRAMMY-nominated fiddle player Rolling Stone expressed "Driessen pours all he’s seen into his instrument; the result is both breathtaking and transformative." Currently, that means pouring himself into Otherlands: A Global Music Exploration. Produced, performed, recorded and filmed by Driessen, Otherlands is a travelogue of on-location recordings, short films, and essays documenting musical collaborations through Spain, Ireland, Scotland, India, Japan, and Finland. Driessen undertook this nearly year-long journey with his family, and the results are a 26-episode video series, a 13-song recording of collaborations titled Otherlands:ONE, stories from each encounter, and hundreds of photos.
Over the past 14 years, Driessen has released four solo records and toured as a one-man live looping show called The Singularity; collaborated with Darrell Scott, Tim O’Brien, Béla Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Steve Earle and others; produced and engineered records; teched, managed stages, tours, and merch; and travelled the world playing music in 22 countries on four continents and counting.
“Worldly musical delights.” — NPR Weekend Edition
“Monster chops and imagination to match.” — Downbeat
“One of the most brilliant bluegrass fiddlers in the world… This is the life we should wish for our best traditional artists, jetting around the world, melding minds with other masters.” — Folk Alley
“Casey Driessen revels in making his fiddle do things that seem not just left-of-center but downright improbable.” — PopMatters
Casey Driessen: Fiddle, Effects, and Loops
Every Tuesday, savor experimental musica universalis focused primarily on the group's original writing and sonic explorations. These aural wayfarers fear no boundary.
Jay Sanders ~ Guitar and Effects
Zack Page ~ Bass and Effects
Alan Hall ~ Drums and Percussion
It's our birthday! We're turning 5—which is 21 in pandemic years—and throwing ourselves a party. Chall is whipping up a special $5 birthday punch, and we'll be enjoying live music by members of The Core playing eclectic grooves in the style of electric Miles. Plus balloons!
Justin Ray: Trumpet
Bill Bares: Piano
Zack Page: Bass
Evan Martin: Drums
Casey continues his Sunday Experiment... this week joined by international drum sensation (and local legend) Jeff Sipe!
Casey Driessen has never taken the standard path in his music career. Described by Zac Brown as “a mad scientist with a five-string fiddle.” Of the GRAMMY-nominated fiddle player Rolling Stone expressed "Driessen pours all he’s seen into his instrument; the result is both breathtaking and transformative." Currently, that means pouring himself into Otherlands: A Global Music Exploration. Produced, performed, recorded and filmed by Driessen, Otherlands is a travelogue of on-location recordings, short films, and essays documenting musical collaborations through Spain, Ireland, Scotland, India, Japan, and Finland. Driessen undertook this nearly year-long journey with his family, and the results are a 26-episode video series, a 13-song recording of collaborations titled Otherlands:ONE, stories from each encounter, and hundreds of photos.
Over the past 14 years, Driessen has released four solo records and toured as a one-man live looping show called The Singularity; collaborated with Darrell Scott, Tim O’Brien, Béla Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Steve Earle and others; produced and engineered records; teched, managed stages, tours, and merch; and travelled the world playing music in 22 countries on four continents and counting.
“Worldly musical delights.” — NPR Weekend Edition
“Monster chops and imagination to match.” — Downbeat
“One of the most brilliant bluegrass fiddlers in the world… This is the life we should wish for our best traditional artists, jetting around the world, melding minds with other masters.” — Folk Alley
“Casey Driessen revels in making his fiddle do things that seem not just left-of-center but downright improbable.” — PopMatters
Casey Driessen: Fiddle, Effects, and Loops
Every Tuesday, savor experimental musica universalis focused primarily on the group's original writing and sonic explorations. These aural wayfarers fear no boundary.
Jay Sanders ~ Guitar and Effects
Zack Page ~ Bass and Effects
Evan Martin ~ Drums and Percussion
“Feel the Love” Fall 2022 release on Prague’s LHPromotion label (Lukas Herink, owner/producer, Czech Republic).
CD album original personnel: Bob Sheppard (soprano/tenor saxophone), Ed Soph (drums), Zack Page (ac. bass), Pavel Wlosok (piano, compositions/arrangements) and special guest Chris Beyt (guitar, tracks 5, 6, 7).“The music included in this studio album was recorded in April 2019 at the Center For Applied Technology on campus of Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC by Jim Elenteny and mixed to analog tape and mastered digitally by Pavel Wlosok at SonicADventures studios. The eights tracks feature primarily Pavel’s newer original compositions including “Remembering Greece”, “Feel the Love”, “A touch of Bebop”, “Broken Promise Blues” as well as original arrangements of well-known traditional “Amazing Grace Revisited” and Keith Jarrett’’s beautiful ballad “Prism”. Included in the song selection is an original song by guest guitarist Chris Beyt’s entitled “Reaction Shot” and Pavel’s personal “Intimate Confessions”, which he dedicated to his wife Andrea.
Pavel Wlosok – piano
Chris Beyt – guitar
Zack Page – bass
Micah Thomas – drums
Little Jumbo is pleased to welcome local resident, and international fiddle phenomenon Casey Driessen for a Sunday night residency.
Casey Driessen has never taken the standard path in his music career. Described by Zac Brown as “a mad scientist with a five-string fiddle.” Of the GRAMMY-nominated fiddle player Rolling Stone expressed "Driessen pours all he’s seen into his instrument; the result is both breathtaking and transformative." Currently, that means pouring himself into Otherlands: A Global Music Exploration. Produced, performed, recorded and filmed by Driessen, Otherlands is a travelogue of on-location recordings, short films, and essays documenting musical collaborations through Spain, Ireland, Scotland, India, Japan, and Finland. Driessen undertook this nearly year-long journey with his family, and the results are a 26-episode video series, a 13-song recording of collaborations titled Otherlands:ONE, stories from each encounter, and hundreds of photos.
Over the past 14 years, Driessen has released four solo records and toured as a one-man live looping show called The Singularity; collaborated with Darrell Scott, Tim O’Brien, Béla Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Steve Earle and others; produced and engineered records; teched, managed stages, tours, and merch; and travelled the world playing music in 22 countries on four continents and counting.
“Worldly musical delights.” — NPR Weekend Edition
“Monster chops and imagination to match.” — Downbeat
“One of the most brilliant bluegrass fiddlers in the world… This is the life we should wish for our best traditional artists, jetting around the world, melding minds with other masters.” — Folk Alley
“Casey Driessen revels in making his fiddle do things that seem not just left-of-center but downright improbable.” — PopMatters
Casey Driessen: Fiddle, Effects, and Loops
Every Tuesday, savor experimental musica universalis focused primarily on the group's original writing and sonic explorations. These aural wayfarers fear no boundary.
Jay Sanders ~ Guitar and Effects
Zack Page ~ Bass and Effects
Alan Hall ~ Drums and Percussion
The CORE returns to Little Jumbo! Come enjoy piquant cocktails and titillating tunes from Asheville's most prodigious jazz quintet.
Justin Ray: Trumpet
Jacob Rodriguez: Saxophone
Bill Bares: Piano
Zack Page: Bass
Evan Martin: Drums
Little Jumbo is pleased to welcome local resident, and international fiddle phenomenon Casey Driessen for a Sunday night residency.
Casey Driessen has never taken the standard path in his music career. Described by Zac Brown as “a mad scientist with a five-string fiddle.” Of the GRAMMY-nominated fiddle player Rolling Stone expressed "Driessen pours all he’s seen into his instrument; the result is both breathtaking and transformative." Currently, that means pouring himself into Otherlands: A Global Music Exploration. Produced, performed, recorded and filmed by Driessen, Otherlands is a travelogue of on-location recordings, short films, and essays documenting musical collaborations through Spain, Ireland, Scotland, India, Japan, and Finland. Driessen undertook this nearly year-long journey with his family, and the results are a 26-episode video series, a 13-song recording of collaborations titled Otherlands:ONE, stories from each encounter, and hundreds of photos.
Over the past 14 years, Driessen has released four solo records and toured as a one-man live looping show called The Singularity; collaborated with Darrell Scott, Tim O’Brien, Béla Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Steve Earle and others; produced and engineered records; teched, managed stages, tours, and merch; and travelled the world playing music in 22 countries on four continents and counting.
“Worldly musical delights.” — NPR Weekend Edition
“Monster chops and imagination to match.” — Downbeat
“One of the most brilliant bluegrass fiddlers in the world… This is the life we should wish for our best traditional artists, jetting around the world, melding minds with other masters.” — Folk Alley
“Casey Driessen revels in making his fiddle do things that seem not just left-of-center but downright improbable.” — PopMatters
Casey Driessen: Fiddle, Effects, and Loops
Every Tuesday, savor experimental musica universalis focused primarily on the group's original writing and sonic explorations. These aural wayfarers fear no boundary.
Jay Sanders ~ Guitar and Effects
Zack Page ~ Bass and Effects
Alan Hall ~ Drums and Percussion
The Asheville Jazz Collective was founded by drummer, and former Berklee College of Music professor, Alan Hall as an “open borders” stylistic vehicle for composing and performimg with like-minded peers. Originally he was joined by UNCA professors Bill Bares-piano, Steve Alford-woodwinds and New Orleans transplant Josef Butts-bass. Since then, we’ve added
trombonists Caleb McMahon, Nick Garrison, vibist Jason DeCristofaro and woodwind player Will Boyd to our flexible front line. We cull our material from a wide range of jazz standards and original material.
Whether in trio, quartet or quintet format we strive for a varied, rich and surprising performance for ourselves and our audiences. We’ve recently completed a recording at Sound Temple Studio and will be releasing those tracks in video and audio format in Fall 2022.
Little Jumbo is pleased to welcome local resident, and international fiddle phenomenon Casey Driessen for a new Sunday night residency.
Casey Driessen has never taken the standard path in his music career. Described by Zac Brown as “a mad scientist with a five-string fiddle.” Of the GRAMMY-nominated fiddle player Rolling Stone expressed "Driessen pours all he’s seen into his instrument; the result is both breathtaking and transformative." Currently, that means pouring himself into Otherlands: A Global Music Exploration. Produced, performed, recorded and filmed by Driessen, Otherlands is a travelogue of on-location recordings, short films, and essays documenting musical collaborations through Spain, Ireland, Scotland, India, Japan, and Finland. Driessen undertook this nearly year-long journey with his family, and the results are a 26-episode video series, a 13-song recording of collaborations titled Otherlands:ONE, stories from each encounter, and hundreds of photos.
Over the past 14 years, Driessen has released four solo records and toured as a one-man live looping show called The Singularity; collaborated with Darrell Scott, Tim O’Brien, Béla Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Steve Earle and others; produced and engineered records; teched, managed stages, tours, and merch; and travelled the world playing music in 22 countries on four continents and counting.
“Worldly musical delights.” — NPR Weekend Edition
“Monster chops and imagination to match.” — Downbeat
“One of the most brilliant bluegrass fiddlers in the world… This is the life we should wish for our best traditional artists, jetting around the world, melding minds with other masters.” — Folk Alley
“Casey Driessen revels in making his fiddle do things that seem not just left-of-center but downright improbable.” — PopMatters
Casey Driessen: Fiddle, Effects, and Loops
Every Tuesday, savor experimental musica universalis focused primarily on the group's original writing and sonic explorations. These aural wayfarers fear no boundary.
Jay Sanders ~ Guitar and Effects
Zack Page ~ Bass and Effects
Alan Hall ~ Drums and Percussion
When the originators of the Asheville Original Music series—bassist Mike Holstein and drummer Justin Watt—teamed up with pianist Dr. William Bares (Harvard ethnomusicology Ph.D and professor of music at UNC Asheville) a decade ago to create a working jazz piano trio, the result was a new musical concept that has blurred the lines between art and entertainment, structure and spontaneity. The group has has evolved a sound that combines elements of global music, Americana and jazz in ways that are recognizably artistic and quintessentially Ashevillian.
Billl Bares: Piano
Mike Holstein: Bass
Justin Watt: Drums
Little Jumbo is pleased to welcome local resident, and international fiddle phenomenon Casey Driessen for a new Sunday night residency.
Casey Driessen has never taken the standard path in his music career. Described by Zac Brown as “a mad scientist with a five-string fiddle.” Of the GRAMMY-nominated fiddle player Rolling Stone expressed "Driessen pours all he’s seen into his instrument; the result is both breathtaking and transformative." Currently, that means pouring himself into Otherlands: A Global Music Exploration. Produced, performed, recorded and filmed by Driessen, Otherlands is a travelogue of on-location recordings, short films, and essays documenting musical collaborations through Spain, Ireland, Scotland, India, Japan, and Finland. Driessen undertook this nearly year-long journey with his family, and the results are a 26-episode video series, a 13-song recording of collaborations titled Otherlands:ONE, stories from each encounter, and hundreds of photos.
Over the past 14 years, Driessen has released four solo records and toured as a one-man live looping show called The Singularity; collaborated with Darrell Scott, Tim O’Brien, Béla Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Steve Earle and others; produced and engineered records; teched, managed stages, tours, and merch; and travelled the world playing music in 22 countries on four continents and counting.
“Worldly musical delights.” — NPR Weekend Edition
“Monster chops and imagination to match.” — Downbeat
“One of the most brilliant bluegrass fiddlers in the world… This is the life we should wish for our best traditional artists, jetting around the world, melding minds with other masters.” — Folk Alley
“Casey Driessen revels in making his fiddle do things that seem not just left-of-center but downright improbable.” — PopMatters
Casey Driessen: Fiddle, Effects, and Loops
Every Tuesday, savor experimental musica universalis focused primarily on the group's original writing and sonic explorations. These aural wayfarers fear no boundary.
Jay Sanders ~ Guitar and Effects
Zack Page ~ Bass and Effects
Alan Hall ~ Drums and Percussion
Guitarist Tim Fischer has contributed as an active member in Los Angeles, St. Louis, and the coastal southeast performance communities as a solo artist, bandleader, sideman, and concert organizer. He performs both traditional and modern styles of jazz and serves as an arranger and composer in a variety of ensemble settings. As a bandleader, he has organized national and international tours, and performed in multiple festivals and concert series. He has released two albums of original compositions and arrangements: Due South (2015) and Cross Country (2018). His upcoming release of original compositions, The Lowcountry
Sessions, will be released in the Spring of 2023.
Tim Fischer - Guitar
Bill Bares - Piano
Shannon Hoover - Drums
Justin Watt - Drums
Every Tuesday, savor experimental musica universalis focused primarily on the group's original writing and sonic explorations. These aural wayfarers fear no boundary.
Jay Sanders ~ Guitar and Effects
Josef Butts ~ Bass and Effects
Alan Hall ~ Drums and Percussion
Justin Ray: Trumpet
Brian Felix: Organ
Dylan Hannan: Sax
Tim Fischer: Guitar
Justin Watt: Drums
DJ Shortstop is an Asheville vinyl DJ, originally from Colombia, with a wide range of musical tastes, including deep soul, Latin, r&b, dance, rare funk, 80s, 90s, highlife, and more.
We'll be slingin' drinks and spinnin' tunes every Saturday from 10 - 1. Sweat bands and leg warmers optional, but encouraged! No cover, 21+.
Every Tuesday, savor experimental musica universalis focused primarily on the group's original writing and sonic explorations. These aural wayfarers fear no boundary.
Jay Sanders ~ Guitar and Effects
Zack Page ~ Bass and Effects
Alan Hall ~ Drums and Percussion
The Asheville Jazz Collective was founded by drummer, and former Berklee College of Music professor, Alan Hall as an “open borders” stylistic vehicle for composing and performimg with like-minded peers. We cull our material from a wide range of jazz standards and original material.We’ve recently completed a recording at Sound Temple Studio and will be releasing those tracks in video and audio format in Fall 2022.
Alan Hall: Drums
Bill Bares: Piano
Dylan Hannan: Sax
Nick Garrison: Trombone
Josef Butts: Bass