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
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
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
Justin Ray: Trumpet
Tim Fischer: Guitar
Evan Martin: Drums
Imagine this: It’s the early 2010s. Skinny jeans still reign supreme. People who grew up thinking Pitchfork was an underground blog are starting to pretend they‘be stopped reading it. Odd Future and The Weeknd are breaking new ground (and I, for one, am obsessed). Datpiff is on absolute FIRE. We think X-Pro filters look pretty dope and 12 likes on Instagram feels like a good day. Sleigh Bells still blares from car windows. “Humble brag”, “bae”, “fleek”, and “lit fam” seem like fully acceptable phrases. Strangers pull up Major Lazer videos at house parties. We’re having a pretty good time.
Too soon? Yeah, I know.
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
Michael W. Davis ~ Drums and Percussion
Mike Baggetta: guitar, live processing
“…vintage twang in service of Americana-meets exploratory Jazz-psych…”
-Rolling Stone
"Guitarist Mike Baggetta bends notes, and his genre, to make music that sounds like life.”
-Ted Drozdowski, Premier Guitar
“Mike Baggetta makes stealthy, mysterious music … he’s trying to do something personal with collective improvisation without ever getting in the way of beauty.”
-Ben Ratliff, New York Times
“…a kind of post-Frisellian sonic explorer … with his wild whammy-bar articulations, ambient looping and rippling arpeggios … full of subversive surprises, hellacious skronking, string-scraping and a general hornets’ nest of fuzz-toned dissonance”
-Bill Milkowski, DownBeat Magazine / Slate Magazine
“Mike Baggetta is a genre-blurring guitar hero...at the forefront of an army of guitar innovators”
-JazzTimes
Justin Ray: Trumpet
Brian Felix: Organ
Dylan Hannan: Sax
Tim Fischer: Guitar
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
Zack Page ~ Bass and Effects
Justin Watt ~ 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.
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
Twin brothers Andy and Zack Page have been playing music together since.... conception? Their shared life experiences result in a unified sound and unusual affinity whenever they share a bandstand. As the Page Brothers Quartet, the brothers are joined by creative, like-minded sidemen who share the desire to present a diverse program of material that honors the jazz tradition while looking to the future.
Andy Page: Guitars
Zack Page: Basses
Taylor Pierson: keys
Gary Claude: Drums
Every Tuesday, savour the experimental musica universalis of Sanders, Page & Hall. Focused primarily on the groups original writing and sonic explorations, the three aural wayfarers fear no boundary. The infinite probability of preternatural visitants remain incalculable.
Jay Sanders ~ Guitar and Effects
Zack Page ~ Bass and Effects
Alan Hall ~ Drums and Percussion
Rahm Mandelkorn - Guitar
Jackson Dulaney - Slide
Trevor Stoia - Bass
Jacob Baumann - Drums
Every Tuesday, savour the experimental musica universalis of Sanders, Page & Hall. Focused primarily on the groups original writing and sonic explorations, the three aural wayfarers fear no boundary. The infinite probability of preternatural visitants remain incalculable.
Jay Sanders ~ Guitar and Effects
Zack Page ~ Bass and Effects
Alan Hall ~ Drums and Percussion
Members of The Core playing unusual and electrified styles and grooves.
Justin Ray: Trumpet
Bill Bares: Piano
Zack Page: Bass
Evan Martin: Drums
Fly Casual Organ Trio will bring an evening of swinging and soulful organ jazz to Little Jumbo!
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.
Brian Felix - Organ
Tim Fischer - Guitar
Justin Ray - Trumpet
Evan Martin - Drums