Little Jumbo's creative music series functions as a cultural incubator—providing space for the genesis of new musical ideas. Every Monday and Tuesday, we showcase world-class musicians performing original, boundary-pushing work—completely free, no cover charge. This isn't background music; it's music in its purest form: live, unfiltered, and pushing the genre forward in real time. As an incubator, we create space where musicians explore new sonic territories and audiences encounter ideas they've never heard before. Democratizing access to exceptional art is who we are—it's the same philosophy behind everything we do.
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
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
What else can be said about Asheville's most sophisticated musical ambassador? When Justin supplicates the muse, she listens, and you will too!
Justin Ray (trumpet)
Dylan Hannan (sax)
Nick Garrison (trombone)
Brian Felix (organ)
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
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, they are joined by creative, like-minded sidemen who share the desire to present a diverse program of material that honours the jazz tradition while looking to the future.
Andy Page: Guitars
Zack Page: Basses
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
Alan Hall ~ Drums and Percussion
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 soon!
For this performance, Alan is pleased to welcome back longtime Asheville impresario Steve Alford from the great white north.
Alan Hall: Drums
Steve Alford: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Bill Bares: Piano
Will Boyd: Sax
Nick Garrison: Trombone
Josef Butts: Bass
Little Jumbo is pleased to welcome local resident, and international fiddle phenomenon Casey Driessen for his final (for now) 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
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.
Taylor Pierson ~ Keyboards
Zack Page ~ Bass and Effects
Alan Hall ~ Drums and Percussion
Russ Wilson has been called the PAUL WHITEMAN OF THE 21st CENTURY by fellow musicians and fans alike. Not just because he bares uncanny resemblance to the portly 20's and 30's dance band leader but because of the style of music his orchestra plays. Russ and his Kings of Jazz are the only big band in the Southeast faithfully and authentically recreating the sounds of 20's and 30's hot jazz and early swing music. Music made famous by Ben Pollack, Fletcher Henderson, Chick Webb, Duke Ellington, "POPS" himself Paul Whiteman and many others.
Russ and the K.O.J. have played for numerous dances, parties, weddings, hotel and restaurant engagements throughout the southeast. Russ and the band have released 3 albums "DOIN' THE UPTOWN LOWDOWN." "SWINGIN' AT THE ARMORY" and "WHITE HEAT."
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
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
