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Thanks to Doug Gaddys for having us.  It was a great gig.

I just put together a last minute show with two fantastic musicians from Chicago and LA respectively:

Bottesini Presents:

Unarmed Entry Featuring Devin Hoff and Trevor Anderies

Devon Hoff: Bass (Nels Cline Singers, Xui Xui)

Trevor Anderies: Drums (Slumgum)

Paul Riola:  Saxophones and Electronics

Danny Meyer:  Tenor Saxophone

Dave Devine: Guitar

Bottesini is doing a very special intimate performance at Westside books on 32nd and Lowell Sunday night at 7PM!!

All Words were Woody’s own. Scott Kinnamon, Colin Bricker, Paul Riola performing.  Come back for photos by Elicia James.  Blog humbly provided by Glenn Vanecek in honor and filial tribute to Woody Guthrie.  Weave the threads my friends.

Pressure to push out that should never be held back. Channel the flow and see it blossom to build . . .the dead cow produces not sour milk, but lack of pressure.  Can you produce lack?  Can you pressure that which float and flows through and describe in every element what is America. You are all moving among the waves of texts that bombard.   The end feel and flow my friends . . .feel and flow . . . chicken wing.  The End!

The smoke stacks rise as the permanent backdrop to an America that would be unfamiliar, yet completely realized to Woody.  How controls, but who rules “this land!”  There is something to be said as the music echoes in every pool hall throughout this dark wonderful land that begs to be explored and realized in pixels and taco recipes, in chlorinated waterways, in little wood boxes passed down generational through posts and practices of a new oral tradition.  Text me my sister, text me the texture of the Redwood. Text me the smell of shoe polish and the old man’s story of an America washed to many times in the machine, yet coming pressed and starched. Woody realized this land was made for you the me.

Three artists try to understand with the tools of the day, looking back and forward. Where has woody been?  Of course the acoustic guitar ambles along, expressing this sense of movement, the stream that Woody carved and danced down. The train track streams behind. Movement, trundling along the path the seems so random, but quite predestined.  Doodle along, Woody, Doodle along. and as the weeds grow and blow as the train whips by, this land, this hot smoky land, where weeds become thoughts and flow through the airway, Woody lives . . .saxophone and sample blending to avoid yet embrace the dementia critical in a technocracy.

Where would Woody be? The question is unique and wonderfully stated as we begin. Who would Woody be in today’s world? Travel Woody, travel. Where would this land and its many paths lead our explorer. Life has got a habit of making use question. Woody would question the ebbs and flows of our technological wonderland. The music pulses and Woody lives 2.0, 3.5, and the floppy turns into the blog.  The land changes and follows the flow of the artist, Woody, the fantastical badger.

Welcome to the live blog of Woody 2.0.  As we start, a few formal aspects. There will be live photos that will be uploaded after the show  Please come back and enjoy the unique photos.

Bottesini is notoriously difficult to classify.  The guiding principle of the ensemble has always been dedicated to free improvisation.  Over the history of the band, a number of remarkable musicians have joined in the collective to make the magic of improvised music happen.

Since 2009, Bottesini has undergone an identity shift.  The group is still creating improvised music that sounds like intricately woven and arranged compositions.  Yet, the group has shifted from a collective of musician rotating through the group to a core group of talented musicians who have found remarkable chemistry through a shared improvisatory voice.

The chemistry of Paul Riola, saxophones, Glen Whitehead, trumpet, Serafin Sanchez, tenor saxophone, Glen Taylor, petal steel, Doug Anderson, bass, and Jay Ellis, drums has led to a change in musical direction for the band as well.  The music has taken a turn into decidedly jazz-based territory— and audiences often express disbelief that the music is actually improvised.  The new Bottesini is beautifully melodic and surprisingly accessible to a mainstream audience.

August is an exciting month for The Bottesini Project.  We will be appearing at multiple venues throughout the Denver area.  Over the past year, Bottesini has shifted from a musical collective to a cohesive band.

Check out our schedule for this upcoming month.

When:   Thursday August 5^th 2010
Where: Lost Lake

3602 E. Colfax Ave

Denver, CO 80206

(303) 333-4345

Time: 9 PM

When:   Friday August 20^th 2010
Where: Limon

1618 East 17th Avenue
Denver, CO 80218-1621
(303) 997-1788

Time: 8 PM

When:   Saturday August 21^th 2010
Where: OZO

5340 Arapahoe Avenue
Boulder, CO 80303-8157
(303) 440-0233

Time: 7 PM