9pm Bobby Avey Quartet.

10pm Noah Garabedian’s Big Butter & Egg Man

11pm Plainville

“Plainville” continues to support their Sunnyside release If The Past Seems So Bright, rated one of the “Best CD’s of 2011″ by DOWNBEAT magazine, and considered “one of the year’s most slyly inviting jazz albums.” (Nate Chinen, NEW YORK TIMES).

The group will feature Udden on saxophone and EWI triggered Prophet synth, Pete Rende (piano/pump organ), Ryan Scott (guitar/voice), RJ Miller (drums), and guests Mike Baggetta (banjo/guitar) and Garth Stevenson (bass).

Doors at 8, show starts at 9pm.

Tickets $10 advanced/$12 at the door.

200 Hudson St. (below Canal) NYC

http://www.92y.org/Tribeca/Music/Music-Programs

Much to come in the new year, including gigs around the Northeast in February and Europe this summer!

Stay tuned, and thanks for listening!

Jeremy

…from a recent concert at the Ditmas Acoustic series, curated by Richie Barshay.  Pete Rende (pump organ/rhodes), Matt Wilson (drums).  More music from this trio to come…

Josh Roseman (trombone),

Jason Ajemian (bass),

JT Bates (drums),

Jeremy Udden (saxophone)

12:30am – all completely improvised.  Who knows what will happen?!

The next Plainville show is November 6th at Littlefield with Opsvik & Jennings and Danny Fox Trio.  Very psyched!

Here’s a new article about, well, me I guess, in allaboutjazz.com.  I hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening.

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=40448&pg=1

A tour will surround the residency, beginning this Tuesday (9/20) in NY at NUBLU with Land of Leland, then hitting the road for concerts at UMass Dartmouth (9/22), Boston’s Lilypad (9/23), Northampton’s Dirty Truth (9/24), and a benefit concert in the Plainville, MA town park (9/25).

Here’s the Deets:
1. Tuesday 9/20 at NUBLU, NY, NY 9pm.
PLAINVILLE AND LAND OF LELAND
… Another installment of “Welcome to Plainville” featuring Land of Leland and a slightly modified Plainville (Mike Baggetta – guitar, Randy Ingraham – rhodes, RJ Miller – drums, Eivind Opsvik – bass)
**Please note that Nublu has temporarily moved to 24 1st Avenue.

2. Concert at UMass Dartmouth – 9/22, 12:30pm

3. LILYPAD, Cambridge, Friday 9/23 @ 8pm.
The Lilypad is a cool triple bill with the ALLAN CHASE QUARTET (Allan Chase-alto, baritone saxes, Phil Grenadier-trumpet, Bruno Råberg-bass, Austin McMahon-drums) and DOMINIQUE EADE SOLO VOICE. Both Allan and Dominique will also sit in with PLAINVILLE!!

4. DIRTY TRUTH, Northampton, MA, Saturday 9/24 @ 3pm

5. CMA RESIDENCY – 9/22-9/25 (Concert 9/25 in Plainville):
Plainville returns to the town of Plainville, MA. Giving workshops at my former elementary school and high school, performing as the kids paint! Also a benefit concert on 9/25 for the Plainville Lion’s Club in the Plainville Town Park at noon on the 25th. The residency was made possible with support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.

“…a richly engrossing project from the Brooklyn-by-way-of-Boston saxophonist that finds new ground between jazz, instrumental rock and folk…Udden’s crew is just as comfortable carving out room in indie rock’s territory, but jazz fans should be equally taken with this caliber of invention.” – Chris Barton, LA TIMES

“Plainville’s music is decentralized, band-wise, and all over the place category-wise, imagining new kinds of country and folk and pop. …over all sounds as new as anything I’ve heard from a jazz group this year.”- Ben Ratliff, NY TIMES

“If the Past Seems So Bright is about the idea of returning home. But the music is so much more than that. Udden is carving out new territory with this project, which folds folk, country, and rock into the jazz tradition.” - Steve Greenlee, BOSTON GLOBE

“This is carefully arranged music with an unruly streak — edgy, melancholy, but also at peace with itself… Is it jazz? Well, it’s not not jazz.”- Jon Garelick, BOSTON PHOENIX

“Udden’s seamless integration of simple country, folk and rock melodies into a sophisticated jazz context lends Plainville’s improvisational excursions a cohesive sensibility, whether crafting pastoral ballads or tumultuous rockers.”- Troy Collins, ALLABOUTJAZZ.com

Toward the wee hours of the morning, the streets were quiet, the audience was dwindling and this was the most appropriate group to close the night set up on stage at Homage Skatepark. Saxophonist Jeremy Udden‘s group Plainville allowed the weary audience to mentally leave New York for a brief moment. Made up of keyboardist Leo Genovese, drummer RJ Miller, bassist Eivind Opsvik and guitarist Ryan Scott, this music is part of the aesthetic practiced by musicians like Bill Frisell and Pat Metheny: a painting of small-town life and optimism, mixed with Southern gothic maturity, folk song simplicity, and garage rock pathos.

Plainville’s writing took rock and folk die casting, and colored it with an advanced harmonic and rhythmic sense. The composition “Red Coat” walked around different key centers that had a playfulness as well as a gentleness. “Hammer” was a strummed folk tune with a pulse from Opsvik and Miller that thumped like a heartbeat and “Thomas” featured the steely twang of Scott’s resonator guitar under Udden’s alto. Compositions like “Sad Eyes” turned up the heat a bit, with Scott churning out melodic riffs with the same knowledge of the medium as jazz musicians have about theirs.

Udden’s sound was a steampunk arrangement of ideas, as if Lee Konitz were reimagined as a folk hero, with lines that flowed in effortless threads. When the music picked up intensity and thrust itself into garage rock wails, Udden and the band stayed composed, too at peace to get ahead of themselves. Even Genovese’s ear-bending outside harmonies seemed within the calm of the storm. Udden, face obscured by the shadows of the skatepark, looked at the audience and said, “It’s 2:00 am and we’re still here.” The statement ended up not being just a thank you, but rather pointing out the dedication and resilience of the festival and its participants.

I am happy to announce the release of the new album by my band Plainville, titled If the Past Seems So Bright, on Sunnyside Records.  You can hear it and buy it at Bandcamp, itunes, Amazon, J&R, or at the release show on June 10th (see below).

Featuring myself (saxophones/clarinet), Brandon Seabrook (guitar/banjo), Pete Rende (rhodes/pump organ/moog), Eivind Opsvik (bass), and RJ Miller (drums) with special guests Nathan Blehar (guitar/voice), Justin Keller (voice), Will Graefe (guitar); this album picks up where the last one left off.

“If the Past Seems So Bright is about the idea of returning home. But the music is so much more than that. Udden is carving out new territory with this project, which folds    folk, country, and rock into the jazz tradition.” (Steeve Greenlee, BOSTON GLOBE).   

“This is carefully arranged music with an unruly streak — edgy, melancholy, but also at peace with itself… Is it jazz? Well, it’s not not jazz.” (Jon Garelick, BOSTON PHOENIX)

“Udden’s seamless integration of simple country, folk and rock melodies into a sophisticated jazz context lends Plainville’s improvisational excursions a cohesive sensibility, whether crafting pastoral ballads or tumultuous rockers.” (Troy Collins, ALLABOUTJAZZ.com)

CD Release Party
Please join us at Nublu on June 10th at 9pm for a CD release double bill with our friends Glass Ghost.
62 Avenue C, NY, NY

I hope to see you at the show, and enjoy the music!
Best,
Jeremy