David Grisman Quintet Flutist of 22 years

Matt Eakle has been blowing audiences out of their chairs and onto their feet with music from the David Grisman Quintet, digging in deep with his unique flute playing. He now brings the same virtuosity, energy, and spirit that has been electrifying audiences at sold-out concert venues and festivals around the world to his own, MATT EAKLE BAND.

An evening of jazz fusion from Marin local favorite and flutist extraordinaire Matt Eakle and his band, filling the Hoytt theater with music and cocktails with a twist. With Alex Baum on bass, Jack Dorsey on drums, and Joey Edelman on keyboard, the Matt Eakle Band highlights the long history of four brilliant musicians whose synergy is a force of nature.

The Matt Eakle Band was chosen by the Marin Independent Journal as one of "The Best of the Local Sound" for 2010, an honor given to, "...artists that you should have been listening to this past year." Paul Liberatore writes: "This is a deep groove band playing jazz fusion at the highest level, showcasing musicians who not only know how to play, but how to listen."

“We perform all original material,” says Matt, “music that blends the classic sounds of rock, blues, soul, jazz, with the musical traditions of Africa, India and South America.”

Head-turning, jaw dropping, spell-binding, adrenaline-pumping jams that transfix and transport. The Matt Eakle Band and their CD, “Hardly Work” prove just how powerful flute-fired fusion can be.

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David Grisman With Bob Brozman & Mike Auldridge

Album: Tone Poems 3: The Sounds of the Great Slide & Resophonic Instruments

Song: St. Louis Blues
Mandolinist David Grisman has always worked to expand the possibilities of his instrument. From his early traditional mandolin work with the Even Dozen Jug Band, Grisman went on to explore psychedelic rock, jazz, Latin music and any other musical form that came his way. Though he's perhaps best known for his "Dawg Music" fusion, we find him here doing a jazz classic with two great resophonic slide guitarists, Bob Brozman and Mike Auldridge. The resonator guitar used in bluegrass is called the Dobro, and Auldridge has been an acknowledged master of that instrument since his early days with the progressive bluegrass band The Seldom Scene. The immensely talented Brozman has never been pigeonholed into any particular musical genre, so suffice it to say that he's one of the greatest living resophonic guitarists. It adds up to three masters having a great time with one of the oldest jazz songs in the book.