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SKIP HELLER TRIO, narducci's
Topics: honky-tonk, live music, jazz, musicians, Composer, aficionado, fun, skip heller, Rockabilly, mood, Swing, instrumental, good stuff, Narducci's
Posted by theduskdevils Tue Nov 30, 1999 00:00:00 PST
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End: Jul 10, 2008
Time: 7:30pm
Price: Free!!!
Contact: Skip | http://www.myspace.com/skiphellertrio
Location: 622 E. 21st, Bakersfield, CA 93305

SKIP HELLER PLAYS HONKY-TONK! NEW LP COMING SOON!

Read about him below...

"Skip Heller looks like the love child Charlie Sheen, Lenny Bruce, and the young Art Pepper. He is tall and thin (Mr. Heller is a runner) with a plume of dark hair that would appear more comfortable on the mid-1950s streets of his native Philadelphia than the sunny climes of Southern California. The music he makes has just as diverse as the pedigree of his appearance. February saw the release of his newest recording, Fakebook , on Joel Dorn's imprint, Hyena Records. In every way, this was a professional match made in heaven. Having been All About Jazz's standard bearer for Mr. Heller, the good fortune to interview the artist fell to me. .. Mr. Heller has composed film music, been a producer, and managed to squeeze out eleven recordings under is own name. Mr. Heller's entry in The All Music Guide is longer than two of his greatest personal inspirations, Dave Alvin of the Blasters and Uri Caine, not to mention Dave Douglas, John Zorn, Eric Dolphy, and Gene Ammons... I think it is safe to say that Skip Heller has the most fully musically integrated personality of anyone I have known. Everything he thinks of, every opinion he has'has a parallel in music that can readily be heard when he plays (or writes about music). "

- http://www.allaboutjazz.com...

 

"When you play the music so it gets off the bandstand, so that the audience feels like they're being addressed and communicated to, they start sending some energy back up to the bandstand, and the band plays that energy back to the musicians, and that's when the magic stuff happens. The dialogue is between everyone in the whole place and not just the guys on stage trying to outdo one another."

- Skip Heller

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