Lane - Whitecage - Grassi Bios

ADAM LANE(bassist, composer) By combining a disparate set of influences into a unique and personal improvisational voice, Adam Lane has become recognized as one of the most original creative voices in the downtown New York scene. He is the leader of several different ensembles that perform his original creative music compositions. His most recent projects include The Adam Lane Trio, featuring legendary reedist Vinny Golia; Four Corners, a co-led ensemble with reedist Ken Vandermark; The Full Throttle Orchestra, formed to perform Lane's large group music for improvising orchestras; and an ongoing solo project that combines unique processed double bass improvisations with Lane's original storytelling. Lane is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the Julius Hemphill Award for Large Ensemble Jazz Piece, several Meet the Composer awards, and a Paternings Scholarship award for study at the DarmstadtSchool for New Music where Lane studied double bass with Steffano Scodanibbio and attended master classes in composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen. Sam Prestianni of Jazziz says of Lane's writing, "His confidence and confrontational prowess as well as his abiding sense of lyricism and heavy-groove power place him in the lineage of forward-jazz adventurism." www.adamlane.org

LOU GRASSI is internationally known for his work in both the traditional and the avant-garde jazz worlds. From the 1970’s to the present, Lou has performed and/or recorded with a great variety of outstanding artists, including Marshall Allen, Borah Bergman, Rob Brown, Roy Campbell, Charles Gayle, Urbie Green, Gunter Hampel, Johnny Hartman, Fred van Hove, Sheila Jordan, Wilber Morris, William Parker, Perry Robinson, Roswell Rudd, John Tchicai among others. Lou is the leader of the Lou Grassi PoBand which has released five CDs and received critical acclaim worldwide. "Lou Grassi is one of those few jazz players who is as comfortable with straight ahead bop as he is with ventures into the realm of the totally free and the creativity and energy are boundless." Steven A. Loewy AllMusic Guide To Jazz www.lougrassi.com

MARK WHITECAGE is internationally known as a dynamic, ceaselessly inventive instrumentalist and composer in jazz and new music. Current projects include Solo work as well as his own Duos, Trios, Quartets, and Quintets. He has a number of award-winning recordings on Acoustics, CIMP and GM Recordings, including a series of CDs just released on Acoustics. Since the 1960’s he has performed and recorded with some of the leading artists of our time, including Jeanne Lee, Anthony Braxton, Gunter Hampel, Dominic Duval, Joe McPhee, Steve Swell, Marshall Allen and Saheb Sarbib, in the US, Canada, and Europe. "Whitecage is again magnificent." - Glenn Astarita, All About Jazz. www.erjn.it/mus/whitecage.htm

For Information and Booking

Lou Grassi (212) 866-2289 lougrassi@rcn.com

Adam Lane (718) 344-8956 lacurran@earthlink.net


	Adam Lane - Lou Grassi - Mark Whitecage The cooperative trio LANE / GRASSI / WHITECAGE was born out of bassist Adam Lane's strong desire to play with saxophonist Mark Whitecage. The link between both musicians was drummer Lou Grassi, who works and records with both musicians in a number of groups. What began in the summer of 2006 as a "Let's get together and see what happens" meeting grew into a tight, empathetic unit able to play one another's compositions with inspired assurance. Portugal's Clean Feed label immediately picked up on the group's unique sound and produced their debut CD, DRUNK BUTTERFLY. ADAM LANE(bassist, composer) By combining a disparate set of influences into a unique and personal improvisational voice, Adam Lane has become recognized as one of the most original creative voices in the downtown New York scene. He is the leader of several different ensembles that perform his original creative music compositions. His most recent projects include The Adam Lane Trio, featuring legendary reedist Vinny Golia; Four Corners, a co-led ensemble with reedist Ken Vandermark; The Full Throttle Orchestra, formed to perform Lane's large group music for improvising orchestras; and an ongoing solo project that combines unique processed double bass improvisations with Lane's original storytelling. Lane is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the Julius Hemphill Award for Large Ensemble Jazz Piece, several Meet the Composer awards, and a Paternings Scholarship award for study at the DarmstadtSchool for New Music where Lane studied double bass with Steffano Scodanibbio and attended master classes in composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen. Sam Prestianni of Jazziz says of Lane's writing, "His confidence and confrontational prowess as well as his abiding sense of lyricism and heavy-groove power place him in the lineage of forward-jazz adventurism." www.adamlane.org LOU GRASSI is internationally known for his work in both the traditional and the avant-garde jazz worlds. From the 1970’s to the present, Lou has performed and/or recorded with a great variety of outstanding artists, including Marshall Allen, Borah Bergman, Rob Brown, Roy Campbell, Charles Gayle, Urbie Green, Gunter Hampel, Johnny Hartman, Fred van Hove, Sheila Jordan, Wilber Morris, William Parker, Perry Robinson, Roswell Rudd, John Tchicai among others. Lou is the leader of the Lou Grassi PoBand which has released five CDs and received critical acclaim worldwide. "Lou Grassi is one of those few jazz players who is as comfortable with straight ahead bop as he is with ventures into the realm of the totally free and the creativity and energy are boundless." Steven A. Loewy AllMusic Guide To Jazz www.lougrassi.com MARK WHITECAGE is internationally known as a dynamic, ceaselessly inventive instrumentalist and composer in jazz and new music. Current projects include Solo work as well as his own Duos, Trios, Quartets, and Quintets. He has a number of award-winning recordings on Acoustics, CIMP and GM Recordings, including a series of CDs just released on Acoustics. Since the 1960’s he has performed and recorded with some of the leading artists of our time, including Jeanne Lee, Anthony Braxton, Gunter Hampel, Dominic Duval, Joe McPhee, Steve Swell, Marshall Allen and Saheb Sarbib, in the US, Canada, and Europe. "Whitecage is again magnificent." - Glenn Astarita, All About Jazz. www.erjn.it/mus/whitecage.htm For Information and Booking Lou Grassi (212) 866-2289 lougrassi@rcn.com Adam Lane (718) 344-8956 lacurran@earthlink.net \| Return Home \| Biography \| Discography \| Press \| Current Projects \| Performance Schedule \| Nu Band \| Online Store \|