The Black Dog is pleased to host a monthly series...anchored by the duo of Dean Magraw, guitar and Davu Seru, percussion; the first Tuesday of the month at 7:00pm-9:00pm.
"Expect intimate and adventurous music as guitar maestro Dean Magraw and avant jazz drummerDavu Seru kick off a new monthly series in St. Paul's Lowertown called "First Tuesdays at the Dog." Magraw's liable to play anything from Coltrane to Irish jigs, but improvisation should be the main bill of fare, since Seru is known for his work with such intrepid artists as Milo Fine and George Cartwright." Tom Surowicz, StarTrib 7/29/11
“If the date is less than 8, on a Tuesday night, from 7-9, do it at the Dog with Davu & Dino…” featuring the uber musical creative stylings of percussionist Davu Seru w/Dean on guitar and (probably) electric sitar…
Original event from BlackDogStPaul.com.
ABOUT DAN MAGRAW
Composer, arranger, producer, guitarist Dean Magraw has fine-tuned his “Heavy Meadow” approach to music from years of performing and recording with some of the finest musicians in the United States, Europe, and Japan. His first recording, Broken Silence, came out in 1994 and won the NAIRD award for Best Acoustic Instrumental Album of the Year.
Dean has since produced myriad passionate albums, including his latest release, Fire on the Nile (Red House Records), a duo collaboration with renowned percussionist, Eric Kamau Gravatt.
Bio sourced from DeanMagraw.com.
ABOUT DAVU SERU
Minneapolis native Davu Seru (b. 1978) is known internationally as a free jazz drummer but performs regularly in jazz, rock and avant-garde improvised music. His style is perhaps most striking for its attending to sound, silence and melodic line as much it does rhythmic pattern—and as a skilled ensemble player he is known for his “big ears.” In the past fifteen years Davu has performed and recorded with musicians such as Milo Fine, Andrew Lafkas,Jaron Childs, Charles Gillett, Elliot Fine, Paul Metzger, Jack Wright, Elaine Evans, Anthony Cox, Dean Granros,Douglas R. Ewart, Dean Magraw, Wendy Ultan, Evan Parker, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Adam Linz, Luke Polipnick,George Cartwright, Stefan Kac, James Buckley, Taylor Ho Bynum, Jim Baker, Donald Washington, Robbie Lynn Hunsinger, Tatsu Aoki, David Boykin, Nicole Mitchell,Harrison Bankhead, Rafael Toral, and the band Take Acre. Beside any number of spontaneous ad-hoc groupings, he currently works in a trio with French clarinetist Catherine Delaunay and French bassist Guillaume Seguron, the bands Click Song (with Marc Anderson and pick-up band), KCOB Trio (with Casey O’Brien and Nathan Hanson),Merciless Ghost (with George Cartwright and Josh Granowski), the desert-blues inspired Body Omara (withJoseph Damman and Tom Reichert), and is co-leader withMankwe Ndosi of The Mother of Masks, an improvising ensemble of poets, storytellers, activists and musicians. |