Author: mattlang

  • May Oui

    Heya. Thanks for popping ovah. Some good stuff for your earz this month that I’d love to share with you.
    Friday, May 16 – Back to the Barley House in Concord for a night of funky stuff with Guitarist Scott Solsky. Jared Steer and Matt Hogan will be along for the ride. Should be fun! Great food, excellent beer selection and an attentive wait staff along with creative musicians doing what they love to do. We’re very lucky!
    Saturday, May 17 – Speaking of lucky…saturday night the Combo Sabroso pays a spring visit to the Press Room for a night of latin music and dancing. Rumor has it the Alex, Manolo and Ernie will be on board as well as Angel on trombone. This will be a kicking night so stake out your spot on the dance floor early.
    Friday, May 23 – Carrie Coltrane, Kent Allyn & Myself at the Kittery Art Association. This is an intimate setting and a great trio. Kent Allyn is the MAN and I don’t get enough chances to work with him. Carrie the WOMAN and it’s been waaay too long since we’ve made some sounds together. I’m really looking forward to this night. Just music…
    Monday, May 26th – Matt Langley/ Tim O’Dell Quartet at the Press Room. This is a wonderful group with Jim Lyden on bass and Luther Gray on drums. Should be a great night of music downstairs at the Press Room.
    Saturday, May 31st – The Space in Kittery opens up for Johnny Peiffer’s Latin Group. There are some great young musicians in this group and this should be a blast on stage and on the dance floor. You should plan to arrive early to this one too!

    The New Color CD is Availableat CDBaby and on iTunes. Grab yours and share it with your friends. We’d be honored! Check out the Color Virb site too!. This band has been together for a long time and this is our best recording yet (our third CD) in my humble opinion. We did this for the RPM challenge thanks to Jamie and Chris’ urging and the idea was to make the tunes short and sweet so we can expound on them on gigs. It worked out well. Tell us what you think!

  • spring

    The New Color CD is up on CD BABY!!! Download the entire disc as an MP3 or Get a traditional Disc in the Mail (and enjoy the beautiful cover artwork by ERIN LANGLEY!!) Click Here To Check it out!!!

    Hey, it actually feels like spring! Time to get on the BIKE!!! Can’t wait. If I wasn’t such a wus I would have ridden today. Oh well, I’ll hop on soon. Some great music coming up.

    Friday, April 4th: Pandelis Karayorgis Quintet at the Portland Conservatory. This is this group’s second gig and the first one was a blast! Thanks to old pal Paul Lichter – Portland’s Jazz Impresario – for hooking this up. Come hear Pandelis, Jeff Galindo, Jef Charland, Luther Gray and myself interpret Pandelis’ wonderful original compositions.

    Monday, April 14th: The David Tonkin Group’s regular hang at the Barley House in Concord. After a couple gigs with the whole CCMS jazz faculty – two drummers, two saxes, bass, guitar and keys – David has some ideas that include dancers, animals, video and flexitone solos galore. You should definitely stay tuned to this saga. We start at 8PM

    Tuesday April 15th: Chris Klaxton Quintet at St. Anselm’s College. Chris is a great trumpet player among many other things. This should be a great time…sorry a little light on the deatils but if you wanna check it out, send me an email and I’ll get you some details.

    Thursday April 17th: Lola Danza Quartet at Ryles in Cambridge. Jeff Glindo is on the road so I get to bat cleanup with an incredible band; Lola, Bob Moses and John Lockwood. Have a great gig trip Jeff, I know I’ll have some fun!

    Friday, April 18th: Rob Dumais and I will bounce a few notes off the walls of the lobby of the Hilton Garden Inn in Manchester, NH. Come on down and have a brew with us…well…you can have a brew…we’ll have one with you aftah the gig.

    Thursday, April 24th:The Jazzmouth Festival kicks off in Portsmouth with the annual big band and movie hang at the Muddy River. Check out the Jazzmouth website. There’s a ton of great stuff going on all weekend.

    Sunday, April 27th: I’ll be doing the jazz brunch at the Outlook in South Berwick. Great food and a beautiful setting. Come on out for some jazz and eggs.