
24 with the Ben Herod Quartet, at 10 p.m., and both Sept.

23 with the Robert Papacica Trio at 8 p.m. Pearl Hour in New Monterey gets started Thursday, Sept.

Deja Blue Restaurant in Seaside presents The Leon Joyce Trio, Sept. Some shows, however, will require an admission fee, contact the venue for more details.Įsteban Restaurant at Casa Munras in Monterey will present Monterey Jazz Festival’s Next Generation Women in Jazz Combo Saturday, Sept. Although folks without a ticket won’t get to see headliners Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Ledisi, and George Benson among the other 18 scheduled performers, a festival ticket isn’t needed to attend any of the Jazz After Hours shows. Tickets sold out in one week, leaving many eager local fans without access. The Monterey Fair & Event Center’s venues for the Jazz Fest are also restricted to the main arena and the nearby courtyard stage, and a limited attendance of 2,500 people. Because of that, the festival has partnered with several Monterey Peninsula venues to present Jazz After Hours. 24, features two sets of music rather than three, ending at 10 p.m. 25-26, ending at 7 p.m., while Friday night’s concert, Sept. The Jazz Fest is operating with an altered format of a long afternoon/early evening lineup of music both Saturday and Sunday, Sept. Spoiler alert: they found some more!īursting with transcendent energy, Harmonizer is an extension of the classic style of Emotional Mugger and Sleeper, revisiting the lonely days and loathsome nights of the alienated, grown-up-wrong soul, to make it all right in the end.As promised in last week’s column, information about the Monterey Jazz Festival and the constellation of events surrounding it is here.

The Venn diagram of these guys unites them in DIY/punk dyed-in-the-wooldom Ty’s propers you know, but Cooper’s own unique journey in rhythm, minimalism and DIY (as heard on his productions with CAVE, Bitchin Bajas and Jackie Lynn) mines the depths around Ty’s peerless vocal attack and aid in the latest chapter of his never-ending search for unfathomably corrosive guitar sounds. The first recording to be released from Ty’s just-completed Harmonizer Studios, Harmonizer benefits from a collaboration with Cooper Crain, who co-produced the album with Ty. You open them and then you can pass through them. The thing about closed doors is they need opening again, no matter what happens. Operating in this airtight environment with an eye towards precision, feel, and explosive mass, Ty’s crafted a formidable listening encounter-and once you get between the lines, the need to know more grows more compelling with every song. Their contributions leaving a distinctive footprint on the pro- ceedings wherever they appear.

The Freedom Band appear all over the record, but often one at a time, Harmonizer’s production model couches tightly-controlled beats in thick keyboard textures, with direct-input guitar signal whining and buzzing purposefully from left to right. Harmonizer is a glossy, barely-precedented sound for him, and truth, it enraptures the ear - but in Ty’s hands, the sound is also a tool that allows him to cut through dense undergrowth, making for some of his cleanest songs and starkest ideas to date. With Harmonizer, his first album in two years, Ty glides smoothly into unexpected territory, right where he likes to find himself! Responding to the challenge his new songs gave him: a synthtastic production redesign, Ty kicks back with bottom-heavy creativity, dialing up a wealth of guitar and keyboard settings to do the deed. Rolling out of the mist and dust and silence of time, Ty Segall is behind the wheel of a sleek new ride, a confetti of pages torn from his ongoing saga blizzarding into the air behind him.
