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老丹 Lao Dan- Chinese Flutes, Alto Saxophones
Luther Gray- Drums
Damon Smith- Double Bass

A Rare Chinese Free Form Jazz Musician Lao Dan is coming in town. Luther Gray the great drummer and Damon Smith, the beautiful Bassist will welcome him, so, a wonderful Trio!

Lao Dan is suppose to bring his own trio-The Red Scarf, but only him got the US visa. Luckily we have Boston based musicians here to join him in the musical journey.

$15 per ticket. $10 for students.

Introduction of Lao Dan:

Lao Dan has been play Saxophone and Chinese Flutes for more than twenty years. He graduate from Shenyang Conservatory in 2012, major in Chinese Flutes.

He was the prime Flute player in Shenyang Youth Orchestra.

He is deeply rooted in Eastern/Chinese traditional music and flutes are his powerful instrument, as well as Saxophone. He is also influenced by Free Jazz, both European Jazz icon such as Peter Brotzman, and US legend Roscoe Michell, as well as Japanese Free Jazz.

He has performed with Japanese Veteran Drummer Sabu Toyozumi, AACM member Ralph Thomas, guitarist Marc Ribot and many others.

Have a taste of Lao Dan:

His flute solo:

Damon Smith:
Damon Smith studied double bass with Lisle Ellis and has had lessons with Bertram Turezky, Joëlle Leandré, John Lindberg, Mark Dresser and others. Damon’s explorations into the sonic palette of the double bass have resulted in a personal, flexible improvisational language based in the American jazz avant-garde movement and European non-idiomatic free improvisation. Visual art, film and dance heavily influence his music, as evidenced by his CAMH performance of Ben Patterson’s Variations for Double Bass, collaborations with director Werner Herzog on soundtracks for Grizzly Man and Encounters at the End of the World, and an early performance with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Damon has collaborated with a wide range of musicians, including: Cecil Taylor, Marshall Allen (of Sun Ra’s Arkestra), Henry Kaiser, Roscoe Mitchell, Michael Pisaro, Wadada Leo Smith, Marco Eneidi, Wolfgang Fuchs, Peter Brötzmann and Peter Kowald. After many years in the San Francisco Bay Area, and six great years in Houston, Texas working regularly with Alvin Fielder, Sandy Ewen, David Dove & Chris Cogburn.Damon moved to the Boston area in the fall of 2016 and began working with Jeb Bishop, Joe McPhee and Ra-Kalam Bob Moses and many others. Damon has run Balance Point Acoustics record label since 2001, releasing music focusing on transatlantic collaborations between US and European musicians.

Drummer Luther Gray, though largely self-taught, his musical training involved drum lessons from Kim Martin, Larry Bright, Steve Bagby, and Mickey Newman. In 1995 he graduated the University of Miami with a Bachelor of Music, after which he taught privately and performed in the Washington , D.C. area with, among others, Butch Warren, Cecil Payne, Webster Young, Tsunami, Liquorice, Peter Edelman, Jenny Toomey, Bob Butta, and Buck Hill. Since moving to Boston he has resumed teaching private drum lessons and has played with Joe Morris, Jay Hoggard, Joe McPhee, Timo Shanko, Cameron Brown, Allan Chase, Joseph Daley, Sabir Mateen, Roy Campbell, Ida, Geoff Farina, Andrew White, Rob Brown, Bill Lowe, Greg Abate, Raqib Hassan, Bill Pierce, Mitch Seidman, Steve Swell, Joe Beck, Fred Anderson, Ken Vandermark and many others. In addition to his performing schedule Luther teaches art and music at an after-school program for elementary school children.