Brian Felix is Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department at UNC Asheville, where he teaches classes on jazz theory and improvisation, jazz history, keyboard skills, music business, the Beatles and the Grateful Dead. He was co-leader of OM Trio, an acclaimed jazz-rock group that toured internationally between 1999-2004. More info at brianfelix.com.
Fly Casual Organ Trio will bring an evening of swinging and soulful organ jazz to Little Jumbo.
Brian Felix: Organ
Justin Ray: Trumpet
Tim Fischer: Guitar
Evan Martin: Drums
Imagine this: It’s the early 2010s. Skinny jeans still reign supreme. People who grew up thinking Pitchfork was an underground blog are starting to pretend they‘be stopped reading it. Odd Future and The Weeknd are breaking new ground (and I, for one, am obsessed). Datpiff is on absolute FIRE. We think X-Pro filters look pretty dope and 12 likes on Instagram feels like a good day. Sleigh Bells still blares from car windows. “Humble brag”, “bae”, “fleek”, and “lit fam” seem like fully acceptable phrases. Strangers pull up Major Lazer videos at house parties. We’re having a pretty good time.
Too soon? Yeah, I know.
We'll be slingin' drinks and spinnin' tunes every Saturday from 10 - 1. Sweat bands and leg warmers optional, but encouraged! No cover, 21+.
Every Tuesday, savor experimental musica universalis focused primarily on the group's original writing and sonic explorations. These aural wayfarers fear no boundary.
Jay Sanders ~ Guitar and Effects
Zack Page ~ Bass and Effects
Michael W. Davis ~ Drums and Percussion
Mike Baggetta: guitar, live processing
“…vintage twang in service of Americana-meets exploratory Jazz-psych…”
-Rolling Stone
"Guitarist Mike Baggetta bends notes, and his genre, to make music that sounds like life.”
-Ted Drozdowski, Premier Guitar
“Mike Baggetta makes stealthy, mysterious music … he’s trying to do something personal with collective improvisation without ever getting in the way of beauty.”
-Ben Ratliff, New York Times
“…a kind of post-Frisellian sonic explorer … with his wild whammy-bar articulations, ambient looping and rippling arpeggios … full of subversive surprises, hellacious skronking, string-scraping and a general hornets’ nest of fuzz-toned dissonance”
-Bill Milkowski, DownBeat Magazine / Slate Magazine
“Mike Baggetta is a genre-blurring guitar hero...at the forefront of an army of guitar innovators”
-JazzTimes
Justin Ray: Trumpet
Brian Felix: Organ
Dylan Hannan: Sax
Tim Fischer: Guitar
Justin Watt: Drums
Every Tuesday, savor experimental musica universalis focused primarily on the group's original writing and sonic explorations. These aural wayfarers fear no boundary.
Jay Sanders ~ Guitar and Effects
Zack Page ~ Bass and Effects
Justin Watt ~ Drums and Percussion
When the originators of the Asheville Original Music series—bassist Mike Holstein and drummer Justin Watt—teamed up with pianist Dr. William Bares (Harvard ethnomusicology Ph.D and professor of music at UNC Asheville) a decade ago to create a working jazz piano trio, the result was a new musical concept that has blurred the lines between art and entertainment, structure and spontaneity. The group has has evolved a sound that combines elements of global music, Americana and jazz in ways that are recognizably artistic and quintessentially Ashevillian.
Every Tuesday, savor experimental musica universalis focused primarily on the group's original writing and sonic explorations. These aural wayfarers fear no boundary.
Jay Sanders ~ Guitar and Effects
Zack Page ~ Bass and Effects
Alan Hall ~ Drums and Percussion
Twin brothers Andy and Zack Page have been playing music together since.... conception? Their shared life experiences result in a unified sound and unusual affinity whenever they share a bandstand. As the Page Brothers Quartet, the brothers are joined by creative, like-minded sidemen who share the desire to present a diverse program of material that honors the jazz tradition while looking to the future.
Andy Page: Guitars
Zack Page: Basses
Taylor Pierson: keys
Gary Claude: Drums
Every Tuesday, savour the experimental musica universalis of Sanders, Page & Hall. Focused primarily on the groups original writing and sonic explorations, the three aural wayfarers fear no boundary. The infinite probability of preternatural visitants remain incalculable.
Jay Sanders ~ Guitar and Effects
Zack Page ~ Bass and Effects
Alan Hall ~ Drums and Percussion
Rahm Mandelkorn - Guitar
Jackson Dulaney - Slide
Trevor Stoia - Bass
Jacob Baumann - Drums
Every Tuesday, savour the experimental musica universalis of Sanders, Page & Hall. Focused primarily on the groups original writing and sonic explorations, the three aural wayfarers fear no boundary. The infinite probability of preternatural visitants remain incalculable.
Jay Sanders ~ Guitar and Effects
Zack Page ~ Bass and Effects
Alan Hall ~ Drums and Percussion
Members of The Core playing unusual and electrified styles and grooves.
Justin Ray: Trumpet
Bill Bares: Piano
Zack Page: Bass
Evan Martin: Drums
Fly Casual Organ Trio will bring an evening of swinging and soulful organ jazz to Little Jumbo!
Brian Felix is Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department at UNC Asheville, where he teaches classes on jazz theory and improvisation, jazz history, keyboard skills, music business, the Beatles and the Grateful Dead. He was co-leader of OM Trio, an acclaimed jazz-rock group that toured internationally between 1999-2004. More info at brianfelix.com.
Brian Felix - Organ
Tim Fischer - Guitar
Justin Ray - Trumpet
Evan Martin - Drums
The CORE returns to Little Jumbo! Come enjoy piquant cocktails and titillating tunes from Asheville's most prodigious jazz quintet.
Justin Ray: Trumpet
Jacob Rodriguez: Saxophone
Bill Bares: Piano
Zack Page: Bass
Evan Martin: Drums
We'll be slingin' drinks and spinnin' tunes every Saturday through August 20th. Enjoy new special snow cones (while supplies last) and rotating DJs from 10pm to 1am. Sweat bands and leg warmers optional, but encouraged! No cover, 21+.
I play atmospheric house, techno and breakbeats. I'm a part of In Plain Sight and my solo work is under the "Nomad in the Dark" and "The Antelope" monikers.
I don't usually DJ in town under the other monikers so it can just be billed as Iffy (from In Plain Sight, Nomad in the Dark, The Antelope).
The Asheville Jazz Collective was founded by drummer, and former Berklee College of Music professor, Alan Hall as an “open borders” stylistic vehicle for composing and performimg with like-minded peers. Originally he was joined by UNCA professors Bill Bares-piano, Steve Alford-woodwinds and New Orleans transplant Josef Butts-bass. Since then, we’ve added
trombonists Caleb McMahon, Nick Garrison, vibist Jason DeCristofaro and woodwind player Will Boyd to our flexible front line. We cull our material from a wide range of jazz standards and original material.
Whether in trio, quartet or quintet format we strive for a varied, rich and surprising performance for ourselves and our audiences. We’ve recently completed a recording at Sound Temple Studio and will be releasing those tracks in video and audio format in Fall 2022.
We'll be slingin' drinks and spinnin' tunes every Saturday through August 20th. Enjoy new special snow cones (while supplies last) and rotating DJs from 10pm to 1am. Sweat bands and leg warmers optional, but encouraged! No cover, 21+.
We're just two friends that throw dance parties a lot. We play a lot of UK dance music mixed with booty club vibes.
Jay Sanders - Guitar
Mike Holstein - Bass
Justin Watt - Drums
Justin Ray revivifies his eponymous first record live at Little Jumbo.
Justin Ray - Trumpet
Brian Felix - Organ
Tim Fischer - Guitar
Justin Watt - Drums
We'll be slingin' drinks and spinnin' tunes every Saturday in July! Enjoy new special snow cones (while supplies last) and rotating DJs from 10pm to 1am. Sweat bands and leg warmers optional, but encouraged! No cover, 21+.
Twin brothers Andy and Zack Page have been playing music together since.... conception? Their shared life experiences result in a unified sound and unusual affinity whenever they share a bandstand. As the Page Brothers Quartet, the brothers are joined by creative, like-minded sidemen who share the desire to present a diverse program of material that honors the jazz tradition while looking to the future.
In this instalment the brothers will be joined by tenor sax titan Jack Wilkins.
Andy Page: Guitars
Zack Page: Basses
Jack Wilkins: Tenor Sax
Taylor Pierson: keys
Evan Martin: Drums
We'll be slingin' drinks and spinnin' tunes every Saturday in July! Enjoy new special snow cones (while supplies last) and rotating DJs from 10pm to 1am. Sweat bands and leg warmers optional, but encouraged! No cover, 21+.
Asheville Jazz Collective brings together the performing and composing talents of recent transplants Alan Hall (drums, founder) and Josef Butts (basses) with UNCA professors Steve Alford (woodwinds and bass) and Bill Bares (piano and keyboard). A.J.C. has an open-ended policy regarding the styles of jazz we choose to compose and play. Our musical influences range from Ellington to ECM, "The Bad Plus“ to Bach, Tomasz Stanko to Tito Puente, and Ornette Coleman to Olivier Messiaen. We always aim for a richly felt performance of originals and standards for our audience.
Founder Alan Hall's previous California group “Ratatet”, has released two albums on Ridgeway Records (Arctic and Heroes, Saints and Clowns), and has recieved rave reviews. “Kwirkestra” his most recent group formed at the beginning of Covid, has released three music videos on YouTube and includes an international cast of his musical peers in a virtual musical format.
Alan Hall: Drums
Will Boyd: Reeds
Bill Bares: Piano
Josef Butts: Bass
Devyn Marzuola aka dj blind date has been a longtime staple in the Asheville music scene...For years, she has curated an innumerable amount of strictly vinyl dj sets all around town. From old school dance parties to cool obscurities, blind date has likely provided a stellar soundtrack to one or many of your nights. Catch her beloved radio show, Too Dark for Disney, on the 103.3 AshevilleFM airwaves every Friday evening from 5 to 7 pm.
blind date will be serving up a supersonic stew of retro hip shaking sound---with doses of old soul, funk, no wave, disco, glam, and beyond...