Simon Jermyn is an electric bassist, guitarist and composer originally from Dublin, Ireland living in Brooklyn, NYC.

He is a member of a number of ensembles including his own group, Trot A Mouse with Tom Rainey, Ingrid Laubrock and Mat Maneri, Jim Black's Smash and Grab, a collaborative trio with Allison Miller and Jerome Sabbagh, Howard Peach (with Lander Gyslelinck and Chris Speed),Glue Gun Optimism, his solo project of commissioned tape pieces entitled Spirit Spout and indie folk rock chamber group Briars of North America.

Since moving to New York Simon has had the opportunity to perform with Bill McHenry, Ben Monder, Jim Black, John Hollenbeck, Oscar Noriega, Chris Speed, Tony Malaby, Dan Tepfer, Ches Smith, Loren Stillman, Jonathan Finlayson, Satoshi Takeishi, The Mivos Quartet, Jacob Sacks, Jeff Davis, Briggan Krauss, Tommy Crane, Tyshawn Sorey, Nate Wood, Kirk Knuffke, Empyrean Atlas and Glass Ghost amongst others.

Charlotte Greve is a New York-based alto saxophonist and composer originally from Berlin. With a unique concept of tone and composition, she is making a mark on both the Brooklyn and German jazz scenes. Her band Lisbeth Quartett, has released four albums so far– Grow (Doublemoon Records, 2009),Constant Travellers (Traumton Records, 2011), Framed Frequencies (Traumton Records, 2014), Lisbeth Live (Traumton Records, 2016 ). The second of these was awarded the Echo Jazz Prize in 2012. In October 2017 they will release their new album There Is only make on Traumton Records.

In Brooklyn, Charlotte formed a new band named Wood River. They released their Debut LP in February 2015 and in 2017 collaborated with a 60 piece choir to perform the premiere of "Sediments We Move", a piece written by Greve.

Further projects in New York are the Alto Saxophone quartet Asterids with Alto colleagues Caroline Davis, Curtis Macdonald and Caleb Curtis as well as a trio with Vinnie Sperrazza and Chris Tordini called The Choir Invisible. As a sidewoman Charlotte appears regularly in different outfits of Arooj Aftabsband on Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet and synthesizer.

Charlotte has been granted several awards for her work, including the 2012 Echo Jazz, the 2010 JazzBaltica Festival Newcomer Award and the 2008 Prätorius-Musikpreis of Lower Saxony (the German state). She has also won classical and jazz competitions such as “Jugend Musiziert” and “Jugend Jazzt”.

Born in 1988, Greve began playing classical flute at the age of eight and picked up the saxophone at age the age of sixteen. She received her undergraduate degree at the Jazz Institute Berlin in 2012. The same year, she moved to New York City with the support of a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to pursue a graduate degree in the jazz program at New York University. Greve’s most important teachers and mentors throughout her artistic journey have been John Hollenbeck, Mark Turner, Greg Cohen, Peter Weniger, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Billy Drewes.

Bop Shop Records presents: Olli Hirvonen New Helsinki
Tuesday, November 5th, 8pm
Bop Shop Records
1460 Monroe Ave. Rochester, NY
$15 at door / $10 students

Olli Hirvonen - guitar
Luke Marantz - piano
Marty Kenney - bass
Nathan Ellman-Bell - drums

Olli Hirvonen is a Finnish guitarist currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Fluent in various styles from jazz to rock to more experimental sounds, he has formed a highly unique style combining these different influences. As the winner of the 2016 Montreux Jazz Guitar Competition, Hirvonen is definitely one of the most accomplished Nordic musicians of his generation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVDhiFpECEg

Thomas Heberer – trumpet
Terrrence McManus – guitar
Michael Bates – bass
Jeff Davis – drums

Time Out New York called him "an innovator," the Penguin Guide to Jazz "outstandingly gifted," and pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach "our new trumpet genius."
Thomas Heberer, born 1965 in Germany, has performed on 6 continents and can be heard on approximately 150 CDs.

Honors include being awarded the Down Beat Critics Poll as a member of the ICP Orchestra in 2002. Since 2008 he calls New York City home.

For his third visit to the Bop Shop (after having played here with the Nu Band and the ICP Orchestra) Thomas will bring his quartet "X Marks the Spot" of whom the New York City Jazz Record,
reviewing their album, wrote in the May 2019 edition:...."a refreshingly innovative collection of original compositions performed by a tightly focused quartet"

Bop Shop Records presents: LUCIAN BAN & ALEX HARDING DARK BLUE
Tuesday, October 8, 8pm
Bop Shop Records 1460 Monroe Ave. Rochester NY
$20 at the door, $10 for students

In spring 2019 Sunnyside records released DARK BLUE, their long awaited follow up album. From avant blues to spontaneous improv pieces, from uncanny ballads that seem to channel Ben Webster and Archie Sheep into an alternate Sun Ra universe, from intricate bass clarinet & piano duets to a heartfelt solo baritone tribute to the late master Hamiet Bluiett, DARK BLUE represents a stunning document of two artists at their maturity, two old friends conversing in the language of modern jazz.

Karuna: Hamid Drake and Adam Rudolph Duet
$20 at the door/ $15 for students

Adam Rudolph handrumset (kongos, djembe, tarija, zabumba) thumb pianos, sintir, multiphonic vocal, percussion, electronic processing
Hamid Drake drum kit, vocal, frame drums, bata, tabla, percussion

"A PIONEER IN WORLD MUSIC” NY Times
“MASTER PERCUSSIONISTS” Musician Magazine
“TWO MASTER DRUMMERS IN A STUNNING ONE-TIME MUSICAL EVENT" John Ephland AAJ concert review April 2017

Steve Greene is known primarily as a traditional jazz guitar player.

Though there are many facets of his artistry that are not known to some people. For instance he is co- director of an ensemble called “The Handmade Orchestra” in which all the instruments are all handmade from the performers imagination. Greene is also an electronic musiccomposer having written a score for the Garth Fagan Dance Company, as well as others. He plays traditional jazz tunes then will play the same tunes again forming them into an abstract sound language. Many of the interesting details of Steve Greene’s career will be seen and heard at Bop Shop Records.

Bop Shop Records presents:
HARVEY SORGEN, MICHAEL BISIO and ERIC LAWRENCE TRIO
Saturday, September 21, 8pm
Bop Shop Records
1460 Monroe Ave. Rochester NY
$15 at the door/ $10 for students

Three amazing accomplished musicians coming together to play music from the heart and soul of jazz!

Detailed info and bios can be viewed on bopshop.com or on the artists web pages.

Please join us for an enthralling evening of music!

Bop Shop Records is pleased to present: SUSAN ALCORN
Sunday, September 15, 8 pm
Bop Shop Records 1460 Monroe Ave. Rochester NY
$20 at the door / $15 students

One of the world’s premiere musical innovators on her instrument, Baltimore-based Susan Alcorn has taken the pedal steel guitar far beyond its traditional role in country and western swing music. Known among steel guitarists for her virtuosity and authenticity in a traditional context, Alcorn first paid her dues in Texas country & western bands. Soon she began to expand the vocabulary of her instrument through her study of modern classical music (Messiaen, Varèse, Penderecki), the deep listening of Pauline Oliveros, Astor Piazzolla’s nuevo tango, free jazz, and world musics (Indian rags, South American songs, and gamelan orchestra). Her pieces reveal the complexity of her instrument and her musical experience while never straying from a very direct, intense, and personal musical expression. The UK Guardian describes her music as "beautiful, glassy and liquid, however far she strays from pulse and conventional harmony." Her latest release Soledad is available from Rellative Pitch Records

susanalcorn.net

Bop Shop Records is thrilled to present STEVE KATZ
Wednesday, August 21 8pm
Bop Shop Records 1460 Monroe Ave.
Rochester NY 14618
$18 advance, $20 day of show.

Legendary guitarist Steve Katz is or at least was definitely a rock star: a pioneer of the blues-rock genre with his early 1960s band, the Blues Project; a founder in the late 1960s of the groundbreaking and hugely popular jazz-rock big band Blood, Sweat & Tears; and the producer of Lou Reed’s best-selling and still-influential live LP Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal (as well as its follow-up Sally Can’t Dance, Reed’s only top-10 album). Katz engagingly recounts fascinating stories in an insightful, intelligent, sometimes wistful and sometimes funny style that makes this one of the few rock memoirs worth reading from beginning to end. Highlights include his early days getting lessons from blues guitar genius Rev. Gary Davis in a “little clapboard shanty” in the South Bronx; the birth of Blood, Sweat & Tears despite Katz’s contentious relationship with co-founder and Dylan collaborator Al Kooper (“Al never liked my guitar playing and I never liked his voice”); the phenomenal success—with Kooper’s replacement singer, David Clayton-Thomas of BS&T’s second self-titled LP with hits such as “Spinning Wheel”; and later, “David’s transformation from soul singer to slinger of schmaltz.” Katz also reveals that the audience sound on Reed’s live LP was lost and then replaced by the audience track from a John Denver live LP, a priceless story for all Reed fans or detractors. – PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY, MAY, 2015

https://stevekatzmusic.wordpress.com

Bop Shop Records presents: With The COWS
Friday, August 9

Roy Marshall drums percussion
Chris Zajkowski keys and other sounds
Arpad Sekeres sounds and sound reinforcement
Rick Petrie spoken word
Phil Marshall guitar and sounds

BOP SHOP RECORDS & LOVIN' CUP present: STICK MEN
TUESDAY, AUGUST 6TH, 8PM
Lovin' Cup Bistro & Brews 300 Park Point Drive, Rochester, NY
$25 ADVANCE/$30 DAY OF SHOW

Tickets on sale at Lovin' Cup and online.

Stick Men is a progressive rock band created from musicians with extensive experience playing together. Pat Mastelotto and Tony Levin are the rhythm section of the legendary band King Crimson. Mastelotto is in demand all over the world as the premier drummer for progressive rock. Levin plays the unusual instrument, the 12 string Chapman Stick, in Crimson, and with Peter Gabriel and others. Markus Reuter is a composer/guitarist who designed and plays his own unique touch style guitar.

Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto, the powerhouse bass and drums of the group King Crimson for some years, bring that tradition to all their playing. Levin plays the Chapman Stick, from which the band takes it’s name. Having bass and guitar strings, the Chapman Stick functions at times like two instruments. Markus Reuter plays his self-designed touch style guitar – again covering much more ground than a guitar or a bass. And Mastelotto’s drumming encompasses not just the acoustic kit, but a unique electronic setup too, allowing him to add loops, samples, percussion, and more.
The result; audiences are fascinated by watching just three musicians onstage perform pieces like Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, King Crimson’s Red and Lark’s Tongues, as well as wild improvs and their own catalog of unique music.

The group formed in 2008, originally with two Chapman Stick players – but when stickist Micheal Bernier had to leave for personal reasons, Markus, already in a duo group with Pat, was brought in, utilizing his familiarity with King Crimson music (he studied with Robert Fripp, that group’s founder) and his unique instrument and sense of composition, to become an invaluable third member of the group.

Tony Levin
Born in Boston, Tony Levin started out in classical music, playing bass in the Rochester Philharmonic. Then moving into jazz and rock, he has had a notable career, recording with John Lennon, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Yes, Alice Cooper, and many more. He has also released 5 solo CDs and three books. In addition to touring with Stick Men, he is currently a member of King Crimson, of the Peter Gabriel Band, and of the jazz band L’Image. His popular website, tonylevin.com, featured one of the web’s first blogs, and has over 4 million visits.

Pat Mastelotto
Very rarely does a drummer go on to forge the most successful career on the demise of their former hit band. Phil Collins and Dave Grohl have managed it, so too has Pat Mastelotto, a self taught drummer from Northern California, who has also been involved with pushing the envelope of electronic drumming. Pat has spent a lifetime jumping genres from pop, to prog, to electronica to world music with – among others – Mr. Mister, XTC, David Sylvian, The Rembrandts, Kimmo Pohjonen, and for the last 20 years with King Crimson.

Markus Reuter
Markus is a composer, guitarist, and producer. Initially trained as a pianist, he subsequently studied Robert Fripp’s Guitar Craft and learned to play the Chapman Stick, later moving onto the U8 Touch Guitar. Reuter has released several solo recordings and worked extensively with other musicians. He is one of the core members of the experimental band Centrozoon, is half of the duo Tuner (with Pat Mastelotto) and was also a member of Europa String Choir. Reuter has collaborated with Ian Boddy, Robert Rich, No-Man singer Tim Bowness, and many others.

BOP SHOP RECORDS presents: DON MENZA
with Bob Sneider, Mike Melito and Danny Vitale and John Hasselback.
Sunday, August 4, 8pm
Bop Shop Records 1460 Monroe Ave.
Rochester NY 14618
$15 at the door / $10 for students

Don Menza is a powerful tenor saxophonist, with an dynamic and distinctive sound and soloing style. Born in Buffalo, New York in 1936, Menza started playing tenor saxophone when he was 13. After getting out of the Army, he was with Maynard Ferguson’s Orchestra (1960-1962) as both a soloist and an arranger.

A short tenure with Stan Kenton and a year leading a quintet in Buffalo preceded a period living in Germany (1964-1968). After returning to the U.S., he joined Buddy Rich’s 1968 big band in the “jazz tenor” chair, recording the famous solo cadenza on “Channel 1 Suite” (Recorded “live” at Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas) that utilized circular breathing and has become known as a classic among music educators and musicians alike.

He settled in California and has worked with Elvin Jones (1969), Louie Bellson, as an educator, and in the studios. Don Menza, who has made far too few records, recorded as a leader for Saba (1965) in Germany, Discwasher (1979), Realtime, and Palo Alto (the latter two in 1981). Don was a long time member of The Tonight Show Band, with Johnny Carson.

His compositions, such as “Groovin’ Hard” and “Time Check” (both favorites of Doc Severinsen’s NBC Orchestra and Buddy Rich’s Big Band) have become standard repertoire in jazz studies programs at colleges and universities worldwide.

Bop Shop Records & Bop Arts is pleased to present: TMT TRIO + 2
Saturday, July 27, 8pm
Bop Shop Records 1460 Monroe Ave. Rochester NY
$15 at the door / $10 for students

Brooklyn/Cleveland-based jazz group TMT Trio features Juno Award-winner Cat Toren on piano, Angela Morris on tenor saxophone, and Anthony Taddeo on drums. Uniquely sans bass, TMT showcases the multifaceted chamber music character of the piano by drawing from modern jazz, new music and avant-rock. Their repertoire features original compositions, collective improvisations and re-imaginings of standards by the three band members. After five years as a band, the trio released their debut album, Star Ballad, in 2017. TMT has toured the U.S. extensively, and most recently performed a two-hour composition in the Akron Art Gallery as part of the exhibit Jerry Birchfield: Asleep in the Dust. TMT Trio is proud to have worked as educators in various youth jazz programs including the Boys and Girls Clubs of Cleveland, Cuyahoga Community College and SOTA Arts. This tour the trio will be joined by decorated composers and musicians: Chris Coles (winner of the Knight Arts Challenge) and Sam Blakeslee (2018 Recipient of the David Baker Prize). TMT Trio + 2 will be writing new compositions specifically for this tour!

Bop Shop Records is pleased to present:
The Brian Krock Quartet
Sunday, May 19 8pm
Bop Shop Records 1460 Monroe Ave. Rochester NY
$15 at door/$10 students(all $ goes to the artist)

Alto saxophonist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Brian Krock began his musical career at an early age. Before discovering his love of jazz music, he studied classical guitar and piano. His first attempts at composing were made in the 7th grade, when he recorded an entire album of original heavy-metal music on a digital recorder. He began seriously studying jazz music in high school, inspiring him to pursue a career dedicated to creating music.

A recent recipient of a Master’s Degree in Composition from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, Brian was a student of world-renowned jazz composer Jim McNeely and classical composer Dr. J. Mark Stambaugh. His work as a composer and arranger has been lauded with numerous distinctions. Most recently, Brian was by Rufus Reid to compose a First Music Commission for the New York Youth Symphony. Brian will also be collaborating with the Metropole Orkest and Grammy-winning singer Lalah Hathaway in 2015. In 2012 he was awarded the Manhattan Prize in Composition for his String Quartet No. 1 (2010) as well as being awarded an ASCAP Young Jazz Composer’s Award. As Composer-in-Residence at the Bloomingdale School of Music in 2014, he wrote a plethora of music which he plans to record in the coming year.

Bop Shop Records is excited to present:
“WE ARE ANTS TO THEM” starring
PROJECT OBJECT'S ANDRE CHOLMONDELEY
Thursday, May 16th @ 8pm
Bop Shop Records 1460 Monroe Ave. Rochester NY
$15 at the door

Andre Cholmondeley: solo electronics/guitar. A blend of ambient textures, trip-hop influenced beats, an ongoing study of musique concrete, and a search for unconventional timbres and sounds in a musical setting. Synthesizer, guitar, rhythms and where they all blur & overlap.

Andre Cholmondeley, musician, multi-instrumentalist, and music-biz multi-tasker, is the founder of Project/Object, the longest running Zappa-alumni-based tribute band in the world.

By day Andre is a tech for various and diverse artists. On tour continually, with tech gigs that range from guitar and bass, to synth/audio software, for a variety of legendary artists.

Former Rochestarians, folk musicians, Joe LaMay & Sherri Reese, are keeping alive a tradition of music passed down through the generations.

Joe LaMay likes to say that he learned to play guitar in high school because he was “too short to play basketball.” The truth is, as a young man he was bitten by the music bug through the songs of the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan.

It was through his interest in their music that he studied their roots and influences and began his retro journey into the world of American folk music. Within this music he discovered the magical songs of the rivers, mountains, towns, people, and the vast plain of our rich and colorful musical heritage.

Sherri Reese comes from a musical family. Her father played bluegrass and traditional country music all his life. She grew up hearing the melodies and songs of the Carter Family, Doc Watson, Reno & Smiley, The Stanley Brothers, and other mountain music.

She began playing guitar in her teens, and was drawn to the songs of Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, Tom Paxton, Emmylou Harris and other folk music performers. When she began hearing the influence of roots music in their songs, she knew she had come full circle.

LaMay & Reese met at a Golden Link singaround in 1998. They were drawn to each other’s music and soon began performing together. It wasn’t long before they gained a reputation for their original songs and old-style harmony, as well as their stage presentation of their favorite traditional and contemporary songs.

It has been said that Joe & Sherri “know a good song and write a good song.” As songwriters, they have had several of their original songs recorded and performed by other folk musicians and bluegrass bands.

LaMay & Reese’s performances are warm, entertaining and enjoyable. With Joe on his guitar and Sherri on her banjo, they present an eclectic collection of traditional and original songs that are sure to inspire the novice and please the traditionalist.

Since 2004, LaMay & Reese have been contributing monthly music segments to Bill Knowlton’s Bluegrass Ramble Radio Show. Their twenty-minute segments feature songs and musicians recorded “live” in KY and on the road. They have featured dozens of musicians, and hundreds of songs. The Bluegrass Ramble is aired on NPR throughout the northeast and on the worldwide web.

In support of their local music community, in Somerset, KY, Joe & Sherri are music directors of the Carnegie Community Arts Center, host the monthly 3rd Friday Folk Coffeehouse, the weekly Lake Cumberland Jammers, and the Somerset Songwriters group.

In recognition of artistic excellence, Joe LaMay and Sherri Reese have been selected to participate in the Performing Arts Directory, a program of the Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, which is supported by state tax dollars and federal funding from the Endowment for the Arts.

From 1998 – 2004 the Cleveland-based trio Birth seemed to be playing regularly in Rochester. They were at the Bug Jar, Milestones, Java’s and, of course, the Bop Shop back in the Atrium days. We presented Birth twice in what were probably among their more unique concerts. The first time we presented them, they were given two sets. The first was a typical rousing freewheeling set of the trio doing what they did best. The second set was unique. At the time, in Village Gate there was an instrument store. The second set presented the band “unplugged” at the instrument store, playing unique percussion instruments, flutes and other sundry items for an unusual set even by Birth standards. But it was a wonderful night of music. Birth played a second time at the store in one of the most memorable Bop Shop concerts of that era. They brought along microtonal saxophone master Joe Maneri. It was a memorable night of free improvisation with music of subtlety and power. But the most surprising moment was when Maneri said, “Let’s play a tune” and they wound up playing a wonderful, other-worldly version of “Body And Soul”.
Their music evolved from youthful, unrestrained, often “sensationalized” (in�the words of Joe Maneri) displays of prodigious outbursts on their�instruments, to later, a hybrid of powerful, yet highly sensitive�improvisation and composition that garnered attention and praise from�some of the leading voices of the avant-garde jazz and creative music world.
A favorite of Cleveland jazz writer and folk icon Harvey Pekar, their music�lead Harvey to proclaim that birth was “So good that it’s scary.” “Awesome and magnificent” lauded The Wire. John Zorn wrote “The music is strong, as is the group.” They were voted best Cleveland band of all time by the outgoing editors from the Cleveland Free Times in its final edition.
Birth released four records during their tenure to critical acclaim, including�two studio records, as well as collections of live recordings. The trio toured in the US and Europe, constantly evolving their music and sound. They regularly performed at NYC’s Knitting Factory as well as other hubs of creative jazz including Tonic, and Chicago’s Empty Bottle. They presented countless concerts in Cleveland, bringing to town cohorts who were some of the finest in improvised and creative music, and inspired a younger generation of musicians who have gone on to establish themselves in the creative music world.�
After a performance at the High Mayhem Festival in Santa Fe New Mexico�in 2004, the group went on an indefinite hiatus as its members disbursed�to various corners of the country. Saxophonist Joshua Smith relocated to�San Francisco, California where he had performed with various groups�under his own direction and as a sideman, Jeremy Bleich relocated to the�Southwest, and has lived and performed music for the past eight years in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Joe Tomino anchored in New York City and�pursued studio and touring projects that have brought him into a variety of�notable realms.
We’re glad they’re back and we’re pleased to present them once again. You won’t want to miss this one. They’ve always seemed like a band who were up for anything so we know this will be an entertaining night of exciting and powerful music.

Nelson's 45-years and counting career has run the gamut from solo classical recitals and folk concerts, to club and festival dates with country, rockabilly, jazz, swing, and rhythm & blues bands. Along the way Nelson has played with such notables as Tom Paxton, Buddy Guy, Wayne Hancock and long-time influence Danny Gatton. For years a mainstay of the Rochester NY music scene Nelson’s acoustic guitar show blends jazz, folk, classical, and Americana, with original compositions and improvisations in programs that and might include references to Miles Davis, Flatt and Scruggs, Franz Schubert, John Fahey, Leo Kotke, The Ventures, the "Folk Scare," the "British Invasion," and the occasional TV-theme-stump-the-audience medley.

Over the years Nelson has opened for John Renbourn, David Bromberg, Tommy Emmanuel, Leo Kotke, Spider John Koerner, Shawn Phillips and others, and has done acoustic guitar concerts together with Laurence Juber (Paul McCartney & Wings), Mark Goldenberg (Jackson Brown), Muriel Anderson (NAMM All Star Guitar Night), Stephen Bennett (harp guitar maestro), Teje Gerken (Acoustic Guitar Mag), Al Petteway (Ken Burns documentaries), Don Alder, Vicki Genfan, Tony McManus, Harvey Reid, Peter Lang, Mike Chapdelaine and numerous others on today's fingerstyle guitar scene.
Performances credits include: Montreal Jazz Festival; Time/Warner Jazz Festival; Owen Sound Summer Folk Festival; Little Mountain Folk Festival; Fretted Instrument Guild of America; The NAAM Shows in Nashville & Los Angeles; and the Newport, Montreal, Healdsburg and Woodstock Luthier Invitational Guitar Festivals, where Nelson has been in demand as a player for many of the nation’s top guitar builders.

A composer and recording artist, Nelson has been published in Acoustic Guitar Magazine, reviewed in Just Jazz Magazine, and can be heard on Heartland Records, BKN-jr Records, and Sampler Records.

Nelson studied classical guitar with Stanley Watson in Rochester NY, jazz guitar with Gene Bertoncini at Eastman School of Music and music theory at the University of Rochester.

Teaching credits include workshops at the University of Rochester (NY), S.U.N.Y. at Oswego; residencies at Maryland Summer Center For The Arts, technique and theory workshops at music and guitar festivals; and twenty five years teaching guitar at The Hochstein Music School in Rochester, NY.

Video Links, contact info and more can be found on the homepage at http://KinlochNelson.com

RECORD STORE DAY
Saturday, April 13 9am to 6pm
Bop Shop Records, 1460 Monroe Ave. Rochester, NY

We will have Fuego coffee for you in the morning along with Ziggy's cookies, crack bars, delicious doughnuts and candied BACON!!

Three Heads brewery will be there in the afternoon for a tasting.

Listen to local celebrity DJs starting at noon with MDG, Peter Hughes of the Mountain Goats, Geoff Dale of Three Heads brewery, Pauline Coles and Philadelphia's Psychedelic Nun! WooHoo!

Poster artist Alison Cote will be signing numbered limited edition prints of the astonishing poster she made for the day.

The selection of records available for this RSD are quite exciting!
We are getting plenty and pretty good fill on the allotted titles.

Celebrate with us the glory of the record album and the music it serves!

When you walk into a record store its an escape for some of us. It seems like whatever situation you’re going thru in your life there is a song or artist that can describe it perfectly, whether its a happy feeling, or something bad, there’s an artist and song that can describe it perfectly. If I’m struggling with something in my life, then the right song will help me thru it. The record store is like a giant medicine cabinet. Its an environment of people of all walks of life that are professionals in what they do. The opinion of those people working at record stores are so important to me as a customer. They’ll tell me what’s good and let me know the truth on what’s only hype. They’ll tell me “when you buy this listen to track #6″ and might even say, “there’s only 2 really good songs on there, the rest is just B.S.” They know the history about the artists and music. When I buy music I want quality music. At the record store they can let me know what’s good, not just what the top seller is.”

Mark McGrain - trombone
Mike Kaupa - trumpet
Dave Arenius - Bass
Richard Felice - Drums

Rochester native Mark McGrain is a New Orleans based trombonist, composer, and educator. He is the leader of the critically acclaimed trio Plunge and a busy instrumentalist and arranger for many New Orleans artists, including backing singer John Boutté (since 2006) and frequently in duo with pianist Matt Lemmler. Formerly on the faculty of Berklee College of Music, Mr. McGrain is the author of the text book Music Notation (Hal Leonard pub.)

Video: On The Turning Away w/ John Boutté
https://youtu.be/pW9rXTqVu5g

www.markmcgrain.com/music

Trumpet player and composer Nathan Kay grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and studies jazz performance at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. During his time at Eastman he has founded his own bands, such as the Nathan Kay group. Kay won 1st place in the National Trumpet Competition in 2018. He has played at festivals such as the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival, the Bay View Jazz festival, and has performed at renowned venues across the United States from San Jose to New York City, and many places in between. In the summer of 2018, Nathan was invited to perform at the Kennedy Center as a member of Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead. Kay has also played with and toured with various groups, including The Saplings on their East Coast tour.

This performance will feature:

Nathan Kay – Trumpet/compositions
Drew Voghel – Tenor Sax
Matt Landon – Guitar
Max Greenberg – Piano
Mikailo Kasha – Bass
Stephen Morris – Drums

Check out some of Nathan's work here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgfyWV7ZoRA