The Guy Tyler Band
PERFORMING AT SOMEDAY
Thursday, Jan 11 › - › -
KLEZMOCRACY with THE GUY TYLER BAND
As if we needed one more thing to thank John Zorn for, let's give him props for clueing most of us in on Klezmer. Since The Z-Man opened up this long-neglected Pandora's Box, a rare breed of musician has taken up the challenge and begun to experiment in earnest with this 500-year-old form that presaged the sound and structure of jazz. Klezmocracy is one such ensemble, boasting some of Portland's most accomplished and eclectic players at their most playful and pyrotechnic, effortlessly touching on all the music in the world at once.
Guy Tyler is himself one of our city's finest, a cellist and contrabassist who slums around with the Oregon Ballet Theater and Portland Opera for a living while saving his best for the underground stage. A glance through his resume will reveal professional associations with everyone from LaMonte Young to Phillip Glass to Leonard Bernstein; and if you've seen him play over the last few years with Autism, Licorice, or The Creepy Tales That Chill Ensemble, you will probably be completely unprepared for his new band. Which is a bad-ass urban funk-jazz quartet, all rhythm section and electric organ, in which Mr. Tyler is the singer. Thank goodness geniuses get bored so easily. Catch this while it's hot.
About the artist
Urbane and soulful, the Guy Tyler Band brings together the sophistication of modern jazz with the down and dirty street appeal of funk and hip hop: Funk to be Thunk about, Jazz for your Azz. The band members come together from the corners of the musical earth with wide experience and prodigious talent to make a singular and ecstatic sound, a combination of compelling songwriting and rapping with mind blowing solos and an irresistible propulsion of rhythm. You will want to dance and listen and read the lyrics. This is New Funk. Bios: Guy Tyler composer/vox/keys Frontman Guy Tyler has been singing and performing jazz and soul music from the age of 4, guided and influenced by his family. His parents, Bob and Fran Tyler comprised the Storm Trio, a cocktail jazz group in the 50's that performed and recorded out of Boston, MA. and had the last live music radio show in that city. His uncles Tom and Jimmy Tyler, had been with many famous jazz groups, such as the Eliot Lawrence band, Lionel Hampton, and Count Basie, and he grew up hearing the stories and music of the swing and bebop eras. His first cousin, Steve Johns, is a prominent jazz drummer in NYC, having played with the likes of Mike Stern, Gil Evans orchestra, Stanley Turrentine, and Billy Taylor. As a child of the seventies, Guy was completely informed by soul, funk, disco, and r&b music, largely through his sisters record collections, and at an early age was transcribing and performing that music, as well as learning theory and jazz. As an early teen, he devoted his studies to classical music, and at the age of 16, performed a solo concerto with the Boston Symphony, later winning scholarships and fellowships to Boston University and Tanglewood Music Center. In NYC, Guy performed, composed, recorded and improvised with diverse groups from Lincoln Center to the Knitting Factory to CBGB, touring the world and recording with orchestras and in small groups on labels such as RCA, Music Masters, New World, and John Zorn's Tzadik label. He brings together his knowledge of jazz, his skill and experience as a composer and improviser, and his vocal talent to bring his musical vision to life. Bassist Steve Kreutler is the thumpin' bass backbone of the project. He is a connoisseur of stinky sticky funk, and the head of PersonalThang records, also owning a funk and hip hop vintage vinyl collection that requires its own room in his house. He has bumpified such projects as the infamous Brown Factory, UTFO, Church Ass, and the Pants Blasters, sharing a stage with the likes of J.Geils and the Jazz Mandolin Project. After an initial peer-pressure induced interest in the electric guitar, a fateful trip to a music store and an on the floor accident forced him to purchase an electric bass, and he has never looked back Our Drummer, Giles Buser-Molatore is also an extremely versatile talent, as a percussionist, vocalist, and composer. He has studied at PSU and Berklee in all three disciplines, working with musicians like Roger Allen, Jeff Cumpston, and Ivan Moody. He has toured in Europe and in southeast Asia, participating in the Laulupidu festival in Estonia. He is a proponent of many drumming styles, and as well as jazz and funk, has performed with Pacific NW bands The Young Republicans and Mantra, headlining at venues like the Roseland in PDX. Guitarist Chris Mosley was born in Austin, Tx. where he began playing guitar at age 11 in the style of Texas blues. As a teenager, he began seriously studying jazz and attended Berklee college of music where he studied with Mick Goodrick and was awarded the Louis Bellson Award. He is now residing in Portland, where he is a part of many different musical projects, playing fretted, fretless, and microtonal guitars, including the incredible Chris Mosley Trio with Drew Shoals and Damian Erskine.
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