Jazz Quartet
Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Cayce Felber and Bradley Mellen return to the OSU Urban Arts Space. Tonight they expand their duo into a quartet with Ryan Jewell and Evan Oberla. Don't miss this hour of jazz standards interpreted in an intimate setting. Compositions will include works by Thelonious Monk, Oliver Nelson, and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Cayce Felber is completing her degree in jazz performance at The Ohio State University, where she studies piano with Mark Flugge. She enjoys creating personal arrangements of well-known standards, as well as performing new music by local jazz composers. Her musical interests also encompass latin jazz styles and free improvisation.
Bradley Mellen recently returned from Purchase College in New York where he received his master’s degree in jazz performance studying with musicians such as Todd Coolman, Jon Faddis, and Hal Galper. He currently leads his own quartet for which he arranges music from an eclectic mix of sources, including jazz standards, popular tunes, and video game soundtracks. He can also be found playing bass and cello in a variety of other musical settings around central Ohio.
Ryan Jewell studied percussion and electronic composition techniques at Capital University and has since studied drumset with Susie Ibarra and tabla with Dr. Lowell Lybarger. Ryan regularly works as a solo performer and collaborator in the arenas of very quiet improvised music and very loud harsh noise. In addition to being a perpetual traveler of the US, he has also toured extensively in Europe.
He was invited to perform at such respected international festivals as the SOWIESO 1 festival in Paris, the Kraak Festival in Brussels, the International Noise Conference in Miami, SXSW in Austin and Les Sciences Bruitistes also in Paris.
He has collaborated with such diverse artists as C. Spencer Yeh, Greg Kelley, Nate Wooley, Jack Wright, Christine Sehnaoui, Bhob Rainey, Larry Marotta, Mike Shiflet, Tatsuya Nakatani, Reuben Radding, Hasan Abdur-Razzaq, Tom Abbs, David Boykin, Douglas Ewart (AACM), Jandek, Envenomist, Fossils, Wasteland Jazz Unit, Larry Marotta and many more…
Evan Oberla is a young and fresh Jazz Trombonist in the Columbus area. He is currently finishing his BM in Jazz Studies from The Ohio State University. Evan collaborates with many different bands in the Columbus area as well as composes and arranges his own music. He enjoys playing in many different styles from straight ahead jazz to hip-hop and R&B. Currently, Evan is continuing to perform, arrange and compose to reach further heights of musical excellence.
This series is part of our after-work programing offered Thursday evenings. Before the show stop by Tip Top Kitchen & Cocktails and ask for the Urban Artists' Special: It's very special indeed and its only $3.
