Lelo Nika Trio, Jan. 9th, 7PM
The Lelo Nika Trio
featuring Helio Alvez and Jay Rodriguez
$10 Cover
About the Artists:
Lelo Nika (Лело Ника) is a Serbian-born Romanian-Romani accordionist who lives in Denmark. He plays a mixture ofBalkan, jazz, and especially Romanian music.
He originally comes from the multiethnic town of Nikolinci near Belgrade, Serbia, which has a large Romanian population. He moved with his family to Helsingør, Denmark in 1970 for 3 years, starting in 1979 he studied under Serbian accordionist Branimir Dokić.
He is currently studying at the Malmö Academy of Music in Sweden and the Danish Accordion Academy and has twice won first prize at the World Accordion Championship.
http://www.myspace.com/lelonikamusic
Prolific. Prodigal. Profound. That is Jay Rodriguez. Sometimes the sound is explosive, wild and full of fury, other times his music aches with a passion that's painful and bare. Always modest and reverent, Rodriguez harnesses the unbridled audacity of youth and melds it with the uncanny discipline of a hardened New York jazz veteran. Married to the song while sleeping with the groove, his sound sings of commitment to an ideal-it is spontaneity, culturally untethered and unpretentious, the excitement of far flung love at all costs. It is perfectionism kissed by chaos.
Jay Rodriguez page on Myspace.com
Helio Alves is a jazz pianist and son of pianists. He moved to Boston, Massachusetts at 18 and studied at the Berklee College of Music. He stayed in Boston until age 24 when he moved to New York City on advice from a friend.
In 2003 he was pianist on a Grammy winning album of Yo Yo Ma's.
Alves was a member of Santi Debriano's ensemble, Circlechant.
Zohreh
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