Alon Nechushtan and the Venture Bound Quartet

ALON NECHUSHTAN

Alon Nechushtan’s music adventures has brought him to far corners such as the Yokohama Festival Japan with his contemporary compositions, The Sao Paolo Jewish Music Festival with his group Talat, Toronto and Montereal with his Trio Words Beyond, the Tel Aviv New Music Biannale with his music for Double Quartet. Resident of New York City, Alon has performed as a pianist in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Central Park Summer Stage, The Blue Note Jazz Club and Jazz at Lincoln Center frequently with his projects as a band leader of various groups or as an in demand sideman.

Alon has performed with Essiet Essiet, John Benitez, William Parker, Frank london, Bob Moses, Ben Allison, Donny Mccaslin, John Ellis, Anat Cohen, Fransisco Mela, Chris Cheek, Chris Speed, Sam Newsome, and many New York City greats including appearance with Frank London’s trio (with Marcus Rojaz and Frank London), Baye Kouyate and his Afro Beat Ensemble featuring Emilio Valdez, Alicia Sviagals Klezmer Quartet with Larry Eagle, Kenny Wollesen’s Himalayas with Ben Goldberg and other guests. Recording Cds for Tzadik collaborating legendary produceer Bill Laswell, Ayler Records(Sweden), Future Classics, (Netherland), Creative Sources (Portugal), Challenge (Germany).

All about Jazz agazine called him “A fantastic pianist-composer with abundant chemistry and boundless eclectisism”, while Down-Beat Magazine recognized “A talent to watch, with a surfeit of ideas, an unbridled spirit and bold,two-fisted sense of Architecture”.

BRIAN WALSH

Mr. Walsh frequently performs with such diverse groups as Wild up Modern Music Collective, gnarwhallaby, The New Century Players, The California E.A.R. Unit and is a member of Creative Underground Los Angeles. He also leads Walsh Set Trio, a jazz ensemble focusing on the performance of his own compositions. Performances have taken Walsh to Japan, Canada, Italy, England, the Netherlands, Iceland, and all over the United States.

Earlier this year Mr. Walsh, as a member of the contemporary music ensemble gnarwhallaby, gave the premier of Nicholas Deyoe’s Lullaby 4 at Carnegie Hall. Their Carnegie Hall performance was described as “startlingly versatile” by the New York Times. Mr.Walsh was also recently a guest artist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella new music series at Walt Disney Concert Hall. He has premiered pieces by Luigi Nono, Anne LeBaron, Girard Grisey, James Newton, Andrew Nathaniel McIntosh, Tom Johnson and many others. Past collaborators have included Peter Maxwell Davies, Meredith Monk, Gavin Bryars, Bobby Bradford, Nels Cline, Bright Eyes, San Fermin, James Newton, and Muhal Richard Abrams.

DAVID TRANCHINA

Bassist, Composer, and Educator, David Tranchina is a bassist known for his big warm sound, solid groove and inventive melodic solos. Originally from Forestville, California, he started playing bass at age 13, and was self taught until he began studies with Classical bass virtuoso Barry Green at UC Santa Cruz where he earned is Bachelor’s Degree in Music. Other influences and mentors are Larry Koonse, Joe LaBarbara, Vinny Golia, Wadada Leo Smith, David Roitstein and Alfred Ladzekpo.

David has performed with Bennie Maupin, Patrice Rushen, Bob Mintzer, Chuck Manning, Gary Foster, Gary Fukushima, Kendall Kay, Matt Otto, Nate Wood (of Kneebody), Lorca Hart, Bobby Watson (of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers), Mike Barone (Composer for The Tonight Show Band), Butch Morris, William Winant, Smith Dobson, Vinny Golia, Larry Koonse, and Joe LaBarbara. David has played some of the top jazz venues in Los Angeles, including The Blue Whale, The Jazz Bakery, Catalina’s, Vibrato, The Mint, Charlie O’s, Vitellos, and REDCAT and LACMA, recording on many albums is some of LA’s best studios including Capitol Records, The Firehouse Studio, Killzone Studio, TV Tray Studios, The Hobbyshop, and Catasonic Studios.

CHRIS WABICH

From Los Angeles, Chris Wabich is known as a versatile and original voice on the drumset. The variety of artists he works with reflects his diversity as both musician and producer. His drumming is heard with Ludacris, Sting, Leonard Cohen, Stanley Jordan, Brian Johnson (AC/DC) Sheila E., Mark Murphy, the Zappa Family, Larry Koonse, Turkish superstar Omar Faruk, Boogsie Sharpe, Prog Rock legends Kevin Ayers (Soft Machine), Mike Hoffman (Tony Williams Lifetime), Richard Sinclair (Caravan). A few soundtracks include “Malcolm in the Middle”, “American Idol”, “Better Homes and Gardens”, and “Wild California” IMAX.

More recently, Chris has been arranging and producing projects including Billboard charting hits for Margo Rey/John Oats (of Hall and Oats), Ty Taylor from Vintage Trouble, and the Beatles show, “Both”. This year launches a new series of intense production and songwriting with Jenny Ing under the name BichNG productions.