Tuesday October 15, 2024, 7-9pm
Donovan's Garage in collaboration with...
TRIO BIEN
Lanny Grilly Drummer/Producer
Lanny has a long history in Jazz, and started playing drums professionally with his father. Pianist Russ Holliday. His drumming allowed him to support a family, while attending the University Of Illinois with a B.A. in Mass Communications.
Besides drumming he's owned Benchley's On Broadway," a jazz club that featured some of the top jazz players in Chicago and Nationally, such as Dave Liebman, Howard Levy, Miles Davis saxophonist - Bill Evans, Willie Pickens, Ken Chaney, Eldee Young, George Freeman, Paul Wertico (who left to play with Pat Metheny for 17 years), John Campbell, Kelly Sill, Joel Spencer, Frank D'Rone, Frank Russell, Alejo Poveda's
"Chevere,"as well as almost every major jazz player in Chicago.
Lanny also owned, managed, and was audio engineer at Orchestra Hall Recording Studio & Logan Square Recording studio for over 20 years. His studio specialized in Classical & Jazz and produced CD's for such as, J.Lawrie Bloom (principal Bass Clarinetist with The Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 30+ years), Mark Burnell, Steve Hashimoto's Sueno, Souled Out. The studio also made demos for students and enabled to get into Julliiard, and Berkeley School of Music. Classical colleges graduated also recorded their demo to audition for major symphonies around the country.
Besides Trio Bien, Lanny has headed various groups over the years -(The Grilly Brothers Sextet, The Rio Brothers Nontet, Abril, The Sonic Poets and has performed with Willie Pickens, Mose Allison, Chuck Webb, Judy Roberts, Laury Shelly, Kim Martell, Michael Arnopol, Nick Drozdoff, Fareed Haque, Henry Johnson, Robert Goulet, Hoagie Carmichael, and many, many others.
Besides his new Trio Bien project, Lanny also produces and plays drums for his "Tribute To Dave Brubeck & Chick Corea"" which has performed at renowned venues such as The Epiphany Center For The Arts, Evanston's S.P.A.C.E. Hey Nonny, and The Jazz Showcase - with featured performers Leandro Lopez Varady, Rafe Bradford, and Peter Roothaan. The show also features commentary by Russell Gloyd, who was Deve Brubeck's producer, orchestrator, and conductor for 40+ years
Additionally, He's played at numerous Jazz Festivals - Chicago Jazz Fest (several times), The Jazz Showcase, and venues throughout the country from San Francisco (The Lion's Share, as Vegas (Desert Inn) to New York (Smalls). and internationally in Rome, Paris, Tel Aviv, Negril Jamaica, Havana Cuba, and Amsterdam.
For more info:
grillyproductions.com
Video Channel: Lanny Grilly You Tube Channel
Grilly Productions Facebook
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JEFF KIER -Pianist/Composer
After studying piano from a young age, Jeff earned a B.A. in Music & Composition from the University of Illinois.
The Trio performs pianist Jeff Kier's jazz compositions. Mark Stevens, a San Francisco DJ, commented, "Jeff was emerging as one of the great composers of our time." Their last CD, "Goin' Places!” by Jeff Kier & The Grilly Brothers, on the BluJazz label, Was Grammy Nominated, with liner notes by noted Jazz Author, journalist, and Grammy Winner (2016), Neil Tesser.
Jeff lead his own groups and played at every Jazz Venue in Chicago & The Midwest: Jazz Showcase, Night Town in Cleveland, Cairo, Oz, and his works have been orchestrated in the Concerto Grosso format and played with Midwest Orchestras & Big Band versions performed with Universities such as The University Of Wisconsin Big Band.
Jeff is also has been Musical Director for the premier improv venue The Comedy Shrine for last 10 years.
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EDO CASTRO-WOODHOUSE - 7 String Bassist/Composer
Edo Castro worked with both Jeff Kier and Lanny Grilly's groups in the late 1980's while working on his B.A. in Jazz Studies from DePaul University and finishing at The American Conservatory of Music.
By the time Edo graduated from the Conservatory, Chicago magazine had noted him as “One of Chicago’s finest.” He continued to hone his craft in Chicago until 1990 when he returned to the Bay Area.
Since his return to the Bay Area in 1990, Edo has worked on 20 CD projects and has performed/recorded with David Amram, Mark Walker, Hassan Kahn, Pete Cosey, Roy Haynes, Fareed Haque, David Onderdonk, Ed Thigpen, Johnny Griffin, Joel Harrison, Jim Trompeter, Ian Doogle, Deborah Winters, Jill Knight, Paul Van Wageningen, Caroline Aiken, Dan Zinn, Bethany Pickens, Michael LaMacchia, Armando Peraza, Caren Armstrong, Percy Howard, Mike Molenda, Stuart Hamm, Lorn Leber, Michael Manring, Mark Egan, Yves Carbonne, and David Friesen.
Edo returned to the Chicago area in 2022 and reunited with Jeff Kier, and Lanny Grilly to form "Trio Bien."
Edo's fan base stretches the globe (with sales in Norway, Switzerland, Germany, France, Japan, Spain, Argentina, Italy and England) where he has found praise and recognition for his unique musical talents and his joyous and transfixing compositions, and recognized internationally for his rare proficiency on several varieties of the extended-range bass. Edo is an endorser of Conklin Basses, Bee Basses and AccuGroove Cabinets,
Edo is also a published author of his compositions, which can be found on Amazon:
Jazz Compositions for Small Ensemble by Edo Castro
Edo Castro Woodhouse - Wikipedia