December 2008 Featured Artists
Morris Acevedo has performed with an unusual variety of Jazz and Pop artists. In the Boston area, he played with Joshua Redman, Jim Black, Ken Vandermark, the Either Orchestra, the Charlie Kolhase Quintet, organ Trio Be-3 and the Matt Wilson group. In the San Francisco Bay Area performances include Richie Cole's Alto Madness Orchestra, Dam East and various groups lead by Morris. He also spent several years in one of the early incarnations of Charlie Hunter drummer, Scott Amendola's group. Pop music performances include motown / top-40group the Marsels and Martha Reeves and the Vandellas in the Boston area. The strangest gigs he has ever had was an acoustic "un-plugged" performance with pop legend Boy George as part of a dance music conference in San Francisco. Last but not least, he's been a proud member of eclectic pop-groups lead by Emily Bezar, Jessie Turner and Noe Venable. The last Bay Area group he played in was vocalist Ann Dyer's quartet.
Allene Rohrer does not sound like anyone in particular. Perhaps this is
due to her early inundation of classical music, old folk songs and
African folk and urban music. She was not exposed to popular music
until she got her first radio and the ability to control what she
listened to when she was 12 years old. While she readily embraced this
new music, she never forgot her roots, which can be glimpsed in her
beautiful melodic structures and eclectic rhythms. Being outside the
box puts Allene in a unique position to appeal to a diverse
cross-section of listeners.
She has performed in and contributed
songs to San Francisco Bay Area bands The Mean Streaks, The Blue
Bloods, Trench, Danger, Thread &The Biddy & Buddy Show. She has
also lent her vocal abilities to many other local groups in performance
and recordings. Her song writing style encompasses singer-songwriter,
pop, folk, rock, country, jazz, and blues. Currently she is performing
in Emulating Doris, with Ed Buchanan and Gennui Rafill, and working
towards composing for other performers and for film and television.
Allene
has two self-releases, Synergism (released November 2001) and Alchemy
(released January 2008). She has had a song featured on the E
television program Hollywood Nights about the popular Los Angeles
nightclub Club Cherry. Her song Eyes (from Alchemy) is part of the
soundtrack for the award winning independent short film Gypsies, Tramps
& Thieves. Allene’s recent release, Alchemy, was rated number 1 in
Zeitgeist’s hottest reviews of January 2008.
Get her CDs here.
MySpace here
Discography
Alchemy 2008
Synergism 2001
