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The Tony Scherr Trio has been together
since 2006 when he happened onto Marion's Marquee, a fascinating
looking miniature ballroom that had been standing unused for decades.
It was one of those NY stories: "I met this girl ,who was across the
street selling books on her stoop. I was carrying a guitar, she asked
the usual questions, and said that she might know a guy who had a
joint that might want music.... " |
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Tony formed the trio with the legendary
superstar drummer Anton Fier, and Ursa Minor's young bass whiz Rob
Jost, to play a Monday night at Marion's, but the atmosphere was
perfect for the music and they stayed for a year and a half playing
long adventurous shows every Monday to the growing new scene there.
This was the perfect setup to try anything new or play adventurous
collages of a large repertoire of covers, and it was here that they
sharpened their own language. |
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On other days of the week, Tony Scherr
Trio has traveled extensively; bringing their music to New Haven,
Boston, Toronto, Hamilton, Guelph, Kingston, and Wolfe Island Ontario,
Ottawa, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, Eugene, San Francisco, Columbus,
and Cleveland Ohio, Washington D.C., Chapel Hill, N.C., Austin, and
Denton TX., and several European tours usually appearing in Amsterdam,
Copenhagen, Berlin, Essen, Dresden, Zurich, Luzerne, Ljubljana, Vienna
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Tony has performed opening dates or shared
bills with Ani DiFranco, Feist, Arcade Fire, Yo La Tengo, The Waifs,
Jesse Harris, Chris Brown & Kate Fenner, Freedy Johnston, Chris Lee,
Robin Holcomb & Wayne Horvitz, The Golden Palominos, Jim Campilongo
Electric Trio, The Old Ceremony, Teddy Thompson, Jason Colette, Mike
Doughty, Joan Wasser (Joan as Police Woman), Robert Kidney & the
Numbers Band, Luther Wright and The Wrongs, and more. |
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Tony Scherr Trio has been playing NY
Times, NY Post, and Time Out NY acclaimed Monday night extended
residencies locally Marion’s Marquee Lounge on the Bowery 2006-2007,
Jalopy Theater, Brooklyn. 2009-2010). |
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Now they are proud to be playing every
Monday night, 9pm, at The Living Room, NYC, since June 2010. It is
here that Tony Scherr Trio is recording a new live album. |
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“It’s all dramatic and quite beautiful and
the group breathes together like the best late 1960’s power trios in
rock, it has a constant flexibility… a deep and rambling
dream…coherent and invigorating.” - New York Times |
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“Hendrix meets Willie Nelson…” - NY Post |
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“an estimable singer-songwriter”, and, “a
dependably soulful journeyman guitarist whose killer trio includes
downtown drum legend Anton Fier” Critic Pick, and also a several time
“Monday’s must-see show” – Time Out New York |
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Anton Fier was a founding member of The
Feelies, The Lounge Lizards, and his own rock super group; The Golden
Palominos; Anton has a long and colorful discography, and has played
drums with a broad range of artists from Herbie Hancock to Los Lobos.
He continues to produce a great variety of artists as well. |
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Rob Jost has played bass with Imogen Heap,
Wayne Horvitz, the Saturday Night Live Band to name a few. He is also
a singer and songwriter, and an accomplished French horn player
(Bjork, Jesse Harris, and more). He can be heard as the bass player on
Sesame Street, and is a founding member of the NY band Ursa Minor. |
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This band now plays every
Monday at 9pm at The Living Room since June 2010. (livingroomny.com) |
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Ursa Minor |
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“The group’s album Silent Moving Picture
is one we keep coming back to, finding something new each time.” -
Time Out New York |
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Envisioned, fronted and founded by New
York chanteuse Michelle Casillas, Ursa Minor has become a mainstay in
NYC’s indie rock scene. The band delivers a timeless mix of vocal
driven pop/rock with a primal rhythmic undercurrent; sharp and urban
yet broad and free. |
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“Ursa Minor blurs the line between folk,
jazz, and experimental music...with haunting, spare, even cinematic
songs.” - All Music Guide. |
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Splendid Magazine calls their songs “warm
works of natural beauty…appealingly tousled” and New York’s Village
Voice describes Ursa Minor’s sound as “ethereal yet concise… wrought
with enunciated keens and alto murmurs, moody drum snaps and strong
melodies.” |
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Ursa Minor’s debut LP “Silent Moving
Picture” was released by Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley, on Smells like
Records; a label known both for championing new artists (like Cat
Power and Blonde Redhead), and for releasing comprehensive series of
works by Lee Hazelwood, and Sonic Youth. |
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Since Ursa Minor’s acclaimed debut,
Michelle has swapped her Fender Rhodes for electric guitar and her
songs have a new snap in them. Her singing is startling and sexy;
effortlessly rhythmic, with soulful vulnerability and a bold attitude. |
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“Casillas [wields] a sensuously fragile
inflexion and phrasing… lilting from yearning highs to crooning lows
almost instantaneously.” - Movement Magazine. |
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“She hits her notes effortlessly,
sometimes giving them a full oboe-like resonance and at other times
skittering over them like a hipster flute.” – Splendid Magazine.
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Bass whiz Rob Jost (Imogen Heap, Wayne
Horvitz, Saturday Night Live Band, Bjork) and NY heavyweight drummer
Robert DiPietro (Norah Jones, Jesse Harris, Josh Rouse) equally create
the sound, contribute songs of great depth and strength, and sing
harmony, while the infamous Tony Scherr (Bill Frisell, Sexmob, Feist,
Lounge Lizards) brings a sonic lightning with his electric guitars.
Showface, the long awaited new album by Ursa Minor, will be released
this Spring 2011. |
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“Bold and original” - All Music Guide |
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“The stormy vocals set alongside the
haunting instrumental backdrop make for wonderful…any time of day
music” - Movement Magazine |
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“Ursa Minor put a purplish Fender Rhodes
bruise on storm cloud through picture window singer-songwriting
ritual” - Village Voice |
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“It's the kind of voice you would follow
anywhere” – Splendid Magazine |
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