Stelios Mihas/Daniel Carter/Adam Lane/Daniel Kurfirst

STELIOS MIHAS BRINGS A NEW QUARTET TO DADA FEATURING LONG TIME COLLABORATOR DANIEL CARTER ON REEDS, ADAM LANE ON BASS AND DAN KURFIRST ON DRUMS

ONE OF THE LEGENDARY MASTERS OF CREATIVE MUSIC. DANIEL CARTER HAS RECORDED OR PERFORMED WITH WILLIAM PARKER, FEDERICO UGHI, DJ LOGIC, THURSTON MOORE, YO LA TENGO, SUN RA, CECIL TAYLOR, SONIC YOUTH, SAM RIVERS, YOKO ONO, LIVING COLOUR, MEDESKY MARTIN AND WOOD AND JACO PASTORIUS AMONG OTHERS. HE IS A MEMBER OF THE COOPERATIVE FREE JAZZ GROUPS TEST AND OTHER DIMENSIONS IN MUSIC.

STELIOS MIHAS IS A GUITARIST, COMPOSER & PRODUCER HAILING FROM ATHENS, GREECE. BASED IN NYC, HE HAS RECORDED AND PERFORMED WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF ARTISTS & ENSEMBLES. IN THE STUDIO, STELIOS HAS PRODUCED CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ALBUMS AND COMPOSED MUSIC FOR FILM A.O. INSPIRED BY THE INFINITE SONIC POSSIBILITIES OF THE GUITAR, HIS ACTIVITIES RANGE FROM CONTEMPORARY MUSIC TO CLASSICAL GUITAR TO FOR A BROAD RANGE OF SOUND. EQUALLY COMMITTED TO THE NYLON AS WELL AS THE ELECTRIC GUITAR, HE COMBINES ELEMENTS OF BOTH WORLDS IN HIS MUSIC. HAS RECORDED/PLAYED WITH: DANIEL CARTER, WILLIAM PARKER, IRMA NEJANDO, LEO GENOVESE, MARCELO TOLEDO, RESIDENTE, AROOJ AFTAB A.O.

BY COMBINING A DISPARATE SET OF INFLUENCES INTO A UNIQUE IMPROVISATIONAL VOICE, ADAM LANE HAS BECOME RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE MOST ORIGINAL CREATIVE VOICES IN CONTEMPORARY JAZZ. HIS 2006 RECORDING NEW MAGICAL KINGDOM, WAS RECENTLY FEATURED IN THE PENGUIN JAZZ GUIDE 1001 BEST RECORDS EVER MADE, AND HIS MOST RECENT RECORDING, ASHCAN RANTING RECEIVED A MYRIAD OF CRITICAL PRAISE INCLUDING FOUR STARS IN DOWNBEAT. HIS CURRENT PROJECTS INCLUDE HIS FULL THROTTLE ORCHESTRA, A NINE PIECE ENSEMBLE FORMED TO REALIZE HIS EXTENDED JAZZ ORCHESTRAL COMPOSITIONS, THE ADAM LANE TRIO, FEATURING LEGENDARY REEDIST VINNY GOLIA, FOUR CORNERS, A CO-LEAD ENSEMBLE WITH REEDIST KEN VANDERMARK, AND AN ONGOING SOLO PROJECT THAT COMBINES UNIQUE PROCESSED DOUBLE BASS IMPROVISATIONS WITH LANE’S ORIGINAL STORY TELLING. AS A SIDEMAN HE HAS PERFORMED WITH AN ECLECTIC MIX OF MUSICIANS, FROM TENOR GREAT JOHN TCHICAI, TO ALTO ICONOCLAST RICHARD TABNIK, TO ROCK LEGEND TOM WAITS. LANE’S COMPOSITIONS HAVE BEEN PRAISED FOR THEIR AUDACITY AND ORIGINALITY. SAM PRESTIANI OF JAZZIZ SAYS OF LANE’S WRITING: “HIS CONFIDENCE AND CONFRONTATIONAL PROWESS AS WELL AS HIS ABIDING SENSE OF LYRICISM AND HEAVY-GROOVE POWER PLACE HIM IN THE LINEAGE OF FORWARD-JAZZ ADVENTURISM.” AND BILL MEYER WRITES IN DOWNBEAT, “LANE’S MUSIC IS GENUINE, ACCESSIBLE, FUN. THE MUSIC IS DEEPLY IN TOUCH WITH THE ESSENTIAL PLEASURES OF EARWIG-WORTHY TUNES, FAT BLUESY GROOVES, AND SHEER TONAL BEAUTY.” (DOWNBEAT JAN 2011) LANE STUDIED COMPOSITION AT WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY WITH ANTHONY BRAXTON, AND AT CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS WITH WADADA LEO SMITH. IN 1996 HE RECEIVED A PATERNINGS SCHOLARSHIP FOR STUDY AT THE DARMSTADT SCHOOL FOR NEW MUSIC WHERE HE STUDIED DOUBLE BASS WITH STEFFANO SCODANIBBIO, AND ATTENDED MASTER CLASSES IN COMPOSITION WITH KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN.

DAN KURFIRST IS AN NYC BASED PERCUSSIONIST, COMPOSER AND IMPROVISER. BORN AND RAISED IN BROOKLYN, NY, HIS MUSIC IS A PRODUCT OF HIS GOOD FORTUNE TO HAVE BEEN BROUGHT UP AMONGST PEOPLE OF ALL DIFFERENT CULTURES AND MASTER PRACTITIONERS OF VARYING MUSICAL STYLES.