EC-CHAP Jazz Series: Luke Hendon with Jack Soref - An Evening of Gypsy Jazz
Tickets $20.00 in Advance (ONLINE) / $25.00 Cash Only at the Door
50% Capacity | Socially Distanced Tables | Masks Required
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SPECIAL NOTE: EC-CHAP is excited to have Luke Hendon return to The Packing House stage this fall! Luke brings his own original qualities to the Gypsy Jazz tradition of Django Reinhardt.
LUKE HENDON has had success in the world of Django music, performing with top players from around the world. A Veteran guitarist, Luke has had many successes in his career. He has opened for legendary acts such as Al Green, Sun Ra, and Los Lobos, performed on Broadway, composed and recorded for television and film, worked with dance ensembles, cruise ships, theatre companies, and many, many bands.
Luke is among the notable guitar staff/artist instructors who have taught at the acclaimed Django in June Gypsy Jazz event held at Smith College, North Hampton, MA.
Hendon travelled to Europe to a Sinti camp to study with Paulus Schafer and Fapy Lafertin. Upon his return to the U.S. he recorded Silk and Steel, an album of original gypsy jazz compositions. Silk & Steel, Luke Hendon draws from the tradition of the legendary gypsy guitar of Django Reinhardt and comes out swinging, soulful, funky, fresh, and innovative with his own project. In this stripped down acoustic setting, Luke's guitar takes center stage. "I sort of got obsessed with learning a bunch of Django Reinhardt solos note for note-which took me several years-Now I try to take the technique I gained into creating my own music!"
In his acoustic project, Luke Hendon cooks up a gumbo of old and new. He playfully mixes modern influences and traditional gypsy jazz with virtuosity and style. In other arenas Luke has worked professionally as a composer, a session musician and guitarist in many different styles of music.
"This a must have for those with the heart of a gypsy." -George Harris, Jazz Weekly
"Hendon’s take on the style is to inject some very modern energy along with judiciously placed non-jazz undertones. That’s the crucial difference between maintaining and enriching a legacy." -Mark Keresman, New York City Jazz Record
"Django's music always brings a smile to the lips and transports one back 1930s France, and the best compliment here is that Hendon's music does the same, but also with a foot planted firmly in the here and now in this too short, extremely well done recording." -Budd Kopman, All About Jazz
Luke will be joined at The Packing House by JACK SOREF. Jack became captivated by the music of Django Reinhardt after attending the International Django Reinhardt festival in Samois-sur-Seine France as a teen. Ever since, he has been studying and teaching Django's music, and performing all over the United States, and abroad playing concerts, pubs, Jazz clubs, and festivals.
In 2011, he spent half a year living in Paris France, to study and absorb the music of Django Reinhardt at its source. Jack got to jam with legendary musicians like Boulou Ferré, and Florin Niculescu, as well as the young phenom's then storming the Paris scene.
Jack has performed as an accompanist for Jazz Manouche luminaries such as Joscho Stephan, Tim Kliphius, Gonzalo Bergara, Jason Anick, Olli Soikkeli, Adrien Moignard, Ben Powell, Richard Sheppard, Aurélien Bouly, and Titi Bamberger. He has been a perennial favorite at Wisconsin's Midwest Gypsy Swing Fest, and has been a guitar instructor at Django in June's week long Jazz Manouche music Camp in Northampton almost every year since 2009.
Join us for an amazing evening of acoustic jazz originals by this outstanding musician! This program is hosted by the "Eastern Connecticut Center for History, Art, and Performance" (EC-CHAP). Doors 7:00pm / Show 7:30pm. Tickets $20.00 Advance (Online) / $25.00 Door.
Soft drinks and snacks available. We are pleased to offer our exclusive "BYOB&F" TM model - Bring Your Own Beverage & Food (Wine & Beer Only - I.D. Required). You can also bring your paid ticket to Willington Pizza House (or WP Too) for eat-in or take-out the night of the show and receive 15% off your meal purchase. Ask for "The Packing House" pizza! Click HERE for secret recipe.
For more information, please visit: www.thepackinghouse/upcoming or call 518-791-9474.