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Noah Preminger
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NOW PLAYING: "Quickening"
Click to play: "Abreaction"
"Until the Real Thing Comes Along"
"Where or When"
All of the above song files are from the CD "Before The Rain." Noah Preminger (tenor sax), Frank Kimbrough (piano), John Hebert (bass), Matt Wilson (drums).
Noah on Palmetto Records website (link)
NOAH
PREMINGER’S latest CD, “Before the Rain” (Palmetto Records, 2011) has received
rave reviews in the New York Times, DownBeat, Jazz Times and many other
influential publications, and has been getting radio airplay all across the
United States. Based in New York
City, Noah is a constant presence in the city’s jazz clubs as both a leader and
an in-demand sideman, and his international tours have brought his music to
audiences in Europe and Australia.
It’s natural
for those being introduced to Noah’s music to be surprised to learn that the
seasoned, virtuosic saxophone improvisations they’re hearing are being created
by an artist who happens to be only 25 years old. It’s equally natural that Noah’s concept for his quartet’s
innovatively swinging sound and acclaimed interpretations of jazz ballads would
come to its ideal realization via a musical partnership with some of the most
accomplished veterans of the New York scene: pianist Frank Kimbrough, bassist John Hébert,
and drummer Matt Wilson, the musicians who join Noah on “Before the Rain.”
In the space
of just a few short years, Noah has already won recognition as one of the most
distinctive instrumental voices in jazz.
Noah’s first CD, “Dry Bridge Road” (Nowt Records, 2008), was named the
year’s “Best Debut” in the 2008 Village Voice Jazz Critics’ Poll, and Noah was
one of the elite nominees for the 2009 Jazz Journalists Association Award won
by Esperanza Spalding that year for “Up and Coming Jazz Artist of the Year.”
In addition
to his work as a bandleader, Noah’s growing reputation and avid interest in the
musical wisdom of elder masters has resulted in appearances and projects with
such artists as Cecil McBee, Billy Hart, Dave Holland, Fred Hersch, Dave
Douglas, Victor Lewis, John and Bucky Pizzarelli, John McNeil, Billy Drummond,
George Cables, Roscoe Mitchell, Dr. Eddie Henderson, Kendra Shank, Ben Monder
and Dave Liebman.
Noah’s
arrival in New York City was preceded by enthusiastic buzz emanating from
Boston, where his status as a standout student at the New England Conservatory
of Music and numerous public performances eventually led to concerts by the
Noah Preminger Quartet at Boston’s famous Scullers Jazz Club. In an article
about Noah in the Boston Phoenix, music critic Jon Garelick wrote, “His sound
is informed by everybody but beholden to no one, which makes him continually
unpredictable and continually satisfying.”
Recent Schedule of Events
| Date | Time | Event |
| 6/7/2012 | 8:30 PM | NOAH PREMINGER GROUP ShapeShifter Lab 18 Whitwell Ave. Brooklyn, NY 646-820-9452 Tickets: $12 NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone Ben Monder, guitar Matt Pavolka, bass Colin Stranahan, drums |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 3/11/2012 | 8:00 PM | NOAH PREMINGER QUARTET Connection Works Presents: Brooklyn Jazz Wide Open Brooklyn Conservatory Concert Hall Brooklyn Conservatory of Music 58 Seventh Ave. Brooklyn, NY 718-622-3300 Admission: $10 NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone Frank Kimbrough, piano Cecil McBee, bass Billy Hart, drums |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 2/9/2012 | 2 sets, 8 PM and 10 PM |
NOAH PREMINGER QUARTET The Kitano New York 66 Park Ave. (at 38th St.) New York, NY 212-885-7119 No cover charge, $15 food/drink minimum NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone Frank Kimbrough, piano Matt Clohesy, bass Matt Wilson, drums |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 1/15/2012 | 2 sets, 9:30 PM and 11:00 PM |
NOAH PREMINGER QUARTET 55 Bar 55 Christopher St. New York, NY 212-929-9883 Admission: $10 NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone Ben Monder, guitar Joe Martin, bass Colin Stranahan, drums |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 12/11/2011 | 2 sets, 9:30 PM and 11:00 PM |
NOAH PREMINGER GROUP 55 Bar 55 Christopher St. New York, NY 212-929-9883 Admission: $10 NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone Ben Monder, guitar Joe Martin, bass Ted Poor, drums |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 10/23/2011 | 2 sets, 12:30 PM and 2:30 PM |
NOAH PREMINGER QUARTET The Blue Note 131 W. 3rd St. New York, NY 212-475-8592 Jazz Brunch $24.50 admission per set (includes music charge, food and drink) NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone Dan Tepfer, piano John Hebert, bass Colin Stranahan, drums |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 10/15/2011 | 22:00 (10:00 PM) |
NOAH PREMINGER QUARTET Rádio Universitária do Minho celebration of the 22nd anniversary of "Sójazz" Espaço Cultural Pedro Remy Rua do Gualdim Pais 40A Braga, Portugal Tel: 351-253-252-500 Admission: 10 euros NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone Benny Lackner, piano Masa Kamaguchi, bass Joao Lencastre, drums |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 10/14/2011 | 21:30 (9:30 PM) |
NOAH PREMINGER QUARTET IV Ciclo de Jazz de Santo Tirso Centro Cultural Vila das Aves Rua Santo Honorato 220 Vila das Aves, Santo Tirso, Portugal Tel: 252-870-020 Free admission NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone Benny Lackner, piano Masa Kamaguchi, bass Joao Lencastre, drums |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 10/13/2011 | 19:00 (7:00 PM) |
PREMINGER/LACKNER/KAMAGUCHI/LENCASTRE GROUP Porta Jazz Concert Series Embaixada Lomografica do Porto Rua do Almada 275 Porto, Portugal Admission: 5 euros NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone BENNY LACKNER, piano MASA KAMAGUCHI, bass JOAO LENCASTRE, drums |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 10/11/2011 | 23:00 (11:00 PM) |
NOAH PREMINGER ESMAE Jam Session Series Escola Superior de Musica, Artes e Espectaculo Cafe Concero Rua da Alegria 503 Porto, Portugal Admission: 5 euros NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone Benny Lackner, piano Masa Kamaguchi, bass Joao Lencastre, drums |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 10/10/2011 | 21:30 (9:30 PM) |
NOAH PREMINGER appearing with I.Q. (INTERNATIONAL QUARTET 23 Robadors Carrer d/En Robador 23 Barcelona, Spain NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone Benny Lackner, piano Masa Kamaguchi, bass Joao Lencastre, drums |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 10/8/2011 | 23:00 (11:00 PM) |
NOAH PREMINGER QUARTET Avui Jazz concert series Auditorio Municipal de Vila-Real Avenido Mura 2 Villarreal (Vila-Real), Spain Tel: 946-535-646 Tickets: 5 euros NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone Benny Lackner, piano Masatoshi Kamaguchi, bass Joao Lencastre, drums |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 10/7/2011 | 2 sets, 23:00 (11:00 PM) and 0:30 (12:30 AM) |
NOAH PREMINGER appearing with IQ Cafe Mercedes Calle de Sueca 27 (in the Russafa area) Valencia, Spain Tel: 96-341-8378 8 euros NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone BENNY LACKNER, piano MASA KAMAGUCHI, bass JOAO LENCASTRE, drums |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 10/6/2011 | 2 sets, 21:00 (9:00 PM) and 23:00 (11:00 PM) |
PREMINGER/LACKNER/KAMAGUCHI/LENCASTRE QUARTET Jamboree Jazz Club Placa Reial 17 Barcelona, Spain Tel: 93-319-1789 10 euros (advance), or 12 euros (at the door) NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone BENNY LACKNER, piano MASA KAMAGUCHI, bass JOAO LENCASTRE, drums |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 9/18/2011 | 5:00 PM | NOAH PREMINGER QUARTET West Virginia Wine & Jazz Festival Camp Muffly Morgantown, WV $20 admission NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone Dan Tepfer, piano Matt Clohesy, bass Matt Wilson, drums |
| 9/19/2011 | 6:00 PM | NOAH PREMINGER QUARTET Vivian Davis Michael Theatre West Virginia University Creative Arts Center Morgantown, WV 304-293-4359 Free admission NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone Dan Tepfer, piano Matt Clohesy, bass Matt Wilson, drums |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 7/18/2011 | 8:30 PM | NOAH PREMINGER QUARTET Black-eyed Sally's 350 Asylum St. Hartford, CT 860-278-7427 $5 cover charge NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone Ben Monder, electric guitar Matt Povolka, bass Colin Stranahan, drums |
| 7/19/2011 | 8:00 PM to 12:00 AM | NOAH PREMINGER QUARTET The Beehive 541 Tremont St. Boston, MA 617-423-0069 NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone Ben Monder, electric guitar Matt Povolka, bass Colin Stranahan, drums |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 7/17/2011 | 9:30 PM to 12:00 AM or later | NOAH PREMINGER QUARTET 55 Bar 55 Christopher St. New York, NY 212-929-9883 NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone Ben Monder, electric guitar Matt Povolka, bass Colin Stranahan, drums |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 6/30/2011 | 9:30 PM to 12:00 AM | NOAH PREMINGER GROUP Smalls Jazz Club 183 W. 10th St. New York, NY 212-252-5091 $20 cover charge NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone Drew Sayers, tenor saxophone Frank Kimbrough, piano Joe Martin, bass Victor Lewis, drums |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 5/24/2011 | 10:00 PM to 12:00 AM or later | NOAH PREMINGER GROUP 55 Bar 55 Christopher St. New York, NY 212-929-9883 NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone Drew Sayers, tenor saxophone Frank Kimbrough, piano John Hebert, bass Matt Wilson, drums |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 5/19/2011 | 8:30 PM (one set) |
DAN TEPFER WITH NOAH PREMINGER Cornelia St. Cafe 29 Cornelia St. New York, NY 212-989-9319 $10 cover charge DAN TEPFER, piano NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 4/9/2011 | 7:30 PM | NOAH PREMINGER QUARTET Presented by Jazz Haven St. Paul & St. James Episcopal Church 57 Olive St. New Haven, CT 203-469-9020 $18 advance or $20 at door NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone Frank Kimbrough, piano Matt Clohesy, bass Matt Wilson, drums |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 3/13/2011 | 9:30 PM to 12:00 AM | NOAH PREMINGER GROUP 55 Bar 55 Christopher St. New York, NY 212-929-9883 $10 cover charge NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone Ben Monder, electric guitar John Hebert, bass Matt Wilson, drums |
| 2/23/2011 | 2 sets, starting at 8:00 PM | NOAH PREMINGER QUARTET Scullers Jazz Club 400 Soldiers Field Road Boston, MA (617) 562-4111 $20 cover charge NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone Frank Kimbrough, piano John Hebert, bass Matt Wilson, drums |
| Date | Time | Event |
| 2/18/2011 | 2 sets, starting at 8:00 PM | NOAH PREMINGER QUARTET The Falcon 1348 Route 9W (at Dock Road) Marlboro, NY (845) 236-7970 NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone Frank Kimbrough, piano John Hebert, bass Matt Wilson, drums |
| 2/16/2011 | 2 sets, 7:30 PM and 9:30 PM | NOAH PREMINGER QUARTET The Jazz Standard 116 E. 27th St. (between Park & Lexington New York, NY (212) 576-2232 $20 cover charge per set NOAH PREMINGER, tenor saxophone Frank Kimbrough, piano John Hebert, bass Matt Wilson, drums |
From the Jan. 17, 2011 edition of the NEW YORK TIMES:
NOAH PREMINGER
Before the Rain (Palmetto)
REVIEWED BY BEN RATLIFF
The tenor saxophonist Noah Preminger already sounded self-possessed at 22, when he made “Dry Bridge Road,” his first record. It was New York-style new jazz, with much thought given to compositional development, and to how a band can cohere but not too much, and to extremes of phrasing and rhythm: Mr. Preminger either liked to be right on the beat, stamping out straight eighth-notes, or floating way behind it. And he skimmed his own froth off the top — he seemed to understand that too much expressive emotion was a trap in which one musician often ended up sounding like the next.
Three years later, in a new album, “Before the Rain,” he’s moved further into the deep end. Here’s a record of emotional themes, otherwise known as ballads. They’re often slow and pretty, a little vaporous and inherently dramatic. How’s his moderation coming along?
Really, really well, in fact. He’s definitely taken in a lot of John Coltrane’s “Ballads” album, a lesson in understated intensity; he’s probably spent time thinking about how Joe Lovano and Charles Lloyd and Mark Turner play slow songs, finding pathos and abstraction in them, giving the upper register as much attention as the lower, or more. Otherwise he’s representing himself, and he sounds older here — not three years, but maybe 33. He deals with a few ballads from the old school — “Until the Real Thing Comes Along” and “Where or When,” which comes out in two and a half minutes of luxe melodic improvising. He plays Ornette Coleman’s “Toy Dance,” not so much a ballad but a little solemn inside its lightheartedness; Mr. Preminger plays it as if he wrote it. (His band, including the pianist Frank Kimbrough, the bassist John Hébert, and the drummer Matt Wilson, gets way inside it too.)
A lot of his notes last for a long time, and each one counts more than it used to; in the theme of his own “Abreaction,” playing slowly over Mr. Wilson’s fast and quiet free-rhythm drumming, he designs a different kind of sound for each note, an individual density and story. And his own “Jamie,” the record’s last track, succeeds like “Where or When,” a straight glacial reading of a melody that ends by melting away. BEN RATLIFF
