Allan Holdsworth With Terry Bozzio, Tony Levin & Pat Mastellotto

Well, I guess there is a santa claus......

I gotta tell you Mr. Holdsworth, I love your music and I buy everything you have ever played on. (even the one's you say "Stuff I recorded..and wish I had not"...) but your not the only 'narley Geezer out there.
I just wanted something different, a new challenge, a change of pace.

and boy have you delivered!

I wish this tour came to Kauai.. ah well.

Anyway, I cannot wait for the CD...and for gods sake studio and a live double disc!

I mean, cheese and crackers! When are four players like this going to happen again? Its like a modern electric improvisational version of those old time jazz all-star gigs!

here's where they been, wrecking havoc....

BOZZIO HOLDSWORTH LEVIN MASTELOTTO
WEST COAST USA TOUR
Terry Bozzio drums
Allan Holdsworth guitar
Tony Levin bass guitar, Chapman stick, upright bass
Pat Mastelotto drums, percussion

January 2. 2010 - Seattle, WA
Venue: The Triple Door
www.thetripledoor.net

January 3. 2010 - Seattle, WA
Venue: The Triple Door
www.thetripledoor.net

January 4. 2010 - Portland, OR
Venue: Aladdin Theater
www.aladdin-theater.com

January 6. 2010 - Santa Cruz, CA
Venue: Kuumbwa Jazz Center
www.kuumbwajazz.org

January 8. 2010 - Oakland, CA
Venue: Yoshi's
www.yoshis.com

January 9. 2010 - Oakland, CA
Venue: Yoshi's
www.yoshis.com

January 10. 2010 - Oakland, CA
Venue: Yoshi's
www.yoshis.com

January 12, 2010 - Whittier, CA
Venue: Whittier Theater

www.calprog.com

January 13, 2010 - San Diego, CA
Venue: Brick By Brick

www.brickbybrick.com

(More dates to be announced)

Next..europe!

then?

2010

BOZZIO/ HOLDSWORTH/ LEVIN/ MASTELOTTO

European Tour

TERRY BOZZIO drums
ALLAN HOLDSWORTH guitar
TONY LEVIN Chapman Stick, upright bass
PAT MASTELOTTO drums, percussion, samples

April 6, 2010 – Berlin (Germany)
venue: Quasimodo
www.quasimodo.de

April 7, 2010 – Hamburg (Germany)
venue: Fabrik
www.fabrik.de

April 8, 2010 – Amsterdam (Holland)
venue: Paradiso
www.paradiso.nl

April 9, 2010 – Zoetermeer (Holland)
venue: Boerderij
www.boerderij.org

April 10, 2010 – Münster (Germany)
venue: Jovel
www.jovel.de

April 11, 2010 – Groningen (Holland)
venue: Oosterpoort
www.de-oosterpoort.nl

April 12, 2010 – Limbourg (Belgium)
venue: Salle Le Kursaal
www.lekursaal.be, www.spiritof66.be

April 13, 2010 – Bonn (Germany)
venue: Harmonie
www.harmonie-bonn.de

April 14, 2010 – Ludwigshafen (Germany)
venue: KUZ Dashaus
www.dashaus-lu.de

April 15, 2010 – Eindhoven (Holland)
venue: Muziek Centrum Frits Philips
www.muziekcentrum.nl

April 16, 2010 – Karlsruhe (Germany)
venue: Tollhaus
www.tollhaus.de

April 17, 2010 – Dornbirn (Austria)
venue: Das Haus Spielboden
www.spielboden.at

April 18, 2010 – Trezzo Sull’Adda, Milano (Italy)
venue: Live Club
www.liveclub.it

April 19, 2010 – Zurich (Switzerland))
venue: Moods
www.moods.ch

April 21, 2010 – Vienna (Austria)
venue: Planet.tt
www.planet.tt

April 22, 2010 – Ostrava (Czech Republik)
venue: Fabric Club
www.fabric.cz

April 23, 2010 – Prague (Czech Republik)
venue: Lucerna Music Bar
www.musicbar.cz

April 24, 2010 – Opole (Poland)
open air festival venue: TO BE ANNOUNCED

April 25, 2010 – Katowice (Poland)
venue: Mega Club
www.megaclub.pl=

This is the gig you do not want to miss, I have followed Bozzio since the Zappa days,(re-form group 87!) and to have Bozzio, Tony Levin and Pat Mastellotto is almost too much to ask...but you add Mr. Holdsworth..DAMN.

Here's some really good bio...http://www.yoshis.com/oakland/jazzclub/artist/show/1060

John Flynn wrote:

I saw the Levin-Holdsworth-Bozzio-Mastelotto concert at the Triple Door in Seattle. It was quite accessible for free jazz (as usually I'd be thinking "oh, so that's why it's free"). Liked it a lot except I was wanting a little more acoustic texture in the percussion and drums, and maybe some more structured composition now and then. It was entirely improvised.

After the show as I sat at the bar with my friend, Alan Holdsworth happened to sit next to us and order beers. So I bothered to chat him up a short bit. He seemed like he'd been waiting for the beer all night. He was polite and a regular guy, despite a couple of intervening autograph hound requests -embarrassingly one presented him a vinyl of Atavachron to sign that clearly had a used price tag stuck to the front in a manner no collector would resist peeling off. I asked about his schooling and he said he is self-learned except that his Dad taught him a lot of his music knowledge. I was moved by how he remarked what an amazing man his father was.

The Tony Levin contribution was not as rewarding to hear as his band's concert at Bumbershoot in 2000. But it struck me how much Levin and Holdsworth made sounds reminiscent of David Torn's Cloud About Mercury... weird because I always had thought that album reminded me of Holdsworth from other sonic angles.

Overall it was worth the ticket price and expensive drinks. My only real complaint with the lack of compositional form was that it may have kept Holdsworth a bit restrained in presenting his usual lush, densely poignant chording and extended harmonies I love hearing from him so much.

some vids...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miOmVHyxpuc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LSgcSPOe5U