BopKick

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Originally from Menlo Park CA, Gillian DeLear began playing drums at age ten, and has not stopped since. She played throughout her school & college years in band, orchestra, marching band and jazz ensembles, toured for three years throughout the Midwest and southwest with Hawkins & De Lear, a high-tech pop duo, taught the Rincon High School’s marching drum line in Tucson AZ, and played in many local and touring bands with styles ranging from Afro-pop, country, jazz, blues, and rock. In 1995, Gillian won a TAMMIE, Tucson Area Music Award, for best country group with the band Girls With Guitars.

From 1998 - 2000 Gillian played with Lori Davidson & The Intruders which toured on the West Coast, played at the Sturgis Biker Rally in South Dakota, was the back up band for Archie Lee Hooker, and opened for Bo Diddley in Phoenix. In 2002, Gillian played with Betty Diamond, an all-female rock band for Tucson’s Fourth of July Celebrations, as well as opening for the play, Vagina Monologues at the Rialto Theatre. In 2003, Gillian played with Deacon & Dean, who opened for Little Feat at the Rialto Theatre. In 2004, Gillian played with The Jazz Chicks, who opened for Shirley Horn at the Women’s Primavera Jazz Festival.

Gillian moved to Boston, MA in 2005 and has finished a Bachelor degree in Professional Music at Berklee College of Music. At Berklee she focused on Jazz and studied with Terri Lyne Carrington, Kim Plainfield, Rick Considine, and Victor Mendoza. Currently she’s studying with Bob Gullotti, and is playing with a number of musical groups in the greater Boston area. BopKick is fortunate to have the talented and dyamic drummer powering our rhythm section.

Barry Isaac Levine discovered the joy of sax at age 13, and life has never been the same. While in high school he studied with local Brooklyn musicians Buddy Geyer and Mike Solis and played in the high school dance band; later in Boston he studied with Jerry Bergonzi. Some bands that Barry has played with include the MIT Festival Jazz Band led by Everett Longstreth, the Bobby Watson Band (blues), Easy Money (R&B), Nightlife (jazz duo); the Wildewood Jazz Quartet, and the Sleepless Knights (jazz). "I think of the saxophone as a voice (it's much better than my own!) and I try to hear where and how the music needs that voice. I try to go with that, and to go with the rest of the band wherever the music takes us. What I love about jazz is the freedom to find new things in the music every time we play."

Bassist Richard Hale Shaw played violin in high school and college orchestras, while playing guitar (yeah, Beatles!) in the afternoon with friends. In college, he briefly studied 20th Century music composition... and found himself instead playing electric bass - first in rock, and later in R&B and funk bands on the "chitlin' circuit" in small Georgia towns. Musician friends turned him onto jazz (the leader of one R&B band played him "A Love Supreme"), and while he stopped playing altogether in 1978, he never stopped listening. He started to play bass again in 2002, and starting in the Fall of 2006 found himself again playing gigs -- only now in jazz trios, quartets and quintets. Richard created and manages the Boston Jazz Workshop and performs regularly in the Boston area. "Playing jazz is now something of an obsession. I take my bass with me on the road, when seeing consulting clients, and I look for opportunities to play as much as possible."

We're still gathering bio info on guitarist Scott Davidson. For now, we'd like to point out that Scott can also be heard playing some quite different and unique music at www.myspace.com/ghorardeemexpress

Sounds Like:

A Child Is Born (Thad Jones)
Afternoon In Paris (John Lewis)
All Blues (Miles Davis)
All the Things You Are (Jerome Kern)
Alone Together (Arthur Schwartz)
Along Came Betty (Benny Golson)
Au Privave (Charlie Parker)
Autumn Leaves (Joseph Kosma)
Beautiful Love (Victor Young)
Beatrice (Sam Rivers)
Bernie's Tune (Bernie Miller)
Besame Mucho (Consuelo Velázquez)
Blue Baghdad (Barry Levine)
Blues for Alice (Charlie Parker)
Bossa for Judy (Barry Levine)
Con Alma (Dizzy Gillespie)
Central Park West (John Coltrane)
Ceora (Lee Morgan)
Corcovado (A.C. Jobim)
Cousin Mary (John Coltrane)
Days of Wine & Roses (Henry Mancini)
Desafinado (A.C. Jobim)
Four (Miles Davis)
Eiderdown (Steve Swallow)
Eleanor Rigby (Lennon / McCartney) (arr. B. Levine)
Epistrophy (Thelonius Monk)
Eternal Triangle (Sonny Stitt)
Four On Six (Wes Montgomery)
Gentle Rain (A.C. Jobim)
Giant Steps (John Coltrane)
Girl From Ipanema (A.C. Jobim)
Good Bait (Tad Dameron)
Grand Central Station (John Coltrane)
Have You Met Miss Jones (Richard Rodgers)
How High The Moon (Morgan Lewis)
I Love You (Cole Porter)
I Mean You (Thelonius Monk)
I Remember You (Victor Schertzinger)
I'll Remember April (Gene DePaul)
In A Sentimental Mood (Duke Ellington)
Inner Urge (Joe Henderson)
Invitation (Bronislau Kaper)
It Don't Mean A Thing (if it Ain't Got that Swing) (Duke Ellington)
Jordu (Duke Jordan)
Joy Spring (Clifford Brown)
Just Friends (John Klenner)
Killer Joe (Benny Golson)
KK's Riff (Barry Levine)
Lady Bird (Tad Dameron)
Lazy Bird (John Coltrane)
Laura (David Raskin & Johnny Mercer)
Lament (J.J. Johnson)
Like Someone In Love (Jimmy Van Heusen)
Like Sonny (John Coltrane)
Long Ago And Far Away (Jerome Kern)
Meditation (A.C. Jobim)
Milestones (Miles Davis)
Minority (Gigi Gryce)
Misty (Errol Garner)
Moment's Notice (John Coltrane)
My Romance (Richard Rodgers)
New Snow (Barry Levine)
Nica's Dream (Horace Silver)
Night and Day (Cole Porter)
Night Dreamer (Wayne Shorter)
Night Has A Thousand Eyes, The (Jerry Brainin)
Old Devil Moon (Burton Lane)
Old Ideas Die Hard (Barry Levine)
Oleo (Sonny Rollins)
One Note Samba (A.C. Jobim)
Ornithology (Charlie Parker)
Out of Nowhere (Edward Heyman)
Pensativa (Clare Fischer)
Recorda Me (Joe Henderson)
Relaxin' At Camarillo (Charlie Parker)
Sail Away (Tom Harrell"
Sandu (Clifford Brown)
Simone (Frank Foster)
So What (Miles Davis)
Solar (Miles Davis)
Someday My Prince Will Come (Frank Churchill)
Song For My Father (Horace Silver)
Soulful Bill (James Williams)
Speak Low (Kurt Weill)
Speak No Evil (Wayne Shorter)
Stablemates (Benny Golson)
Stella By Starlight (Victor Young)
Stolen Moments (Oliver Nelson)
Straight Street (John Coltrane)
Straight, No Chaser (Thelonius Monk)
Subconscious-Lee (Lee Konitz)
Sugar (Stanley Turrentine)
Sweet Georgia Bright (Charles Lloyd)
Syeeda's Song Flute (John Coltrane)
Take the "A" Train (Duke Ellington)
Take Five (Paul Desmond)
Tetragon (Joe Henderson)
This I Dig of You (Hank Mobley)
Theme from Mannix (Lalo Schifrin)
Triste (A.C. Jobim)
United (Wayne Shorter)
Up, Up and Away (Jim Webb)
Voyage (Kenny Barron)
Wave (A.C. Jobim)
Well You Needn't (Thelonious Monk)
What Is This Thing Called Love (Cole Porter)
Wildflower (Wayne Shorter)
Wholeness (Barry Levine)
Yardbird Suite (Charlie Parker)
You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To (Cole Porter)
You Don't Know What Love Is (Gene de Paul)

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