The Working Band (when it works) is myself, Ben Monder, Pete Rende and Ted Poor with the lovely Akiko Pavolka adding occasional vocal stylings. Other people that have participated in the festivities at various times: Darren Beckett, Mark Ferber, Jochen Rueckert, Dan Reiser, Bill McHenry, Rob Stillman, Sam Sadigursky, Chris Cheek, Jacob Sacks, Bruno Pedroso and Ziv Ravitz.
Influences
Jimi Hendrix's "Axis, Bold As Love", Alex Ross's "The Rest Is Noise", Akira Kurosawa's "Dersu Usula".
Sounds Like
The silence of the primeval forest, heavy with threats.
Matt Pavolka is, like, a dude who plays the bass. Some people think that he's totally awesome. He started out as a trombonist but couldn't take the derision. He thought chicks would dig him if he played the bass. He had it confused with the guitar.
He is a redneck from the State of Indiana. He was born in Muncie. His parents went to college there with David Letterman. He grew up in Bloomington. Not far from there is a town called Raccoon, and another one called Needmore.
He went to Berklee College of Music in Boston, mostly to get the hell out of Indiana. He played a lot of music there. He met many of the musicians that he works with to this day. He met his future wife. He wrote some music. He won some awards. He drank lots and lots of coffee, smoked lots and lots of cigarettes, ate bad pizza and didn't sleep much. He's much healthier now.
He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York with his beautiful and talented wife Akiko. He makes a lot of great music with amazing musicians in New York City and abroad. He occasionally makes mediocre music with mediocre musicians, for money.
He has a band which plays sporadically in the New York area, called the Matt Pavolka Band. Hopefully he will think of a better name for it soon. They recently recorded their first album for Tone Of A Pitch Records, entitled "Something People Can Use". It is available now from the label's website, CD Baby and other places. If you buy it you may be really glad that you did.
happy happy joy joy happy happy joy joy! guess what? it seems like we'll have a hairy animal for several days around thanksgivings holiday. her name is miya.
really ? when ? where ? We're rehearsing at casa da music everyday 12/13/14/ gig on 15. Mark Turner broke 2 fingers so I sub for him. Cheek, Josh Redman and Oshmad: look out for the Jew. Phebe will be there too. No 9pm bedtime for you.
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