{"id":126304,"date":"2024-09-28T14:57:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T18:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/?post_type=interviews&#038;p=126304"},"modified":"2024-09-28T15:02:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T19:02:27","slug":"loff-jazz-25th-anniversary-michael-formanek-featured-in-3-concerts-onj-trio-duo","status":"publish","type":"interviews","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/interviews-panm360\/loff-jazz-25th-anniversary-michael-formanek-featured-in-3-concerts-onj-trio-duo\/","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;OFF JAZZ 25th Anniversary | Michael Formanek featured in 3 concerts: ONJ , trio, duo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong>Upright bass virtuoso, improviser, composer, arranger, professor, recording artist. American jazzman Michael Formanek has been applauded for all his involvements and great creative contribution for the advanced music forms including great writing and great improvisation. Born and raised in the Bay Area, actually based in Portugal he lived in many places, New York and Baltimore where he has been teaching at The Peabody Institute (Johns Hopkins University). Since the 70&#8217;s he has been among those contemporary musicians with an insatiable curiosity and open mindedness. Highly respected by his peers and jazz connaisseurs, there are still many m\u00e9lomanes who could embrace his music universe.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong>This is exactly why L&#8217;Off Jazz, now redesigned in seasonal smaller presentations for its 25th anniversary, presents this ambitious spotlight on Michael Formanek, mostly with Montreal musicians. At Ges\u00f9 with Orchestre national de jazz (ONJ) on Thursday October 3rd, with Drome trio at Di\u00e8se Onze on Friday October 4th, including Montreal&#8217;s saxophonist Chet Doxas (now based in New York) and drummer Vinnie Sperrazza, and finally a duo at Patro Vys, on Saturday&nbsp; October 5th with Montreal\u2019s excellent guitar player Steve Raegele. Alain Brunet reached Michael Formanek touring on the West Coast, a few days before his staying in MTL.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"L&#039;OFF JAZZ  25th Anniversary | Michael Formanek featured in 3 concerts: ONJ , trio, duo.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l3r1w5hyhpE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n    <div class=\"panm-ads-wrapper alignfull\"><span class=\"panm-ads-copy\">Publicit\u00e9 panam<\/span><div class=\"panm-ads-render\" data-ads-id=\"126267\"><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upright bass virtuoso, improviser, composer, arranger, professor, recording artist. 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