Mélange À Trois at Best Video Performance Space in January, 2017.
The jazz trio Mélange À Trois play Best Video Performance Space on Thursday, June 29. The show begins at 8 PM and there is a $5 cover.
Mélange À Trois is a brand spankin’ new trio that takes a Po-Mo approach to Jazz Standards, TV theme songs and classic commercials. With MÀT you never know if, in the middle of “All of Me,” you’re going to crash into a Sondheim reference, an unrelated waltz, two seconds of a barrelhouse blues, a squeak-fart modernist touch, a soundtrack moment—even a moment of contemplation.
Cristina Harris is fabulous singer-songwriter who is well known in town for her intense, personal and thoughtful songs about real life shit that peeps tend to get a little squeegee about sometimes.
Mark Kuss has played with Branford Marsalis, Nnenna Freelon, Michiel Borstslap and a bunch of other pretty well known “cats.” He’s CEO of unison-design, a music software company.
Jesse Raccio is a composer, thinker, software designer, traveller and, oh, a snap-ass bass player. He’s a “playa” at the Grove—a hothouse startup engine in New Haven—and CTO of unison-design.
UPCOMING EVENTS (Music events start at 8 PM unless otherwise noted; screenings start at 7 PM unless otherwise noted):
• Wednesday, June 21. PROGRESSIVE FOLK: FE FI FO, SINGER-SONGWRITER: KRIZTA MOON
• Thursday, June 22, 7:30 PM. SINGER-SONGWRITER: THE ANNE MARIE MENTA BAND; CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL MUSIC: THE CHRIS CHILDS TRIO
• Friday, June 23. CHAMBER ROCK: THE TET OFFENSIVE; INDIE ROCK: S.G. CARLSON
• Wednesday, June 28. ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC IMPROVISATION: NOAH & DAVID CHEVAN
• Thursday, June 29. POST-MODERN JAZZ/VOCALS: MÉLANGE À TROIS
• Friday, June 30. BLUEGRASS: THE DUDLEY FARMS STRING BAND
• Wednesday, July 5. CONTRA DANCE TUNES: WRY BRED
• Thursday, July 6. BLUES ROCK: PARKER’S TANGENT.
• Friday, July 7. BLUES/FOLK: CODA BLUE
• Sunday, July 9, 2 PM. MARK SCHENKER: HOW TO READ A FILM—HOWARD HAWK’S SCARFACE” (1932)
• Wednesday, July 12. SURF ROCK: THE CLAMS
• Thursday, July 13. ROCK: THE RIGHT OFFS
• Friday, July 14. ROCK: ROPE; SINGER-SONGWRITER: KEVIN MF KING
• Saturday, July 15, 7 PM. INDIE/PUNK: BILGE RAT, ARTHUR SHEA, BIG NICK, HELLRAZOR (TINY BOX BOOKING SHOW)
• Sunday, July 16, 2 PM. MARK SCHENKER: HOW TO READ A FILM—HOWARD HAWK’S “HIS GIRL FRIDAY” (1940)
• Wednesday, July 19. BRAZILIAN MUSIC: SAMBELEZA
• Friday, July 21. SOLO GUITAR: GLENN ROTH; SINGER-SONGWRITER: DANA MERRITT
• Saturday, July 22, 7 PM. INDIE ROCK: DELICATE FLOWERS (A CAPITALH BOOKING SHOW)
• Sunday, July 23, 2 PM. MARK SCHENKER: HOW TO READ A FILM—HOWARD HAWK’S “THE BIG SLEEP” (1946)
• Wednesday, July 26. MUSIC FROM “THE SIMPSONS”: DR. CATERWAUL’S CADRES OF CLAIRVOYANT CLAPTRAPS with SPECIAL GUESTS
• Thursday, July 27. INDIE SINGER-SONGWRITER: DANIELLE CAPALBO (of QUIET GIANT)
• Friday, July 28. WORLD MUSIC: NEELA
• Sunday, July 30, 2 PM. MARK SCHENKER: HOW TO READ A FILM—HOWARD HAWK’S “RIO BRAVO” (1959)
• Wednesday, Aug. 2. JAZZ: BADSLAX
• Friday, Aug. 4, 7:30 PM. BLUEGRASS: HONEY DEWDROPS (GUITARTOWNCT PRODUCTIONS)
• Sunday, Aug. 6, 2-5 PM. GUITARTOWNCT FREE SUNDAY AFTERNOON BLUEGRASS JAM
• Wednesday, Aug. 9. EXPERIMENTAL: HUMAN FLOURISHING, DAVE SCANLON, UNDERWEAR
• Thursday, Aug. 10. ALT-COUNTRY: PLYWOOD COWBOY
• Friday, Aug. 11. INDIE ROCK: LYS GUILLORN & HER BAND, ELISA FLYNN
• Wednesday, Aug. 16. INDIE ROCK: FURNSSS, TRASH CAN
• Thursday, Aug. 17. STEEL DRUM MUSIC: MIMOSA
• Friday, Aug. 25. POP ROCK: OBERON ROSE
• Friday, Sept. 8. INDIE ROCK: THE SAWTELLES
• Friday, Sept. 15, 7:30 PM. BLUEGRASS: ROB ICKES & TREY HENSLEY (GUITARTOWNCT PRODUCTIONS)
• Wednesday, Sept. 20. BLUEGRASS: BAIT AND SWITCH
• Friday, Sept. 22. SINGER-SONGWRITER: THE ANNE MARIE MENTA BAND
• Saturday, Sept. 30. SINGER-SONGWRITER: JOHN GORKA (ODDBALL PRODUCTIONS)
• Friday, Oct. 6. INDIE ROCK/SINGER-SONGWRITER: THE SHELLYE VALAUSKAS EXPERIENCE
• Friday, Oct. 13. FLASH FICTION: PAUL BECKMAN
• Friday, Oct. 20. BLUEGRASS: MISSY RAINES & THE NEW HIP (GUITARTOWNCT PRODUCTIONS)
• Thursday, Nov. 16, 7 PM. BLUEGRASS: TIM O’BRIEN (SOLD OUT!)
