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Friday June 7, 2024 at 7PM
Westbeth Community Room
55 Bethune St
New York, NY

Westbeth resident Andreas Brade presents
The Mizell/Sanwald/Brade Trio
with Ben Swan

An evening with all original compositions in the Americana-Jazz genre and beyond.

Listen to the Trio’s new digital album “The Last Hill Before Home”

Cameron Mizell, Brooklyn-based guitarist and composer, has been part of the diverse New York City music scene since 2004, performing in a wide variety of genres from experimental improvisation to bluegrass musicals. Mizell has released 11 albums ranging from jazz-funk to Americana to avant-garde experimentalism. His latest effort as a band leader, The Tree on Saffron Path, pairs his guitar with a string trio for a set of cinematic chamber music, lilting folk tunes, and ambient improvisations. “Quietly and efficiently, Mizell has put together a remarkably tuneful, eclectic, understatedly cinematic body of work. In a world overpopulated by guys who play a million notes where one would do, Mizell’s economical, purposeful style stands out even more.” (New York Music Daily). To hear his music and learn more, visit http://cameronmizell.com

Andreas Brade, German born drummer, educator and composer Andreas Brade has been a professional drummer for over 30 years. With an open mind he has found himself over the years in many different musical situations, “the good and the bad” and many lessons learned. Andreas has performed and recorded nationally and internationally with many different Jazz, African, Afro Caribbean, Gospel, Rock, R&B, and Improvisational Artists at venues and festivals such as the Montreal Jazz Fest, Kennedy Center, Boston Symphony Hall, NJPAC, the Blue Note, the Apollo Cafe and many more. These days, Andreas likes to maintain his passion for Jazz, and different genres of the world, mainly African and Afro Caribbean styles, while exploring his own voice. He is also drawn more towards electronica, art and Improvisational music.

Andreas has worked for over 20 years as an accompanist for modern dance for schools like the Martha Graham School, Mark Morris Dance Center, Paul Taylor, Alvin Ailey, Joffery Ballet.

As a composer Andreas has worked for Cornfield Dance for 15 years creating sound scores and sound scapes, using his own samples and manipulating them with electronic effects. His works have been played/performed at venues and festivals such as 92nd Street “Y”, Bryant Park Summer Stage, the Battery Park Dance Festival, the British Museum at Yale, Baryshnikov Arts Center and the University of Georgia.

A passionate educator, Andreas taught at Berklee College of Music, The Boston Community Music Center of Boston and the South Shore Conservatory. He is currently faculty at Brooklyn Music School and has his own teaching studio.

Andreas holds a diploma from Berklee College of Music and a Masters of Modern American Music in Performance from Longy School of Bard College, and endorses VicFirth and Zildjian Cymbals.

These days Andreas still enjoys staying inspired, maintaining an open mind towards new musical adventures and solidifying his own sound, Visit www.andreasbrade.com
Paul Sanwald:

Paul Sanwald is a bassist and composer living in Brooklyn, NY. He leads a quartet that focuses on his original music, and also works steadily as a sideman on upright bass and guitar, and occasionally works as an arranger.

Paul started playing music professionally as a teenager, and has worked steadily for more than 20 years as a sideman and leader. Paul has toured internationally and recorded with Dem Brooklyn Bums, Elizabeth and the Hot and Silver Trio, Mizell/Sanwald /Brade Trio, The Blue Saracens, Flipside Phonics and Regatta 69.

Paul has composed and arranged music for almost every kind of group imaginable: small jazz groups, jazz big bands, orchestras, string quartet, and a variety of chamber groups.

A lifelong student, Paul attended the New School’s venerable jazz performance program on a scholarship, and studied orchestration, conducting and composition at the Juilliard Evening Division with Dr. Daniel Ott and Jonathan Dawe. He studied jazz privately with many teachers, but his first and most important teachers were Ed Paolantonio and John Wheliss.
Visit http://paulsanwald.com

Ben Swan has traveled the globe for more than 20 years learning from musical masters to develop a signature style of improvisational violin playing. While centered within the American jazz tradition, Ben employs a unique blend of musical concepts garnered from a variety of cultures to form his musical vocabulary.
Visit www.swanviolin.com

https://paulsanwald.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-hill-before-home