Prince Zohar At The Controls

Porter Records continues it’s great collaboration series, matching current practitioners of jazz/hip hop/electronic music with obscure free jazz legends.  So far we’ve seen Odeon Pope with the Misled Children and Elliot Levin with Seesaw Ensemble.  Next will be Brian Ellis with Byard Lancaster- the release will be a double cd with the actual session recordings on disc 1 and Brian’s electronic/fusion refix version on disc 2.  I will be recording the sessions at The Habitat in the next few weeks and playing in the supergroup on Fender Rhodes and Ace Tone Organ, also playing with Byard and Brian will be David Hurley, Kofi Andoh, and many others.  Should be a good sound explosion. We’ll be playing a few live shows with Byard and the group in San Diego and Riverside- see flyer below.

Brian, Dave, and I also have a project that will be coming to light soon- AMAFUKU!- an electric trio that we tracked last year and have been sporadically working on in our busy schedules.  The tracks are coming out great and should be ready for light soon!

www.myspace.com/brianellis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byard_Lancaster