Ian Carey Quintet+1 at The Sound Room, Saturday, May 16

Hello Fans of Interesting Music!

I'm excited to invite you to a very special performance next Saturday: my Quintet+1, which has done me the great honor of digging deeply into my music for the past decade, will be returning to The Sound Room in Oakland's Downtown arts district for our first show of 2015. 

The Sound Room, a labor of love by proprietors Robert Bradsby and Karen Van Leuven, has made a significant positive contribution to the downtown district and the East Bay jazz scene, and is one of our favorite places to play. (It's also very close to a variety of happening restaurants and BART.)

The Quintet+1 (Kasey Knudsen on alto saxophone, Adam Shulman on piano, Fred Randolph on bass, Jon Arkin on drums, Sheldon Brown on bass clarinet, flute, and saxophone, and myself on trumpet and flugelhorn) will be playing original music from our previous 3 albums (2006's Sink/Swim, 2010's Contextualizin', and 2013's Roads & Codes), plus selections from my new 4-part suite "'Interview Music," as well as arrangements of music by some of my favorite composers like Charles Ives and Jimmy Giuffre. We are fresh out of the studio (recording our next album, due in the fall) and the band is sounding great—judge for yourself in the video below. 

We hope very much to see you next week!

WHAT: The Ian Carey Quintet+1WHERE: The Sound Room, 2147 Broadway, OaklandWHEN: Saturday, May 16, 8pm (doors open at 7)TICKETS: $15 (available here or at the door)