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MICHAEL MALIS TRIOLIFTED FROM THE NO OF ALL NOTHING
The Michael Malis Trio is a forward looking, compositionally motivated improvising ensemble based in Detroit, Michigan. The trio’s debut album, “Lifted from the No of All Nothing” (Polyfold) features all original compositions by Malis and was called “as good as any debut recording anywhere in 2015” (Detroit Free Press). The music includes elements of free improvisation, as well as moments of highly detailed, through-composed material, with a thread of jazz-informed language running through the entire album. In the summer and fall of 2015, the group toured the midwest and East Coast. They plan to continue touring through the summer of 2016.
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Michael Malis — piano | Ben Rolston — upright bass | Stephen Boegehold — drums
“Malis’ flexible touch and attack can sound sumptuous, splashy, or spiky, and his well-developed technique allows him to get around the piano easily. He has an impressive way of spreading out the rhythm between his two hands to create a fulsome sound that comes from playing the entire instrument.”
— MARK STRYKER, THE DETROIT FREE PRESS
PAST TOUR DATES July 13 — Kalamazoo Piano Company, Kalamazoo, MI July 14 — Polish Triangle, Chicago IL July 14 — Jerry’s, Chicago IL July 15 — H.O.M.E., Grand Rapids, MI July 16 — Sixtyten, Toledo, OH July 17 — Trinosophes, Detroit, MI August 27 — Dick’s Den, Columbus, OH August 28 — the Bop Stop, Cleveland, OH August 30 — An Die Musik, Baltimore, MD August 31 — One Caroline St., Saratoga Springs, NY September 1 — Shapeshifter Lab, Brooklyn, NY September 18 — University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI November 11 — The Venue, Bloomington, IN November 12 — Institute 4 Creativity, Champaign, IL November 13 — Transistor, Chicago, IL November 14 — Merriman’s Playhouse, South Bend, IN November 15 — Kalamazoo Piano Company, Kalamazoo, MI December 11 — Kerrytown Concert House, Ann Arbor, MI January 8 — Cliff Bell’s, Detroit, MI
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Michael Malis Trio EPK
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MICHAEL MALIS Michael Malis is a pianist and composer based in Detroit, MI. In July of 2015, he self-released his debut album as a leader, “Lifted from the No of All Nothing”, featuring all original music by Malis. The Detroit Free Press called it “an uncommonly mature and distinctive debut… The music is loose and s p o n t a n e o u s , a l e r t t o d y n a m i c s a n d t e x t u r a l variety while balancing formal detail and discipline with freedom.” It was described by Hot House Jazz Guide (NYC) as “cover[ing] a broad range of free expression. [Malis] bridges the gap between original composed, complex material and the spontaneity of improvisation.”
In December of 2015, Malis’ collaboration with drummer/sound artist Matthew Daher, Daher-Malis Duo, released “Secret of Begin” on cassette tape. The tape marks the debut release of Tool and Die records, a new record company based in Detroit. Earlier in the year, Malis performed on the debut recording of rising star tenor saxophonist Marcus Elliot, “Where the City Meets the Sky”, which was released to critical acclaim. Elliot’s quartet, featuring Malis, has maintained a three year weekly residency at Detroit’ premiere jazz club, Cliff Bell’s.
As a pianist, he has shared the stage with a diverse array of musicians, including notables such as Marcus Belgrave, Jaribu Shahid, Ken Filiano, Andrew Bishop, Dennis Coffey, and Marion Hayden. He has performed at the Kennedy Center, the Detroit Jazz Festival, The Stone (NYC), and the Detroit Institute of Arts, among other venues. As a leader, he has maintained a touring schedule with his trio, playing in New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Cleveland, and across the Midwest and East Coast.
Malis has also worked in interdisciplinary settings; in September of 2015, he collaborated with visual artist Costa Kazaleh Sirdenis and the aforementioned Matthew Daher to create an evening-length performance piece, “Warped and Wept”, which explores the intersection of masculinity and crying through text, music, sound, video, and live performance. The piece was developed at the Carr Center through their Artist Hub Residency, and premiered at the Carr Center in October 2015. Since then, the trio has performed the piece in Toronto and Montréal, and has plans to remount the piece in the coming months.
As a composer, he was awarded "Best Musical Score" in the 2011 Lightworks Film Festival for his score to the short film "Slash/Fiction." He has continued to write music for film since then, scoring a total of three short films and one full length feature film. He began writing music for theater in 2012, writing the musical score for “The Mute Quire”, a play by the Fratellanza Theater Company, which premiered at the New Theater Project in Ypsilanti, MI, in June of 2012 to critical acclaim. “The Mute Quire” was subsequently remounted in Galway, Ireland in 2014 at the Galway Fringe Festival. His second collaboration with Fratellanza, “String Up the Moon,” premiered in Detroit to critical acclaim in September of 2013.
He started playing the piano at age five, and started writing music shortly thereafter. In high school, he began his studies in earnest with Detroit jazz piano legend Bess Bonnier. After high school, he attended the University of Michigan, where he studied with the eminent jazz pianist Geri Allen.
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BEN ROLSTON Ben Rolston is a bass player and composer born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 2012, he released his debut album, Fables. Consisting of 10 original compositions, Fables represents a wide palate of stylistic influences, and was well received by audiences and critics alike. The broad vision of music represented on Fables is borne out in the variety of musical projects Rolston has been a part of.
As a bassist, Rolston has had the opportunity to perform in an extraordinarily wide array of musical contexts, including hip hop (Tree City), Americana (The Appleseed Collective) and Balkan Music (Ornamatik). Rolston has traveled the world as a musician, performing at the United States Embassy in Honduras, touring the United States
extensively for three years as a member of the Appleseed Collective, and participating in musical and cultural exchanges in Japan and India. As a student, he collaborated with master choreographer Dianne McIntyre, and was hand-picked to attend the artist intensive at Ravinia, where he was able to study with Rufus Reid, David Baker, Nathan Davis, and Curtis Fuller. As a professional, he has performed with such musical luminaries as Marcus Belgrave, John Hollenbeck, Tim Ries, Sean Dobbins, Vincent York, Tad Weed, Ellen Rowe, Andrew Bishop, Dwight Adams, Thaddeus Dixon and Vincent Chandler.
Following in the footsteps of many other young Ann Arbor musicians, he gained a love of jazz at Community High School (under the direction of Mike Grace), honed his musical skills and taste with world class saxophonist Vincent York, and then attended the University of Michigan Jazz Studies Program in order to absorb the teachings of master musicians such as Robert Hurst and Geri Allen.
STEPHEN BOEGEHOLD Stephen Boegehold is a drummer, composer, and educator based in Detroit, MI. Since earning a B.M. from Wayne State University with a concentration in jazz studies, Stephen has had the distinct privilege of working with musicians and band
leaders such as Paul Keller, Cliff Monear, The Four Aces, and Francois Moutin. As a part of the university's big band he learned from and performed with guest artists Joe Lovano and Danilo Perez. He was also afforded the opportunity to perform at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music in Torino, Italy through a student exchange program. Though primarily self-taught, he spent his time at Wayne State under the guidance and instruction of Sean Dobbins and David Taylor. As an educator, Stephen teaches for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's youth education program and The Detroit School of Rock and Pop.
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Detroit Free Press, December 2015 (click HERE for link):
From the article:
“an uncommonly mature and distinctive debut… The music is loose and spontaneous, alert to dynamics and textural var iety whi le balancing formal detail and discipline with freedom.”
Hot House Jazz Guide, New York, September 2015 (click HERE for link):
From the article:
“Malis’ multi-faceted s ty l ings cover a broad range of free e x p r e s s i o n . H e br idges the gap between original composed, complex written material and the spontaneity of improvisation.”
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Ann Arbor Observer, December 2015, (click HERE for link):
From the article:
“Malis never sounds like someone else and already displays his own musical personal i ty, character ized by a s e a m l e s s c o n t i n u u m b e t w e e n composit ional and instrumental qualities. This is how the Detroit jazz piano tradition is evolving for our times.”
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