Description

Your host Dr Bill Bares is a Pianist, composer, scholar, and educator. He received his Ph.D in ethnomusicology from Harvard University in 2009. He taught at Harvard, Brown, Berklee College of Music, and the New England Conservatory before taking a job as professor of music and co-director of jazz studies at UNC Asheville.

Three Chord Monty

Three Chord Monty celebrates jazz as the world’s first and foremost mash-up music: the musical “sound of surprise”. There’ll be something for everyone in the music of this remarkable trio featuring Dr. William Bares on piano, bassist Daniel Iannucci on bass and Ryan Ptasnik on drums. Though formidable individually on their respective instruments, the group aims for a different kind of virtuosity, using syncopation and irreverence to keep the audience on its toes, pulling on harmonic and rhythmic threads to reveal the interconnectedness of all music! Familiar tunes surface, disappear and resurface in ways designed to delight and surprise. No genre of music is off limits: from the jazz to pop, from classical favorites to familiar TV theme songs.