New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Leighton Media) Jann Klose and Tom Brislin will be performing at the Rockwood
Music Hall's Stage 1, 196 Allen Street (between
Houston and Stanton) on July 1 at 7 and 8 PM. Admission is free, and a tip of $10 for each of the artists is encouraged. The venue phone is 212-477-4155, and the web site is https://www.rockwoodmusichall.com. This is near the F and V trains-2nd Avenue stop. Tom and Jann met when Jann opened for Renaissance on the group's 40th Anniversary tour. Tom was the group's keyboardist.
In addition to the Rockwood gig, Jann will be sitting in with GRAMMY-nominated guitarist/songwriter Gary Lucas (Gods & Monsters, Jeff Buckley, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, David Johansen, Captain Beefheart scholar) on Sunday, July 3 at the Iridium, 1650 Broadway (51st Street), in New York City, at 8 and 10 PM. For reservations, please call 212-582-2121. The two became friends when Jann performed at a Jeff Buckley event that Gary curated this past spring at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn. An avant-blues video of Gary & Jeff's "Mojo Pin" is now a fan favorite on youtube.)
Starting at 7 PM, July 1, at the Rockwood, singer-songwriter/pianist Tom Brislin's new singles are "When You Told Me Not To Go" and a remake of Joe Jackson's "Steppin' Out." The New Jersey Star-Ledger writes "Everything Brislin does is accomplished, and this show ought to be no exception." Tom creates "pop songs with special features" which pulls from diverse and dramatic influences to create a reflective and passionate sound. Formerly of the New Jersey based indie-rock band Spiraling, Brislin has been critically admired by The Washington Post, "Brislin's material, while retaining a certain arena-ready pomp, is more easily likened to popmeisters such as Ben Folds and the smarter strains of pop." PopMatters wrote, "He's at once intelligent, honest, and playful." Tom's work as a professional keyboardist has landed him on tours and recordings by notable artists Yes, Debbie Harry, Meat Loaf, OK Go, Josh Kelley, Renaissance, Glen Burtnik, and Francis Dunnery. He is a native of New Jersey, currently living in Nashville, and is releasing his album, HURRY UP AND SMELL THE ROSES late Summer/early Fall of this year.
Playing at 8 PM is Jann Klose, a citizen of the world, who has lived on three continents, making his home in the melting pot that is New York City. Before coming to the United States as an exchange student in Cleveland, Ohio, he lived in Germany, Kenya, and South Africa. As a singer/songwriter, his music reflects this lyrically, melodically, rhythmically and in his choice of eclectic instruments and musicians.
Jann is releasing a new single this fall, with a full album in 2012. These recordings are being made largely with fan support via his web site, https://www.peoplerecordsmusic.com and through select live events. (His April 29, 2011 show at the Rockwood-Stage 2 netted over $1000 plus free studio time.) His most recent recordings, REVERIE (2008) and SACRIFICE EP (2010), have earned him respect as a singer, musician, songwriter, and someone with a new and viable slant on the music business at a time when the industry threatens to collapse under its own weight. Jann's approach to fan sourcing of production money and concerts in areas as diverse as Chicago and Germany is creating a "cottage industry" out of popular music. REVERIE was made largely with fan support.
It also shows in the people who choose to work with him. Jann has worked live or in the studio with artists, including alternative virtuosos Gary Lucas and Rusted Root, pioneers like Pete Seeger and Les Paul, classic rockers Annie (Renaissance) Haslam, Roger (The Byrds) McGuinn, and major country stars like Rosanne Cash and Marty Stuart. WGN-Chicago Radio's Steve & Johnnie, Rock Hall inductee Joey Reynolds and Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson have all personally lent a helping hand in his career.
Jann's music has also been featured on the GRAMMY-nominated album, HEALTHY FOOD FOR THOUGHT, MTV's Cribs, the soundtrack to the Paul Sorvino film Dead Broke (Warner Bros). He's performed in touring companies of Broadway shows: The Who's Tommy, Jekyll & Hyde, and Jesus Christ Superstar. He also has released three albums and two EPs, which can be heard around the world, on over 140 FM stations and Sirius XM in the U.S., the BBC in England to Prambors Radio in Indonesia. Almost 10 thousand people have viewed (and reposted) Jann's remarkable video for DOING TIME, now featured on indoorDIRECT's Restaurant Entertainment Network and AOL/Spinner. Watch the video at www.youtube.com/jannklose. The Liverpool Institute of the Performing Arts (co-founded by Paul McCartney) has invited Jann to teach a master class on building and sustaining a music career. Jann is now an eligible artist for the 2011 New York Music Awards, listed right between "Carole King" and "Lady Gaga."
The Washington Post writes, "Klose wins over the listener with his soaring voice, which may well be a staple of chamber pop for a long time to come."Time Out New York writes, "Jann Klose writes warm, hooky pop music." The Advance Wire Service states: "The first thing that's totally unmistakable about Jann Klose is that voice - which is just light years beyond that of the typical singer-songwriter ... a sound that is classy, distinctive and often irresistible."
JANN KLOSE TOUR DATES
June 12: STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL, Beacon, NY
June 17: GODFREY DANIELS, w/ Cliff Eberhardt, Bethlehem, PA
July 1: ROCKWOOD MUSIC HALL w/ Tom Brislin, New York, NY
July 2: RECORD COLLECTOR w/ Tom Brislin, Bordentown, NJ
July 3: THE IRIDIUM, sitting in w/ Gary Lucas, New York, NY
July 9: HOUSE CONCERT, Trenton, NJ
August 11: MUSIKFEST 2011, Bethlehem, PA
October 26: IRON HORSE w/ Shawn Phillips, Northampton, MA
March 2, 2012: MASTER CLASS, LIVERPOOL INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, Liverpool, UK
