{"id":19459,"date":"2007-05-01T15:08:23","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T20:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=19459"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:47:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:47:38","slug":"quartet-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2007\/05\/01\/quartet-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Kittery-based quartet to open Bates jazz series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Equal Time, a quartet that plays obscure covers, originals and free improvisations, opens the Bates College Jazz at the Olin Arts Center series at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 5, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n<p>Admission is free, but tickets are required. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The band was founded as a result of a musical initiative in the Kittery-Portsmouth, N.H., area. Local players were challenged to record an album within a month. During a listening party at the end of the process, bassist Tim Webb and saxophonist Thom Keith heard each other&#8217;s work, and soon decided to join forces. They were later joined by drummer Mike Walsh and trombonist Derek Kwong.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh, one of the busiest drummers in the Seacoast region, teaches drums at local schools, does session work and is a member of Analog Method and Trio Encompas.<\/p>\n<p>A Web designer by day, Webb founded Northeast Jazz Scene, a Web site promoting regional jazz awareness.<\/p>\n<p>Keith is the producer of MPBN&#8217;s late-night contemporary jazz show &#8220;Prime Cuts.&#8221; He spends his days expanding young minds as a high school social studies teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Kwong, who lives in the Boston area, has performed with a variety of jazz and pop ensembles including Walt Disney&#8217;s Magic Kingdom Christmas Brass and the World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra, with which he toured throughout North America.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equal Time, a quartet that plays obscure covers, originals and free improvisations, opens the Bates College Jazz at the Olin Arts Center series at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 5, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Admission is free, but tickets are required. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,39,32],"tags":[6135,6889,9087],"class_list":["post-19459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-event-highlights","category-maine-and-new-england","tag-music-tag","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92973,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19459\/revisions\/92973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}