The Peter Sprague Quartet shall be joined by vocalist Allison Adams Tucker in performing the jazz music of Paul Simon on the Rancho Bernardo Library subsequent week.
The free live performance will start at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29 within the library’s second-floor neighborhood room, 17110 Bernardo Heart Drive. Free-will donations shall be accepted.
A few of the featured songs will embody “Prepare within the Distance,” “Cecilia,” “Hearts and Bones,” “Sound of Silence” and “You Can Name Me Al.”
“I’ve been an enormous fan of Paul Simon’s music ever since I first heard the opening chord sequence of ‘Scarborough Truthful’ and the way in which the vocals begin increasing into majestic counterpoint,” Sprague stated. “All the way in which from there, 20 years later, we arrive at a state of affairs the place a person’s considering why he’s gentle within the center when the remainder of his life is so exhausting. He sings ‘I can name you Betty and Betty, while you name me, you’ll be able to name me Al.’”
Sprague is a San Diego-based jazz guitarist, composer, arranger, recording engineer and music producer.
Becoming a member of him on Tuesday night shall be his brother, Tripp Sprague, on sax, flute and piano; Mack Leighton on bass and Duncan Moore on drums.
Peter Sprague stated Simon’s lyrics are “one thing particular to behold.”
“I heard him speak about his course of and one of many phases concerned bouncing a ball in opposition to a wall and going time and again the phrases and phrases till they have been good — by no means settling for an inexpensive rhyme or resolution,” he stated. “It exhibits, these are huge league tales and massive league lyrics.
“Subsequent you add the melody and the chord strikes that are a steep step up from three chord justice,” Sprague stated. “But when he was into the Graceland album and the African affect he embraced three chords as if that’s all that mattered.”
Sprague referred to Simon as a flexible fellow, including, “I believe it’s time to have fun his creations by way of our jazz lens.”
The live performance is being offered by the Pals of the Rancho Bernardo Library as a part of its Chamber Live performance Collection. Further monetary assist is supplied by the Rancho Bernardo Neighborhood Basis.
“Peter and his musical colleagues have been nice supporters of libraries as music venues,” stated sequence organizer Harvey Levine. “His frequent gigs on the RB Library have at all times performed to a full home.”
