Egan, Stein , Latham All-Star Monstrous Trio! Bethel Jazz 7pm Wed Sept 10

Seating Chart

Doors open at 6:00pm. Try to be seated by 6:30pm to have your dinner order taken. Showtime begins at 7:00pm when we transform the space into a theater.

Out of respect for the performers and other patrons, please keep talking to a whisper during the performance.

Very Limited Occupancy. Tables seating 2, 4, 5 guests, with tables for 6, 8, 12 available upon request. Single, general admission tickets are also available. See The Attached Seating Chart. Admission Is $15.00 - $25.00 Per Person, Ticket prices may be higher for special performances. Having problems with the ticketing system? Call 203-247-4273

Parking: Please park in LaZingara's lot or on Greenwood Ave. or School Street. Please avoid parking in P.T. Barnum Square.

Karl Latham - Drummer

Karl’s career has spanned the globe performing, recording and producing with Grammy Award winning artists, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members and multitude of internationally acclaimed musicians. Karl is known for his exceptional ability to dig into a variety of musical styles, playing with acclaimed artists in funk, rock, R&B, Latin, modern jazz, straight-ahead jazz, avant-garde and Broadway.

Karl was born into a musical family; his mother had been a former radio singer and older brother Rick (not the Rick Latham of international drumming fame) started Karl drumming at a very early age. Karl studied with Vincent “Muzzy” Mizzoni and Joe Cusatis during his high school years. Karl won many music competitions as a youth, including All County, North New Jersey Area and Region Bands and New Jersey All State Band as a classical snare drummer and tympanist. Karl attended Rutgers University, performing as solo tympanist in the advanced wind ensemble before choosing to pursue drum set as his principal focus. Karl went on to attend Berklee College of Music and Ohio University, from which he received a B.S.S in Computer Based Music.

While in college Karl participated in the 1983 Carmine Appice Mattel Synsonics National Drum Battle, competing in a field of 7500 drummers nationwide. Karl won 2nd Place in the final competition in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, the great Sonny Emory won 1st Place.

After college Karl worked as a computer programmer/analyst from 1984-1988, performing with several different groups and teaching privately. During this period Karl studied with the legendary drummer and drum education guru, Gary Chester, from Gary’s recently published iconic drum method “The New Breed”. On Gary’s urging Karl became a full-time musician, leaving the corporate life behind to record with RCA artist Charlie Elgart. Karl appears on both of Charlie Elgart’s RCA releases. Karl recorded on countless karaoke tracks for Rock Video International during this time.

Karl was a regular performer in the NY area CD101.9 Fantasy Band, where he met legendary bassist John Lee, which formed a lifelong relationship. John introduced Karl to Europe’s leading vibraphonist, Wolfgang Lackerschmid. Karl performed in many of Lackerschmid’s group starting in 1993 through present times. Karl is a staple in the NJ jazz scene where he has performed with many notable local artists for over 30 years, including the NJ legendary group “The Dalton Gang” led by guitarist/composer/arranger Willy Dalton.

In the early 2000’s Karl became friends with legendary bassist Mark Egan. With Mark, Karl performed in the groups of Ali Ryerson with Pete Levin, Unit1 with John Hart, Living Standards with Vic Juris and the 2016 BMW World Jazz Award nominated group “Constellations” culminating in a concert in Munich at BMW Global Headquarters.

Karl continues to perform with iconic groups including with the Dizzy Gillespie All Stars and Dizzy Gillespie Afro-Latin Experience with guest Paquito D’Rivera, the John Lee Quartet with Cyrus Chestnut, Freddie Hendrix, Alex Collins; and many others. Current projects include “Living Standards”; Don Braden/Karl Latham "Big Fun(K) "and a collective group with Bob Gluck and Christopher Dean Sullivan.

As a freelance drummer Karl has performed with notable artists including: The Bernie Worrell Orchestra; Charlie Elgart; Michal Urbaniak; Andy Snitzer; Edgar Winter; Johnny Winter; The Shirelles; John Lee (Executive Director Dizzy Gillespie Alumni Groups); The Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars; The Fantasy Band (Dave Valentine; Dave Samuels; Chuck Loeb, Noel Pointer, Victor Bailey, Cornell Dupree, Roy Ayers, Larry Coryell); Claudio Roditi; Slide Hampton; Clark Terry; Tomoko Ohno; Michael Dease; Sharrel Cassidy; Martin Pizzarelli; Yotam Silberstein; Jon Faddis; Johannes Mossinger Quartet (with guests Joel Frahm, Don Braden, Seamus Blake, Johannes Enders and Joe Lovano); Howard Paul, President Benedetto Guitars (with guests Tom Scott, Laurence Hobgood, Anat Cohen and Jody Espina); Ali Ryerson; Stefanie Schlesinger; Wolfgang Lackerschmid (with Atilla Zoller, Ed Cherry, Cameron Brown, and Ronnell Bey). Karl has subbed on the Broadway productions of “Bring It On”, “Hamilton”, “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical”, and “Ain’t Too Proud”. Karl is a current member of the Percussive Arts Society Education Committee. Karl is included in the Drummerworld Top Drummers list.

Karl is co-leader of Big Fun(K) with saxophonist/composer Don Braden and co leader with Ryan Carniaux and Mark Egan of the “2016 BMW Welt Jazz Award” nominated group “Constellations”. Karl was a member of the electric jazz jam group, Unit1, with Mark Egan and guitarist John Hart. As a sideman, Karl has appeared on countless recordings. To date Karl has released three CD’s as a leader: “Dancing Spirits” (1999) and “Resonance” (2007) and Karl Latham “Living Standards” with Mark Egan and Vic Juris. As co leader Karl has released Don Braden/Karl Latham “Big Fun(K) Live” (2012), Karl Latham/Ryan Carniaux/Mark Egan “Constellations” (2014) , and Alex Collins/Ryan Berg/Karl Latham “Together” (2021).

Karl is an endorsing artist for Paiste Cymbals, Yamaha Drums, ProMark Drumsticks, Evans Drumheads, Big Fat Snare, AEA Microphones, Radial Engineering, Heil Sound and RME.

Karl received a B.S.S. from Ohio University and studied music performance at Rutgers University, Ohio University and Berklee College of Music, including private studies with drumming greats Gary Chester, Michael Carvin and Joe Morello.

Mark Egan - Bassist

One of the premier electric bassists of contemporary jazz, Mark Egan has distinguished himself over the past five decades with his distinctive fretless bass sound that has graced countless jazz and pop albums as well as award-winning movie and television soundtracks. An in-demand New York City studio musician who has played on multi-gold and platinum-selling recordings by Sting, Arcadia, Marc Cohn,GRP Christmas, Mecano and Joan Osborne, Egan has also recorded with a wide variety of artists from pop stars like Roger Daltrey, Sophie B. Hawkins, Marianne Faithfull, Judy Collins, Cyndi Lauper and Art Garfunkel to jazz notables like David Sanborn, John McLaughlin, John Abercrombie, Randy Brecker, Gato Barbieri, Freddy Cole, Jim Hall, Joe Beck, Pat Martino, Mark Murphy and Larry Coryell.

A charter member of the Pat Metheny Group (formed in 1977) and member of the Gil Evans Orchestra for 13 years, Egan has 14 albums as a leader to his credit and another 10 as a co-leader of Elements, the fusion band he formed in 1982 with his Pat Metheny Group bandmate, drummer Danny Gottlieb.

Born in 1951 in Brockton, MA, Egan’s first instruments were trumpet and guitar, which he picked up at age 10 and continued to play through high school. He began playing bass at age 15 and later went to the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music as a trumpet student. He switched his major to electric and acoustic bass midway through the program and ended up taking private lessons with Don Coffman, Lucas Drew and Jaco Pastorius, also playing in a band with the future Weather Report bassist called Bakers Dozen, led by the jazz multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan and pianist Vince Lawrence DiMaggio. As Egan told For Bass Players Only:

“I had been hearing about Jaco through the grapevine, since we were both in the south Florida area. Ira Sullivan had spoken of Jaco and the first time we met was at a Bakers Dozen rehearsal. We split the bass book along with a very fine acoustic bassist, Don Mast. Jaco brought a very large Sony reel-to-reel tape machine with headphones and played a recording of Wayne Cochran and the CC Riders. That was it for me. It was revolutionary and I knew that I was standing next to an innovator.”

At the time, I was also very inspired by acoustic bassists Dave Holland, Ron Carter, Eddie Gomez, Scott LaFaro, Paul Chambers, Charles Mingus, Jimmie Garrison and Stanley Clarke as well as Electric bassists James Jameson, Chuck Rainey, Joe Osborne, Jerry Jemmott and Michael Henderson.

In 1975, after graduating from the University of Miami, Egan toured with Eumir Deodato, the Pointer Sisters and recorded with David Sanborn (on 1977’s Promise Me the Moon). He was part of the Pat Metheny Group until 1980, appearing on 1978’s Pat Metheny Group and 1979’s American Garage.

With the group’s drummer, Danny Gottlieb, he formed the jazz fusion band Elements, which also featured saxophonist Bill Evans and Clifford Carter- keyboards, recording and touring through the 1990s. During the 1980s and 1990s, Egan was also part of the Gil Evans Orchestra, appearing on Live at Sweet Basil, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, Farewell and Bud and Bird. During that period he also appeared on such recordings as Stan Getz’s Billy Hightstreet Samba, Jim Hall’s Concerto de Aranjuez, Michael Franks’ Objects of Desire and Skin Dive, Arcadia’s So Red the Rose, Sting’s Nothing Like the Sun, Mike Stern’s Upside Downside, Dave Liebman’s Homage to John Coltrane, Alex DiGrassi’s Altiplano, Tuck & Patti’s Tears of Joy, Special EFX’s Double Feature, Laurie Anderson’s Strange Angels and Toninho Horta’s Moonstone.

Egan debuted as a leader with 1985’s Mosaic and followed with a string of successive recordings including 1988’s A Touch of Light, 1991’s Beyond Words, 2001’s Freedom Town and 2006’s As We Speak, his superb trio outing with drummer Gottlieb and guitarist John Abercrombie. On 2010’s Truth Be Told, he reunited with longtime colleagues Mitch Forman on keyboards, Bill Evans on saxophones and Roger Squitero on percussion. “Mitch is one of the first players that I met when I came to New York in 1976,” Egan recalled. “And Bill and I have a longstanding history that goes back to loft sessions with Steve Grossman in 1981 and shortly thereafter to the first Elements recording.”

Through the ‘90s, Egan played on recordings by trumpeter Lew Soloff, guitarist Joe Beck, vocalist Mark Murphy, the Who frontman Roger Daltrey, saxophonists Donald Harrison and Gato Barbieri, pop singers Joan Osborne, Marianne Faithfull, Sohie B. Hawkins and Vanessa Williams and Broadway musical star Bernadette Peters. He continued his prolific output as a session man into the new millennium by playing on albums by keyboardist Jason Miles, guitarist Larry Coryell, pop star Cyndi Lauper, Brazilian singer Flora Purim, Broadway musical star Brian Stokes Mitchell, smooth jazz sax star Steve Cole and Hindu devotional singer Krishna Das. He also appeared on several recordings led by his Elements bandmates Bill Evans and Danny Gottlieb. Mark also recorded on the Coen Brothers’ movie “The Big Labowski”.

Egan’s passion and visionary approach to contemporary instrumental music led to the formation in 1992 of his Wavetone Records. With 26 releases to date, including all of Egan’s recorded output along with recordings by guitarists Jeff Ciampa and Joe Beck and three releases by Elements, Wavetone has established itself as an innovative independent record label, dedicated to discovering, producing and promoting the finest in contemporary instrumental music. Many of those Wavetone outings were done at Egan’s Electric Fields, a state-of-the-art recording studio in New Canaan, CT, designed by the highly acclaimed acoustical architect Francis Manzella.

Mitch Stein - Guitarist

Mitch Stein Guitarist/Composer The show had already started and the sound came rushing up the stairs to meet me as I made my way to the basement of the Izzy Bar that night in '97. The sound, like Led Zeppelin on overdrive wearing a Stetson and armed with 21st Century calculus, made my hair stand on end. I'd been told by those who know that The Hermanators were probably the best band in the city and that their leader, Mitch Stein, was a New York guitar legend. Sure enough the room was packed, full of some of the finest improvising musicians anywhere, devoted fans and even a contingent of the "beautiful people". Over the course of the set they played with energetic hyper funk, raucous raging rock, hymnal beauty, twisted country and bemused blues underpinned by advanced harmony and intricate grooves all the while displaying incredible empathy between each other and a healthy dose of humor. I'd been Hermanated! Mitch "Moose" Stein is a genuine NY guitar hero, born and raised in the mythic Gotham. Both his parents were musicians (mother a classical pianist and father a jazz trumpeter) but the first music that hooked him while still in kindergarten was"Meet the Beatles". The young Stein, drawn to the rhythm of rock 'n roll, started off on drums before switching to the guitar in the 6th grade. Shortly after, he started lessons with renowned studio musician Allen Hanlon whom Mitch says "kicked my ass and made me take the guitar seriously!" As a teenager Moose loved listening to bands that stretched out and jammed a la The Allman Bros and then one day, while still a senior in high-school, a friend played him Coltrane. It was "My Favorite Things"live at Newport and "it turned my head around! They were jamming but on a whole different planet!"Coltrane had opened up a whole new world for the nascent musician who subsequently found a great jazz teacher in Rich Boukas and immediately started soaking up as much jazz history as he could. The seeds were sown for his now rapid development into a world-class guitarist, capable of infusing all the modern styles together with a rare and organic ease. In 1982 legendary jazz organist Brother Jack McDuff gave Mitch his first major pro gig straight out of NYU. Brother Jack has nurtured many renowned jazz guitarists including George Benson, Grant Green and Pat Martino and Mitch was to record two albums with him during his one-year tenure with the band. For the next few years he was gigging all over the place honing his "jazz" chops but his own identity lay elsewhere. "I wanted to expand my palette of sounds and vocabulary and I started looking for other musical avenues to explore." Soon, Moose started hooking up with other like-minded musicians, most notably in a band led by drummer Victor Jones, and featuring saxophonist Alex Foster, vibraphonist Joe Locke and bassist Tom Barney. In 1989 Mitch joined Mino Cinelu's band who were essentially the house band at a now defunct club called Zanzibar. Unfortunately the band was never recorded but it is talked about to this day with awe by musicians in NY. In 1991 Mitch started playing with the brilliant Brazilian jazz pianist and singer, Tania Maria. While working with Tania for over 8 years, Mitch joined forces with many incredible musicians including Don Alias, Anthony Jackson, Steve Gadd, Darryl Jones, Buddy Williams, Ricky Sebastian and Sergio Brandao. They went on to record 4 albums together. Another highlight from this period was touring the European jazz festival circuit with David Sanborn and playing the main stage at Montreaux Jazz on his birthday opposite the Al Jarreau All-Stars featuring Marcus Miller, Eric Gale and Steve Gadd. Moose also dipped his toes into the pop world playing with Cyndi Lauper, Jody Watley and Chaka Khan but the challenges of improvised music always held sway and in 1996 he joined forces with Adam Holzman's Brave New World and they toured not only the usual stops in western Europe but deep into the more mysterious eastern Europe only recently open after the fall of communism. Another major milestone in Stein's career was in 2000 when he was asked to join the Don Alias All-Stars. "The band was ridiculous!! I'll remember this tour for the rest of my life" says Mitch and no wonder. There were 4 percussionists, Don Alias, Giovanni Hidalgo, Alex Acuna and Steve Berrios; Carlos Benavent on bass, Gill Goldstein on keys and arrangements and the Brecker Brothers on horns!! Subsequent tours with Randy Brecker, Bill Evans and the Brecker Brothers themselves only attest to the incredibly high degree of respect that Mitch is held in by his peers. Then in 2001 Mitch joined the jam band based Steve Kimock Band alongside his Hermanators partner Rodney Holmes and bassist Alphonso Johnson and was introduced to a whole new audience who have fallen head over heels for his unique brand of guitar heroism and in turn opened up Mitch's eyes also. "Playing our brand of instrumental rock/jazz/whatever around the states was an incredible experience! In a weird way, it was like going back to the beginning. The jam stuff that I loved back then but with the musicianship levels that we had all grown up into,a total blast!" A four and a half-year stint with SKB leads us to the present but first we must return to 1992. "I was frustrated with a local project that I had been working on that I called the Hermanators. I decided to change things around. The bass player, Kip Reed, brought in drummer Rodney Holmes and things clicked immediately! The chemistry between the 3 of us was special and Rodney's drumming was the perfect answer to everything! Older tunes that I'd written all of a sudden had new life and we started writing new music right away. Whenever touring schedules allowed, the Hermanators would play. "The main thing I wanted to create was a Band! I could've called it The Mitch Stein Trio and booked gigs and gotten any other 2 guys to play but the atmosphere I wanted to foster was of a coherent band that whenever we took the stage, we killed." And that they did. In breathtaking fashion. In 1999 they cut their debut album "Twisted" which still sounds as fresh and unique today as it did when it was recorded and documented the original line-up perfectly. Now after untold nights on the road and many new musical experiences Mitch is focusing on a solo CD. Most of the songs will be co-written with Josh Dion, an amazing drummer and solo artist in his own right. "We met playing with Bill Evans Soulgrass and I loved his approach to the drums as well as songs in general! It's been inspiring to work with him on this new project!" I'm sure I'm just one of many dedicated music fans who can't wait to hear the ever evolving genius of Mitch Stein, taking my place at the foot of the stage in hushed anticipation of having my mind blown. Aaron Whitby Musician/Composer/Producer

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