“his arrangements of film noir themes and original tunes such as the new “Buckshot Rubaiyat,” a Persian blues with a rumba beat. It’s dedicated to Bruno Mooshei, the late proprietor of the Persian Aub Zam Zam Club on Haight Street, where the composer enjoyed many of Mooshei’s fabled martinis.” – Jesse Hamlin
The Dmitri Matheny Group (quintet) is currently touring our popular Jazz Noir project, offering a fresh spin on familiar TV and movie themes (film noir, spy thrillers and crime dramas), plus a selection of new works, jazz classics and beloved standards from the Great American Songbook. Concert highlights include a Noir Medley of cinematic favorites and our original “Crime Scenes” suite, a dreamlike series of vignettes linked together with voiceover narrative in the hardboiled detective style of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.