1/18 Peter Kontrimas Quartet

Live music is back on stage at The Mad Monkfish! For those who can't make it to the Jazz Baroness Room, Monkfish now streams live all of its performances on their Facebook page. 1st Show: 7:00-8:15pm   and   2nd Show: 8:45-10:00pm

Arnie Krakowski, tenor sax

Russell Hoffman, piano

Peter Kontrimas, acoustic bass

Les Harris Jr., drums

A graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Music where he studied classical bass, Kontrimas is also owner and engineer of PBS Studios in Westwood, Mass. which is often the choice of jazz and classical musicians world-wide, including Grammy winner Esperanza Spalding, Jerry Bergonzi, Dick Oatts, Hal Crook, Ruby Braff, Laszlo Gardony, Tiger Okoshi, Greg Abate, Jonathan McPhee, Emmy winner Brad Hatfield and numerous international artists from Japan, Korea, Poland, and Italy. Other musicians of note who have recorded at PBS or on site include Benny Carter, Eddie Gomez, Dave Liebman, Phil Woods, John Tchcai, Roswell Rudd, and Grace Kelly.

Peter Kontrimas’ supportive bass playing and lyrical solos have earned him club, concert and broadcast dates with Shirley Horn, Clark Terry, Rosemary Clooney, Mark Murphy, Sheila Jordan, Rebecca Parris, Herb Pomeroy, Gray Sargent, and Dick Johnson. In addition, he has recorded with Gary Burton, Jerry Bergonzi, Alvin Queen, and Paul Broadnax and has appeared numerous times on the NPR program “Jazz Set”. Club performances include The Blue Note and Birdland in NY, the Regattabar and Scullers. Festivals and concert appearances include Saratoga/JVC, Jazz Ottawa, Boston Globe, Orange County Center for Performing Arts, Portsmouth, The Cambridge River Fest, Tanglewood, and the Jazz Series at Symphony Center in Chicago.

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