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Whirlwind...

2005-06-20T16:00:00.000-07:00

Blessings to all who've taken time to make it to our East Coast shows. You all are fabulous and so supportive. Let's see if I can post from Portugal, as we fly over today after 17 days of touring in the US...

If you are in Portugal, check out the previous postings so that you can keep up with where we are.

Go to http://www.bagatellen.com to see a concert review from Philly.

Peace
DG

Close to the final update?!

2005-05-28T08:00:00.000-07:00

This is up to the minute info on the Joint Ops Tour:
[contact: dennisgonzalezx@aol.com / dgonzalezx@yahoo.com / 214.941.2675 (h) / 214.532.3219 (c)]

Yells At Eels: Dennis Gonzalez—trumpet; Aaron Gonzalez—double bass; Stefan Gonzalez—drums

Ze Eduardo Unit: Ze Eduardo—double bass; Jesus Santandreu—tenor sax; Sonia "Little B" Cabrita—drums; Elsa Roch—oboe

Akkolyte: Stefan Gonzalez—drums, vocals; Aaron Gonzalez—electric bass

June 3 - Friday - Dallas, TX - Sanctuary (Yells At Eels with Carl Smith); also Linea Triste (ambient ensemble) - 2602 Kings Rd.- 214.458.7605 - 8 pm

June 4 - Saturday - Austin, TX - Victory Grill (Yells At Eels with Carl Smith); also - Ron Miles Quartet and Brannen Temple Quartet - Part of the Creative Opportunity Orchestra's Fourth Annual New Jazz Series - 1104 East 11th Street - 8 pm $10 General; $7 Students, Seniors, Artists; Children Free http://www.creop.org

June 9 - Thursday - Wilmington, DE - Clifford Brown Memorial Jazz Festival (Yells At Eeels) at Brandywine Bistro and Hotel, 707 N. King St., Wilmington - Sponsored by Studio 600 Gallery - 9:30 pm - $3 to $5 at the door

June 10 - Friday - Boston, MA - MimSeries (Yells At Eels w/ Walter Horn + ZEU)First Congregational Church, Hyde Park, 6 Webster St. - 8 pm http://mim.karayorgis.com/

June 11 - Saturday - Baltimore, MD - An die Musik Live! – 8 pm (Yells At Eels + ZEU) 409 N.Charles St - http://www.andiemusiklive.com/ - $15 / $13

June 12 - Sunday - Baltimore, MD (Akkolyte) - The Barclay House, 2101 Barclay St. - Door at 6 pm, Show at 6:30 pm - with Chainsaw to the Face, DxSxCx, Spoonful of Vicodin, and Syzlak

June 12 - Sunday - NY, NY – CBGB's Lounge- Freestyle Evenings - 313 Bowery – 212.677.0455 - 9 pm(D. Gonzalez + ZEU) - http://www.cbgb.com/$10 for the entire evening • Students w/picture I.D. $5 • Musicians who have played the series $3 / also that night, starting at 7 pm: Henry Warner Trio and Briggan Krauss Group

June 13 - Monday - NY, NY - Downtown Music Gallery (Yells At Eels + ZEU) - 6 pm – 342 Bowery - Free!

June 14 - Tuesday - Rochester - (Akkolyte) at Roundhouse Shelter, Genesee Valley State Park, with Shelfish,Hellshock, Death Pact, No Fucker, Running for Cover, Bludwulf, and more...$10

June 15 - Wednesday - Boston - (Akkolyte)

June 16 - Thursday - Stefan's solo recording with Matt Lavelle and Aaron Gonzalez

June 17 - Friday - Philadelphia, PA - Fiume, corner of 45th and Locust, above the Ethiopian restaurant, Abssinia, West Philadelphia - 10 pm - 215.431.4301 (Yells At Eels)

June 18 - Saturday - Washington, D.C. area (Yells At Eels) - at Sangha - 7014 Westmoreland Ave., Takoma Park, MD - 301.891.3214 - Transparent Productions / thanks to Vince Kargatis - 8 pm

June 19 - Sunday - NY, NY (Yells At Eels w/ Oliver Lake at Vision) - Orensanz Art Center, 172 Norfolk just South of Houston - Midnight Show! Last show of the Festival! www.visionfestival.org - $25 a night

June 21 - Tuesday - Lisbon, Portugal (Yells At Eels) - at Speakeasy, Armazém 115, Alcântara, 1350, Lisbon, Portugal, Tel: 395 7308 - 8 pm

June 22 - Wednesday - Lisbon, Portugal (Yells At Eels) - at Speakeasy

June 23 - Thursday - Loulé, Portugal (Akkolyte) - at Satori 666

June 23 - Thursday - at the University of Algarve, Faro - (Workshop with Yells At Eels: "The Realm of Music - Improvisation, Creativity, and Ludicity")

June 24 - Friday - Faro, Portugal (Yells At Eels) - at Arcmusicos - 9 pm

June 24 - Friday - the University of Algarve, Faro - (Workshop with Yells At Eels: "The Realm of Music - Improvisation, Creativity, and Ludicity")

June 25 - Saturday - Albufeira, Portugal (Akkolyte) - Teodosio's Bar - 9 pm

June 25 - Saturday - Lisbon, Portugal: D. Gonzalez Portuguese Trio -Trem Azul Record Store, Rua do Alecrim, 21-A1200 – 014 - 351 21 342 31 40

June 27 - Monday - Lisbon, Portugal: D. Gonzalez Portuguese Trio - Bar LX, Bairro Alto - 9 pm

Lineup for Zé Eduardo Unit solidified!

2005-04-29T09:00:00.000-07:00

Zé Eduardo Unit featuring Jesus Santandreu, which is touring with Dennis Gonzalez Yells At Eels has decided on its lineup for the Joint Ops American Tour:

Jesus Santandreu: tenor saxophone
Zé Eduardo: double bass
Sonia "Little B" Cabrita - drums
Elsa Roch: oboe

Zé / Little B / Jesus

Who, or what, is Yells At Eels?

2005-04-15T17:30:00.000-07:00

Note: To see tour information for the summer 2005 Joint Ops Tour, please scroll down to the Thursday, April 14 entry. Information is changed on a regular basis.

The main component of the Joint Ops Tour is the trio, Dennis González Yells At Eels. This is the history of Dennis, Aaron, and Stefan Gonzalez:

After recording a series of stunning, stellar dates for Silkheart, Koch, Konnex, Gowi, Music and Arts and Daagnim records in the 80's and early 90's - with leaders and sidemen including Charles Brackeen, Andrew Cyrille, Fred Hopkins, Malachi Favors, Carlos Ward, Louis Moholo, Keith Tippett, Elton Dean, Nels Cline, Olu Dara, Nils Petter Molvaer, and Douglas Ewart, avant jazz legend Dennis Gonzalez left the world of music for 5 long years.

He returned in 1999 with a new resolve and a new trio, Yells At Eels. The trio was made up of Gonzalez on trumpets, keyboards, and samples, as well as his bass-playing son, Aaron (who was present at all the Silkheart sessions as child and is now 24 years of age); and his younger son, Stefan, on drums (he is now 19). Aaron and Stefan had worked together in their own grindcore punk duo, Akkolyte, and proposed the trio to their dad. The eight months that followed were a rehearsal for things to come, playing with special guests poet-laureate Yusef Komunyakaa, New Orleans saxist Tim Green, and Dallas-based pianist Scott Bucklin. In January of 2000, they began the recording of their first CD, Home, which was released in June of that same year.
In the next 2 years, the trio would travel all over the United States playing their new sounds for large and small audiences alike - Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, Burlington, Portland, New York City, Raleigh, Atlanta, Jackson, New Orleans, Ft. Worth, Houston. Their special guests were truly special: Douglas Ewart, The Micro-East Collective, George Cartwright, Clyde Kerr, Jr., Tim Green, Bill Pohl, James Harvey, Mike Khoury, Travis Laplante, Andrew Lamb, Assif Tsahar, Alvin Fielder, David Boykin.

Their second CD, a double issue, was recorded live in Minneapolis (Home Away from Home with Douglas Ewart and George Cartwright) and in the studio in Dallas and New Orleans (Pictogram with Tim Green, Scott Bucklin, and Bill Pohl). International coverage of this trio has come from Citizen Jazz in Brussels, Echoes in London, Signal to Noise in Vermont, One Final Note in Minneapolis, The Dallas Morning News, Zeitgeist in New Orleans, and many other sources.

After five and a half years of playing, recording, and touring together, they played two nights in Vancouver, British Columbia, with Mark Taylor on French horn, Peggy Lee on cello, and Paul Plimley on piano, and are planning a European summer tour in 2005, after playing the prestigious Vision Festival in New York in June of 2005 with Oliver Lake. They are also in the process of recording a third CD of new material produced by Aaron and Stefan this time around.

These are the bios of the members of the trio, Dennis González Yells At Eels:

Aaron González is a bassist who worked with autistic adolescents at Hillcrest High School and North Dallas High School in Dallas for 3 years. He studied English at Mountain View College and at The University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. For two years, he worked as a bilingual (Spanish/English) ESOL aide at Greiner Middle School in Dallas, Texas. He plays with the hardcore/punk duo Akkolyte with his brother, Stefan. He is also bassist for his father's Tejano/Norteña trio, Trio Brujos. His latest project is his own punk/prog rock quartet, Life-Death Continuum. He worked with the Texas Environmental Consortium, and now works at Breadwinners in Dallas.

Stefan González is a 19-year-old drummer who is a sophomore at Mountain View College, where he is concentrating on Journalism. He attended Arts Magnet High School in Dallas where he studied mallets and percussion. He also attended North Dallas High School where he studied Jazz, Mariachi, and Hispanic Musics. He is the founder of his own hardcore/punk magazine and record label, FxTxFx Productions, and plays drums in Akkolyte. He plays drums in Waking Terror and does vocals for his group Saboteur. He is working on his first jazz recording as a leader, and will work with trumpeter Matt LaVelle in the studio in New York in June.

Dennis González is a musician/composer/producer, visual artist, writer, educator, and linguist, who lives in Dallas and has been active in the international New Jazz scene since 1980. He has played and recorded with many of jazz's luminaries, including Frank Lowe, Charles Brackeen, Malachi Favors, Andrew Cyrille, Keith Tippett, Cecil Taylor, Roy Hargrove, Kidd Jordan, Oliver Lake, and many others. His music can be found on Silkheart Records (Stockholm), Music and Arts (Berkeley), Gowi Records (Krakow), Konnex (Berlin), Koch Jazz (NY), Brut Records (Ljubljana), CreOp (Austin), Clean Feed (Lisbon), 8th Harmonic Breakdown (Chicago), Entropy Stereo (Detroit), and his own label daagnimRecords (Dallas).

...and so it begins

2005-04-14T21:50:00.000-07:00

Joint Ops Tour - June 2005 with:
Dennis Gonzalez Yells At Eels
Zé Eduardo Unit featuring Jesus Santandreu
Akkolyte

DENNIS GONZALEZ YELLS AT EELS 6

Aaron Gonzalez Dennis Gonzalez Stefan Gonzalez

YAE = Yells At Eels / ZEU = Ze Eduardo Unit / AKK = Akkolyte

June 3 - Dallas, TX - Sanctuary (YAE)
2602 Kings Rd.- 214.458.7605 - 8 pm

June 4 - Austin, TX - Victory Grill (YAE)
1104 East 11th Street - 8 pm

June 9 - Wilmington, DE - Clifford Brown Jazz Festival -Brandywine Suites Hotel sponsored by Studio 600 Gallery(YAE)

June 10 - Boston, MA - MimSeries (YAE + ZEU)
First Congregational Church
Hyde Park, 6 Webster St.

June 11 - Baltimore, MD - An die Musik – 8 pm (YAE + ZEU) 409 N.Charles St.

June 12 - Baltimore, MD (AKK)

June 12 - NY, NY – CBGB's Lounge- Freestyle Evenings
313 Bowery – 212.677.0455
(D. Gonzalez + ZEU)

June 13 - NY, NY - Downtown Music Gallery
(YAE + ZEU) - 6 pm – 342 Bowery

June 14 - Rochester (Akkolyte)

June 15 - Boston, MA (Akkolyte)

June 17 - Philadelphia, PA - Fiume, corner of 45th and Locust, above Abyssinia Restaurant, 215.431.4301 (West Philly)(YAE) 8 pm

June 18 - Washington, D.C. area (YAE) - Sangha - 7014 Westmoreland Ave., Takoma Park, MD - 301.891.3214 - Transparent Productions

June 19 - NY, NY (YAE w/ Oliver Lake at Vision)
Clemente Soto Velez - 107 Suffolk near Rivington

June 21 / 22 - Lisbon, Portugal (YAE) - at Speakeasy, Armazém 115, Alcântara, 1350, Lisbon, Portugal
Tel: 395 7308

June 23 - Universidade de Algarve - Faro, Portugal(YAE Workshop)

Loulé, Portugal (AKK) - at Satori 666

June 24 - Universidade de Algarve - Faro, Portugal(YAE Workshop)

Faro, Portugal (YAE) - at Arcmusicos (Sponsored by Associacao Gremio das Musicas
and Arcmusicos)

June 25 - Albufeira, Portugal (Akkolyte)

Lisbon, Portugal - Trem Azul (Dennis Gonzalez Portuguese Quartet)

June 27 - Lisbon, Portugal - Bar Lisbon(D. Gonzalez, Pedro Goncalves, Rodrigo Amado)