the Daves
These fellows are the progenitors and perpetuators of post-contemporary jazz with a focus on the lower sonorities. They have played together in various situations for more than two delightful decades.
DAVE HOFSTRA, Tuba
Dave has played, toured, and recorded extensively in jazz, rock, blues, klezmer, and new music. He has performed with artists Bobby Previte, Lou Grassi, Bobby Radcliff, Grady Gaines, John Zorn, Wayne Horvitz, Robin Holcomb, Debbie Davies, Elliot Sharp, Tom Cora, Guy Klucevsek, Bill Frisell, Toshi Reagon, Luka Bloom, Marshall Crenshaw, Joel Forrester, William Parker, and Nora York as well as Philip Johnston’s Big Trouble, the Microscopic Septet and the Transparent Quartet, Rachelle Garniez’s Fortunate Few and Twilight Time, Casselberry & DuPree, The Waitresses, and the Klezmatics.
STEPHEN MOSES, Drums/Trombone
Stephen was born into a dysfunctional brass band on Long Island — father plays trombone, brother plays trumpet, one grandfather played tuba and the other played violin. Jazz on the father’s side, classical on the mother’s. He chose trombone while secretly always wanting to play drums, and finally at age fourteen, got his first drum set. After blowing (trombone) a few semesters at Berklee School of Music and a sudden punch in the mouth, Stephen started focusing on drums.
In 1975 Stephen moved to the Big Apple and started meeting and playing with many performers, such as Peter Borno, Dave Hofstra, James Chance, Gary Windo, Ken Simon, Jim Matus, Percy Jones, and John Zorn.
In 1987 he was founding member of ALICE DONUT and spent most of the next eight years on the road and is currently finishing their ninth album. www.alicedonut.com
Around 1997, after a stint with Rasputina, Stephen went solo and DRUMBONE was born. Playing drums and trombone simultaneously with the help of some electronics, was all he could do to keep from exploding. Other current projects include The Daves and LAMBIC (Drumbone with Paul Sullivan on Guitar).
This video was captured by Joly MacFie, a videographer of daunting capabilities, who was fortuitously at this gig at the Living Theater last year. Here we have The Daves joined by the courageous Caito Marcondes, a world class percussionist who happened to be visiting from Brazil. Watch as we try to welcome him to New York in a friendly musical exchange. You can visit him in Brazil or at myspace.
