Saturday May 30th, 2026. 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM Jazz at The Lodge - 118 Croton Ave, Ossining, NY 10562 Pat Metheny's "Bright Size Life" was Pat's first album as a leader featuring Jaco Pastorius and Bob Moses. It was unique and a first of it's kind in many ways. Guitarists and bassists in particular, consider this album to be a watershed moment in jazz guitar trio - offering a door for future musicians to walk through in pursuit of originality of voice and sound. Jazz at The Lodge presents the Bright Size Life Project on Saturday January 21st starting at 7:30 pm. This project is a reimagining of this iconic album through the scope of the Hammond B3 organ, electric bass, and drums. Paul Connors - Hammond B3 organ, Marshall Toppo - fretless bass, Jon Doty - drums. The program will be a performance of the entire album in its original song order for the first set. The second set will have additional Metheny and Pastorius compositions with additional musicians.
Anyone who has attended a solo performance by the Sardinian musician Paolo Angeli – often presented as a single-act piece – knows they are witnessing a Homeric musical journey. It is a voyage of departures and arrivals, where composition and improvisation weave a narrative filled with haunting melodies and concrete sounds that evoke soundscapes ranging from post-industrial to those deeply connected to nature. At the heart of the concert is the prepared Sardinian guitar, conceived by Paolo Angeli between 1993 and 1996 and perfected over 30 years through three prototypes. This orchestra-instrument, a hybrid between a baritone guitar, a cello, and a drum set, currently features 25 strings, piano-like hammers, propellers for creating drone sounds, movable bridges, and various attachments—evoking the sounds of a harp, electric kalimbas, kora, and sitar. It is played using plucking, a bow, and percussive techniques. Thanks to his innovative approach – ranging from avant-rock walls of sound, desert-like adagios, flamenco compás, Middle Eastern phrasings, and echoes of minimalism – Paolo Angeli has forged a hybrid musical poetics that has allowed him to authoritatively renew the language of contemporary guitar playing.
