September 18 - San Miguel Chapel - Thollem Trio, Glass Key trio

[High Mayhem Newsletter]

Event: Thollem Trio and Glass Key Trio at San Miguel Chapel, 401 Old 
Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe.

Date: 18 Sep 2021

Who:  Glass Key Trio and Thollem Trio (Thollem/Wayne/Santistevan)
What: Concert of Creative and Innovative Music
Where: San Miguel Chapel, Santa Fe, NM
When: September 18, 2021 7pm doors
Cost: 10$-$20 suggested

Doors: 7:00 pm
Glass Key Trio: 7:30pm
Thollem Trio: 8:45pm

MASKS REQUIRED! – A big part of our work as artists is to create a safe 
space for all people. If you are unwilling to do your part in creating 
safe spaces for all people, you are not welcome.

The Thollem/Wayne/Santistevan Trio celebrates the infinite possibilities 
of their instruments from heavy grooves to deeply nuanced sonic 
explorations. Dave Wayne (drums), Carlos Santistevan (bass) and Thollem 
(midi keyboard) last played together March 5th, 2020 at The Outpost in 
Albuquerque. One of the last opportunities to perform before the 
pandemic locked us all down. The recording was published on Astral 
Spirits in April of this year, as part of Thollem’s Astral Traveling 
Sessions. 
https://thollemsastraltravelingsessions.bandcamp.com/album/thollem-wayne-santistevan

Thollem is a perpetually traveling pianist, keyboardist, composer, 
improviser, singer-songwriter, activist, author and teacher. He’s spent 
most of his life living on the road nationally and internationally. His 
work is ever-changing, evolving and responding to the times and his 
experiences, both as a soloist and in collaboration with hundreds of 
artists across idioms and disciplines. Thollem’s known internationally 
as an acoustic piano player in the free jazz and post-classical worlds, 
as the lead vocalist for the Italian agit-punk band Tsigoti and as an 
electronic keyboardist through a multitude of projects. He and is life 
and artistic partner ACVilla will be in the middle of a cross-country 
tour on Amtrak, playing 14 concerts in all before flying to Europe for 3 
months of performances and workshops.

Carlos Santistevan is a musician, sounds engineer, and organizer. Since 
2001 he has helped establish an oasis of creative music in the high 
desert southwest as the director of the High Mayhem Emerging Arts 
collective based out of Santa Fe, NM. Using an upright bass and 
electronics he creates soundscapes and spontaneous compositions from the 
extremes of acoustic and electric music. Early influences of punk rock 
and free jazz have led him to develop a unique approach to music and 
improvisation. He has performed at High Zero Festival, Ende Tymes 
Festival, The Outpost Performance Space, Hemlock Tavern, SITE Santa Fe, 
the Empty Bottle, Outsound Creative Music Festival, The Olympia 
Experimental Music Festival, High Mayhem Festival and more performing 
with such artists as: J.A. Dino Deane, Laura Ortman, Thollem McDonas, 
Tania Caroline Chen, Marshall Trammell, Chris Jonas, Tatsuya Nakatani 
and more. Carlos is a seasoned improviser and a member of diverse 
ensembles such as In Defense of Memory, iNK oN pAPER, The Uninvited 
Guest(s), The Late Severa Wires, Out of Context, Black Iron Trio, Taiji 
Pole and more.

Dave Wayne moved to New Mexico in 1993. Since then, he has played with a 
number of innovative and accomplished NM-based artists including 
tuba-player Mark Weaver, bassists Zimbabwe Nkenya, Noah Baumeister, 
Casey A. Andersen and Ben Wright, cornetist Daniel Pearlman, 
saxophonists Chris Jonas and Alex Murzyn, pianists Robert Muller and 
Joseph Salack, poets Robert Winson and Mark Weber, and guitarists 
Mustafa Stefan Dill, Sean Buckley, Tim “Tiger” Gagan, and Ross Hamlin. 
In 2009 he formed his own band – The Things That Are Heard – in order to 
“air out my own half-baked ideas concerning the relationship between 
composition and improvisation in music.” Dave has had numerous 
opportunities to perform and record with touring improvisors such as 
cornettist Dan Clucas, keyboardists Thollem McDonas and Brian Haas, 
guitarist Jeff Platz, saxophonists Andrew Lamb, Rob Brown, Alan Lechusza 
and Joshua Smith, trombonist Michael Vlatkovich and bassist Clyde Reed. 
Through these encounters, Dave has developed great stylistic flexibility 
which permits him to transgress numerous musical boundaries in a single 
performance. His percussing has been documented on a fistful of albums, 
both privately issued and on labels such as pfMENTUM, Amirani, 
Plutonium, Snowdonia, and Zerx. He’s currently working with several 
ensembles playing hip-hop / funk (“Shake Alert”), Middle Eastern fusion 
(“Love Unfold The Sun”), and modern jazz (“OrnEtc.”).

The Glass Key Trio
Jeremy Bleich – guitar/composition
Paul Brown – bass
Milton Villarrubia III – drums

Led by Jeremy Bleich’s eclectic guitar and compositional style, The 
Glass Key Trio explores compositions inspired by jazz, country, world 
music, folk, and film noir. Each composition invokes a spirited dialogue 
between the players ushering the listener along a narrative exploration 
of musical landscapes.

Jeremy Bleich is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who incorporates a 
wide palette of sound and culture into the process of creating music. He 
has toured extensively playing bass and electronics with critically 
acclaimed trio “birth”, playing across Europe and the U.S. He resides in 
Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he is involved with presenting new music on 
his Grasshopper Music record label, teaching Orchestra at Los Alamos 
Public Schools and conducting at the Santa Fe Youth Symphony.  He holds 
a degree in music composition from Cleveland State University, and has 
presented music in Europe, Asia, and throughout the states.

Paul Brown has been playing music for 47 years, studying bass and 
improvisation at the Berklee College of Music, and ud and makam with 
Haig Manoukian and Yordal Tokcan. Comfortable in all styles of music 
from Eastern Europe and beyond, he is in demand across the  country, 
playing electric and acoustic bass with a number of bands (Édessa, 
Souren Baronian’s Taksim, Pontic Firebird) at music and dance camps, 
concerts, and festivals.

Milton Villarrubia III grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and has been 
crafting his music art in Santa Fe, New Mexico since 1996. Milton has 
performed with Ellis Marsalis, Myra Melford, Anthony Braxton, Peter 
Bernstein, Steve Masakowski, The University of New Orleans Jazz Studies 
Program, The Santa Fe Opera, New Mexico School for the Arts, William A. 
Thompson, IV, Circus Luminous, The Academy for Technology and the 
Classics, Candyman Strings and Things, Ray Francen’s Drum Center and 
Drummer’s World. In 2016 Milton and the Santa Fe based group Kodama Trio 
won best Jazz Album as well as Best Jazz Song in the Prestigious New 
Mexico Music Awards.

“The Glass Key Trio… has conceived a strange combination of folk, 
gospel, spirituals, jazz and experimental curiosities, all without 
adhering too intensely to any one, and without an easy means to 
genre-fy.” – Santa Fe Reporter

The Glass Key Trio by newbassplace – (J.Bleich)

Contact:  Jeremy Bleich – grasshoppermusic at ymail.com

Concert is presented following COVID protocols – Masks Required


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