Jazz World Fusion Ensemble Klazz-Ma-Tazz Returns to Cornelia St. Cafe Tonight

Violinist Benjamin Sutin and his jazz inspired world fusion ensemble, Klazz-Ma-Tazz will be performing at Greenwich Village cultural hotspot Cornelia Street Cafe tonight, March 8th from 8:00 - 9:00 pm.

Musical selections will include new originals inspired by the likes of Mahavishnu Orchestra and John Zorn, as well as several arrangements of beautiful folk songs from around the world.

With this show, Klazz-Ma-Tazz will be returning to the venue for the first time since launching their debut album, Tangibility, there in September, 2015. The two sold-out sets of music were described by Fred Stal of RG Magazine as, "Wild, yet reserved, the music of Klazz-Ma-Tazz will surprise you, excite you, and calm you, all in one sitting." The album has since received consistent airplay on radio stations across the US from the East Coast to Hawaii and has doubled the band's fan base from the US to South Africa. In addition to violinist Benjamin Sutin, you'll hear from saxophonist/clarinetist/flutist Elijah Shiffer, pianist Benjamin Rosenblum, bassist Mat Muntz, and drummer Benjamin Zweig.

Following the Cornelia Street Cafe performance on March 8th, Klazz-Ma-Tazz has several other noteworthy shows coming up. On Friday, April 15th at 8pm the ensemble will be performing at Silvana located at 300 West 116th St. in Harlem, NYC. Then, on Sunday, April 24th at 8pm Klazz-Ma-Tazz will make their debut appearance at the critically acclaimed world music venue, DROM, located at 85 Avenue A in NYC's East Village. Finally, on Saturday, May 14th at 8pm, Klazz will be celebrating the beginning of their 3rd year with a very special show at Shrine World Music Venue located at 2271 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. in Harlem, NYC.

The Cornelia Street Cafe is located at 29 Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village, New York City. For reservations, call (212-989-9319) or go online at corneliastreetcafe.com. Doors open: 8:00 pm. Showtime: 8:05 pm. Cash Cover: $10.00 with a $10.00 food/drink minimum.

Founded in 2014 by violinist and composer Benjamin Sutin, Klazz-Ma-Tazz is a band with a vision to transcend boundaries of labels in music and people. Their music, rooted in the jazz idiom strives to include genuine influence from a multitude of folk musics from around the world based on the various ethnic backgrounds of each band member; namely Klezmer and Balkan Folk music, Indian Classical Music, Native American Tribal Dances, English Folk Music and more, finding common musical and cultural identities from which these various forms are derived. Creating this musical melting pot makes NYC the perfect home for Klazz-Ma-Tazz, a city who's entire history is based on the very idea of uniting people from around the world to create something new and distinct.

Sutin, who is currently based in New York City, began his career in Philadelphia, where he studied with legendary jazz violinist, John Blake Jr. Sutin has since had the privilege of performing in venues such as NJPAC's Victoria Theater, Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Microsoft Theater, the Nassau Coliseum, Oracle Center, Clifford Brown Jazz Festival and many more. Sutin has performed with Tran-Siberian Orchestra, Arijit Singh, Larry Harlow, Bobby Sanabria, Pandit Samir Chatterjee, Ronnie Burrage, Benito Gonzalez, George Burton, Diane Monroe and Tommy Byrnes. Finally, he has garnered acclaim in the jazz violin community from the likes of Jean Luc Ponty, Regina Carter, Christian Howes and Sara Caswell. On hearing Sutin, Caswell wrote, "his adventurous musical lines and underlying creative energy left me feeling that I had witnessed a unique voice destined for something great."

OneTrickDog* is a small independent record label, specializing in jazz, jazz fusion, and occasional blues. The members are a loose collective of recording artists, graphic designers, sound engineers and composers. The label is affiliated with Avidon Audio Labs (which has tracked, mixed and mastered numerous jazz, classical and blues albums, and film sound tracks). Several of the members work as a production team, doing original screenplays, videography and sound work. In 2014, OneTrickDog* released three new albums (crosstalk by Andres Boiarsky, Second Row Behind the Painter by Roy Assaf Trio, and Interloper by Jonathan Parker). In the summer of 2015, they released Tangibility by Klazz-Ma-Tazz, and recently released Loving Losing, by People vs. Larsen. They look foward to the release of When I Was A Child, by trumpeter Wayne Tucker. In 2016, they plan to release a series featuring established jazz artists with up and coming artists.

Visit Klazz-Ma-Tazz online at www.bensutinmusic.com/#!klazzmatazz/c22nf or on Facebook: www.facebook.com/klazzmatazzklezmerjazz.

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