TRIO TAQ: Marcin Masecki, Garth Stevenson, Ziv Ravitz - U.S. Tour

Marcin Masecki, the  celebrated young jazz pianist who took the contemporary jazz world by  storm when he won the 2005 Moscow International Jazz Piano Competition  (its jury chaired by legendary
Martial Solal), is being brought back by The Polish Cultural Institute on a  U.S. tour with his long-time partners in Trio TAQ � Canadian bassist Garth Stevenson and  Israeli drummer Ziv Ravitz.

Trio TAQ was founded in Boston  in 2002 while Masecki, Stevenson and Ravitz were studying at the Berklee  College of Music. During a six-hour session of original compositions and  improvisations, Marcin, Garth, and Ziv experienced a chemistry and magic  like no other, and forged a lifelong bond and band. They began performing  in Boston and New  York and in March 2003 made their first trip  together to Poland.

Audiences were immediately captured by the energy, connectivity, telepathy, and honesty of the music. Over the next four years TAQ  continued touring in Eastern and Western Europe  at major jazz festivals and piano festivals like the London Jazz Festival and the International Jazz Piano Festival in Prague,  as well as in clubs and concert halls. In 2005 TAQ recorded their album  �TAQ Live in Minsk Mazowiecki.� Collectively they have  performed with an impressive roster of notable artists including Joe Lovano,  Lee Konitz, Tomasz Stanko, George Garzone, Ben Monder, Dave Samuels, Avishai  Cohen and many others.

DECEMBER 17- 21, 2007
 
BOSTON, Lily Pad
Monday,  December 17, 7:30PM
 
NEW YORK CITY, Joe�s Pub
Tuesday,  December 18, 9:30 PM
 
PHILADELPHIA, Chris\' Jazz Café
Thursday,  December 20, 8 PM
 
WASHINGTON, Bohemian Caverns
Friday,  December 21, 9 & 11 PM