Playing soul jazz, acid jazz, jazz/funk, and 60s R&B.
Adam Minkoff - bass Michael Eaton - tenor saxophone Al Street - guitar Todd Caldwell - organ Tony Mason - drums
Playing soul jazz, acid jazz, jazz/funk, and 60s R&B.
Adam Minkoff - bass Michael Eaton - tenor saxophone Al Street - guitar Todd Caldwell - organ Tony Mason - drums
Adam Minkoff - bass Michael Eaton - tenor saxophone Al Street - guitar Todd Caldwell - organ Bill Campbell - drums
Playing soul jazz and Blue Note covers!
Playing music from "Individuation" and the upcoming "Dialogical" on Destiny Records.
Michael Eaton - saxophones Brad Whiteley - piano Daniel Ori - bass Shareef Taher - drums
Recording saxophone with Brad Whiteley for his next album on Destiny Records with Tom Guarna, Matt Pavolka, and Kenneth Salters.
Open groove set.
Michael Eaton - tenor saxophone Kevin Bents - keyboard Adam Minkoff Anthony Cole - drums
Final recording date for "Dialogical", my next album on Destiny Records!
Beyond Trio is free improvised chamber music with:
Cheryl Pyle - C flute, alto flute Gene Coleman - C flute, alto flute Michael Eaton - soprano saxophone
I'm the guest artist for the trio's 4 year running jam session. Looking forward to playing music with these great musicians.
Michael Eaton - tenor saxophone Broc Hempel - piano Sam Trapchak - bass Christian Coleman - drums
For our concert at Spectrum NYC, Beyond Group will be augmented with guests, which are sure to add density and an expanded harmonic palette to the group's improvisations.
Cheryl Pyle - C flute, alto flute Gene Coleman - C flute, alto flute Bern Nix - guitar Michael Eaton - soprano sax David Tamura - tenor sax William Ruiz - percussion Roberta Piket - piano Francois Grillot - bass
Recording my next album, Dialogical, for Destiny Records!
Funk project with:
Adam Minkoff - bass Dan Brantigan - trumpet Michael Eaton - tenor sax Akie Bermiss - keyboard Avi Bortnick - guitar Sean Dixon - drums
Jazz standards and repertoire in trio format.
Michael Eaton - tenor saxophone Sam Trapchak - bass Shareef Taher - drums
Performing for the Jazz Fables concert series. One of my favorite places to play.
Debuting new compositions in preparation for our next recording. This show will feature the great vibist, Peter Schlamb, with the quartet.
Michael Eaton - tenor and soprano saxophones Brad Whiteley - piano Daniel Ori - bass Shareef Taher - drums + Peter Schlamb - vibes
Performing on Chicago's Elastic Arts Anagram Series, curated by alto saxophonist Nick Mazzarella. Playing material to be recorded on the next album.
Debut performance at BB's in St. Louis, on tour in anticipation of recording our next album for Destiny Records. Performing compositions from Individuation and new material to be recorded.
Delighted to be performing at one of the best jazz clubs in the Midwest, The Jazz Kitchen. We'll be on tour in anticipation of recording our next album for Destiny Records. Performing compositions from Individuation and new material to be recorded.
Debut performance of the Michael Eaton Quartet at Blujazz, on tour in anticipation of recording our next album for Destiny Records.
Sitting in the Kyle Quass Quintet.
Kyle Quass - trumpet Mark Tuttle - tenor saxophone Adam Davis - guitar Nick Tucker - bass Ben Lumsdaine - drums
Michael Eaton is guest artist with the Northrop High School Jazz 1 Ensemble, followed by the Michael Eaton Individuation Quartet.
Northrop Jazz 1 plays from approx. 6:30-7pm, and the Individuation Quartet plays from approx. 7-8pm.
Available on CD and digital (Amazon) or stream on all major streaming platforms.
Pianist Nicki Adams and saxophonist Michael Eaton push musical boundaries in original jazz and Third Stream music for duo on “The Transcendental”
On their first outing for Steeplechase Records, Paraphrase (SCCD 33148), pianist Nicki Adams and saxophonist Michael Eaton introduced their duo, playing music from celebrated and genre-defining jazz composers: Coltrane, Hancock, Shorter, Monk, Hill, and Hagans. In both their arrangements and original music, they interwove elements and ideas from Western classical music, in large part through Adams’s sparkling piano playing and elegant pianistic textures drawn from Romantic piano literature.
Eaton and Adams are proud now to release The Transcendental, their second album for the Steeplechase LookOut Series, and the next step forward for the duo's developing mix of modern jazz and Third Stream elements.
Composer Gunther Schuller coined "Third Stream" in 1961 to reflect a genre combining "the improvisational spontaneity and rhythmic vitality of jazz with the compositional procedures and techniques acquired in Western [classical] music". On The Transcendental, Adams and Eaton similarly look to classical inspirations, finding them in impressionist harmonic color, twelve tone abstraction, and minimalist rhythmic repetition.
Their signature emerges in full force throughout the titular "Transcendental". Based on the painting of the same name by Richard Pousette-Dart, it flows through a series of musical episodes combining carefully crafted melodic serialism with open improvisations.
Adams cites early 20th-century Eastern European composers Bartók and Khachaturian as influences on the harmonic language of “Myshkin” and “Crying Out in the Wilderness.” Echoing gospel and blues phrasing, the saxophone sings through the piano textures, embracing spiritual undertones.
Minimalism makes its mark on Eaton's "Intrinsic Value" and "The Capitalinian", pitting saxophone and piano against each other in pulsating polyrhythmic and mixed meter atmospheres. Fitting for their environmental emphasis, these pieces contain multiple musical territories in one.
Adams and Eaton also delve once again into music from a jazz master, this time selecting Joe Henderson. They reimagine Henderson’s pensive “Black Narcissus” through the serene but mercurial mood of Ravel’s piano work, "Ondine”. "Afrocentric” recasts the original charging and buoyant Afro-latin tune into a melancholy ballad, and Adams deploys clever displacements of metric emphasis on the classic jazz proving ground, “Inner Urge”.
The Transcendental continues from where Paraphrase left off, a second chapter portraying a thoughtful and musical duo in the process of developing its voice, imagining still closer integrations of jazz and classical music to come.