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Trio Madness Returns: Lomheim, Cox and Hey at the AQ, July 18-19 Print E-mail
Written by Andrea Canter, Contributing Editor   
Monday, 14 July 2008

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Chris Lomheim, Anthony Cox and Phil Hey © Andrea Canter

 

If sports fans have Fantasy Football Leagues, why shouldn’t jazz fans have Fantasy Trios? In the Twin Cities, various combinations of local artists come to mind, and surely one combination to intrigue the aural senses would be a collaboration among pianist Chris Lomheim, bassist Anthony Cox and drummer Phil Hey. Presto! Welcome to the jazz version of Fantasy Island. Your host this evening will be Kenny Horst, owner of the Artist Quarter (surely a drummer in another Fantasy Band) in downtown St. Paul. But this is a reality show, another weekend live at the AQ, July 18-19.


 

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Chris Lomheim © Andrea Canter
Chris Lomheim’s first keyboard was the family organ, and as a child he studied both organ and piano in Minneapolis. He focused on R&B in the 1980s, playing with such bands as Big John Dickerson and Down Right Tight. Gaining a reputation as a composer as well as performer, he was featured at the West Bank School of Music Composer’s Forum in 1991. A member of the acclaimed Illicit Sextet in the 1990s, Lomheim has played and/or recorded with a long list of Twin Cities’ musicians, including Gordy Johnson, Phil Hey, Kelly Rossum, and vocalists Debbie Duncan, Christine Rosholt, Patty Peterson, Lucia Newell, and Vicky Mountain. He has also headlined at Chicago’s Green Mill with trumpeter Rex Richardson, and was nominated as top pianist in the 1997 Minnesota Music Awards. Lomheim has made two acclaimed trio recordings, And You’ve Been Waiting? (1994, IGMOD) and The Bridge (2002, Artegra). Jeremy Walker of Brilliant Corners called Lomheim “the most sensitive and romantic player you will hear around the Twin Cities' scene. He has prodigious piano technique and an individual ear for harmony.” Noted Paul Winger, “Chris’ songs are accessible and feel familiar, yet they are neither simplistic nor trite.”

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Anthony Cox © Andrea Canter
Growing up in suburban Minneapolis, Anthony Cox was not particularly interested in jazz as a teenage guitarist, preferring Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles to John Coltrane and Charles Mingus. But his parents played jazz records and soon a Mingus concert and listening to Return to Forever’s Stanley Clarke led him to switch to the bass. Anthony studied bass in college at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, playing in both jazz and classical ensembles. After graduation, he headed to New York, building a reputation that took him on tour with Stan Getz, In the early 90s, he returned to the Twin Cities but his career has hardly been limited by his residence. Over the years, Cox has worked and/or recorded with Bobby Previte, Dewey Redman, Geri Allen, Arthur Blythe, and Uri Caine, playing upright acoustic, electric and Spanish acoustic bass. In addition to his recent work with such local bands as the Andres Prado Quintet and Jazz Is Now, Anthony holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the University of Iowa and has held residencies at schools and arts agencies around the world, including in Hamburg, Germany; at the Knitting Factory and Riverside Church in New York; and the Twin Cities Jazz Society's "Jazz from J-Z" Music Series. He was curator of the Music Series at the Illusion Theatre in Minneapolis.
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Phil Hey © Andrea Canter

A former student of Ed Blackwell, Phil Hey is one of the busiest drummers in town (he plays with everyone!) and teaches jazz drum at Macalester College and the University of Minnesota. He’s performed with Kenny Barron, Dewey Redman, Charlie Rouse, Benny Carter, and Benny Golson, leads his own Quartet, and is frequently on the bandstand with Chris Lomheim, Laura Caviani, Pete Whitman, Lucia Newell, the Out to Lunch Quintet, and visiting national artists. This spring and summer, he has been on tour with vocalist Stacey Kent.  His 2005 release, Subduction, topped many “best of the year” lists.

It’s not a dream—this trio will be live on the Artists Quarter stage on July 18-19, sets beginning at 9 pm.

The Artists Quarter is located at 408 St. Peter Street, downtown St. Paul in the lower level of the Hamm Building. Visit www.artistsquarter.com

 
 
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