JAZZ PROMO SERVICES GARY LUCAS

“Landmark music…landmark playing and landmark musical thinking.”

Read the review here:

He packed the Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City Sat. night Nov. 30th with fans young and old eager to hear his original live solo guitar score–1 hour 45 minutes of continuous playing– accompanying the rare 1931 Spanish-language “Dracula” (d. George Melford, with Lupita Tovar and Carlos Villarias). The sold-out crowd gave Gary a standing ovation at the end of the evening. He followed this the next day with his Captain  Beefheart Symposium at Casa Del Lago, Mexico City’s biggest park.

This marks Gary Lucas’ fourth sold-out performance this year:

with Spanish “Dracula”

Jerusalem Film Festival 7/16/13

Cinefamily Silent Movie Theatre in Hollywood 7/30/13

Cineteca Nacional Mexico City 11/30/13

with “The Edge of Heaven”, Gary Lucas’ 30s Chinese pop project

  BAM’s Fisher Space, Brooklyn 10/5/13

Interview with Gary in The Prague Post about the project:

View the poster: http://bit.ly/IO8gi5

Web page: http://garylucas.com/www/dracula

This has been an extremely  busy fall for Gary Lucas.

Before traveling to Mexico, Gary played shows in Paris, London, Bristol, Aberdeen and Edinburgh.

He packed legendary Shakespeare and Company Bookstore in Paris on Thurs. Nov. 7th

Gary and UK vocalist Tim Watt perform “Grace” at Shakespeare and Company Paris:

Gary Lucas performed at the Barezzi Festival in Parma Italy Oct. 24th before a packed house at the Teatro Parco

for a special 3 hour concert/career retrospective entitled Gary Lucas Touched By Grace:  From Beefheart to Buckley and Beyond

After receiving a special Lifetime Achievement Award from the festival, Gary was joined onstage by legendary Italian singer/songwriter Vinicio Caposella.

Gary Lucas and Vinicio Caposella at the Barezzi Festival Parma Italy:

This was followed by a solo set drawing on material from Gary’s 20-plus solo albums,

and then Gary was joined onstage by guest vocalist Alessio Franchini, who performed many of the dozen songs co-written by Gary Lucas and Jeff Buckley, including “Grace” and “Mojo Pin”.

Directly before his appearance in Italy, Gary performed solo in Havana Cuba at the Gaia Arts Centre on Oct. 17th as part of a new production of Federico Garcia Lorca’s play “La Casa de Bernarda Alba”, directed by Esther Cardoso. He also performed live on national Radio Havana Cuba.

Gary began what proved to be very busy month with the NYC premiere of the expanded concert edition of his celebrated 1930’s Chinese pop project “The Edge of Heaven”, which received standing ovations at BAM’S sold-out Fisher Space Oct. 4th and 5th.

Mo Hai Jing sings “The Mad World” at Gary’s sold out “Edge of Heaven” BAM show 10/5/13:

On Nov. 1st, Gary presented a special Day of the Dead show, performing his original solo guitar score accompanying the 1931 Spanish-language “Dracula” at the United Palace Theatre in Harlem .

This will be the third time this year Lucas has performed with the film, after selling out both the Jerusalem Film Festival and the Silent Movie Theatre in Hollywood with the project last July.

He is scheduled to perform with Spanish “Dracula” again at the end of November at the Cineteca Nacional in Mexico, followed by performances in December with the film in the Czech Republic and January 2014 in Santander Spain.

An excerpt from Lucas’ score is included on Gary’s new “Cinefantastique” album. out now on Northern Spy Records.

First review just in for Gary Lucas’ new “Cinefantastique” album:

Guitar wizard Gary Lucas’ impressive CV includes stints with Captain Beefheart and writing iconic songs with Jeff Buckley. As a movie buff, he also often performs one-man live soundtracks to macabre classics like Spanish “Dracula”. His hypnotic, cinematic virtuosity is celebrated further on this stirring record, which also includes re-imagined guitar scores to cult, classic flicks by Fellini, Hitchcock and Herzog.”

—Stephen Daultrey, Bizarre (UK), Sept. 2013

Listen to Gary Lucas’ performance of music “Satantango” from his new album:

Web Page: http://garylucas.com/www/cine

Buy Now: http://bit.ly/18jtcm0

On October 25th, Gary’s new book– “Touched by Grace–My Time with Jeff Buckley” —

was published in English in the US and UK by Jawbone Press–distributed in the US by Hal Leonard.

First US reader’s review:

The original Italian language edition published by Arcana in Italy last year received outstanding reviews:

Out next spring is the debut album from Wild Rumpus: Gary Lucas and DJ Cosmo (Colleen Murphy)’s  psychedelic dance project, on the Bitches Brew label.

The animated clip for their single “Rock the Joint” has over 200,000 hits on YouTube:

Sat. March 1st
9pm
Wexner Center for the Performing Arts
Columbia Ohio
Gary performs his live score accompanying Coffin Joe a/k/a Jose Mojica Marins’ “Esta Noite Encarnerei no teu Cadaver”
(This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse) during the Wexner’s Brazilian Film Festival
http://garylucas.com/www/cadaver

MORE DATES TBA

Gary Lucas just finished recording a new duo album in England with legendary Peter Hammill (Van Der Graaf Generator)…stay tuned!

Gary Lucas’ new book “Touched by Grace– My Time with Jeff Buckley” will be published in the UK and US in September by UK publisher Jawbone Press

New Masterclass page

New Updated Bio:

New page for Gary Lucas’s book

“Touched by Grace: La Mia Musica Con Jeff Buckley”:

“Greetings from Tim Buckley”, a new film about Jeff Buckley’s early days in NYC,

directed by Dan Algrant and starring Penn Badgley and featuring Tony award winner Frank Wood as Gary Lucas,

was just picked up for distribution by Tribeca Film and Focus World, and will be in cinemas this spring

Review from The Hollywood Reporter:

Gary Lucas discourses on Rock Attitude on the French Arte Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1-k-7v634I