Nathan-Paul Davis serves up ‘Sound Medicine’ for these troubling times at Beachland Tavern - cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio - This Saturday astatine the Beachland Tavern, section saxophonist and euphony pedagogue Nathan-Paul Davis volition execute “Nathan Paul: All The Sudden” with a radical of talented section musicians; Davis connected keys, sax, and flute, existent Eric Gales touring bassist SmokeFace, shaper TyC connected guitar and Gabe Jones connected drums and percussion and Cleveland rapper/singer Skuff Micksun volition driblet successful for a fewer tunes.

Fans of the section unrecorded jazz country whitethorn admit Davis from his enactment arsenic the set person of the sometimes active, retro-flavored instrumental funk, R&B set The Admirables oregon arsenic a sideman playing with assorted country jazz cats. But for the past fewer years, Davis has expanded his dependable good beyond what astir folks see “jazz” and incorporated a batch of modern popular and hip-hop sounds into his music.

Davis has a beauteous progressive Bandcamp page, often releasing singles of whatever’s connected his philharmonic caput astatine the time. He besides has a bid of unrecorded recordings, dubbed “Bootleg Music,” with Volume 5 recorded astatine The Bop Stop coming connected Jan. 25. The bid is simply a bully spot to perceive the assorted strains of his music. The astir recent, Volume 4, features a brainsick talented trio of pianist Theron Brown, bassist Jordan McBride, and drummer Zaire Darden and is much successful a accepted and modern (but not “smooth”) jazz groove.

But its predecessor, Volume 3 (featuring Smokeface), has much of a hip-hop consciousness with booming Trap-like sub-bass lines, immoderate progressive high-hats mixed with synths, sax, flute, and head-nodding, funky, loping grooves. As an improviser, Davis is rooted firmly successful jazz, ensuring that nary substance what’s happening with the grooves, there’s ever a jazz constituent successful his music.

The Beachland gig is titled “All the Sudden,” “because I ne'er cognize what I’m going to do, honestly. I’ll constitute a amusement the nighttime before,” Davis said, noting that helium likes to play respective caller tunes astatine each of his shows and that seat-of-the-pants benignant of amusement operation extends to the band’s operation astatine immoderate fixed show.

“I’m portion of a ellipse of musicians, connected to truthful galore Cleveland musicians. So, depending connected the euphony and simply who’s disposable determines who I use. The euphony is the focus, not the personnel.

One facet Davis strives to support accordant is that each amusement should beryllium a singular one-night entity allowing folks to driblet their real-world troubles and conscionable excavation into the euphony for a fewer hours.

“Always new, ever unexpected. This is an acquisition much truthful than a show. A secular church, I conjecture you could say, a gathering. These shows are to heal radical mentally and physically. Give the assemblage thing retired of the norm. For a second, we tin depart from the publication that’s been handed to us,” helium said.

Davis said the amusement mightiness beryllium recorded for a aboriginal Bootleg bid entry, and he’s readying to marque “All of a Sudden” an ongoing performance series.

Nathan-Paul “All of a Sudden” kicks disconnected astatine 8:30 p.m. Saturday astatine the Beachland Tavern, 15711 Waterloo Rd. Cleveland. Tickets are $12 successful advance, $15 the time of show. More details astatine beachlandballroom.com.

Take a D-TOUR with Elise Trouw

Here’s a precocious announced amusement that should beryllium beauteous interesting. On March 21, the Happy Dog successful Cleveland volition invited multi-faceted singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Elise Trouw who volition beryllium connected the latest limb of her Losing Sleep Tour.

Trouw (pronounced “troe”) is simply a young creator getting it done the new-fangled way, with a robust online and societal media beingness with much than 88K monthly Spotify and 700K positive folks subscribed to her YouTube channel. She’s besides been connected “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and appeared successful the “Sound of Metal” documentary covering Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” with Travis Barker of Blink 182.

Trouw is simply a loop artist, gathering tunes from the beat-up, and a beauteous talented melodic songwriter to spell with her instrumental prowess. She is simply a multi-instrumentalist, but drums were her archetypal love, and she adjacent has signature pinkish sticks from Vater to spell with her endorsements from Paiste and Pearl drums companies.

Trouw volition execute astatine 9 p.m. March 21 astatine the Happy Dog, 5801 Detroit Ave., Cleveland. Tickets are $15. Go to happydogcleveland.com for much details.

Check retired this unrecorded loop video of her catchy tune, “How to Get What You Want,” recorded successful her location signifier space.

The circuit is promoted and booked by D Tour, a task founded by a web of autarkic venues and promoters covering 9 states with a assortment of sized venues from up to 200-capacity clubs and 8,000-seat theaters.

The group, formed successful the aftermath of the pandemic that profoundly affected indie venues, states its ngo arsenic “to let independents to collectively enactment unneurotic interdependently. An integrative corporate of autarkic promoters and venues crossed aggregate markets that signifier a unsocial ecosystem of entities, offering unsocial experiences, connected by a communal acceptable of values.”

So, utilizing the cognition of section venue owners and promoters successful each region, the thought is to usage intermarket connection to marque it easier for indie artists to safely publication tours successful various-sized markets, sidestepping the accepted and codified booking process. I accidental much powerfulness to them.

Have a bully weekend, and Happy Birthday, Dr. Martin Luther King.