Fri
Feb 28, 2025
Split Bill
Main Stage

Scary Burton

No reservations
With opening act:  
Dining 5:30-9pm. Music 7pm.

Ft.Dave Dreiwitz (bass), Jonathan Goldberger (Guitar), Kevin Kendrick (Vibraphone), Jeff Davis (Drums)

SCARY BURTON is a jazz/rock quartet featuring Dave Dreiwitz (Ween, JRAD) on electric bass, Jonathan Goldberger (Red Baraat, Fat Mama) on electric guitar, Kevin Kendrick (Fat Mama, A Big Yes and a small no) on vibraphone and NYC mainstay and propulsive drummer, Jeff Davis. Scary Burton specialize in performing the music of jazz legends Gary Burton, Keith Jarrett, Carla Bley, and Steve Swallow. Their captivating sound blends elements of jazz, fusion, and improvisation, creating a mesmerizing experience for audiences worldwide.

Scary Burton
Feb 28, 2025
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Main Stage
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Dining 5:30-9pm. Music 7pm.
Dave Dreiwitz - bass

In 1983, at the age of seventeen, after a short time on trumpet in Mod Fun, Dreiwitz joined the Hoboken, New Jersey based psychedelic rock band Tiny Lights, his first professional band out of high school. In 1986, while attending Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he met fellow schoolmate and drummer Scott Byrne and through a love of similar music, they started the rock band Instant Death in 1991. Instant Death dissolved with the passing of Byrne in 2005.

In 1997, Dreiwitz joined Ween.

Dreiwitz is also a member of Joe Russo's Almost Dead, The Dean Ween Group and the Led Zeppelin instrumental tribute band, Bustle in Your Hedgerow. He occasionally plays bass with Chris Harford and the Band of Changes, Old Rugged Sauce as well as in his own drum and bass duo, Crescent Moon, which features Dreiwitz on bass and vocals alongside various guest drummers. Crescent Moon drummers have included Claude Coleman of Ween, Tomato from the Sound of Urchin, Eric Slick of Dr. Dog and Joe Russo of Furthur.

Jonathan Goldberger - guitar

Guitarist Jonathan Goldberger spent most of his youth on the outskirts of the Everglades in Florida. From there he migrated west to the Rockies where he studied with musical guru Art Lande and played and toured with the cult spacey/bluesy Fat Mama. He found his way to Brooklyn in 2001 where he studied counterpoint and harmony with Paul Caputo, and worked extensively in both the music and film worlds. Goldberger has composed and produced music for two award-winning feature films, Trans and The Hawk is Dying. He performs and tours with artists and bands including Red Baraat, Jim Black, John Zorn, and Joe Russo, among many others, at festivals and venues ranging from The Village Vanguard, Moers Festival, WOMAD festival, and the Capitol Theater to Vienna Konzerthaus and The White House. His own recordings include the acoustic collective Surface to Air and Visitors (with JP Schlegelmilch and Jim Black), one of Rolling Stone’s 20 Best Jazz Albums of 2018. His latest project Selcouth Quartet will be releasing its debut album in the fall of 2023.

Kevin Kendrick - vibraphone

 Kevin Kendrick is a Brooklyn-based DJ, music educator, multi-instrumentalist, (vibraphone, piano, turntables, guitar, bass, drums) composer, producer, and songwriter.  He graduated "Outstanding Percussionist in Music" from The Interlochen Arts Academy, attended The University of Colorado on a full scholarship, and has an MA in Composition from The University of Bristol in Bristol, England.  He fronts "The Hippest Pop Band You've Ever Heard in Your Life" (Richard Gehr, The Village Voice), A Big Yes and a small no, a Gary Burton cover band called Scary Burton, and plays in several other groups on a variety of instruments, including The Shitty Rainbows,  a duo with legendary drummer Joe Russo, and the yearly Tribute to Portishead at Le Poisson Rouge.  His older band, Fat Mama, won a Jammy in 2000 and was nominated for two others in 2001.  His songs and score work for Film and Television have been featured at too many major festivals (including Cannes, Sundance, Toronto)  to name a few, as well as broadcast and cable television.  Most recently, one of his songs was featured prominently in the hit indie film A Short History of Decay, Produced by the great Milos Forman.

Kevin Kendrick is in demand in the studio both as a session musician and as a producer, where his mult- instrumentalism really shines.   He has toured the U.S., Canada, and The U.K. extensively with a laundry list of artists and groups.  He has performed and recorded with everyone from New York Downtown legends like Steve Bernstein, Pat Irwin (The B-52's),and (Miles Davis alum) James "Blood" Ulmer, to legendary DJs like Mista Sinister of the X-Men and Mr. Dibbs of the 1200 Hobos, to George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars, Gary Jules, Humphrey's McGee, Joe Russo, Robbers on High Street, Trey Anastasio, Marco Benevento and many others.  

Jeff Davis - drums

Drummer/composer Jeff Davis is known as the “propulsive force behind a host New York mainstays” (Matthew Miller - All About Jazz), including Kirk Knuffke, Robin Verheyen, Anna Webber, Jesse Stacken, and Michael Bates.  A mainstay and in-demand drummer on the creative NYC music scene for nearly two decades, Jeff Davis is a passionate poet at the drum set.  A powerful improviser and compelling composer, Davis has contributed as a sideman to a great number of important music projects, in addition to successfully leading his own bands.  On his most recent quintet album, The Fastness, Jeff Davis showcases his command of a deeply focused and distinctly improvisational style.  Troy Collins (All About Jazz) says that “like many of his generation, his writing encompasses a number of genres, yet Davis understands the importance of creating a context for such diversity. Sequencing individual tunes into a suite-like program, the set unfolds episodically, seamlessly blending divergent moods.”  And Bruce Lee Gallanter, of the Downtown Music Gallery, described Jeff Davis’ first disc as a leader as “a powerful debut from one of Downtown’s best drummers.” Davis has performed with such artists as Tony Malaby, Chris Speed, Ralph Alessi, Ben Monder, Marc Ducret, Mark Helias, and Cameron Brown.  Jeff Davis has performed at several prominent jazz festivals, including the North Sea Jazz Festival, Oslo Jazz Festival, the Gent Jazz Festival, the Vancouver Jazz Festival, and the Ear Shot Jazz Festival.  Jeff leads several ensembles, including the Jeff Davis Trio (featuring Russ Lossing and Eivind Opsvik), Tone Collector (Tony Malaby and Eivind Opsvik), and the Jeff Davis Band (featuring Tony Malaby, Jon Goldberger, Russ Lossing and Eivind Opsvik).

“Mr. Davis, a drummer and composer of sure footing but adventurous inclination.” (Nate Chinen, The New York Times)