On Thursday, March 13th at 8pm, Jon The Reptilian sits down with percussionist, vibraphonist, bandleader, and vocalist, Mike Dillon, ahead of his show at Ivy Room on March 14th.
Mike Dillon has spent the last three decades playing well over 200 shows a year with both his own band, as well as a sideman with artists including Rickie Lee Jones, Les Claypool and Ani DiFranco.
Latest project – Punkadelick – is a trio featuring Mike Dillon on vibraphone, marimba, Prophet 6, congas, and bongos, Brian Haas (Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey) on Fender Rhodes, piano, bass Moog and melodica and Nikki Glaspie (Beyonce) on drums, cymbals and vocals. Punkadelick is the unified vision of six hands creating a world that often sounds like the work of an ensemble three times the size.
New album, Run White Boy Run, presents Mike Dillon with his ever fierce and subversive trio Punkadelick, featuring keyboardist Brian Haas and drummer Nikki Glaspie. This time around the fearless vibraphonist/percussionist takes on Cumbia, a Latin American style of music that originated in Colombia in the 1800s, and injects it with his own patented no-holds-barred, punk jazz vision. He’s joined along the way on this provocative musical rollercoaster ride by special guests including David Shaw (The Revivalist), Tiff Lampson (Givers), Steve Berlin (Los Lobos) and Shane Theriot (Hall & Oates).
