Busy McCarroll’s Science Project
Ron Helman Jazz Ensemble

Songwriter, vocalist and guitarist, Busy McCarroll has been active on the New Mexico music scene for many years. Her late 1980’s band, MV2=The Motion was produced by Alphonso Johnson (bassist with Weather Report, Wayne Shorter, and so on) who said, “Busy’s voice is reminiscent of the old jazz greats like Billy Holiday.” In the 1990’s Busy worked with producer Larry Blackmon (from the multiple Grammy and Platinum award-winning funk group Cameo). She has won numerous awards including the NMMIC’s Best Album of Year 2000 for Bar‘Bar’Ella- The BeatNik Spy Music Files. The Science Project is the most recent venture which in addition to Busy McCarroll on vocals and rhythm guitar; features Kevin Zoernig on keyboards, accordion & strange scientific instruments; Justin Bransford, bass; and Pete Amahl, drums. They call it “Retro Fresh Jazz by talented and seasoned New Mexico musicians who came together to experiment in creating new musical sounds…raw & quirky jazz with an urban retro twist.”

Trumpeter, Ron Helman is a transplant from New York City who now lives in Galisteo N.M. The Ron Helman Jazz Ensemble is an instrumental band with a focus on jazz music of the 1950’s and 60’s. Central among Helman’s influences are the music of Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Antonio Carlos Jobim and others from that generation. “Listening to Miles moved me over from being a classical trumpet player to jazz. I take a band approach which makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts. I want the audience to feel some intimacy with each player on stage.” They recently won the NMMIC Awards Best Instrumental Performance 2007. The Ron Helman Jazz Ensemble which works regularly in the Santa Fe area, features Ron Helman, trumpet; Kanoa Kaluhiwa, saxophone; Peter Cover, piano; Colin Deuble, bass; and Mark Clark, drums.

$10/$5 Members. Available only at the door.