Dan Plonsey

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Other Plonseys:

• Vivian Plonsey (Dan's mom)
• Bob Plonsey (Dan's dad)
• Mantra Plonsey (Dan's wife)
• Cleveland Plonsey (Dan's older son)
• Mischa Plonsey (Dan's younger son)

Dan Plonsey
dplonsey@yahoo.com

NEW and Upcoming Plonsey Events!

2. Plonsey has a new CD out called Football Season. You can hear bits of it on youtube. The latest installment is: Football Season part 5" You will need to find Plonsey in person to buy one of these limited edition of 100!

3. New Monsters' first CD was chosen by reviewer Andy Gilbert as one of the "Best Releases of 2012" Read and hear about it on a clip of the California Report". We're at 3:30. Here's a more detailed piece from Andy, a very kind preview of a recent concert, in Berkeleyside. Now there's a new live recording, New Monsters Live at Studio 55, available as MP3. New Monsters is a quintet led by bassist Steve Horowitz which plays all Dan Plonsey compositions. The lineup: Plonsey and Steve Adams: saxophones; Scott Looney: piano; Horowitz: bass; John Hanes: drums. Here's an interview with me and Steve in Sensitive Skin magazine about the band. New Monsters also has an eponymous CD. Here are a few reviews: Lucid Culture. thejazzword. CriticalJazz. all about jazz. a second review in all about jazz. ejazznews something else reviews Here's amazon.com And allmusic.com And itunes

4. A new cassette of music for clarinet and boot: Plonsey and Robert Horton has just been released on the Full of Nothing label: This Humanly Mess. This is the third recording I've released with Robert Horton as: The Imperfect Masters. Here's a nice review in heathen harvest

For details about any of these events, see: More details of upcoming (or past) Dan Plonsey events

There are also two recent limited edition releases of Plonsey's music:

• Music of El Cerrito, Volume 8: "Jazz" at Yoshi's (digitalis, foxglove 086; released September 30, 2005).
  The music on this CD is culled from a performance by a 20-person version of Daniel Popsicle at Yoshi's, September 30, 2002. The concert was presented under the auspices of Jazz in Flight.
• Imperfect Masters:No One Knows Why
  This CD is the second CD documenting my collaboration with my friend and neighbor, Robert Horton, who is a mainstay of the El Cerrito scene, Ludwig/Jordan axis.