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BOP STOP
BOP STOP at The Music Settlement is Cleveland's premier listening room: an intimate, acoustically pristine performance venue with sweeping views of Lake Erie.
February 28 from 8:00pm - 10:30pm
Join us for an exciting night of original music by the outstanding local quartet, Pulse, as they celebrate the release of their new self-titled album! Tickets to attend this show are $20 each.
This event will also be livestreamed on BOP STOP's Youtube Channel at showtime. Accessing the stream is free but donations are encouraged and directly support the band.
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Pulse. The beat of the heart, a sense of vitality and continuity, often serving as a metaphor for the way music flows in time. When four musicians gathered to explore what might emerge from their collective artistic curiosities, a new Pulse was born. The Cleveland-based group, Pulse, features Anthony Fuoco on piano, Dustin May on drums, Aidan Plank on acoustic bass, and Brad Wagner on tenor and soprano saxophones. Established in early 2018, their approach celebrates melodic shape, harmonic subtlety, improvisation, and the wide-open soundscapes of the Midwest. Blending elements of jazz, classical, popular, and world music, Pulse invites the listener to explore the depths of emotion and imagination. The group aims to resonate with a broad audience while honoring the legacy of jazz quartets. After nearly six years of rehearsing and performing together, they chose to record a collection of original compositions that represent their shared vision.
The album “Pulse” by Anthony Fuoco, Dustin May, Aidan Plank, and Brad Wagner is being released digitally on Panoramic Recordings (part of New Focus Recordings) on February 21st, 2025. The digital album will be available on and after 2/21/25 for purchase at https://www.newfocusrecordings.com and on Bandcamp, as well as being available on many streaming formats. Limited edition CDs will ONLY be available at this Bop Stop release show, and not available for order.
Join Pulse for an album release party at the Bop Stop on Friday. February 28th at 8pm.
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More About Pulse:
Aidan Plank: A native of Oberlin, Ohio, bassist Aidan Plank enjoys performing a diverse range of music throughout Northern Ohio. He studied with bassist and composer David Morgan as well as with Kevin Switalski of the Cleveland Orchestra. Aidan is a graduate of Cleveland State University. Aidan has performed with Dan Wall, Joe Lovano, Judi Silvano, Joe Maneri, Janis Siegel, Frankie Avalon, Tierney Sutton, and many others. Aidan played baroque bass in the premier of Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer’s Le Pouvoir de l’Amour (composed in 1743) in 2002 at Oberlin College as well as in the world premier of Randall Woolf and Robin Stranahan’s ‘pop-up’ opera Frozen Community, produced by Real Time Opera in 2013. Along with enjoying playing in the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, Aidan can currently be seen performing explorations of improvisation in duo with guitarist Daniel Lippel. Aidan teaches in the Jazz Studies program at Kent State University. - http://aidanplank.com/
Brad Wagner is from Akron, Ohio, and has a B.M. in Jazz Studies from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. Brad has studied with Rick VanMatre, Brad Goode, Phil DeGreg, John Von Ohlen, Marc Fields, and others. Brad Wagner has been a member of many jazz groups including: Ernie Krivda and the Fat Tuesday Big Band, Moustache Yourself, The Hendectet Jazz Collective, The ABC Trio, Pulse, The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, The Black Dog Octet, The Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, Sam Blakeslee’s Large Group, and can be seen playing in other jazz groups, pit orchestras, latin, and pop music groups around North East Ohio. Brad plays Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Baritone saxophones, Flute, Piccolo, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, and also works as a composer and arranger.
Anthony Fuoco was appointed faculty at Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music in 2005 and has since taught harmony,solfège, keyboard musicianship, piano literature, pedagogy and applied piano. In addition to serving on the BW faculty he has also taught at Lorain County Community College and Cuyahoga Community College. He frequently performs as a jazz pianist in large and small ensembles throughout the Cleveland area and also collaborates with his wife performing the four-hand and two-piano classical repertoire. He earned a Master of Music at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana where he was the recipient of the 21st Century Piano Commission competition. Prior to this, he received a Bachelor of Music at SUNY Potsdam in piano.
Dustin May earned his Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies from YSU in 2012 and was previously an adjunct jazz faculty member at Kent State University’s Hugh A. Glauser School of Music (2015-2022), taught applied percussion at Youngstown State University’s Dana School of Music (2015) and is a freelance musician in Northeast Ohio. Originally from Westerville, Ohio, Dustin had the privilege of studying drum set with Jim Curlis and Jim Rupp. Dustin’s active freelance career has allowed him to play with many great artists such as Anthony Fuoco, Aidan Plank, Brad Wagner, Stephen Philip Harvey, Reggie Watkins, Tony Depaolis, Howie Smith, Dan Bruce, Teddy Pantelas, Jeff Grubbs, Wilbur Krebs, Ernie Riggins, Kip Reed, Bobby Selvaggio, Ashley Summers, Chris Anderson, Tony Spicer, Theron Brown, Sam Blakeslee, Chris Coles, Dave Morgan, and many more. Dustin can be heard on recordings from groups such as The Stephen Philip Harvey Jazz Orchestra, the SPH Octet, Sam Blakeslee’s Large Ensemble, Bobby Selvaggio’s Transcendental Orchestra, the Youngstown Percussion Collective, and the Youngstown Jazz Collective. Dustin’s latest work is best heard in the Northeast Ohio collective of musicians, Pulse.