Mel Flannery Trucking Co. / Pete McCann Band

Show Description

"Wherever you go for the rest of your life, her song will stay with you, for Mel Flannery is a moveable feast."
-Eugene Melino, New Sun Newspaper
 
Aggressive, intelligent, accessible jazz influenced pop for a new generation of listeners.  Written and sung by a pintsize powerhouse chanteuse who will make you and break you in the same eight bars.  Mel Flannery is backed by a band of prodigious colleagues from her days at Manhattan School of Music, with whom MFTC has developed an organic and provocative sound unmatched in today's jazz and independent music scenes.

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Jazz guitarist Pete McCann has been an integral part of the New York City scene for 20 years. He currently leads an exciting new group of New York’s finest jazz artists on his latest CD, Extra Mile, on Nineteen-Eight Records. McCann’s previous releases, Most Folks, You Remind Me of Someone, Parable, have been widely praised by top jazz critics.

McCann is one of the first-call sidemen in New York. He works in several groups including the Patti Austin band, Lee Konitz Nonet, Chris Tarry group, New York Nonet, Dan Willis Sextet, JD Walter Trio, and Alison Wedding’s group. Pete has performed with some of the greats in jazz: Kenny Wheeler, Dave Liebman, Lee Konitz, Kenny Garrett, Peter Erskine, Gary Thomas, Greg Osby, Brian Blade, and the Maria Schneider Orchestra. He has appeared on over 50 CDs including: Al¬most Certainly Dreaming, Chris Tarry group (2008 Juno Award); I Think It’s Going To Rain Today, Curtis Stigers; The Other Side Of Ellington, The Palmetto All-Stars; Standard Wonder (The Music Of Stevie Wonder), Dave Pietro; Round ‘Bout Now, George Schuller; and Phase 2, Mahavishnu Project.

Pete’s playing encompasses a wide variety of musical styles and genres-- Straight-ahead, Post-Bop, Avant-Garde, Latin, Jazz-Rock Fusion. He has performed throughout the US, Canada and Europe from clubs to jazz festivals, musicals, award shows, and even an opera.