Getting Some Love in the Newspaper

I'm flattered to be featured in the local papers again, this time talking mostly about the Pete Bozick Trio. Here's the link to the article (while it lasts) and below is the full text for posterity. Enjoy!

Pete Bozick of Salisbury has a way with a guitar, and he has become one of the busiest musicians on the local jazz scene. While he has had success with bands including The Larks, The Permilla Project and others, he recently began spotlighting his original music in a trio format.
The Pete Bozick Trio will play the Burley Oak Brewery in Berlin on Friday, Oct. 10. Bozick answered a few questions for The Beachcomber about the jazz music he loves so much.

Who is in the trio?
The trio consists of me on guitar, Charlie Greenhalgh on bass and Curtis Krams on drums. Both of those cats have excellent chops and huge ears, which makes doing a trio very enjoyable. It offers a greater degree of true improvising; we aren’t just soloing over changes.

So there is more jamming than when you have five or six musicians on stage when you play shows as The Larks?
We still jam out hard in The Larks — we just follow our arrangements more closely in order to keep all of the players locked in together. With the trio, any one of us can start a new riff or motif during a jam and the other two guys can transition effortlessly; you never know where it might end up. It’s a function of having the same mindset as the other guys on stage, but with less moving parts.

You have a new song called “Everybody, All The Time” streaming on your website. It seems like it mixes jazz, rock, pop and even reggae; is that where you’re headed with your songwriting?
It’s one of our favorite songs to play at the moment and I do think it represents what we like to do as a band. It has a strong groove, a nice harmonic structure and good movement.

You are a regular at the annual Rehoboth Beach Autumn Jazz Festival, which kicks off next week. Are you playing this year?
It’s ironic you asked about that, because this is the first time in maybe 12 or 13 years that I am not booked there. Which means it’s also the first time in as many years that I can go there and just be a regular music fan. I’m looking forward to that.

Are certain towns or cities on Delmarva more receptive to jazz?
Rehoboth easily sticks out as being the most receptive. Beyond that, I think you have to go venue by venue. The first time we played at Burley Oak in Berlin back in August we were blown away by the response. The entire room gave us their full attention for the entire night, and it was electric. I think that says more about Burley Oak and what they try to do than it does about Berlin in general. I’ve found that certain venues just get it when it comes to promoting their vision of live entertainment. Other venues sometimes over-think it and don’t give their clientele enough credit to be able to appreciate something different. Good music is good music, and everyone can appreciate that.

You were on local television with The Larks recently.
We’ve performed twice on the Delmarva Life program and we have those videos up on www.larksjazz.com. It’s become more difficult to find accommodating venues locally for such a large band. We have a couple of shows lined up at Evolution Craft Brewing Public House, though.

When you were growing up, did you listen to the same pop and rock radio stations as the rest of the kids?
To be honest, I listened to Top 40 music on the radio on 100 KHI until I turned 12 in 1986. At that point I found 91.3 WESM and got to hear Duke Ellington, Count Basie and cats like that. In high shcool I found the Grateful Dead quite by accident, and then in college I rediscovered jazz. As far as my playing career goes, I’ve always pursued the music I love and played it the way I want.