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LINKS GIG MAP Widget Video @ Lenox Lounge 2005 Sax solo "Evidence" by Theolonius Monk Video @ East Elmhurst Library Pre Xmas Show 2010 
Click to hear:MAGNETS! Live @ the Earshot Jazz Festival Cd at CDbaby.com Site of: Kim A. Clarke-Bass,Founding Co-producer of LADY GOT CHOPS Women's Month Jazz Festival k8ladybass@yahoo.com Site of: Rob Scheps-Sax coretet@hotmail.com visit us: MAGNETS!@ REVERBNATION.COM MAGNETS! PERFORMANCES: Sept,29,2012 Beanrunner Cafe 201 South Division Street @ Esther PEEKSKILL NEW YORK (914) 737 1701 Tammany HAll - MArch 2012 July 8 2011 Beanrunner Cafe 201 South Division Street @ Esther PEEKSKILL NEW YORK (914) 737 1701 June 27,2011 @ 7 pm,br> FOR MY SWEET 1103 Fulton Street Brooklyn,NY January 29,2011 BEANRUNNER CAFE 201 South Division Street @ Esther PEEKSKILL NEW YORK (914) 737 1701 Dec 13,2010 7-8:30 pm EAST ELMHURST COMMUNITY LIBRARY 95-06 Astoria Blvd East Elmhurst, N.Y. 11369 October 1,2010 BEANRUNNER CAFE 201 South Division Street @ Esther PEEKSKILL NEW YORK (914) 737 1701 July 10,2010 PEEKSKILL BID AND THE BEANRUNNER CAFE present MAGNETS! LIVE @ THE PEEKSKILL FESTIVAL @ESTHER STREET 6PM May 29, 2010 BEANRUNNER CAFE 201 South Division Street @ Esther PEEKSKILL NEW YORK (914) 737 1701 2009 JUNE 17 12-2PM JAMAICA FUNK CONCERT SERIES 165TH STREET MALL BET. JAMAICA AVE AND 89TH AVES. JUNE 18TH AND 25 10:30 PM-2:30AM ST.NICKS PUB 149TH AND ST.NICHOLAS AVE. HARLEM,N.Y. JULY 18 AND 19TH PORI JAZZ FESTIVAL Cafe Jazz and Kirjurinluoto Arena PORI FINLAND  RELATED LINKS The LADY GOT CHOPS Women's Month Music and Arts Festival 2010  Women In Jazz,Inc. |
 HISTORY (page 2) MAGNETS!Jazz/Funk /World music quartet began in 1997 as a collaboration of musical focus between two friends Rob Scheps and Kim Clarke and an outlet to allow Clarke's heretofore unknown compositions take shape.Many great musicians have been involved in the project. After a few reunions they joined with world renowned drummer,Ronnie Burrage. MAGNETS! has performed and hosted clinics at universities in Oregon,California,Washington, Maine, New Jersey and New York. Our first CD, MAGNETS!Live at the Earshot Jazz Festival Seattle 2000 (produced by John Mulkerin & Kim Clarke) can be heard &/or purchased @ cdbaby.com MAGNETS! LIVE @ BCAT 4/01 PERFORMANCE REVIEWS NEW REVIEW @ JAZZREVIEW.COM! "MAGNETS!..batted kinetic energy back and forth like a steel- tipped badminton birdie..No ordinary 4/4Funk collective.. " ..A MADE IN HEAVEN MARRIAGE OF FUNKADELIC'S GROOVE AND THE SLIPPERY MELODY AND INTRICATE RHYTHMS OF WEATHER REPORT AT ITS MOST AGGRESSIVE." Bill Smith - Willamette Week "FUNK IT UP OR GO AFRO-AVANTE-ANGRY, ACID JAZZ,BUBBLY HUMOR THEY DO IT ON THE DROP OF A DIME"..... Mark Von Bergen-JazzJournal:Live At The Bean "MAGNETS!is built for excitement... a high-energy foursome prone to delivering dirty funk jams from a heady jazz perspective. ...fearlessly improvised paths prove to be trails of discovery worth mapping and following" James Kirchmer-The Stranger.com vol.8 No.3 "CLARKE IS A COMPOSER TO BE RECKONED WITH REGARDLESS OF GENDER".... "..the best of the Northwest creative music scene" Jake TenPas-The Online Barometer- O.S.U. .."SCHEPS IS ENERGIZING AND UPGRADING THE LOCAL JAZZ SCENE"...."SAX BLACKBELT".... " AN IMAGINATIVE & EXCITING NEW VOICE ON THE TENOR".. "SOME OF THE MOST DARING,ENTERTAINING MUSIC I'VE HEARD IN SOME TIME"...."FIENDISHLY FUNKY FUSION".... U.S. & International CD Reviews MAGNETS! Reviewer: Stage Magazine (Nederlands) "Magnets! Review De eerlijkheid gebiedt ons te vermelden dat ook bassiste Kim Clarke zelf een eigen, overigens steengoed, jazzkwartet heeft, dat luistert naar de naam Magnets!. N.a.v. het optreden van Defunkt op Jazz Middelheim overhandigde zij ons wat voorlopig nog als een demo-cd wordt verdeeld, maar hopelijk weldra in de handel verkrijgbaar zal zijn. De muziek van Magnets!, verder bestaande uit sopranist en co-leader Rob Scheps (cfr. Medeski, Martin & Wood en Gil Evans), pianist-toetsenman George Mitchell (zie ook Sonny Stitt, Diana Ross en Leroy Vinnegar) en drummer-toetsenman-vocalist Ronnie Burrage (Defunkt, McCoy Tyner, Woody Shaw), valt het best te omschrijven als een fijne, evenwichtige mix van jazz, fusion, soul, R&B en funk. Dat Kim Clarke even makkelijk van elektrische naar contrabas overschakelt als een Belg van zonnebril naar regenscherm, hebben een aantal Jazz Middelheimbezoekers kunnen ondervinden tijdens de late jams in de Singel. Op de jazzy openingstrack 'Visiting Royalty', van de hand van Scheps, is dit ook duidelijk te horen. Op 'You Can Call', het enige gezongen nummer op deze cd, kruipt Burrage, tevens ook de componist ervan, vocaalgewijs in de huid van Napoleon Murphy Brock zoals u deze destijds kon bewonderen op Zappa's 'Roxy & Elsewhere' (het nummer doet vooral aan 'Village of the Sun' denken), op een jazzfunky achtergrond van fijne sopraansaxlyriek, zwevend over krachtige drumpartijen groovy baslijnen. In de door Clarke geschreven nummers ('Heart Ascends' en 'Too Much Fun') stijgt het vettige funkgehalte vaak tot ongekende hoogten. De sites http://kimclarke.8m.com en magnets.8m.net zullen u ongetwijfeld alle geheimen onthullen van dit fijne gezelschap." Jempi Samyn Reviewer: Klaus (Germany) Zunächstmal ist zu erwähnen, dass der Sound sehr trocken und warm ist. Man fühlt sich als wäre man direkt vor Ort in einer Bar und es fehlt eigentlich nur noch, dass man den Musikern ein wenig auf die Finger schauen kann. Speziell der Song "Kurasawa" ist sehr eigenwillig und experimentierfreudig. Das gesamte Album besticht durch drive und tollen Solis und Rhythmuswechsel. Kim Clarke kennen die meisten nur von den großartigen "Defunkt" - Hier hört man eine Kim, die ihren eigenen Stempel verewigt hat! Reviewer: Joan Cartwright (U.S.) If you know the musician(s), it makes for more excitement when you listen to the music. Kim Clarke is a premiere bassist who's paid her proverbial dues. She doesn't do what she doesn't want to do. So, her decision to join these Portland musicians had to be based upon love. It's evident in the music, popping with energized funk. The mellow tones were just what the doctor ordered for me, today, mellow like Coltrane, present and alive. Dun dun, clack, dun, dun, clack. This music sits on your ear like a sweet kiss and remains there long after it's stopped playing. Dun, dun, clack, ba doo ba dillia doo ba dee doo da. Swingessentially funky, smoothe like a waterfall! Thank you for your visit. 
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