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Trey Anastasio Plots February Solo Tour With Classic TAB Band :
Last year’s Phish reunion ended with a New Year’s Eve blowout in Miami, and Trey Anastasio is wasting no time returning to the stage. The guitarist will hit the road for a month-long tour with his Classic TAB band in February. The tour kicks off February 8th 2010 in Charlottesville, Virginia. That date marks what would have been the 47th birthday of Trey’s sister Kristine, an environmentalist and author who died last April of neuroendocrine cancer; all proceeds from the February 8th show will go toward the Kristine Anastasio Manning Memorial Fund. Classic TAB promises set lists stocked with selections from Anastasio’s solo canon.
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Phish's Trey Anastasio Off To Feb. 'Tab' Tour :
Following up a big 2009 full of Phish dates and a new Phish album, frontman Trey Anastasio kicks off his 2010 by touring the U.S. this February with backing band Classic Tab.
 Anastasio and Classic Tab's 16 date trek begins with a benefit show on Feb. 8 at Charlottesville, VA's Jefferson Theater. Proceeds from the gig, which falls on the birthday of Anastasio's late sister, will benefit the Kristine Anastasio Manning Memorial Fund. The tour continues up the east coast and hits the midwest before landing in Knoxville, Tenn. on Feb. 28. Tickets can be requested online beginning today (Jan. 6) at Treytickets.rlc.net. The onsales to the general public will be on Jan. 14, 15 and 16 for the various shows. Visit Trey.com for the exact onsale times and dates for each show.
Classic Tab, which has performed on several of Trey Anastasio's past projects, is a six-piece made up of sax player/flautist Russell Remington, trumpeter Jen Hartswick, drummer Russ Lawton, bassist Tony Markellis, keyboardist Ray Paczkowski and newly added trombonist Natalie Cressman. Look for Anastasio and band to perform songs from the breadth of Anastasio's body of solo work as well as some new original material.
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Trey Anastasio to hit the road for solo tour :
After reuniting with his bandmates in Phish for a new album and tour in 2009, guitarist Trey Anastasio will start off 2010 by hitting the road for a solo tour. He'll make his way to Boston's House of Blues on Friday, February 12. Tickets for the show, which range in price from $38 and $48, go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster. Classic TAB will once again serve as Anastasio's backing band.
Anastasio is currently in rehearsals with Classic Tab as the band prepares for shows that will be comprised of setlists that span his solo career. Classic Tab is comprised of Russ Lawton (drums), Tony Markellis (bass) and Ray Paczkowski (keyboards), along with a horn section featuring Russell Remington (tenor saxophone and flute) and Jen Hartswick (trumpet and vocals). New to the group is Natalie Cressman on trombone and vocals, who replaces her father, Jeff Cressman.
Drawing from his wide range of influences, Anastasio has released eight solo albums. His most recent, Time Turns Elastic, recorded with The Northwest Sinfonia, was released last year. Composed with Don Hart, the piece was given its debut by Orchestra Nashville in 2008 and Anastasio performed it with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic in 2009.
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Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB 2010 Tour :
 Trey Anastasio will return to the road next month for a series of shows with his Classic TAB group. The tour will open in Charlottesville, VA on February 8 with a show that will serve as a benefit for the Kristine Anastasio Manning Memorial Fund, commemorating what would have been the 47th birthday of Anastasio’s sister, Kristine who died of neuroendocrine cancer last April. The tour will route up to New England and on through Midwest before closing out on February 28th in Knoxville, TN. Trey and Classic TAB last toured in October of 2008 with the line-up that featured drummer Russ Lawton, Tony Markellis on bass and Ray Paczkowski on keys.
This time the group will be a septet with a three piece horn section: Russell Remington (tenor saxophone and flute), Jen Hartswick (trumpet and vocals) and Natalie Cressman (trombone and vocals, who is swapping in for her father Jeff Cressman). Presales for these shows will take place on Wednesday with the general onsales to follow on the 15th and 16th.
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Trey Anastasio announces solo dates with Classic TAB :
Now that all that Phish madness is over (for now), frontman Trey Anastasio has announced plans to return to the solo side of things. Throughout the month of February, he’ll join Classic TAB, the band which has backed him on many of his solo projects, for a series of tour of U.S. tour dates.
The tour kicks off with a special benefit show at the Jefferson Theatre in Charlottesville, VA on February 8th. According to an issued press release, the date marks what would have been the 47th birthday of Trey’s sister, Kristine, an esteemed environmentalist and author who died of neuroendocrine cancer last April. Proceeds from the show will go to the Kristine Anastasio Manning Memorial Fund, which supports many of the causes and charities she devoted herself to.
After that, it’s on to Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, New York, Chicago, and several other East Coast cities before Trey and Co. wraps things off with dates in Nashville, Charlotte, Atlanta, and Knoxville.
 As for what to expect? Well, for one Classic TAB has added horns to the lineup, with Russell Remington (tenor saxophone and flute) and Jen Hartswick (trumpet and vocals) once again joining Russ Lawton (drums), Tony Markellis (bass), and Ray Paczkowski (keyboards). Natalie Cressman will also join the band on trombone and vocals, replacing her father, Jeff Cressman.
The septet promises to perform material that spans Anastasio’s solo career, including “Push On ‘Til The Day” (from 2000’s Trey Anastasio), “Sweet Dreams Melinda” and “Sleep Again” (from 2005’s Shine), “Goodbye Head” (2006’s Bar 17), and “Olivia” and “Burlap Sack & Pumps” (2007’s The Horseshoe Curve). The band is also expected to debut several new selections.
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Trey Anastasio: tour with expanded Classic TAB in February :
Trey Anastasio keeps him self busy. He goes on tour with a expanded line-up of Classic TAB. There is a horns section, which means that there will be seven players on stage. The first show is a benefit for the Memorial Fund for Big Red's late sister Kristine:
The tour kicks off with a special benefit show at the Jefferson Theatre in Charlottesville, VA on February 8th. The date marks what would have been the 47th birthday of Trey's sister, Kristine, an esteemed environmentalist and author who died ofneuroendocrine cancer last April. Proceeds from the show will go to the Kristine Anastasio Manning Memorial Fund, which supports many of the causes and charities she devoted herself to.
 Hitting several cities that Anastasio has never played before, the dates are the first for Classic TAB since they went out as a quartet last fall. Now they're adding horns back into the mix with Russell Remington (tenor saxophone and flute) and Jen Hartswick (trumpet and vocals) once again joining Russ Lawton (drums), Tony Markellis (bass) and Ray Paczkowski (keyboards). New to the group is Natalie Cressman on trombone and vocals, who replaces her father, Jeff Cressman.
The septet will perform material that spans Anastasio's solo career, including "Push On 'Til The Day" (from 2000's Trey Anastasio), "Sweet Dreams Melinda" and "Sleep Again" (from Shine, 2005), "Goodbye Head" (Bar 17, 2006) and "Olivia" and "Burlap Sack & Pumps" (The Horseshoe Curve, 2007). They're currently in rehearsals, adapting the arrangements to suit the current configuration and working on several brand new compositions. Classic TAB has always functioned as breeding ground of sorts, with many of its songs eventually crossing over into Phish's repertoire. ... Source Article Here ...
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Trey Anastasio Biography and Info :
Since co-founding the seminal improv rock outfit Phish in 1983, guitarist, composer, and songwriter Trey Anastasio has explored a wide variety of musical pathways ranging from atonal fugues and elaborate charts with Phish to adventurous free jazz on his first solo project, Surrender to the Air (1996), to collaborations with the likes of Tom Marshall, Les Claypool, Philip Glass, Stewart Copeland, and others. After Phish went on long-term hiatus in late 2000, Anastasio focused on a myriad of projects, including Oysterhead and his eight-piece solo band.
 Born Ernest Joseph Anastasio III in 1964, Anastasio attended Princeton Day School in Princeton, NJ, where he met future songwriting partner Tom Marshall. As a teenager, he helped his mother, Dina, write songs for children's records. At the University of Vermont, he teamed up with bassist Mike Gordon, drummer Jon Fishman, and guitarist Jeff Holdsworth to form Phish. After being suspended from the university for a semester for a prank gone awry, Anastasio transferred to the highly experimental Goddard College outside of Burlington, where he studied intensely with composer Ernie Stires while writing and rehearsing Phish's complicated early material. Soon after, Holdsworth was replaced by keyboardist Page McConnell.
Phish remained Anastasio's primary musical outlet for the duration of the '80s and the '90s, as his original work progressed from lengthy prog-influenced compositions, such as "You Enjoy Myself" of the mid-'80s, to the more focused (though still complex) songs of Rift (1993). While Phish placed more and more emphasis on group improvisation, Anastasio's charts gradually fell by the wayside. In 1996, he organized and produced Surrender to the Air, a big-band free jazz excursion with Sun Ra saxman Marshall Allen, organist John Medeski, avant-garde guitarist Marc Ribot, experimental drummer Bob Gullotti, and many others. Though Anastasio was nominally the leader of the project, he played as an equal member of a large group of downtown heavyweights.
The transformation of Anastasio's work from composition-based to improvisation-based was completed in 1997 and 1998 with The Story of the Ghost and The Siket Disc, two Phish releases chiseled out of hours of collective jamming overseen by producer John Siket. Anastasio's ongoing collaboration with Tom Marshall also resulted in a bevy of new material, far too much for Phish to assimilate into their already gigantic live repertoire. Though Anastasio brought some of the songs to his newly formed side trio, he still felt he was holding back. Phish performed at a massively successful New Year's celebration in Big Cypress, FL, and in 2000 came the release of Farmhouse (entirely written and produced by Anastasio), but given the band's increasingly unfocused live performances, Phish decided to take a hiatus of an undetermined length beginning in October of that year.
 Anastasio went right to work, scoring an arrangement of the Phish song "Guyute" (one of his last multi-sectioned compositions) for the Vermont Youth Orchestra with mentor Ernie Stires. Following its performance, he hit the road with a horn-bolstered version of his side trio and almost a dozen new songs, many of which returned to the complicated work of years past. Soon after, he wrote and recorded an album with Oysterhead, a power trio of Anastasio along with Primus bassist Les Claypool and former Police drummer Stewart Copeland, beginning a new chapter in his musical history. His time spent with Oysterhead was experimental, but not permanent. By early 2002, Anastasio prepped for his proper solo release for Elektra . His groovy cool self-titled album was issued that April and Anastasio returned to the road for a string of U.S. tour dates.
The live effort Plasma appeared in April 2003, showcasing more than two hours of performances from Anastasio's 2002 summer/fall trek of North America. Seven brand-new tracks and a few covers were sprinkled into the double-disc set as well. The all-instrumental Seis de Mayo was released in April 2004, followed by Shine in 2005 and Bar 17 in 2006. The stopgap but quite effective The Horseshoe Curve, comprised of various tracks recorded between 2004 and 2007, appeared in 2007 while Anastasio was doing time at a court-ordered drug rehab program. The unified Time Turns Elastic, which paired the guitarist with Don Hart, was released in 2009.
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