I am blessed to have some exciting performances to announce this fall!
My Punk Cabaret trio, IMPetus, will return for two gigs after a three year hiatus - coming to Glens Falls NY (9/27) and Cambridge MA (11/7).
Then, I will revisit the Faboratory collaborative series at New Rochelle's ArtsFest (10/16) which features my new band with bassist Tom Shad and drummer Ray Carega. We'll play our own pieces and also back up the fantastic spoken word artist, Christian Morant!
Of course, Mudsole will be back at the Thomas Paine Cottage for ArtsFest on 10/17. That same evening I will be back at our space above the train station helping debut new music by creative phenom, Alex Diamond.
Then, in November, I will have a reunion with another old friend, Monica Uhm, playing her philosofolk style at the 18th Ward Taproom on 11/21.
A melancholy song of heartbreak composed to a poem by Miguel Ballé and sung with longing and nuance by Melissa Errico and accompanied by the fantastic bass of Wyeth Tvenge.
A musical proposal to my girlfriend, now wife (it worked I guess!): "Come be the spark at the point of the Knife". This features the impossibly velvety singing of Antonio McLendon and the masterful trumpet solo of Rafael Castillo-Halvorssen along with section work by the great Uma Karkala! The rest is me at the Faboratory... Released March 6, 2026 Written, arranged, edited and mixed by Dave Knife Fabris. Mastering with help from Tony Hamoui (Stank Factory) and all the great folks at Mastering.com (Dane Holmes, Caleb Lovelace, Berlin Redlux), Lee Hogans (WiLeeHo Music) and Brian Kingman...thank you all for your guidance!!
The longest day of the year will get even brighter as Dave will be joined by his favorite singers at the 18th Ward Taproom in his home town of New Rochelle NY for a free concert on Saturday June 21st from 7-10pm. Joining Dave will be Garry Novikoff, Rachel Stern and Antonio Charles McLendon as they preview new music coming out later this summer - "Songs In The Key Of Knife"!
Playin a little Trad jazz during the New Rochelle Artsfest this fall. Here's a little sample. Thanks to Ben Newman for the fantastic video and to Khalil Salinsky for the pic in our happy place in the trees!
Another nice review I missed in January...It's in Norwegian but google translate offers this snippet: For Fabris is an excellent blues interpreter, and almost "forces" Blake into his domain. Even in Shostakovich's "Symphony No 9 Second Movement" he manages (partly) to turn the composition into a fine blues.
In other news, I will begin releasing my new home recordings soon..."Songs In The Key Of Knife"!
Thanks to the NYC Jazz Record for the kind words:
"With resonating thumb plucks, vibrating frails and reverberating twangs, Fabris adds connective comping and colorful sound tinctures to taunt piano forays on cinema themes."
And another from France:
"the work of sound by David Fabris seems in many ways to mirror that of Ran Blake by his variety in the attacks and an amazing contrast between clarity and saturation that he doses with virtuosity."
Dec 31, 2024
(photo: Tony Kellers)
https://jazz.pt/criticas/live-amsterdam-2006
Google translate gives us this (for my non-Portugese reading friend!):
Dave Fabris had his first lesson with Ran Blake (b. 1935) in 1987, at the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music, in Boston. It was then…
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Dec 20, 2024
Four Stars on All About Jazz: "From the edge of your seat to Ornette Coleman's "Sadness/Space Church," the pair covers the gamut of musical expression."
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CDs of the new duo recording of Ran Blake and the Knife are in stock! You can purchase them here or get your download version from Bandcamp…
The reviews are starting to come in, and folks are realizing the…
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I'm really proud of the work we do at the New Rochelle Council on The Arts - this month, our annual ArtsFest was another huge hit in our town! The weather was perfect for folks to visit artists studios, tour…
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Great news, the new Ran Blake/Dave Knife Fabris recording is out today!
This is an archival recording put out by the folks at HatHut (Switzerland). It’s a live recording from the BIMhuis in Amsterdam recorded on our European Tour in…
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Come party with the band at an outdoor block party to help the victims of last weeks fire on Eastchester Rd (Free admission, donations accepted).
Saturday 6/29 at Fuller Center…
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