Adam Holzman & Brave New World
Adam Holzman: keyboards
Ofer Assaf: sax
Jane Getter: guitar
Freddy Cash: bass
Gene Lake: drums

Adam Holzman & Brave New World will present an exciting evening of cutting edge jazz-rock. Keyboardist Adam Holzman is an alumnus of the Miles Davis band and current plays with popular British rocker Steven Wilson.

Adam is simply one of the most innovative musicians alive. He is a perennial poll-winner in the Fusion category for Pulse! magazine’s year-end Top Ten listings. “Keyboard” magazine named him one of the top 10 players in the world, “Down Beat” lauded his “killer groove” and compared him to Jan Hammer – and even the “New York Times” and the “Washington Post” have praised Adam’s live shows.

Born on February 15, 1958 in New York City, Adam is the son of Elektra Records founder, Jac Holzman. Adam grew up in California and started classical piano lessons at age 12, but his main influences were “The Doors”, Leon Russell and Dr. John. He started getting into progressive rock and jazz-rock during the late 70s, which in turn led to a growing interest in jazz.
Miles Davis first hired Adam for some keyboard work for “Tutu” and then as second keyboarder for the live tour that followed. While Miles Davis hired and fired musicians at an enormous rate during these years, Adam Holzman actually stayed for almost 5 years. “I must have done something right”, Holzman says today.”I was so nervous in the beginning – I didn’t think I would survive the first tour.” He must have done a lot of things right, since Miles later promoted him to “musical director”, when Robert Irving left the band in 1988.