Avery’s Bands:
These groups are managed, booked, and led by Avery
Nintendoods
Nintendoods is a rippin’ eight piece funk band from Burlington, VT, playing the legendary music of Nintendo’s greatest video games. Using four horns, (alto sax and flute, tenor sax, trumpet, trombone) and a tight rhythm section, (guitar, bass, keys, drums) the group recreates the nostalgic soundtrack of Nintendo’s video games, including Super Mario Brothers, Wii Sports Theme, Pokemon Stadium, and Hyrule Temple. Visually, Nintendoods projects live footage of gamers playing Super Smash Brothers on a vintage Nintendo GameCube during the show (audience members are encouraged to join the fun!) For those who don’t know Nintendo’s soundtrack, the catchy melodies, intricate arrangements, and exciting solos will curate a thrilling experience that won’t disappoint.
COOP
Coop (formally Avery Cooper Quartet, or ACQ) is a high energy funk soul band based out of Burlington VT. Avery Cooper fronts the group on saxophone and vocals. He brings engaging originals and innovative covers of classic pop and soul tunes. Though the band has strong roots in the world of jazz, Coop is agreeable with all music lovers and will sure to get your feet moving!
Avery Cooper Trio
Led by Avery Cooper on saxophone, flute, clarinet and vocals, the trio plays jazz standards from the golden age of jazz. You’ll hear bebop, swing, bossa nova, blues and more.
Other Bands:
The Discussions
Based in Burlington, VT, The Discussions are an original instrumental ensemble that balance highly arranged compositions with psychedelic and ambient sounds. Their music incorporates a cinematic approach, using techniques of minimalism, and stylings of jazz, creating a layered, rhythmic sound. The Discussions treat their music like movie scores, invoking imagery and building from beginning to end as if following the arc of a story line. Psych Jazz. Abstract Ambient.
Satyrdagg
We are Satyrdagg: “Alchemical Art Rock” scored for 12+ players, drawing from a massive pool of world-class musicians and performing the original music of singer/bassist/arranger Mowgli Giannitti. Mowgli’s songs are an eclectic blend of rock, jazz, prog, classical and styles from around the globe featuring lush vocal harmonies, acrobatic horn arrangements and soaring improvisation.
All Night Boogie Band
All Night Boogie Band is a blues, rock & roll, and soul-inspired band hailing from the Green Mountains of Burlington, Vermont. Formed in late 2021, the young yet experienced quintet expresses a unique sound full of originality, vigor, and dedication to the resonance of great American music.
Chicken Fat Injection (CFI)
CFI (aka Chicken Fat Injection) is Vermont band made up of some of the finest players in the region. With over 300 shows behind them, the group communication and groove is transcendent, bordering on “one mind.”
CFI’s choice of, and approach to, material is unique. Believing that playing sets that cross genres is not only refreshing and unexpected for an audience, the band remains fresh on each gig; CFI is dedicated to exploring the common languages of funk, soul, jazz, blues, country, reggae, and rock—in real time. It’s all CFI, and it’s all Groovy.
As a quartet, CFI is: George Petit on guitars and vocals, John Rivers on electric bass, Geza Carr on drumset, and Mike Hartigan on keyboards. On occasion, when the party permits, we expand to a nonet, adding up to a full five-piece horn section that includes Jake Whitesell (tenor), Rob DeBruyn (tenor), Avery Cooper (alto/bari), Conor Young (tpt/flug), and Nate Reit (t’bone).