Name: Tori Roze and The Hot Mess + Harold Imperiled
Start: 2025-03-13T20:00:00
End: 2025-03-14T00:00:00
Location: Ivy Room

ivy room presentsTUESDAY AUGUST 20TH—Tori Roze and The Hot Mess Harold Imperiled—Doors 7:00pm / Show 8:00pm$12* Advance / $5 Day of Show—IVY ROOM860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany • 21+(rsvp on facebook) Tori Roze and The Hot Mess—Tori Roze and The Hot Mess are a soulful force to be reckoned with. This band busts straight through the glass ceiling of genre-bending: original funky jazzy neo-soul music exploding with grit, integrity, and vulnerability. "Roze seduces you with her Erykah Badu-esque flair, and just when you think she can't be any smoother, she claws her way into your ears with her rocking roars" (San Diego City Beat). The Hot Mess, comprised of five exceptional "pocket" players nailing unexpected original arrangements that will “blow your top,” leaves you reeling with toe-tapping excitement. Musically likened to the band Chicago with a slap of Amy Winehouse + Janis Joplin-style vocals; these guys have got the spicy recipe for eargasmic pleasure.Harold Imperiled—MUSICA product of the Bay Area’s rich jazz and jam rock scene AND the band’s shared love of 70’s soul-jazz, funk, and early rock fusion, Harold GROOVES.Cinematic, emotional, intellectual, and warm, the instrumental songwriting synthesizes 1970s Herbie Hancock, Idris Muhammad, Jerry Garcia, and Lee Morgan as well as rare groove revivalists Soulive, Greyboy Allstars, and Medeski, Martin, and Wood, and contemporary innovators, Amendola vs. Blades, Charlie Hunter, Adam Deitch, and Khruangbin.MYTHOLOGYHarold Imperiled was born one summer day, an archetypal character of childlike wonder and golden innocence. He came to Bay Area drummer and composer Jared Baird in an intense daydream. The original instrumentals are warm, vibey and gently psychedelic, reflecting pockets of memories, the reveries of childhood, and an inexplicable love of California culture in the 1970s.