Primary Instrument: Sax, tenor
Alonzo Holliday aka Frank Turek (Saxophones) Has been active in the Portland music scene for the past fifteen years. He is co-founder and artistic director to Portland's original surf instrumental band Shutdown 66, originator of the circus jazz, avant schmaltz sax and drum duo The Clown School Dropouts, and has a four year tenure as organ player for the sixties garage sound band Lady Kensington and the Beatlords. You can sometimes hear Alonzo practicing late at night at Frank's art studio space, ubu studio, at the State Theater building in Portland, Maine.
Gori Tzadek, liner notes to Mystic Out-Bop Review debut
“These cats can knock craters in your skull.”
Al Diamon, Casco Bay Weekly
“Holliday's music is full of significance and offers an ingenious glimpse at where a creative musical mind can wander.”
Frank Rubolino, Cadence Jazz Magazine
Alonzo Holliday, Knom (Aria Arts, 2003)
Mystic Out-Bop Review Meets Reverend Crank Sturgeon, ChamberMusic (Aria Arts, 2002)
Mystic Out-Bop Review, Lagrangian Points (Aria Arts, 2001)
Mystic Out-Bop Review, s/t (Aria Arts, 2001)
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