plays jazz: straight ahead bop, bluesy and funky hard bop, bossa nova, and songbook era standards with occasional color outside the lines post-bop aesthetics. High energy with occasional catch your breath ballads. Monk, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Ellington, Gershwin, Porter, Jobim – the classics.
But also plenty of post-bop (Shorter, Henderson, Rivers). Full Spectrum.

contact davidl.demaris@gmail.com for booking

Avian Time Ensemble formed in 2020 just in time for the pandemic lockdown, so their debut performance was in 2022 after a couple of years of playing to the birds outside.

They can be seen at Cork & Screw every Friday night where they have been resident since Feb. 2023. Other venues they have performed include Batch Craft, Butterfly Bar, and Vista Brewing.

Our members have played Austin stages in groups including Alien Time Ensemble (jazz, featured on KUT/KOOP, performers at Austin Jazz Festival) , Bloody Mary Bebop (jazz), Djamberry Caravan (Django style swing), The Soul Impressions (soul), Swerve Left (rock/funk), Moats Float Aloft (ambient), Harold McMillan’s Jazz Experiment (jazz), Cosmic Intuition Orchestra (jazz), Bramaya (African drum dance corps) , SoCo Jazz Collective (jazz)

Shawn Bohrer (drums), David DeMaris (piano), Nigel Jacobs (bass), Steve Wechsler (guitar)

A typical setlist, drawn from a repertoire of 60 songs:

1 – Footprints
2 – Recordame
3 – The Jody Grind
4 – Let’s Cool One
5 – Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise
6 – Solar
7 – Agua de Beber
8 – Beatrice
9 – All The Things You Are
10 – My Funny Valentine
11 – Four
12 – Too Close for Comfort
13 – In Walked Bud
14 – Mercy Mercy Mercy
15 – Impressions
16 – Yesterdays
17 – This I Dig of You
18 – Coracao Vagabundo