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Bad news.. :(

Friday, December 8 at 8pm

Spiritual Unity – Philadelphia Premiere performance

with Marc Ribot, guitar; Roy Campbell, trumpet; Henry Grimes, bass; Chad Taylor, drums

Cancelled.

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Good News.... :)

Friday, December 8 | 8pm

Spaceship on the Highway

with

Fred Anderson, tenor saxophone

Marshall Allen, alto saxophone

Henry Grimes, bass

Avreeayl Ra, percussion

Co-presented with:

International House Philadelphia

3701 Chestnut Street

Philadelphia Debut

$22.50 Students

$24.00 Members + Seniors

$30.00 General Admission

3-concert subscription for this concert, David S. Ware, and Rova's Ascension

$50.50 Students

$54.00 Members + Seniors

$67.50 General Admission

Event Description:

A "free-form summit...dominated by stratospheric eruptions." -Downbeat

Please join us for the east coast debut of Spaceship on the Highway, a new quartet of jazz masters and elder statesmen.

Philadelphia native Henry Grimes performed with Anita O'Day, Sonny Rollins, and the Gerry Mulligan Quartet. A versatile instrumentalist, Grimes (quite remarkably) performed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival with the Benny Goodman Big Band, Lee Konitz, Sonny Rollins, and Thelonious Monk. In 1961 he became a respected contributor to the Free Jazz movement, working regularly with Cecil Taylor, Perry Robinson, Sonny Rollins, Albert Ayler and Don Cherry. By 1967, however, Grimes disappeared completely from jazz. Following three and half decades of destitution, he resurfaced in 2003, after residing in a South Central Los Angeles hotel for nearly 20 years. He now performs regularly with many of the leaders of modern Jazz.

Chicago's Fred Anderson, an "old-school" musician in terms of grounding and early influences, was a founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). He studied with Gene Ammons, Coleman Hawkins, and Lester Young, and has reflected that training throughout his career, while also easily absorbing the new ideas pioneered by Ornette Coleman and other free theorists. It is this ability to merge old and new that has made Anderson a seminal figure in this music. Beginning in the early 90s, Anderson has frequently recorded, often with drummer Hamid Drake, on labels such as Thrill Jockey.

Spaceship also includes Sun Ra Arkestra maestro Marshall Allen, who performed with pianist Art Simmons, Don Byas and James Moody before joining the Arkestra in 1958 and leading Sun Ra's formidable reed section for next 40 years. Marshall, along with John Gilmore, June Tyson and James Jacson, lived, rehearsed, toured and recorded with Sun Ra almost exclusively for much of Ra's musical career. As a member of the Arkestra, Marshall Allen pioneered the Free Jazz movement of the early sixties, having remarkable influence on most of the leading voices in the avant-garde. He is featured on over 200 Sun Ra recordings in addition to collaborating with Phish, Sonic Youth, Digable Planets and Medeski, Martin & Wood.

Percussionist Avreeayl Ra was described by the Chicago Tribune as “An indispensable innovator", who "shapes the music-making swirling around him with remarkable precision and poise; extraordinarily sensitive percussion.” Avreeayl is a long-term member of the Chicago AACM, his relationship with the seminal music organization having begun with early studies with co-founder Kelan Philip Cohran. He has performed Amiri Baraka, Fontella Bass, Lester Bowie, Henry Byrd (”Professor Longhair”), Malachi Favors, Sun Ra, and Pharoah Sanders.

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Wednesday, November 29 | 6pm + Saturday, December 2 | 2pm

DAVE BURRELL TRIO

with

Dave Burrell, piano; Abayomi Awodesu, belaphon; and Juju Jones,

percussion

Rosenbach Museum & Library | 2008-2010 DeLancey Place

All performances free with museum admission. RSVP: 215-732-1600 ext. 113

Read the preview in today's Philadelphia Daily News:

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/entertainment/16105671.htm

ABOUT THE PERFORMANCES

"Veteran pianist Dave Burrell personifies the best of neoclassicism,

uncompromising individuality and in-the-moment gusto." -The New Yorker

Please join us as we premiere new work by jazz great and Rosenbach

artist-in-residence Dave Burrell. Using the Rosenbach’s African

American

collections as an inspiration, Burrell has written a composition that

provides a musical counterpart to the objects and ideas in the Look

Again

exhibition. This performance is co-presented by Ars Nova Workshop at

the

Rosenbach Museum & Library.

Since the mid-1960s, Dave Burrell has contributed to nearly 150

recordings

including pivotal works such as Archie Shepp's "Attica Blues," Pharoah

Sanders' "Tauhid," Marion Brown's "Three for Shepp" and Grammy

Award-winner

David Murray's "Lovers" and "Ballads." A recipient of the Pew

Fellowship in

Jazz Composition, Burrell’s recent releases include "Expansion" with

his

Full-Blown Trio with William Parker and Andrew Cyrille, which was

nominated

as The Village Voice's #2 Jazz album of 2004, the reissue of 1970's

"After

Love" (Universal Records) featuring Roscoe Mitchell, and

“Consequences”, his

first recording with Medeski, Martin and Wood percussionist Billy

Martin.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

African American History IS American History…

From the horrors of the slave trade to the struggle for equality and

justice, stories about race are among the central narratives of

American

culture from its beginning to the present. No significant historic era

in

this nation has gone untouched by the oppression of racism or the

African

American community’s struggle for dignity. It follows, then, that the

extraordinary collection of American historical materials at the

Rosenbach

Museum & Library would include abundant evidence of the African

American

experience.

The first major exhibition at this museum to engage this subject, Look

Again

attempts not to display merely a category of “African American

collections”

but, instead, to re-examine all of its American historical collections.

By

inviting you to join us in re-looking at and re-thinking the books,

manuscripts, and fine and decorative arts in the collection through the

lens

of the African American historical experience, we ask you to explore

African

American history as inseparable from American history.

http://www.arsnovaworkshop.com

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Latest email from Ars Nova...

Ars Nova Workshop presents:

Wednesday, December 6 | 8pm

BEN GOLDBERG QUINTET

with BEN GOLDBERG, clarinet; ROB SUDDUTH, tenor saxophone; CARLA KIHLSTEDT, violin; TREVOR DUNN, bass; and CHES SMITH, drums

+ DUNMALL / LEVIN / ROGERS

with PAUL DUNMALL, tenor saxophone; PAUL ROGERS, bass; and TONY LEVIN, drums

Community Education Center | 3500 Lancaster Avenue

$12 General Admission / $10 Student

Read the Philadelphia Daily News preview:

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/entertainment/16137991.htm

Please join Ars Nova Workshop next week for a rare visit from two very unique ensembles. California-based clarinetist Ben Goldberg was a pupil of Steve Lacy's, and has performed with Andrew Hill, John Zorn and Roswell Rudd. He is featured on Wilco guitarist Nels Cline's latest recording, "New Monastary, A View into the Music of Andrew Hill". For this performance, Mr. Goldberg leads an all-star ensemble featuring Carla Kihlstedt, a remarkable violinist who is a member of ensembles as diverse as Tin Hat and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, bassist Trevor Dunn, best known for his contributions in Mr. Bungle, Fantomas and John Zorn's Electric Masada, and Ches Smith, who is a member of Marc Ribot's trio.

3/4ths of the extraordinary Mujiciian ensemble (which also features Keith Tippett) will begin the evening. Working together for decades, these players have made some of the most acclaimed contributions to European Free Jazz, performing with Alice Coltrane, Derek Bailey, Lee Konitz, and many others. The Wire adds that the "ensemble can surprise you with the ease with which it can slip in and out of different formal confines - from the rich and balladic, through the microtonal and muscular."

http://www.arsnovaworkshop.com

Listen at http://myspace.com/arsnovaworkshop.

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Don't forget to purchase your Seraphic Light 3-concert subscriptions (at a significant savings!!) for HENRY GRIMES' SPACESHIP ON THE HIGHWAY featuring FRED ANDERSON and MARSHALL ALLEN, ROVA ORKESTRA performing COLTRANE'S ASCENSION, and the world premiere of the new DAVID S. WARE quartet. Tickets can be purchased at http://www.ticketweb.com/user/?region=penn...mp;event=703653.

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And, don't miss a special matinee performance of Dave Burrell's new work, inspired by the Rosenbach Museum and Library's latest exhibition, Look Again.

Saturday, December 2 | 2pm

DAVE BURRELL TRIO

with Dave Burrell, piano; Abayomi Awodesu, belaphon; and Juju Jones, percussion

Rosenbach Museum & Library | 2008-2010 DeLancey Place

RSVP: (215) 732-1600, ext. 113

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Forgot to mention that I saw Louis Hayes' Cannonball Tribute Band last week @ Chris' Cafe w/ Vincent Herring on Alto Sax and Sean Jones on Trpt. Jeremy Pelt was supposed to make the gig but I believe backed out at the last moment for some reason.......Sean Jones played the hell out of that horn and so did Herring...

Best $30 I ever spent

Peace

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Bad news.. :(

Friday, December 8 at 8pm

Spiritual Unity – Philadelphia Premiere performance

with Marc Ribot, guitar; Roy Campbell, trumpet; Henry Grimes, bass; Chad Taylor, drums

Cancelled.

----------------------------------------

Good News.... :)

Friday, December 8 | 8pm

Spaceship on the Highway

with

Fred Anderson, tenor saxophone

Marshall Allen, alto saxophone

Henry Grimes, bass

Avreeayl Ra, percussion

Co-presented with:

International House Philadelphia

3701 Chestnut Street

Philadelphia Debut

$22.50 Students

$24.00 Members + Seniors

$30.00 General Admission

3-concert subscription for this concert, David S. Ware, and Rova's Ascension

$50.50 Students

$54.00 Members + Seniors

$67.50 General Admission

Event Description:

A "free-form summit...dominated by stratospheric eruptions." -Downbeat

Please join us for the east coast debut of Spaceship on the Highway, a new quartet of jazz masters and elder statesmen.

Philadelphia native Henry Grimes performed with Anita O'Day, Sonny Rollins, and the Gerry Mulligan Quartet. A versatile instrumentalist, Grimes (quite remarkably) performed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival with the Benny Goodman Big Band, Lee Konitz, Sonny Rollins, and Thelonious Monk. In 1961 he became a respected contributor to the Free Jazz movement, working regularly with Cecil Taylor, Perry Robinson, Sonny Rollins, Albert Ayler and Don Cherry. By 1967, however, Grimes disappeared completely from jazz. Following three and half decades of destitution, he resurfaced in 2003, after residing in a South Central Los Angeles hotel for nearly 20 years. He now performs regularly with many of the leaders of modern Jazz.

Chicago's Fred Anderson, an "old-school" musician in terms of grounding and early influences, was a founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). He studied with Gene Ammons, Coleman Hawkins, and Lester Young, and has reflected that training throughout his career, while also easily absorbing the new ideas pioneered by Ornette Coleman and other free theorists. It is this ability to merge old and new that has made Anderson a seminal figure in this music. Beginning in the early 90s, Anderson has frequently recorded, often with drummer Hamid Drake, on labels such as Thrill Jockey.

Spaceship also includes Sun Ra Arkestra maestro Marshall Allen, who performed with pianist Art Simmons, Don Byas and James Moody before joining the Arkestra in 1958 and leading Sun Ra's formidable reed section for next 40 years. Marshall, along with John Gilmore, June Tyson and James Jacson, lived, rehearsed, toured and recorded with Sun Ra almost exclusively for much of Ra's musical career. As a member of the Arkestra, Marshall Allen pioneered the Free Jazz movement of the early sixties, having remarkable influence on most of the leading voices in the avant-garde. He is featured on over 200 Sun Ra recordings in addition to collaborating with Phish, Sonic Youth, Digable Planets and Medeski, Martin & Wood.

Percussionist Avreeayl Ra was described by the Chicago Tribune as “An indispensable innovator", who "shapes the music-making swirling around him with remarkable precision and poise; extraordinarily sensitive percussion.” Avreeayl is a long-term member of the Chicago AACM, his relationship with the seminal music organization having begun with early studies with co-founder Kelan Philip Cohran. He has performed Amiri Baraka, Fontella Bass, Lester Bowie, Henry Byrd (”Professor Longhair”), Malachi Favors, Sun Ra, and Pharoah Sanders.

FYI... Just got an email that Fred Anderson has canceled due to illness. He is being replaced tonight by Andrew Lamb.

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Tonight. Thursday, January 11 | 6pm

FROM JELLY ROLL MORTON TO THE JAZZ AVANT-GARDE

with JOHN SZWED & DAVE BURRELL

Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania | 3805 Locust Walk

Free Admission

Ars Nova Workshop and Kelly Writers House welcomes John Szwed and

pianist

Dave Burrell in a public discussion that hopes to shed more light on

the

significance of pianist/composer Jelly Roll Morton and the stride

continuum

that paved the way for the jazz avant-garde.

John Szwed taught as the University of Cincinnati, Lehigh University,

Temple

University, and later became the Director of the Center for Urban

Ethnography and Professor of Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1982, he began teaching at Yale, where he has served

as

Director of Graduate Studies and Acting Chair in Anthropology, as well

as

Acting Chair of African-American Studies. He has also served as Louis

Armstrong Visiting Professor at Columbia University. In recent years

John F.

Szwed has published several books including "Space is the Place: The

Life

and Times of Sun Ra"; "So What: The Life of Miles Davis"; "Jazz 101";

"Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture"; "Blues for

New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul"; and "Doctor Jazz," a

book

included with the CD set, "Jelly Roll Morton: The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax," 2005, for which he was awarded a

Grammy

in 2006.

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Friday, January 12 | 8pm

DAVID S. WARE UNIT

with

DAVID S. WARE, tenor saxophone

MAT MANERI, violin/viola

KEITH WITTY, double-bass

WHIT DICKEY, drums

WORLD DEBUT OF DAVID S. WARE'S NEW QUARTET

Co-presented with:

International House Philadelphia | 3701 Chestnut Street

$22.50 Students / $24.00 Members + Seniors / $30.00 General Admission

http://www.ticketweb.com/user/?region=penn...mp;event=692327

“The David S. Ware Quartet is the best small band in jazz today.”

–Gary

Giddins, Village Voice

David S. Ware (b. 1949) has been performing for over 40 years - first

as a

youth in informal practice sessions with Sonny Rollins in the 1960s,

then as

part of the fertile New York Loft Jazz era of the 1970s. During this

decade,

he joined the Cecil Taylor Unit and Andrew Cyrille's Maono as well as

worked

frequently with drummers Beaver Harris and Milford Graves. It wasn’t

until

the 90s, following Ware’s purposeful and rigorous engagement in a

period of

extensive woodshedding, that he would totally develop both his personal

sound and his visionary group concept. And, with a series of

ground-breaking albums by the David S. Ware Quartet, this decade saw

the

full-on recognition of Ware as a true saxophone colossus.

Perhaps the most highly acclaimed group of the last decade, the Ware

Quartet’s efforts were rewarded by being one of the very few jazz

ensembles

whose work was appreciated by an audience outside the narrow confines

of the

jazz community. In addition, a pointed reference of this period is

that

many writers and jazz fans alike referred to the David S. Ware Quartet

as

"the most exciting jazz ensemble since the classic John Coltrane

Quartet.”

Indeed, Ware's typical manner of performance - modal and free, rubato,

high-energy collective improvisation - stems directly from

Meditations-era

Coltrane. The quartet, which features the esteemed William Parker and

Matthew Shipp, celebrates the release of “Live In The World”

(Thirsty Ear

Records), which features drummers Brown, Hamid Drake and Susie Ibarra.

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Some more....

Tonight at Tritone...

"An urban griot of the 21st Century"- poet/DJ/musician JOHN SINCLAIR (manager of the MC-5, organizer of The White Panther Party, Ann Arbor Jazz & Blues Festival, etc.)

will be performing this Thurs., Jan. 11 at 10 PM

With him will be vocalist-DOROTHY GOODMAN; musician/poet-ELLIOTT LEVIN; DAN COLLINS; ROBERT KENYATTA (percussion); DAVID HOTEP (guitar); JAMES COOPER (bass); and Special Guests.

And Friday night Odean Pope is palying at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Oh, and next Friday there's some organ trio playing at the Art Museum. ;)

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If Alan's going, then I'm stayin' home. :P

I'd love to see Odean Pope (but won't happen. I have seen him a few times through the years), and hope to get to Organissimo despite family scheduling conflicts (negotiations commencing).

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If Alan's going, then I'm stayin' home. :P

I'd love to see Odean Pope (but won't happen. I have seen him a few times through the years), and hope to get to Organissimo despite family scheduling conflicts (negotiations commencing).

You'd BETTER get there, or else Jim, Joe, and Randy are gonna start thinking you're just my alter ego. :crazy:

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If Alan's going, then I'm stayin' home. :P

I'd love to see Odean Pope (but won't happen. I have seen him a few times through the years), and hope to get to Organissimo despite family scheduling conflicts (negotiations commencing).

Negotiations successfully completed. I'll be there for Organissimo at the Art Museum, along with wife, daughter, and daughter's friend who is staying for the weekend. :tup

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Friday, June 1 | 8pm

Rudresh Mahanthappa Quartet performs "Codebook"

with

Rudresh Mahanthappa, alto saxophone

Vijay Iyer, piano

François Moutin, double-bass

Dan Weiss, drums

+ F.A.B. Trio

with

Billy Bang, violin

Joe Fonda, double-bass

Barry Altschul, drums

International House Philadelphia

3701 Chestnut Street

$12 General Admission

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Friday, June 15 | 8pm

Lotte Anker Trio

with

Lotte Anker, saxophones

Craig Taborn, keyboards

Gerald Cleaver, drums

+ Burrell/Howard Duo

with

Dave Burrell, piano

Noah Howard, alto saxophone

Rose Recital Hall [Room 419]

Fisher-Bennett Hall

University of Pennsylvania

34th and Walnut streets

Saturday, June 16 | 8pm

In The Country

with

Morten Qvenild, piano

Roger Arntzen, double-bass

Pål Hausken, drums

+ Howard/Ali Duo

with

Noah Howard, alto saxophone

Muhammad Ali, drums

Rose Recital Hall [Room 419]

Fisher-Bennett Hall

University of Pennsylvania

34th and Walnut streets

If you're thinking of going you can get a special ticket that will get you in to both shows for a total cost of $14 here:

http://www.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=101521

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Looks like some interesting shows coming up this season for Ars Nova...

http://www.philadelphiamusicproject.org/gr...es.html#arsnova

The series will feature the Susie Ibarra Ensemble, the Marilyn Crispell Trio, Jenny Scheinman's Ensemble, the Min Xio-Fen Trio, and the Zeena Parkins Trio performing improvised as well as composed works.

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