Ron S Posted November 4, 2006 Report Share Posted November 4, 2006 Cecil Taylor solo tonight. anyone goin? Looks like Chalupa is--see his post here. BTW, where were you when organissimo played here 3 times last month? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
md655321 Posted November 5, 2006 Report Share Posted November 5, 2006 Cecil Taylor solo tonight. anyone goin? Looks like Chalupa is--see his post here. BTW, where were you when organissimo played here 3 times last month? I work weeknights. Food or Organissimo? I hope I made the right decision Im gonna try to make the January gig, becuase I dont work fridays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted November 6, 2006 Report Share Posted November 6, 2006 Cecil Taylor solo tonight. anyone goin? Looks like Chalupa is--see his post here. BTW, where were you when organissimo played here 3 times last month? I work weeknights. Food or Organissimo? I hope I made the right decision Nope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron S Posted November 6, 2006 Report Share Posted November 6, 2006 Im gonna try to make the January gig, becuase I dont work fridays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted November 16, 2006 Report Share Posted November 16, 2006 (edited) 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. Edited November 16, 2006 by Chalupa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted November 28, 2006 Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted December 1, 2006 Report Share Posted December 1, 2006 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. ---- 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. ---- 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Templejazz Posted December 2, 2006 Report Share Posted December 2, 2006 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 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. ---- 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 (edited) 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. Edited January 11, 2007 by Chalupa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alankin Posted January 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 I'll be at the David S. Ware show tomorrow night. I also plan to be at the Art Museum next Friday night to hear a certain group play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 Who's playing next Friday? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alankin Posted January 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 Who's playing next Friday? Some people you know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron S Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 If Alan's going, then I'm stayin' home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 (edited) If Alan's going, then I'm stayin' home. 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). Edited January 12, 2007 by felser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron S Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 If Alan's going, then I'm stayin' home. 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 (edited) If Alan's going, then I'm stayin' home. 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. Edited January 12, 2007 by felser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe G Posted January 12, 2007 Report Share Posted January 12, 2007 Sweet! Damn! That's coming up quick! I need to call my cat sitter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted June 1, 2007 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 I just saw this on Noah Howard's homepage.... June 15 & 16: University of Pennsylvania Rose hall (with Mohammed Ali and Dave Burrell) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted June 15, 2007 Report Share Posted June 15, 2007 (edited) My 1000th post.... 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 Edited June 15, 2007 by J.H. Deeley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted June 16, 2007 Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted June 16, 2007 Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 And some more.... http://www.philadelphiamusicproject.org/gr....html#intlhouse The series will feature John Zorn's Electric Masada, the Otomo Yoshihide Ensemble, Huntsville with Ivar Grydeland, Tonny Kluften, Ingar Zach, the Misha Mengelberg/Han Bennink Quartet, and the Tony Oxley Ensemble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.:.impossible Posted June 16, 2007 Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 You guys got it good! Looks like fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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