rachel Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 or!!! have Conn grab a bag and jump in your ride for a road trip!! Catesta (and all other NY'ers) need to hop a southbound train. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randissimo Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 I'm envious! Wish I could be there... Workin' Saturday... Have a great time everybody and give Micky Roker my best regards if you see him.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 I'm envious! Wish I could be there... Workin' Saturday... Have a great time everybody and give Micky Roker my best regards if you see him.. Felser and Mrs. Felser (John & Christine) are planning to be at the Schneider show at the art museum. Also L. Wayne Bognar, who will be in from Pittsburgh on a business trip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpaulku Posted January 16, 2008 Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 Anyone ever seen these guys? Happy Apple Jan 26 2008 8:00P The Ars Nova Workshop, International House Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted January 17, 2008 Report Share Posted January 17, 2008 The drummer is rather bombastic, but the tenor player is pretty great. Fusion-y, in the "British" sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 This is gonna be really cool! http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=30 Debashish Bhattacharya Hindustani Slide Guitar Saturday, April 5, 2008 Calvary Center for Culture & Community Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 Just got this in an email.......... Wednesday, February 13 | 8pm JOHN TCHICAI AND FRIENDS with JOHN TCHICAI, alto saxophone KHAN JAMAL, vibraphone GARRISON FEWELL, guitar Rose Recital Hall, Fisher-Bennett Hall, 34th and Walnut streets (SE corner) $10 General Admission Saxophonist John Tchicai is best known for his time in New York during the height of the '60s free jazz explosion. In 1963, he moved to New York City to immerse himself in the epicenter of free jazz. He hooked up with Archie Shepp and Don Cherry, eventually co-founding the New York Contemporary Five with them; he was also a founding member of the New York Art Quartet with Roswell Rudd and Milford Graves. Tchicai also recorded with Albert Ayler (on New York Eye and Ear Control), the Jazz Composers Guild, and John Lennon (Life With the Lions), and appeared on John Coltrane's legendary free jazz landmark Ascension on Impulse Records. After a whirlwind three years, Tchicai returned to Denmark in 1966 and founded a large workshop ensemble called Cadentia Nova Danica, which he led until 1971. Since, he has worked with the Pierre Dorge's New Jungle Orchestra, and has led multiple ensembles of his own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Johnson Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 This looks interesting...anyone going? Monday, March 24 | 8pm Fonda/Stevens Group with Michael Jefry Stevens, piano, Joe Fonda, double-bass, Herb Robertson, trumpet, Harvey Sorgen, drums International House Philadelphia, 3701 Chestnut Street $12 General Admission Event Description: With over 15 years of performing together in various ensembles the powerful acoustic NYC based jazz ensemble features the music of bassist Joe Fonda and pianist Michael Jefry Stevens performing with master percussionist Harvey Sorgen and the brilliant modern jazz trumpet legend Herb Robertson. Pianist and co-leader Michael Jefry Stevens has performed and/or recorded with Dave Douglas, Mark Feldman, Gerry Hemingway, Billy Martin, Pheeroan Aklaff, Leo Wadada Smith, Steve Turre, Cecil Bridgewater, Valery Ponomerev, Potato Valdez, Thomas Chapin, and Dominic Duval. His most recent releases include "The Equinox Trio: Dominic Duval" (Leo Records), The Fonda Stevens Group "Evolution" (Leo Records) and Stevens, Siegal and Ferguson "Panorama" (Imaginary Jazz). Bassist and co-leader Joe Fonda has developed an extensive international reputation over the last several years recording and touring with the world renowned Anthony Braxton including performances at some of the world's most prestigious jazz festivals including the North Sea Jazz Festival and the Istanbul International Jazz Festival. He is also featured bassist on numerous recording with Mr. Braxton including the famed Charlie Parker Project Recordings as well as the piano quartet recordings with Braxton on piano Mr. Fonda has performed with such notable musicians as Ken McIntyre, Charlie Persip, Lou Donaldson, Perry Robinson, Kenny Barron, Leo Smith, Curtis Fuller, Chico Hamilton, and others. He recently recorded his first solo bass CD and has released numerous CD's on the Konnex jazz label, Leo Records, and the Music and Arts label. More at http://www.arsnovaworkshop.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 My Name is Albert Ayler Thursday, Mar 06, 2008 7:00 PM EST at International House In 1962 free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler recorded his first album in Sweden. Eight years later he was found dead at 34 in New York?s East River. This new documentary follows the trail of Ayler from his native Cleveland by way of Sweden to New York, meeting family, friends and close colleagues. Ayler himself guides us with his voice and music. Seven years in the making, the film includes newly discovered footage of Ayler and band. $7.00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertrand Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Anyone going to see Wayne Shorter at the Kimmel center this Friday? Bertrand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 No, I have to go to Pittsburgh for a wedding. So bummed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted March 26, 2008 Report Share Posted March 26, 2008 My wife just called to let me know that we are leaving SATURDAY for Pittsburgh!!! So I'm going after all!!!! Wahoo!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertrand Posted March 26, 2008 Report Share Posted March 26, 2008 That's good news! I think there's still tickets. Any hotels to recommend in the area? I'm coming from DC with my mother, so I don't want to drive straight back to D.C. if I can avoid it. I'm psyched - I haven't seen Wayne in two years. Bertrand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted March 27, 2008 Report Share Posted March 27, 2008 PM sent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 I'll be at these two.... Saturday, May 3 | 7pm + 9pm William Parker's Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield with William Parker, bass Ursula Rucker, poetry Leena Conquest, voice Dave Burrell, piano Lewis Barnes, trumpet Darryl Foster, tenor saxophone Sabir Mateen, tenor saxophone Hamid Drake, drums The Painted Bride 230 Vine Street $25 General Admission Saturday, June 14 | 8pm Sonny Simmons + Bobby Few with Sonny Simmons, alto saxophone Bobby Few, piano Philadelphia Art Alliance 251 S. 18th Street $12 General Admission Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted April 6, 2008 Report Share Posted April 6, 2008 Two more shows to be aware of.... both happening at the Philadelphia Museum of Art as part of their "Art After 5" series.... Friday, May 23 Trio 3 - Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman, and Andrew Cyrille. Friday, June 13 Dave Burrell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Johnson Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 Dave Brubeck (and quartet) is playing tonight at the Kimmel Center. Anyone going? Brubeck was my entree to jazz via my father (when I was 4!), so there's a real soft spot in my heart for the man and his music (and believe it or not this is the first time I'll have ever seen him perform!). I know others here have different views of his work, but thought I'd drop the dime... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billyboy Posted April 22, 2008 Report Share Posted April 22, 2008 (edited) Anybody else going to see the Brad Mehldau Trio next Sunday (4/27) at the Annenberg Center at Penn? I've never seen him live, and am looking forward to the show. Technically, I think he's a great pianist, and I really enjoy his Radiohead and Nick Drake covers. Edited April 22, 2008 by billyboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted May 1, 2008 Report Share Posted May 1, 2008 This has the potential to be great...... Tuesday, May 6 | 8pm Marshall Allen / Weasel Walter Duo Celebrating Marshall Allen's 84th birthday! with Marshall Allen, alto saxophone Weasel Walter, drums Philadelphia Art Alliance 251 S. 18th Street $10 General Admission Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted May 8, 2008 Report Share Posted May 8, 2008 (edited) Last night at the Marshall Allen birthday gig they announced the following shows Sunny Murray, Pharoah Sanders, and three nights w/ Anthony Braxton*. Info on dates/venues forthcoming. Edit: and a few others I can't remember Edited May 8, 2008 by J.H. Deeley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted June 12, 2008 Report Share Posted June 12, 2008 Ars Nova Workshop presents: Saturday, June 14, 8pm SONNY SIMMONS + BOBBY FEW with Sonny Simmons, alto saxophone; and Bobby Few, piano Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th Street $12 General Admission Please join Ars Nova Workshop for a very rare Philadelphia performance featuring Sonny Simmons and Bobby Few. Saxophonist Sonny Simmons made a number of striking albums in the 1960s, first coming to attention with his debut recording “The Cry!” with the Prince Lasha Quintet. During this time, he made live appearances with Sonny Rollins, performed in sessions with Eric Dolphy, and recorded with John Coltrane's rhythm section - Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner and Jimmy Garrison - on "Illumination!” (Impulse). He also recorded with Charles Mingus, Anthony Braxton, Frank Lowe, Sunny Murray, Don Cherry and many others, and in 1966 he led his own group on two critically-acclaimed LPs for the legendary ESP-Disk label. Back in public eye after a significant time away from the stage, Simmons has recently performed with the Norwegian all-star unit Crimetime Orchestra (with Paal Nilssen-Love, Bugge Wesseltoft and Kjetil Møster) and released four excellent recordings on Jazzaway Records. He performed at Wire Magazine’s 25th Anniversary Festival in London and toured with the group Tight Meat (David Keenan and Alex Neilson). For this special performance he is reunited with Steve Lacy-collaborator and pianist Bobby Few, who first recorded with Booker Ervin on “The In Between” (Blue Note) and with Albert Ayler on “Music Is The Healing Force of the Universe” (Impulse). Read the Philadelphia City Paper preview: http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2008/06/12/soundadvice Read the Philadelphia Weekly preview: http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/articles...sic--live-music Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted July 1, 2008 Report Share Posted July 1, 2008 (edited) Next Friday July 11 8 PM at the Keswick Theatre for one night only!!! KENNY G, touring in support of his new Rhythm & Romance CD. Tickets are $56 & $46 Edited July 1, 2008 by J.H. Deeley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Johnson Posted July 1, 2008 Report Share Posted July 1, 2008 The Sonny Simmons show will pale by comparison. I'm so there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 Upcoming Ars Nova Workshop gigs..... Thursday, August 28 | 8pm Gjerstad/Nilssen-Love Duo featuring special guest Marshall Allen with Frode Gjerstad, alto saxophone/clarinets Paal Nilssen-Love, drums Marshall Allen, alto saxophone/EVI Philadelphia Art Alliance 251 S. 18th Street $12 General Admission Event Description: Frode Gjerstad draws upon the energy of the free-jazz continuum as defined by Ornette, Mingus, Dolphy and Coltrane. With over 20 recordings as a leader, Gjerstad has established himself as a major saxophonist on the international scene. He came to prominence with the John Stevens group in the 80s, and his subsequent trio work has included collaborations with Johnny Dyani, Kent Carter, William Parker, Rashied Bakr and Hamid Drake. Gjerstad has also collaborated with pianist Borah Bergman, performing frequently as a duo and also as trio with Evan Parker and later with Peter Brøtzmann. He has performed with English bassist Nicholas Stephens, Paul Rutherford, Terje Isungset, Louis Moholo and Danish guitarist, Hasse Poulsen. He performs with noise musician Lasse Marhaug, and was a founding member of the group Ultralyd which Following a year of performances, he left the band (because the sound level was unbearable for the old man!). And he left it to the youngsters to decide how loud the band should be. Still, he has continued playing with Morten J. Olsen, Anders Hana (Noxagt) and Kjetil Möster in other projects. His latest project is a quartet with US reed-man Sabir Mateen, Paal Nilssen-Love and Danish electric bassist, Peter Friis-Nielsen. Paal Nilssen-Love is one of Europe’s most active drummers and has established himself as a powerful and a dynamic musician through ongoing projects with Mats Gustafsson (The Thing), Ken Vandermark (School Days, FME, Powerhouse Sound), Raoul Björkenheim (Scorch Trio) and Peter Brötzmann (Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet), as well as with Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, Jim O’Rourke, Terrie Ex (OffOnOff), noise wizard Lasse Marhaug, and Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto. “Nilssen-Love is one of the most innovative, dynamic and versatile drummers in jazz!” (DownBeat Magazine) As a young musician, Marshall Allen (b.1924) performed with pianist Art Simmons, Don Byas and James Moody before enrolling in the Paris Conservatory of Music. After relocating to Chicago, Allen became a pupil of Sun Ra, subsequently joining the his Arkestra in 1958 and leading Sun Ra's formidable reed section for next 40 years (a role akin to the position Johnny Hodges held in the Duke Ellington Orchestra). 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. Allen assumed the position of meastro in 1995, following the ascension of Sun Ra 1993, and John Gilmore in 1995. Like his mentor, he is committed to the study, research, and development of Sun Ra's musical precepts. Wednesday, September 3 | 8pm Satoko Fujii ma-do with Satoko Fujii, piano Natsuki Tamura, trumpet Norikatsu Koreyasu, bass Akira Horikoshi, drums Rose Recital Hall Fisher-Bennett Hall University of Pennsylvania 34th and Walnut streets (southeast corner) $12 General Admission Event Description: Critics and fans alike hail pianist and composer Satoko Fujii as one of the most original voices in jazz today. She’s “a virtuoso piano improviser, an original composer and a band-leader who gets the best collaborators to deliver," says John Fordham in The Guardian. In concert and on over 35 albums as a leader or co-leader, the Tokyo resident synthesizes jazz, contemporary classical, avant-rock and Japanese folk music into an innovative music instantly recognizable as hers alone. Since she burst onto the scene 11 years ago after earning her graduate diploma from the New England Conservatory of Music, Fujii has led some of the most consistently creative ensembles in modern improvised music. Her trio with bassist Mark Dresser and drummer Jim Black has released five CDs, all of which earned places in critics’ year-end Top 10 lists. In 2001, she debuted an electrifying avant-rock quartet featuring Takeharu Hayakawa, The Ruins' Tatsuya Yoshida, and Natsuki Tamura, and their high-energy CDs were hailed by listeners worldwide. Fujii has also established herself as one of the world’s leading composers for large jazz ensembles. Since 1997, she has released a steady stream of acclaimed releases for large ensemble, culminating in 2006 when she simultaneously released four big band albums: one from her New York ensemble, and one each by three different Japanese bands. Her New York ensemble has included John Hollenbeck, Steven Bernstein, Tony Malaby, Ellery Eskelin, and many others. In addition to playing accordion in her husband trumpeter Natsuki Tamura’s Gato Libre quartet, she also performs in a duo with Tamura, as an unaccompanied soloist, and in ad hoc groupings with musicians working in different genres. She tours regularly appearing at festivals and clubs in the U.S., Canada, Japan, and Europe. Her ultimate goal: “I would love to make music that no one has heard before.” Thursday, September 4 | 8pm Todd Sickafoose's Blood Orange with Todd Sickafoose, double-bass John Ellis, saxophone & bass clarinet Mike Gamble, guitar others to be announced Philadelphia Art Alliance 251 S. 18th Street $12 General Admission Event Description: "He builds grooves from the ground up, but that's no impediment to the flow or buoyancy of his music...nothing outshines the collective sound. Sickafoose achieves a band identity with a rigorously focused imagination" -The New York Times "Ani DiFranco's secret weapon." -The New Yorker Please join us for the record release celebration of Tiny Resistors, Todd Sickafoose's new recording on Cryptogramophone. The record's robust arrangements feature an oversized band - two drummers, two guitarists, the bassist's battery of keyboard instruments, and violin, hitched to a 3 or sometimes 4-piece horn section. The bulk of the musicians are from Sickafoose's working New York band (Adam Levy, Mike Gamble, Shane Endsley, Ben Wendel, Alan Ferber, Skerik, Simon Lott, Allison Miller). Adding their magic are two guests: the inventive violinist and singer-songwriter Andrew Bird and iconic folksinger Ani DiFranco. The result is a mini-orchestra which gives weight and depth to Sickafoose's writing. Singing melodies slowly wind their way through the musicians, taking patient turns with each section. Other instruments form small polyrhythmic motors and churn along, developing at their own pace. There is a focused intensity but also a feeling that things might suddenly shift gears, as if the band was lighter on its feet than the listener realized. A Bay Area native, Todd Sickafoose spent some years in Los Angeles studying bass with Charlie Haden and composition with the great, late Mel Powell. Since then, he's been recording and performing with a ton of innovative folks and genre benders including Ani DiFranco, Don Byron, Trey Anastasio, Jenny Scheinman, Nels Cline, Ron Miles, Myra Melford, Adam Levy, Skerik, Stanton Moore, Bobby Previte, Scott Amendola, Will Bernard, Jessica Lurie, Erin McKeown, Anaïs Mitchell, Gina Leishman, Carla Bozulich, Noe Venable, Etienne de Rocher, James Carney, Erik Deutsch, Shane Endsley, Tony Furtado, and Darol Anger. Thursday, September 18 | 8pm Evans-Halvorson-Walter Trio with Weasel Walter, drums Peter Evans, trumpet Mary Halvorson, guitar The Rotunda 4012 Walnut Street Free Admission Event Description: Weasel Walter founded the The Flying Luttenbachers in Chicago in 1991 with late jazz cult figure Hal Russell. Over the years, the band has included noted Chicago musicians such as Ken Vandermark, Jeb Bishop, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Dylan Posa, while creating an uncompromising and mercurial body of abstract music drawing equally from no wave, death metal, free jazz, gamelan, noise music, hardcore punk and modern classical. Walter relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2003, where he formed the latest of many Luttenbachers lineups, remaining on percussion with the addition of bassist Mike Green (Burmese), and virtuoso guitarist Ed Rodriguez (ex-Colossamite, Gorge Trio, Deerhoof). Singular guitar phenomenon Mick Barr (Octis, Orthrelm) joined the group in 2005. The Flying Luttenbachers ceased to operate in late 2007. In addition to leading various free jazz ensembles under his own name, he is also a member of XBXRX and Burmese. Walter has collaborated with artists like Marlon Magas and Jim O’Rourke, Tom Smith in To Live and Shave in L.A., Henry Kaiser, Damon Smith, Vinny Golia, Joe Morris, Frank Gratkowski, and William Winant in addition to many influential underground rock bands including Bobby Conn, U.S. Maple, Cock E.S.P., Curse of the Birthmark, the Scissor Girls, Erase Errata, The Chicago Sound, Harry Pussy, Quintron, Sharon Cheslow, and Cheer-Accident, in addition to producing albums by the Coachwhips, Burmese, Total Shutdown, Arab on Radar and Glenn Branca. Mary Halvorson is a guitarist, composer and improviser living in Brooklyn. She grew up in Boston and studied jazz at Wesleyan University and the New School. Since 2000 she has been performing regularly in New York with various groups and has toured Europe and the U.S. with the Anthony Braxton Quintet (Live at the Royal Festival Hall, Leo Records) and Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant (Sister Phantom Owl Fish, Ipecac Recordings). She has also performed alongside Joe Morris, Nels Cline, John Tchicai, Elliott Sharp, Lee Ranaldo, Andrea Parkins, Marc Ribot, Tony Malaby, Oscar Noriega and John Hollenbeck. Current projects which Mary composes for and performs with include a chamber-music duo with violist Jessica Pavone (Prairies, Lucky Kitchen, 2005); The Mary Halvorson Trio with John Hebert and Ches Smith; and the avant-rock band People (People, I & Ear Records, 2005). She also performs regularly in ensembles led by Taylor Ho Bynum, Ted Reichman, Peter Evans, Tatsuya Nakatani, Jason Cady, Matthew Welch, Brian Chase and Curtis Hasselbring. Saturday, September 20 | 9pm Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog with Marc Ribot, el. guitar Shahzad Ismaily, el. bass Ches Smith, drums International House 3701 Chestnut Street $12 General Admission Event Description: Please join Ars Nova Workshop and International House for the Philadelphia debut of Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog, and the grand opening celebration of the Ibrahim Theater. Party Intellectuals is the debut recording from Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog, a post-everything band combining the energies of two masters of downtown New York City mayhem: guitarist/vocalist Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, John Zorn, Robert Plant, T-Bone Burnett, Marianne Faithful, Lounge Lizards, Elvis Costello) and bassist Shahzad Ismaily (Laurie Anderson, Will Oldham, Jolie Holland, Secret Chiefs 3), with West Coast indie/experimental genius drummer Ches Smith (Xiu Xiu, Secret Chiefs 3, Trevor Dunn’s Trio Convulsant). Ribot is a widely recognized original on the guitar, with influence across multiple genres of music, including rock, jazz, punk, Latin, soul, 80s No-Wave, avant-garde and noise. Ceramic Dog draws all of this, along with Ismaily and Smith’s indie / electronica experimentation, into the power-packed Party Intellectuals. Ceramic Dog grew out of a post 9-11 bucket list, when Ribot decided to find out what would happen if he did away with the hyphens haunting his earlier projects: the punk-Latin “Cubanos Postizos,” the punk-experimental “Shrek,” and the punk-Albert Ayler “Spiritual Unity.” It took several years of searching before Ribot found, in Ches Smith and Shahzad Ismaily, the rhythm section with the energy for The Thing itself. Says Ribot, “This is the first time since high school I’ve been in a real rock band. We actually get together to rehearse just for the fun of it, even when we don’t have gigs!” The name Ceramic Dog is from the French expression “chien de faïence,” meaning frozen with emotion – like bristling dogs the moment before they fight, or lovers immobilized in one another’s gaze. Live and on Party Intellectuals, the band aims at that intensity, creating hypnotic moments of ecstasy, violence, idiocy, beauty; in other words – pure Rock and Roll. Sunday, September 21 | 8pm Paradox Trio + Bojan Z with Bojan Z, piano Matt Darriau, saxophone/clarinet/ Kaval/Gaida Brad Shepik, guitars and Balkan strings Rufus Cappadocia, 5-string cello Seido Salifoski, dumbeks and percussion Philadelphia Art Alliance 251 S. 18th Street $12 General Admission Event Description: New York based Paradox Trio creates original music inspired by Balkan traditions and driven by an improvisational Downtown New York edge. For over 12 years, the ensemble has been notorious for their high energy concerts and their innovative exploration of Balkan, Gypsy, Middle Eastern and Klezmer musics. They were one of the first groups on the NY scene fusing Balkan and jazz elements - cutting across stylistic and geographic boundaries creating an unusual and eclectic sound - redefining the concept "world beat". Gambit, their fourth CD, is now out on the ENJA label and features the Bulgarian kaval virtuoso Theodosii Spassov. This rare appearance will feature the great Serbian/French pianist Bojan Z. Saxophonist, clarinetist, ethnic-woodwind specialist and composer Matt Darriau has made several innovative contributions to the New York music scene. His background in the fertile and eclectic milieu of the New England Conservatory of Music's Third Stream Program in the early 1980's, and the continued practice of Balkan, Klezmer and Celtic folk idioms, have helped shape his esthetic and passion for creating new and unusual music. He is active as composer-musician in the Klezmatics, Ballin' The Jack, Roberto Rodriguez Septet, Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars and his recently formed Yusef Lateef project and the Recycled Waltz Orchestra, Disastro Totale (with Yuri Lemeshev of Gogol Bordello). Five-string cellist, Rufus Cappadocia is both a musical maverick to the bone and one of the leading voices of cutting edge cello today. His technique and musicianship inspire awe in even the most discerning critics, who have characterized his playing as “powerful; exploring territory that is positively otherworldly.” He has toured throughout the Americas and Europe with both fringe and famous groups and is celebrated for his unique collaborations with artists from across the globe - from the Balkans to the Caribbean, from West Africa to North America. Originally from Seattle, guitarist Brad Shepik has toured the world and recorded with Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band, Joey Baron’s Killer Joey, Pachora, Dave Douglas' Tiny Bell Trio and Simon Shaheen. He leads his own groups, including his Trio. Other musical associations include performances and/or recordings with Carla Bley's Escalator Over the Hill, Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, Yuri Yunakov's Bulgarian Wedding Band, Tim Berne and Kenny Werner. Brad is a prolific composer and several of his prices are featured in Paradox Trio’s repertoire. In recent years he has added Turkish Saz, and Portuguese guitar to the groups sound. Macedonian-born percussionist and dumbek virtuoso Seido Salifoski plays music from his Rom (Gypsy) lineage and Balkan traditions. He is the foremost dumbek player in the New York area and has performed extensively for the past 12 years with leading Eastern European and N.Y. artists including Bulgarian clarinetist Ivo Papazov, Husni Omar Faruk, and has recorded and toured with Yuri Yanakov. Since 1988, Bojan Zulfikarpasic has established himself as a fixture on the French jazz scene. For years, he has been one of the most sought-after accompanists because his skill at toeing the line in a group is just as great as his talent at stepping out of the framework and challenging accepted forms. Henri Texier, Michel Portal, and Julien Lourau can all testify to the contributions made to their music by this tempered rebel pianist. Bojan Z won the first soloist prize at the Concours de La Défense in 1990, became a decorated Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2002, but perhaps it’s the title of Django d’Or that suits his personality best. Like his illustrious elder, this Bosnian simultaneously embraces both popular and classical musical styles, puts his own personal stamp on them, a rhythmic signature if you will, while managing to preserve their harmonic and melodic treasures. A musician is a melding of the training imbibed from others, a composer whose universe is as singular as it is full of multiplicity, a leader of men and projects. A handful of albums provides ample testimony to his success at this, whether single or group endeavors: Quartet, Yopla, Koreni, Solobsession, Transpacifik… All done with Label Bleu, original blues. So much for a basic summary about this artistic personality. Friday, October 10 | 8pm Anthony Braxton Falling River Quartet with Anthony Braxton, alto/soprano/ sopranino saxophone + contrabass clarinet Erica Dicker, violin Sally Norris, piano Katherine Young, bassoon Settlement Music School 416 Queen Street $35 General Admission All ticket holders will receive free admission to the October 11 brass music concert Event Description: Composer and saxophonist Anthony Braxton (b.1945) attended the Chicago School of Music and Roosevelt University. He is a founding member of Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), formed the Creative Construction Company with violinist Leroy Jenkins and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and recorded the seminal For Alto, the first-ever recording for solo saxophone. Subsequent collaborations included ‘Circle’ with Chick Corea and Dave Holland, Italian free improvisation group Musica Elettronica Viva, guitarist Derek Bailey, drummer Max Roach, and pianist Hank Jones. Braxton's steadiest vehicle during the '80s and '90s – and what is often considered his most remarkable ensemble - was his quartet with pianist Marilyn Crispell, bassist Mark Dresser, and drummer Gerry Hemingway. He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Tri-Centric Foundation, Inc., a New York-based not-for-profit corporation including an ensemble of some 38 musicians, four to eight vocalists, and computer-graphic video artists assembled to perform his compositions. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and a tenured professor at Wesleyan University. His teaching has become as much a part of his creative life as his own work, and includes training and leading performance ensembles and private tutorials in his own music, computer and electronic music, and history courses in the music of his major musical influences, from the Western Medieval composer Hildegard of Bingen to contemporary masters with whom he himself has worked (e.g. Cage, Coleman). A seasoned master, Anthony Braxton's name continues to stand for the broadest integration of such oft-conflicting poles as "creative freedom" and "responsibility," discipline and energy, and vision of the future and respect for tradition in the current cultural debates about the nature and place of the Western and African-American musical traditions in America. Anthony Braxton is widely and critically acclaimed as a seminal figure in the music of the late 20th and early 21st century. His work, both as saxophonist and composer, has broken new conceptual and technical ground in the trans-African and trans-European (a.k.a. “jazz” and “American Experimental“) musical traditions in North America. Braxton’s extensions of instrumental technique, timbre, meter and rhythm, voicing and ensemble make-up, harmony and melody, and improvisation and notation have revolutionized modern American music. Braxton’s five decades worth of recorded output is kaleidescopic and prolific, with well over 200 recordings to his credit. He has won prestigious awards and critical praise, including the MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship, and is a tenured professor at Wesleyan University, one of the world’s centers of world music. Saturday, October 11 | 8pm Composition 103 (for Seven Trumpets) with Taylor Ho Bynum, Tim Byrnes, Forbes Graham, Sam Hoyt, John McDonough, Nicole Rampersaud, Nate Wooley, trumpet Composition 169 (for Brass Quintet) with Taylor Ho Bynum, trumpet Nate Wooley, trumpet Mark Taylor, French horn Reut Regev, trombone Jay Rozen, tuba Anthony Braxton, conductor St. Mark's Church 1525 Locust Street $10 General Admission Event Description: Ars Nova Workshop is honored to present two major compositions for brass ensembles conducted by Anthony Braxton, one of today’s most innovative and acclaimed living composers. Anthony Braxton’s Composition 103 (for seven trumpets) features 145 pages of notated music and choreography for seven costumed instrumentalists. Composed in 1983, the 45-minute piece was first performed in 2005, in a fully staged and costumed realization at Wesleyan University celebrating Braxton’s 60th birthday. This ANW performance will be the Philadelphia premiere, and only the third performance anywhere, of this major work. Braxton’s Composition 169 is one of the seminal pieces in the composer’s oeuvre, yet has never been performed by the intended instrumentation. Originally written for brass quintet (on swivel chairs), 169 consists of an hour of intense and unrelenting rhythmic complexity, contrasting with sections of lush, static harmonies. Braxton never found an ensemble brave enough to tackle the imposing piece, so instead has performed the work in configurations ranging from saxophone quartet to full orchestra. The ANW performance marks the second time this composition will be staged with its original instrumentation. Anthony Braxton is widely and critically acclaimed as a seminal figure in the music of the late 20th and early 21st century. His work, both as saxophonist and composer, has broken new conceptual and technical ground in the trans-African and trans-European (a.k.a. “jazz” and “American Experimental“) musical traditions in North America. Braxton’s extensions of instrumental technique, timbre, meter and rhythm, voicing and ensemble make-up, harmony and melody, and improvisation and notation have revolutionized modern American music. Braxton’s five decades worth of recorded output is kaleidescopic and prolific, with well over 200 recordings to his credit. He has won prestigious awards and critical praise, including the MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship, and is a tenured professor at Wesleyan University, one of the world’s centers of world music. Taylor Ho Bynum is a performer on cornet and various brass instruments, composer, bandleader, and interdisciplinary collaborator with artists in dance, film, and theater. Bynum is committed to the further exploration of the extensions of composition and improvisation pioneered by 20th century masters like Ellington, Ives, and the AACM, but with a third millennial flavor and a trickster sensibility. He presently leads his Trio, his Sextet, and the nine-piece ensemble SpiderMonkey Strings, and has developed a body of solo music for cornet and duo work with dancer/choreographer Rachel Bernsen. In addition to leading his own groups, Bynum regularly performs with some of the most innovative figures in creative music, such as Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor, and has ongoing collaborations with such artists as Bill Lowe, Jason Kao Hwang, Joe Morris, Miya Masaoka, Stephen Haynes, Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng, Nate Wooley, Tomas Fujiwara, and the Fully Celebrated Orchestra. He is featured on over forty recordings, and has performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. His work with Anthony Braxton spans over ten years and ranges from duo to orchestra, with recent tours throughout Europe and North America and several new recordings. Their CD Duets (Wesleyan) 2002 has received wide critical acclaim. Bynum's 2005 CD with SpiderMonkey Strings, Other Stories (Three Suites), has been described as “the best album of the year” (All About Jazz) and “beautiful music and challenging throughout” (The Wire). Two new CDs were released in Spring ’07: True Events (duo with Tomas Fujiwara; The New York Times calls it “a scintillating album... a duologue crackling with improvisational energy but guided by compositional prescription”), and The Middle Picture (with his Sextet and Trio; which received “four stars” from Downbeat Magazine). This performance is made possible by the generous support of the Philadelphia Music Project, a program of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by The University of the Arts. Thursday, October 16 | 8pm Bad Touch with Loren Stillman, alto saxophone Nate Radley, guitar Gary Versace, organ Ted Poor, drums The Rotunda 4012 Walnut Street Free Admission Event Description: Bad Touch is a new music collective made up of alto saxophonist Loren Stillman, guitarist Nate Radley, organist Gary Versace and drummer Ted Poor. Originally formed under the highly unique, yet controversial name The Loren Stillman Quartet or The Loren Stillman Organ Project, Stillman relinquished control in 2007 when his band mates staged an uprising and voiced their interest in having a cooperative leadership role in the foursome. Being the sociably minded person that he is, Stillman willingly ceded his responsibilities as band leader and became ecstatic in knowing that the risk of leading a band would now be dispersed amongst four rather than one. Bad Touch was formed under the “power in number’s principal,” “Many hands make light work,” they say, and so their goal is to share in all band responsibilities whether it financial, musical or organizational. In a musical age of predominantly solo careers and diluted concepts of what it means to be a “band,” Bad Touch has decidedly set out to create a voice and personality as a collective. It is in this setting of mutual commitment and friendship that the music holds the most potential and is the most fulfilling. As side musicians, each have collaborated, recorded and traveled internationally with some of the most established names in jazz; including Bill Frisell, Paul Motian, Cuong Vu, Chris Potter, Ben Monder, Billy Hart, John Scofield, Maria Schneider, John Abercrombie and Charlie Haden. Bad Touch-Like a Magic Kiss will mark the first self-release by the collective, pending fall 2008. It features songs composed by Loren Stillman and Ted Poor, the group has planned a Colorado and New England tour around the release of the new record. Friday, October 24 | 8pm Fred van Hove solo piano Philadelphia Art Alliance 251 S. 18th Street $12 General Admission Event Description: Born in 1937, Fred Van Hove studied piano, theory and harmony at the Music Academy in Belgium and experimented with several jazz styles and dance music before making the transition to free improvisation with local musicians (Zinzen, Van De Ven and Wanders). 1966 saw the beginning of Van Hove's collaboration with Peter Brötzmann, initially in quartet or larger groupings (e.g. Machine Gun), then stabilizing in a trio format (with Han Bennink) for five to six years; in 1995 contact with Brötzmann was renewed when the two played a duo as part of the 'Pool' at the Free Music XXII in Antwerp in August. His first solo concerts were played at the Avant-garde festival Gravensteen, Ghent, in 1970 and Jazz Middleheim, in Antwerp in 1971. In 1972, working as a duo with Belgian sax player Cel Overberghe, he refused to play at the Middelheim festival as a result of a dispute over the grossly differential fees being paid to visiting American musicians on the one hand and European musicians on the other. This dispute led to the foundation of the musicians collective WIM vzw, Werkgroep Improviserende Musici, whose aim was to improve the situation of free music in Belgium. Fred Van Hove has been Chairman of WIM since then. From 1976, and in collaboration with, for example, De Andere Film Antwerp & Ghent, Dommelhof Neerpeilt (Belgium), and Filmhaus Berlin, he has provided solo accompaniment to silent movies, particularly experimental films of the 1920s (Griffiths, Porter, Murnau, Lang, Dreyer, among others) as well as comedies and animations. He has also performed regularly with duo partners who have included: Steve Lacy; Vinko Globokar; Lol Coxhill; Albert Mangelsdorf; Annick Nozati; Phil Wachsmann; André Goodbeek; Paul Van Gyseghem. From the end of the 1970s, Van Hove formed a number of groups utilizing the initials MLA (Musica Libera Antverpiae) and MLB (Musica Libera Belgicae) or similar. The first MLA, formed in 1978, was a group of variable composition from a nucleus of seven musicians: three strings; three brass; piano. This undertook several tours and festivals (e.g. at Jazz Middelheim, and London). In 1979, MLA Blek comprised Marc Charig on trumpet and Radu Malfatti and Paul Rutherford on trombones and toured Italy. Formed in 1980, though recorded in 1982, the ML DD 4 consisted of Marc Charig, Phil Wachsmann and Günther 'Baby' Sommer on percussion and toured through several ex-DDR European countries. In 1983, Fred Van Hove was invited to Berlin by the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) as artist in residence for six months, April to October. During this time he took the opportunity to play concerts with MLA, MLA Blek and ML DD 4, but also to play extensively with local musicians in a series of MLBB: Berliner Begegnungen or Berlin Encounters. In the mid-80s, Fred Van Hove undertook several tours of Japan playing solo and duos with a wide variety of musicians including percussionist Sabu Toyozumi, bass player Tetsu Saitoh; and US and European musicians such as: Ned Rothenberg; Douglas Ewart; Peter Kowald; Hans Reichel; Evan Parker; and Barry Guy. A three-day Van Hove festival was held at the concert hall Space Who, Saitama, celebrating its 5th anniversary. The Belgisch Pianokwartet was formed in 1984, four pianists at 2 grands, originally consisting of Walter Hus, Christian Leroy and Eddy Loozen, but more recently with Marilyn Crispell replacing Hus and the group name becoming 't Pianokwartet. The MLB III trio with André Goudbeek, saxophone, and Ivo Vander Borght, percussion was formed around the same time, recorded in 1988 and toured the former DDR (with trumpeter Andy Altenfeldert), Spain and the Netherlands. Since 1988 the trio with the French singer Annick Nozati and the German trombonist Johannes Bauer has recorded and toured and, from 1991, 't Nonet has performed, comprising: Marc Charig or Axel Dörner, trumpet; Annick Nozati, voice; Paul Rutherford and Johannes Bauer, trombones; Benoit Viredaz, tuba, Evan Parker or John Butcher and André Goudbeek, saxophones; and Ivo Vander Borght, percussion. Cooperation with other musicians has included Luc Houtkamp, Connie Bauer and Wolfgang Fuchs. Saturday, October 25 | 8pm Paul Bley Duo with Paul Bley, piano Richard Poole, drums International House Philadelphia 3701 Chestnut Street $25 General Admission Event Description: “In the final reckoning, the pianist Paul Bley’s influence over the last 50 years of jazz - and it continues - will be enormous...Mr. Bley’s music runs on a mixture of deep historical knowledge and its own inviolable principles."-Ben Ratliff, New York Times Paul Bley (born in Montreal 1932) is one of the most influential pianists in the entire history of jazz. While still in his twenties, he played with Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Chet Baker, and many others. At 21, he made his first album as a leader for Charles Mingus’s Debut label, with Mingus himself on bass and Art Blakey on drums. Briefly based in California in the late 1950s, his quintet of 1958 helped introduce the talents of Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins to the jazz world. In the early 1960s, as a member of the Jimmy Giuffre Trio and in his own groups, Bley brought chamber music clarity into the new domain of free jazz. Bley was a founder member of the Jazz Composers Guild, from which the Jazz Composers Orchestra would subsequently evolve. Bley was amongst the first artists to appear on ECM, and through the 1970s devoted most of his energies to his own label IAI which albums included the first-ever recordings of Pat Metheny and Jaco Pastorius (as members of Paul’s quartet). In the 1980s he returned to ECM and toured the world with a new quartet with Bill Frisell, John Surman and Paul Motian, and later recording with Evan Parker and Barre Phillips, Gary Peacock and Paul Motian. In 2001, The National Library of Canada purchased Bley’s vast archive of tapes and documents, and established the Paul Bley Fonds, an important historical resource for jazz scholars. For this very rare Philadelphia appearance, he is joined by Boston-based percussionist Richard Poole. Sunday, November 2 | 8pm Joe McPhee Trio X + Mikolaj Trzaska with Joe McPhee, saxophone/pocket trumpet Dominic Duval, double-bass Jay Rozen, drums Mikolaj Trzaska, saxophone/bass clarinet International House Philadelphia 3701 Chestnut Street $12 General Admission Event Description: Since his emergence on the creative jazz and new music scene in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Joe McPhee has been a deeply emotional composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist, as well as a thoughtful conceptualist and theoretician. Born on November 3, 1939, in Miami, FL, McPhee first began playing the trumpet at age eight. McPhee continued on that instrument through high school and then in a U.S. Army band stationed in Germany; during his Army stint, he was first introduced to traditional jazz. Clifford Thornton ’s Freedom and Unity , recorded in 1967 and released in 1969 on the Third World label, is the first recording on which McPhee appears. In 1968, he began playing the saxophone and since then has investigated a wide range of instruments (including pocket trumpet, clarinet, valve trombone, and piano), with active involvement in both acoustic and electronic music. McPhee’s first recordings as leader appeared on the CjR label, founded in 1969 by painter Craig Johnson . These include Underground Railroad by the Joe McPhee Quartet in 1969, Nation Time by Joe McPhee in 1970, and Trinity by Joe McPhee, Harold E. Smith and Mike Kull in 1971. By 1974, Swiss entrepreneur Werner X. Uehlinger had become aware of McPhee’s recordings and unreleased tapes. Uehlinger was so impressed that he decided to form the Hat Hut label as a vehicle to release McPhee’s work. The label’s first LP was Black Magic Man , which had been recorded by McPhee in 1970. Black Magic Man was followed by The Willisau Concert and the landmark solo recording Tenor , released by Hat Hut in 1976. The earliest recordings by McPhee are often informed by the revolutionary movements of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s; for example, Nation Time is a tribute to poet Amiri Baraka and Joe McPhee & Survival Unit II at WBAI’s Free Music Store, 1971 (finally released as a Hat Art CD in 1996) is a sometimes anguished post- Coltrane cry for freedom and liberation. As the 1980s began and with a number of Hat Art recordings under his belt, McPhee met composer, accordionist, performer, and educator Pauline Oliveros , whose theories of “deep listening” strengthened his interests in extended instrumental and electronic techniques. McPhee also read Edward de Bono ’s book Lateral Thinking: A Textbook of Creativity, which presents concepts for solving problems by “disrupting an apparent sequence and arriving at the solution from another angle.” de Bono ’s theories inspired McPhee to apply this “sideways thinking” to his own work in creative improvisation, resulting in the concept of “Po Music.” McPhee describes “Po Music” as a “process of provocation” that can be used to “move from one fixed set of ideas in an attempt to discover new ones.” He concludes “It is a Positive, Possible, Poetic Hypothesis.” The results of McPhee’s application of Po principles to creative improvisation can be heard on several Hat Art recordings, including Topology , Linear B , and Oleo & a Future Retrospective . Although his work was well documented on Hat Hut, McPhee remained a relative unknown in his home country. During the 1990’s, McPhee finally began to attract wider attention from the North American creative jazz community. He has since been performing and recording prodigiously as both leader and collaborator, appearing on such labels as CIMP, Okkadisk, Music & Arts, and Victo. In 1996, 20 years after Tenor , Hatology released As Serious As Your Life , another solo recording (this time featuring McPhee performing on various instruments). McPhee also began a fruitful relationship with Chicago reedman Ken Vandermark , engaging in a set of improvisational dialogues with Vandermark and bassist Kent Kessler on the 1998 Okkadisk CD A Meeting in Chicago . The Vandermark connection also led to McPhee’s appearance on the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Octet/Tentet three-CD box set released by Okkadisk that same year. As the 1990s drew to a close, McPhee discovered two like-minded improvisers in bassist Dominic Duval and drummer Jay Rosen . The trio premiered at the Vision Jazz Festival, but the concert went unnoticed by the press; McPhee, Duval , and Rosen therefore decided that an apt title for the group would be Trio X . A number of Trio X recordings, have since been released on the CIMP and CADENCE JAZZ RECORDS labels, and the band has received favorable critical notice for these, as well as for its live concert and festival appearances. Mikolaj Trzaska is a saxophonist, bass clarinetist and composer. He is one of the founders of the yass scene in Poland (yass is an improvised avant-garde of jazz music). He works together with many recognized musicians and plays in different line-ups. His solo career is an unceasing journey and concert. He is inspired by European jazz - he admires Sclavis - the great personality of French jazz. Thanks to cooperation with Peter Friis Nielsen, Peter Ole Jorgensen and and Peeter Uuskyla he feels closer to Scandinavia as well. Up till now he has collaborated with Lester Bowie, Peter Brötzmann, Tomasz Stanko, John Tchikai, Noel Akchote, Joe Giardullo, Peter Ole Jorgensen, Clementine Gasser, Jan Luc Cappozzo, Adam Pieronczyk, Leszek Mozdzer. He has recorded more than 30 albums, half of them are his own, self composed projects. Considered one of the best Polish jazz musicians he performs all over Europe. Sponsored by International House Philadelphia. You can purchase tix at their website: http://arsnovaworkshop.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 From the Philadelphia Music Project homepage.... International House Philadelphia received $40,000 to present “Tete-a-tete” in collaboration with Ars Nova Workshop. The five-concert series features duo performances by Tony Conrad and John Cale, Pharoah Sanders and Hamid Drake, Mats Gustaffson and Thurston Moore, The Paul Bley Duo, and Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid. Collectively, this series of duets showcases a cross-section of experimental, improvisational, and exploratory music from the past 40 years. Ars Nova Workshop received $40,000 to present “Free/Form: Composer Portraits,” a six-concert series featuring the work of three composer/musicians: Andrew Hill (1937-2007), Julius Hemphill (1940-1995) and Anthony Braxton (1945- ). The series will feature rare appearances from past collaborators, new interpretations, and many Philadelphia debuts, all in an effort to present the compositional breadth of Hill, Hemphill, and Braxton. Performing artists taking part in the project are the Nels Cline Ensemble, trumpeter Ron Horton and Ensemble, pianist Ursula Oppens, the Daedalus String Quartet, the Rites Quartet, the Julius Hemphill Saxophone Choir, the Anthony Braxton Brass Quintet, the Anthony Braxton Trumpet Sextet, the Anthony Braxton Diamond Curtain Wall Trio, and Bobby Zankel and the Warriors of the Wonderful Sound. MacArthur Fellow Anthony Braxton will visit with a new ensemble and conduct two compositions performed only once to date: Composition 103 (for seven trumpets), which includes choreography for seven costumed instrumentalists, and one of Braxton’s seminal pieces, Composition 169 (for brass quintet). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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