Matthew Shipp in Austin 2-4

epistrophy arts · February 1, 2006

ECFA MUSIC PRESENTS: FROM NYC

MATTHEW SHIPP – SOLO PIANO

WSG

THE ECFA TRIO:

Carl Smith-Tenor Sax

Holland Hopson-Soprano Sax

Jason Friedrich-Drums

ECFA is at 8pm

MATT SHIP IS AT 9PM

He will be playing in Austin promoting his new solo CD “One” on the Thirsty Ear Blues Series Label.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4th 2006 AT

BALLET AUSTIN (3002 GUADALUPE ST.)

AUSTIN, TEXAS

10 $ admission at the door.

512-220-8889 for more info. or europeanechoes@hotmail.com

Matt Shipp Bio:

With his unique and recognizable style, pianist Matthew Shipp worked and recorded vigorously during the 1990s, creating music in which free jazz and modern classical intertwine. He first became known in the early '90s as the pianist in the David S. Ware Quartet, and soon began leading his own dates ‹ most often including Ware bandmate, leading bassist William Parker ‹ and recording a number of duets with a variety of musicians, from the legendary Roscoe Mitchell to violinist Mat Maneri, who began appearing on recordings in the 1990s. Through his range of live and recorded performances, and unswerving individual development, Shipp came to be regarded as a prolific and respected voice in creative music by the decade's close.

Born in the 1960s and raised in Wilmington, DE, Matthew Shipp grew up around '50s jazz recordings. He began playing piano at the young age of five, and decided to focus on jazz by the time he was 12. Shipp played on a Fender Rhodes in rock bands while privately devouring recordings by a variety of jazz players. His first mentor was a man in his hometown named Sunyata, who had an enthusiasm for a variety of studies in addition to music. Shipp later studied music theory and improvisation under Clifford Brown's teacher Robert "Boisey" Lawrey, as well as classical piano and bass clarinet for the school band. After one year at the University of Delaware, Shipp left and took lessons with Dennis Sandole for a short time, after which he attended the New England Conservatory of Music for two years.

Shipp moved to N.Y.C. in 1984 and soon met bassist William Parker, among others. Both were playing with tenor saxophonist Ware by 1989, and debuted as a recording artist in a duo with alto player Rob Brown. Shipp married singer Delia Scaife around 1990. He then went on to lead his own trio with Parker and drummers Whit Dickey and Susie Ibarra. Shipp has led dates for a number of labels, including FMP, No More, Eremite, Thirsty Ear, Silkheart, and more. In 2000, Shipp began acting as curator for Thirsty Ear's Blue Series. This excellent series hosted a number of Shipp's own recordings, as well as the recordings of William Parker, Tim Berne, Roy Campbell, Craig Taborn, Spring Heel Jack, and Mat Maneri. The following year saw the release of Nu Bop, an exploration into traditional jazz.

ECFA MUSIC PRESENTS:

“RISING TONES CROSS” (1984)

A film by Ebba Jahn.

with

Charles Gayle, Peter Kowald

William Parker Ensemble

John Zorn Duo

Billy Bang’s Forbidden Planet

Charles Tyler Quintet

Don Cherry & The Sound Unity Festival Orchestra Jemeel Moondoc Sextet Irene Schweizer Duo Peter Brötzmann Ensemble (Film Length : 111 minutes) This film is a documentary composition of new jazz, New York as the city that generates it, and the musicians playing it. The thoughts of the saxophonist Charles Gayle and the bass players William Parker and Peter Kowald from Germany accompany the film. Shot on 16mm, this film remains one of a kind until today.

Das Vivian Mädchen:

Carl Smith-Tenor Sax

Jonathan Horne-Guitar

Matt Armistead-Drums, John Donovan-Bass

plays at 8pm

“RISING TONES CROSS” IS AT 9PM

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26th 2006 AT

Green Muse (519 W. OLTORF ST.)

AUSTIN, TEXAS

Free admission. Donations accepted.

Contact europeanechoes@hotmail.com for more info.

You can also go to www.EbbaJahn.com for more info. about the film.

& JULY 14 2006 Carl Smith will be playing in Berlin at Galerie Scherer 8.

ECFA bios…

Saxophonist Carl Smith is a performer, composer, educator and organizer within a diverse community of creative musicians. Carl has studied creative music making privately with Frank Gratkowski, Jack Wright, Tina Marsh, Sabir Mateen, Assif Tsahar, Alex Coke, Rob Brown, Charles Gayle and Lou Grassi.

Carl has also performed around the US, Canada and Mexico with musicians from across North America, Europe and Japan, including Peter Kowald, Daniel Carter, Roy Campbell, Blowfly, Faruq Z. Bey, Dennis Gonzalez, Wadada Leo Smith and Gunda Gottschalk, among others.

As an organizer, Smith has hosted Austin performances by international creative music artists. Beginning in January of 2004, Carl Smith’s monthly ECFA Creative Music Series premiered at the Rhizome Collective in East Austin, and continues at the Austin Music Co-op in Central Austin.

Carl is also organizer of The ECFA trio, which is the main vehicle for his musical ideas. This group has, in the last year, presented concerts highlighting the music of John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, Steve Lacy & Thelonius Monk. ECFA has also released two full-length CDs, one (Die

Faden) on the Texas label Pecan Crazy Records, and one (Die Mitte) on the French label Lenka Lente. A third CD (Der WolkeWald) is due to be out mid 2006.

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Jason Friedrich (drums) was born in Houston, and now resides in Austin where he studied music with the late A.D. Mannion. Jason is currently playing with The Dave Biller Quartet, The David Chenu Quartet, Die ECFA Trio, Bonnie Whitmore, Chris Vestre, Beau Sample and the Impressment Gang, and Tacks, The Boy Disaster.

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Holland Hopson is a composer, improviser, and electronic artist. As an instrumentalist he performs on soprano saxophone, clawhammer banjo, electronics, boomboxes, and metronomes. He hopes someday to play the musical saw. Holland has performed with Thomas Buckner, George Lewis, Neil Rolnick, and Ladonna Smith, among others. He has held residencies at STEIM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Experimental Music Studios, Krakow and Katowice, Poland; Sonic Arts Research, Vancouver, Canada, and Harverstworks Digital Media Arts, New York, where he developed a sound installation based on Marcel Duchamp’s "With Hidden Noise". In 1993-1994 Holland recorded environmental sounds on four continents and in over a dozen countries as a fellow of the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. Holland is currently recording the sounds of planes flying over head, and whittling down the last World Series broadcasts to one sustained roar of the crowd.

-Carl Smith

http://www.ecfamusic.com

Contact: Carl Smith

Phone: 512-220-8889 or

europeanechoes@hotmail.com

For more information, please see http://www.ecfamusic.com, call Carl at 512.220.8889, or email him at europeanechoes@hotmail.com.