Andrew D'Angelo

[Free For All]

Someone sent this to me, just thought I'd pass it on. I've heard him several times w/Matt Wilson, he's a wonderful player. So sorry to hear about this.

SAXOPHONIST ANDREW D'ANGELO HAS BRAIN TUMOR

On Friday, January 25, 2008 world-renowned saxophonist/composer

Andrew D'Angelo suffered a major seizure while driving in Brooklyn, NY.

Tests in the hospital revealed a large tumor in his brain. Andrew will

undergo brain surgery at some point in the next few weeks. At this

time, it is believed that the tumor is not cancerous, but this will not

be confirmed until a biopsy is performed.

Like many Americans, Andrew has no health insurance. A fund has

been established to help with the costs of his surgery and recovery.

Donations can be sent via PayPal to donate@andrewdangelo.com. We deeply

appreciate any efforts that can be made to spread the word about

Andrew's situation.

Benefit concerts are currently being planned for New York City and

Boston. More information about these concerts will be posted on

www.andrewdangelo.com as soon as it is available.

Andrew D'Angelo, born 1966 in Seattle, Washington is one of the key

members of Brooklyn's avant-garde jazz community. His work as a

composer, performer, and bandleader has been a pivotal influence on his

peers, as well as on younger generations of musicians. Andrew first

achieved worldwide notoriety as a member of Human Feel with his

longtime friends Jim Black, Chris Speed, and Kurt Rosenwinkel. After

moving to Brooklyn in 1986 he joined the downtown music community

centered around the Knitting Factory, working with musicians like Mark

Dresser, Erik Friedlander, Bobby Previte, and many other leading

artists. He is also currently a member of the Matt Wilson Quartet and

Hilmar Jensson's band Tyft. Skirl Records released "Skadra Degis," the

debut of Andrew's trio with Jim Black and Trevor Dunn on January 31,

2008.

For more information, please visit www.andrewdangelo.com.

Please take a moment to sign Andrew's guestbook and wish him well.

[Cyril]

Donations can be sent via PayPal at: donate@andrewdangelo.com.

http://www.andrewdangelo.com/donate.php

More info: http://www.andrewdangelo.com/

[robviti]

years ago andrew worked at the tower records in boston, back when they actually had a jazz dept. a very funny and helpful guy, and a hell of an alto player. i saw human feel play a few times back then and he and the rest of the band were smokin'. please help if you can.

[AndrewHill]

Just saw today that Peter Brotzmann's My Space posted a bulletin bringing attention to Andrew's cause. It is the same bulletin posted above, but I think its great that this story will get wider exposure considering that Brotzmann has over 3000 friends at his site.

Edited February 6, 2008 by Holy Ghost

[Cyril]

Andrew D’Angelo : BENEFIT CONCERTS in Belgium

february 27, the Buster - Antwerp

http://www.busterpodium.be/

march 5, Hot Club du Gand - Gent

http://www.hotclubdegand.be/

Andrew D’Angelo: BENEFIT CONCERT in the Nederlands

Sunday 17th of Februari Benefitconcert for Andrew!

Starts at 1900 o’clock in the BADCUYP - AMSTERDAM!!!

-The Black Napkins

-Bram Stadhouders & Onno Govaert DUO

-Roberto Pianca, Oliver Naumann, Luis Candeias

-Jason Alder

-Natalia Dominguez Rangel

-Bastian & Nils Weinhold en Jonas Ganzenmüller

-Santiago Botero + Band

http://www.badcuyp.nl

Buy the cd “Skadra Degis”. All goes to the Andrew D’Angelo medical fund.

More info: http://freejazz-stef.blogspot.com/2008/01/...egis-skirl.html

[Guest Bill Barton]

Earshot Jazz and Cuong Vu have organized a benefit concert in Seattle.

It's Wednesday, April 9, 7:30 p.m., at The Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., 4th floor. 206-547-6763 for tickets and information.

Featured musicians will include:

Cuong Vu

Bill Frisell

Wayne Horvitz

Robin Holcomb

Eyvind Kang

Greg Sinibaldi

Andrew Swanson

Luke Bergman

Chris Icasiano

Aaron Otheim

[Guest Bill Barton]

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[Guest Bill Barton]

Up again for Seattleites and Pacific Northwesterners...

[Guest Bill Barton]

Wednesday night’s Andrew D’Angelo Benefit Concert at Seattle’s Chapel Performance Space drew a full-house, standing room only crowd. That’s good news indeed for Andrew and his family and a credit to the Seattle jazz community. It is indeed a community in the true sense of the word.

After being introduced by Earshot Jazz Executive Director John Gilbreath, Andrew’s brother Tom shared some powerful and personal thanks and noted that “Jazz is Love” could serve as a motto for this concert. Indeed it did.

The event was organized by Cuong Vu along with Earshot and was an outpouring of love and support from the musicians and the audience.

Cuong Vu opened seated in front of his console of electronics, trumpet in right hand, joined by Greg Sinibaldi on electronic wind instrument and Chris Icasiano from the Speak Quartet on drums. Their segment was a beautifully textured, surging electronic smorgasbord of sounds, with Sinibaldi often laying down the bass lines, at other times functioning somewhat like a pianist or keyboardist might. Vu layered multiple trumpet parts via looping in his customarily creative fashion.

Robin Holcomb at the piano provided a distinct contrast in her solo song, managing to be both pensive and harmonically adventurous in the opening instrumental portion and singing in her distinctive voice as the piece progressed. Wayne Horvitz then joined her on stage and their duet with Horvitz at the piano was quite lovely. Horvitz departed and guitarist Bill Frisell accompanied her next. This was a heartbreakingly deep and profoundly moving, country-tinged collaboration. She reminded me of what Loretta Lynn and Sheila Jordan have in common: soul unrelated to genre pigeonholes.

There were many highlights in this first set, including Cuong Vu’s decidedly more “straight-ahead” (all acoustic) playing with the Speak Quartet, an immensely talented and obviously precocious group of his University of Washington students, with Icasiano on drums, Andrew Swanson on tenor saxophone, pianist Aaron Otheim and electric bass guitarist Luke Bergman.

The second set began with a once-in-lifetime Seattle all-star band: Vu, Frisell, Eyvind Kang on violin and Horvitz at the piano in a lengthy free improv piece that was particularly notable for Horvitz’s inside-the-piano work and how it meshed with Kang’s pizzicato. Then Kang and Frisell played two marvelous duets. The first sounded a little like 2/5 of the Hot of Club of France time-warped 70 years into the future. It swung in a subtle but extremely infectious manner: gorgeous stuff! The second was a bit more abstract yet still had a potent pulse. These guys are world-class improvisers, that is abundantly obvious, and they exhibited uncanny communication and synchronicity. Then Frisell played two solo guitar pieces. The first one sounded like “Blue Monk,” although it was taken through a wide variety of twists and turns, and occasionally seemed to almost morph into other Monk tunes. And the second, which appeared to be one of Frisell’s own compositions although the title was not announced, showcased the liquid tone and thoughtful textures of his ECM days.

The concert closed with a romping segment from the Speak Quartet, just as “Andrew would have wanted it” as Vu pointed out. The future is now. Audience support for young musicians is critical to the continued vibrancy of the local scene. Vu mentioned that so many great young musicians come up in the Seattle area, but then they leave. We need to provide places to play and people to listen.

Edited April 11, 2008 by Bill Barton

[Clunky]

Buy the cd “Skadra Degis”. All goes to the Andrew D’Angelo medical fund.

Bought the CD and received it on saturday. Powerful session, some of it thunderous but all very fine, good date, recommended.