SOME kind of action in Austin!

[JSngry]

Just recieved:

Hello Friends,

I am proud to announce the next Epistrophy Arts event. We are joining forces with the Creative Music Workshop and The Church of the Friendly Ghost to present an unforgettable evening of adventurous music. Please tell a friend...

Tune into Expressive Movements on KOOP 91.7 on Friday from 12-2 for an interview with Alvin Fielder.

Please stay tuned for news about our exciting season. April will be amazing!

the creative music workshop and Epistrophy Arts present :

2 + 2 with

Alvin Fielder - drums

Alex Coke - reeds

David Dove - trombone

Chris Cogburn - drums

Saturday, February 21st at 8.00pm

The Church of the Friendly Ghost

209 Pedernales

$8-$12 admission (pay at the door, sliding scale)

the creative music workshop in association with Epistrophy Arts is proud to present :

2 + 2 - a recently formed spontaneous, improvised music quartet featuring this region's brightest lights in creative music and jazz . The group features avant jazz legend and AACM founding member, drummer Alvin Fielder from Jackson Mississippi, along with Houston avant trombonist Dave Dove, local jazz master, saxophonist Alex Coke and Austin's own creative drummer Chris Cogburn . All four musicians being established improvisers in their own right (Alvin Fielder's long history in the music has included relationships with Sun Ra, Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman - and he continues to play regularly with William Parker, Kidd Jordan, Sabir Mateen, and a host of other free jazz legends; Alex Coke has established relationships with the Willem Breuker Kollektief, Arjen Gorter and Tina Marsh; Dave Dove recently completed an East Cost tour with Pauline Oliveros and Susie Ibarra; and Chris Cogburn has performed with Joe McPhee and John Butcher), this quartet's constituents bring widely diverse and varied musical histories together to create a music with its own color, time, rhythm, form and, foremost, its own unique sound .

A " Double Duo ", 2 + 2 brings together two generations of creative musicians - Legends/veterans drummer Alvin Fielder and saxophonist Alex Coke, and the new voices of the new generation, Drummer Chris Cogburn and Trombonist Dave Dove .

The evenings music opens with a duo set by recent west coast and toronto transplants Nick Hennies and Kurt Newman . Both accomplished and seasoned improvisers, the immensely creative drummer Nick Hennies and amplified guitarist Kurt Newman will perform their own highly charged, yet subtle natured form of improvised music .

Artist bios are below .

Photos and additional information available upon request .

Artist Bios :

Alvin Fielder :

Alvin Fielder is one of the South's hidden jazz treasures. From his early days as a student with Ed Blackwell in 1951 and his founding work with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Music (AACM) in 1963, Al has remained true to his original vision "that the music always had to swing...no matter what." His trademark is an impeccable time and laser sharp sense of rhythm that never gets in the way. It is always there, driving the music forward, but never in a hurry.

While many of his contemporaries have received more publicity than Al, the list of bands he has worked with reads like the jazz timeline for the last 30 years. From his 1967 recording, Sound, with Roscoe Mitchell, which was really the beginning of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Al has worked with bands ranging from the Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson Sextet, the Sun Ra Arkestra, the Muhal Richard Abrams Quartet, and the Eddie Harris Quintet.

Like his long time musical partner, Kidd Jordan, Al is a prophet of the music. He has been to the mountain top, he knows where he came from, and most importantly, he knows where he is going. The roots in his music go very deep into the tradition, but the branches sing high into the future.

Discography

1967 Sound, Roscoe Mitchell Sextet. Delmark Records

1982 History Is Made Every Second - New Orleans Now, The Lifers.

Prescription Records

1983 No Compromise, Improvisational Arts Quintet. Prescription Records

9002

1987 Liquid Magic, Ahmed Abdullah Quartet. Silkheart 104

1987 Bannar, Charles Brackeen Quartet. Silkheart 105

1987 Namesake, Dennis Gonzalez New Dallas Sextet. Silkheart 106

1988 Debenge-Debenge, Dennis Gonzalez New Dallasorleansippi. Silkheart

112

1988 The New Orleans Music, Improvisational Arts Quintet. Rounder Records

2066

1993 The Desert Wind, Dennis Gonzalez New Dallasangeles. Silkheart 124

1996 Nickelsdorf Konfrontation, Futterman/ Jordan Quintet. Silkheart 143

1997 New Orleans Rising, Futterman/Jordan Quartet. Konnex 5076

1998 Southern Extreme, Futterman/Jordan Trio with Alvin Fielder. Drimala Records

for more info :

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1084/3...1/article.jhtml

http://www.drimala.com/artists/fielder.htm

http://www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/M...s/musicians/Fie

lder.html http://www.onefinalnote.com/concerts/2001/tsahar-fielder/

from the Grove Dictionary of Music Online :

Alvin Fielder (Leroy, Jr.) : (b Meridian, MS, 23 Nov 1935). American drummer. He grew up in a musical family and played with local bands as a teenager. At Xavier University in New Orleans he studied pharmacy, and during the same period he took lessons with Ed Blackwell. Having transferred to Texas Southern University in Houston he continued to study music and became involved in local activities, playing jazz with Don Wilkerson and the trombonist Pluma Davis. He took part in studio sessions at Duke Records and worked with the sidemen in the band led by the singer Bobby “Blue” Bland, accompanying such blues musicians as Amos Milburn, Lowell Fulson, and Ivory Joe Hunter. In 1955 he joined Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson before moving to Chicago, where he played with Sun Ra. Fielder worked with Muhal Richard Abrams, Joseph Jarman, and Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, and as a charter member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians he was in Roscoe Mitchell’s group for the recording of the pathbreaking album Sound (1966); he also formed a trio with the trombonist and cellist Lester Lashley and Fred Anderson. In 1969 he returned to Meridian to run the family pharmacy, but he continued to work tirelessly at promoting free jazz in his home state, finding work for Mitchell, John Stubblefield, Malachi Favors, and others. He played with McIntyre in New York in 1975 and led his own group in New Orleans the following year. While continuing his job as a pharmacist he organized numerous musical events and maintained working relationships in the USA and Europe with Kidd Jordan and Dennis Gonzalez, playing what Litweiler (1984) has termed “blistering post-Coleman jazz”; from 1995 he was a member of a trio with Jordan and Joel Futterman.

Alex Coke :

Alex Coke, born in Dallas, Texas, received his B.A.from the University Of Colorado at Boulder in 1976, with emphasis on flute. An original member of the Austin-based Creative Opportunity Orchestra, Coke has performed with Tina Marsh in various formations for over 22 years.. Before moving to Amsterdam in the early 90's he received several local awards inluding: 1990 Best Saxophonist, Music City Critics Poll/Austin Texas 1990 Best Jazz Bands Music City Critics Poll/Austin Texas (Countenance #1, and Worthy Constituents #3) 1990 Best Unsigned Bands Musician Magazine (Countenance, and Worthy Constituents) 1988-1989 Best Jazz Band, Austin Chronicle Music Awards (Chris Duarte and Justus)

From 1990-2000 he played and recorded with the internationally renowned Dutch jazz group, the Willem Breuker Kollektief. An improvisor at heart, Coke's eclectic attitude has led him to explore everything from Be-Bop to Huddie Ledbetter to Rahsaan Roland Kirk. His flute studies have ranged from Eric Dolphy to Indian ragas on the bamboo flute to extended flute techniques such as those researched by Robert Dick, Ann LaBerge and Wil Offermans. Coke's multifarious bands include New Visions, the Live Action Brass Band, the Leadbelly Legacy Band, New Texas Swing, The Alex Coke/Paul Bollenback duo, JAMAD (with James Polk), and his post-bop quintet, The Worthy Constituents, a collaboration with longtime partner, pianist Rich Harney with Martin Banks on trumpet. Coke and Harney have recently released a new cd of spirituals called Soul Prayers. He has worked with Gerald Wilson, Charles Tolliver, the Paradise Regained Orchestra and the Trio Henk de Jonge. He can also be heard with the John Jordan Trio, the Mysterious Quartet From Helsinki featuring Chris Duarte, and Rob Verdurmen's Double Drummer Bill.

A discography can be found at: http://www.xs4all.nl/~alexcoke/AlDiscs.html

More information may be found at: http://www.xs4all.nl/~alexcoke/

Dave Dove :

Dave Dove is a trombone improvisor from Houston, TX. Since 1997 he has been a teacher at the MECA arts community center where he has been working on a method of creative arts education for young people. As director of the Pauline Oliveros Foundation Houston he has been able to further develop this approach and also bring some of the world's great contemporary musicians into contact with Houston's inner-city youth.

Dave has played with Chris Cogburn, Heather Murray, Joe McPhee, Alvin Fielder, Pauline Oliveros, John Butcher, Alex Coke, Susie Ibarra, Susie Wasserstrom, Paul Guilford, Maria Chavez, David Gross, Vic Rawlings, Anat Cohavi, Juan Garcia, Nick Hennies, Eugene Chadbourn, Jason Jackson, Susan Alcorn, and many others.

Chris Cogburn :

Drummer Chris Cogburn is an active performer and organizer within Austin’ s creative music scene. A practitioner of various movement modalities and acrobatics as well as music, Cogburn’s seemingly effortless movement around his drumset and selected percussion render him a performer of captivating presence. The founder of the Creative Music Workshop, Cogburn has previously hosted Austin performances by Frode Gjerstad, Paal Nielson-Love, Marc Whitecage, David Gross, members of the BSC Mike Bullock and Vic Rawlings, and Houston trombonist David Dove (who Chris works closely with in both performance and education within Houston area schools and community centers) . In the summer of 2003, the Creative Music Workshop hosted a two day festival of improvised music - the No Idea Festival - showcasing Texas' premeire creative musicians . Chris is currently running, along with Kurt Newman, a weekly workshop on improvised music in Austin, Texas .. .

The last few years has seen Chris performing with national and international improvisers including : Joe McPhee, John Butcher, Marc Whitecage, Alex Coke, David Gross, Matt Ingalls, Mike Bullock and Rozanne Levine. He has, along with Joe McPhee and Dave Dove, a cd slated for release on Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening label .

Nick Hennies :

Nick Hennies is a percussionist/improviser from Louisville, KY. He received his M.A. from UC-San Diego last June where he performed with the percussion group 'red fish blue fish' and the trombonist/improviser Tucker Dulin. His past teachers include Steve Schick, Stuart Saunders Smith, Herbert Brün, and William Moersch. He has also performed with Dave Gross, Mike Bullock, Bhob Rainey, Dave Dove, the SONOR Ensemble, and was a founding member of the 4th Epicycle Improvisation Ensemble in St. Louis. Current projets include the Weird Weeds and ongoing collaborations with Austin and Houston-area improvisers.

Kurt Newman :

Guitarist Kurt Newman, a Canadian expatriate who has resided in Austin for a little over a year, was co-curater of an important Toronto biweekly improvised music series, Ulterior, for several seasons, and has recorded and/or collaborated with a host of international improvisors, including John Butcher, Roger Turner, Henry Kaiser and Eugene Chadbourne. The 2000 release "Port Huron Picnic" with saxophonist Mats Gustafsson was reviewed favorably in a number of international magazines and was singled out for commendation in the most recent updates of The Penguin Guide To Jazz On CD and The All Music Guide. Newman’s group Wrist Error, with drummer Mike Gennaro, was featured on the cover of Musicworks magazine and received a glowing write-up from the Chicago Reader. Newman co-curated the 'No Idea Festival' in Austin, Texas last June and has been increasingly active in Austin's local community of creative artists .

[Brandon Burke]

The Epistrophy Arts shows are great. They brought the Brotzmann/William Parker/Hamid Drake trio over the summer--yes, it was amazing--as well as Evan Parker. Those of you in the area might want to hop on their email list. I don't usually miss their events.

Plus...P.G. (the guy who organizes these shows) is a good fella and a fellow librarian.

[Chuck Nessa]

Alvin Fielder is a great guy, musician and pharmacist. What more could you want?

[JSngry]

What more indeed!

[Brandon Burke]

More Austin action. I just recieved this from P.G. this morning.....

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Brotzmann Tentet

PETER BROTZMANN CHICAGO TENTET (with Jeb Bishop, Peter Brotzmann, Mats

Gustafsson, Kent Kessler, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Joe McPhee, Paal Nilssen-Love,

Ken Vandermark, Mars Williams, Michael Zerang)

Thursday April 8th 2004

The Parish

214 E.6th St., Austin Tx, 78757

512.478.6372, www.theparishroom.com

Advance Tix $15, Doors Tix $18

presented by Epistrophy Arts & Philip M. Croley

Advance Tix @ www.frontgatetickets.com, Waterloo Records, 33 Degrees, Cd

Warehouses, Jo's Coffee on Congress

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Friday April 9 8pm

Epistrophy Arts presents

THE THING with Joe McPhee

Auditorium on Waller Creek (4100 Red River)

on the Campus of the Sri Atmananda Memorial School, and the Griffin School

Mats Gustafsson - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten - bass

Paal Nilssen-Love - drums

Joe McPhee - reeds - trumpet

for info call 512-302-5233

or email epistrophyarts@hotmail.com

[Chuck Nessa]

Could all this action be happening because Dennis is going to Europe?

[JSngry]

I...don't know what you mean, Chuck...