Khan Jamal/Matthew Shipp/Odean PopeSee preview article on the concert in the Philadelphia City Paper.
Ken VandermarkDon't miss this show celebrating the release of Burn the Incline (Atavistic)
See preview article on the concert in the Philadelphia City Paper.
Special Monday night show celebrating the release of Jim Black's Alasnoaxis (Winter&Winter)
See preview article on the concert in the Philadelphia City Paper.
Jim Black grew up in Seattle, WA, playing music ranging from garage rock to big band swing.
In 1985, he went to Boston, MA to attend the Berklee College of Music.
During this time he recorded numerous albums, performed in Europe, and taught summer classes at Berklee. In 1991,
he moved to Brooklyn, NY. Jim has been touring and recording with many diverse groups including his role as a co-leader/composer for
Pachora, a Middle Eastern influenced jazz trio with Chris Speed and Brad Shepik, as a member of Tim Berne's Bloodcount, Dave Douglas'
Tiny Bell Trio, Ellery Eskelin Trio, Human Feel, and Uri Caine's Mahler Project.
This concert celebrates Baltimore's High Zero Festival, which runs September 21-24, 2000.
See preview article on the concert in the Philadelphia City Paper.
Khan Jamal/Odean Pope Quartet
Celebrating the release of the "Hurricane Floyd" trio CD with Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore.
See preview article on the concert in the Philadelphia City Paper.
(For more information on Wally Shoup, see
drimala.com/soundtime/wally.htm
or
speakeasy.org/wshoup/.)
(For more information on Toshi Makihara, see
drimala.com/soundtime/toshi.htm.)
Sweetnighter presents the inaugural concert for The Nu Band, a sparkling, dynamic group of pros -- all of whom lead a number of groups, play and record with a variety of world-class musicians, and compose. This is a very special event -- not to be missed!
is internationally known as a dynamic, ceaselessly inventive instrumentalist and composer in jazz and new music. Current projects include Solo work as well as his own Duos, Trios, Quartets, and Quintets. He has a number of award-winning recordings on Acoustics, CIMP and GM Recordings, including a series of CDs just released on Acoustics. Since the 1960's he has performed and recorded with some of the leading artists of our time, including Jeanne Lee, Anthony Braxton, Gunter Hampel, Dominic Duval, Joe McPhee, Steve Swell, Marshall Allen and Saheb Sarbib, in the US, Canada, and Europe."Whitecage is again magnificent." - Glenn Astarita, All About Jazz
ROY CAMPBELL has long been associated with the most creative elements of "downtown" New York jazz, performing with bassist William Parker in his Little Huey Orchestra and their Other Dimensions in Music band, as well as recording and performing with Matthew Shipp, Daniel Carter and Rashid Bakr.
JOE FONDA is an accomplished international artist who has performed and recorded as a leader in his own ensembles, most notably The Fonda/Stevens Group, throughout the United States and Europe, and as a sideman with Anthony Braxton, Archie Shepp, Bill and Kenny Barron, Ken McIntyre/Charlie Persip, Lou Donaldson, Leo Smith, Curtis Fuller, Mark Whitecage, Kunle Mwanga, Majeed Greenley, Bobby Naughton and others.
LOU GRASSI is internationally known for his work in both the traditional and the avant-garde jazz worlds, spanning the jazz spectrum from Ragtime to Free Improvisation, as well as working for several decades in musical theater and composing for and accompanying modern dance groups. From the 1970¹s to the present, Lou has performed with a great variety of outstanding artists, including Borah Bergman, Karen Borca, Rob Brown, The Copascetics, Urbie Green, Johnny Hartman, Sheila Jordan, William Parker, Perry Robinson, Roswell Rudd, Steve Swell, Sol Yaged, and many others.
Born in St. Louis, MO, saxophonist Eric Person was introduced to the world of music by his father Thomas Person, also a sax player. He went through the renowned Normandy High School music program in St. Louis and followed up his studies at the St. Louis Conservatory of music (CASA).
His greatest education in music has come from performing on the stages of the world. Since Person's arrival in New York he has performed with John Hick's Big Band, Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, Chico Hamilton, Vernon Reid's Living Colour, McCoy Tyner Big Band, Woody Shaw, Kelvyn Bell, Jackie McLean, World Saxophone Quartet. He also toured and recorded for three years with The Dave Holland Quartet, and forged a association with Dutch pianist Michiel Borstlap, winner of the Thelonious Monk composer's contest, which led to a succesful European tour.
New Yorker
Dominic Duval
is one of the finest and most prolific bassists on the contemporary scene,
having played and recorded with some of the greatest names in jazz and new music.
Duval's recent tenure with pianist Cecil Taylor's trio has cemented his reputation as one of free jazz's important figures.
The bassist has performed and recorded with such notables as saxophonists
Joe McPhee, Ivo Perelman,
Glen Spearman, Chris Kelsey, and Mark Whitecage, composer Pauline Oliveros,
trombonist Steve Swell, pianists Joseph Scianni and Michael Stevens, trumpeter Herb Robertson, and drummer Paul Lytton,
David S. Ware among many others.
Duval leads and co-leads a number of ensembles himself, including the critically-acclaimed C.T. String Quartet, Trio X, "The Wedding Band", and the Dominic Duval String Ensemble. Duval's solo bass CD, Night Bird Inventions, was a Top 10 pick in the Coda Magazine critics poll, and his S tring Ensemble CD, State of the Art, was chosen one of the year's best in the Jazziz Magazine poll. He's recently led an ensemble which toured Germany as part of the Kassel Dock 4 Festival, and participated in this summer's Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival in New York City.
more info:
www.saxofonismusic.com/duval.html.
Rob Brown has been performing professionally on the alto saxophone for 20 years.
He has worked with Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, William Parker, Matthew Shipp, Reggie Workman,
Pheoroan Aklaff, Roy Campbell Jr., Alan Silva, Joe Morris, Fred Hopkins, et al, as well as various dance groups and performance art situations.
Rob is currently leading a quartet which includes trumpeter Roy Campbell Jr., bassist Chris Lightcap, and drummer Jackson Krall. At the 1999 Vision Festival, he premiered music for his sextet of alto sax, tenor sax, trumpet, bassoon, violin, and guitar. Rob has also been concentrating on solo performance.
Rob has produced eight CDs as a leader and has two new recordings as a leader scheduled to be released in winter 1999-2000; "Jumping Off the Page," The Rob Brown Quartet, and "Visage," The Rob Brown Trio with Wilber Morris and Lou Grassi.
Rob is currently working with William Parker's In Order To Survive, The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, Karen Borca's Quartet, Matthew Shipp, Joe Morris, The Whit Dickie Trio and Chris Dahlgren's Best Intentions.
William Parker is the very first name that comes to mind when on the subject of free jazz bassists. A student of such greats as Jimmy Garrison, Milt Hinton and Wilbur Ware, Parker gained much attention for his work with Cecil Taylor in the late-70s and early-80s. Parker has since become one of the definitive leaders of the free jazz movement in downtown New York.
The first choice player for other free jazz musicians like David S. Ware, Matthew Shipp and Charles Gayle,
Parker's style is ferocious and percussive.
The Mark Whitecage Quartet
was featured this year on opening night of New York's premier cutting edge festival,
The Fifth Annual Vision Festival, and they have appeared at the Bell Atlantic New York Jazz Festival as well as at colleges and clubs in the northeast and midwest US. They will be featured at International Festival Seixal Jazz 2000 in Portugal in October 2000.
In 1996 CIMP released the Quartet's debut CD entitled "Caged No More",
which placed among Tone Clusters¹ 1996 Top 40 and Cadence¹s Top 30 Recordings of 1997.
In 1998 CIMP released a second Quartet CD, entitled "Consensual Tension",
which was voted among that year's "Best Jazz Releases" by Artvoice.
Their third CD on the CIMP label, Research on the Edge, was released in August 1999,
and Acoustics released their latest CD, "Moon Blue Boogie" in the spring of 2000. The trio of Whitecage, Duval and Rosen
released the CD
Split Personality
in 1998 on the GM label.
For further information and updates on Mark and his music, please check out Mark's website at www.ejn.it/mus/whitecage.htm.
"...technically brilliant...full of ideas...Whitecage, whose fine alto is at last spotlighted, soared from the start." - Downbeat
In 1994, Joe Morris became the first guitarist to lead his own session in the twenty year history of Black Saint/Soulnote Records with the trio recording Symbolic Gesture. Since 1994 he has recorded for the labels ECM, Hat Hut, Leo, Incus, Okka Disc, Homestead, About Time, Knitting Factory Works, No More Records, AUM Fidelity and OmniTone.
He has toured throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe as a solo and as a leader of a trio and a quartet. Since 1993 he has recorded and/or performed with among others; Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Joe and Mat Maneri, Rob Brown, Ivo Pearlman, Borah Bergman, Andrea Parkins, Whit Dickey, Ken Vandermark, DKV Trio and Hession/Wilkinson/Fell.
He has lectured and conducted workshops at Harvard University, New England Conservatory, Berklee College of Music, Philadelphia Institute for the Arts and North Down Institute, Bangor, Northern Ireland. In 1995 he taught a class on improvisation in the Spring semester at Tufts University Extension College. He was nominated as Best Guitarist of the year 1998 at the New York Jazz Awards.
Joe Morris's recordings include
A Cloud of Blackbirds
(Joe Morris Quartet with Mat Maneri [AUM]),
Antennae
(Joe Morris Trio [AUM]),
Elsewhere
(Joe Morris Quartet with Shipp, Parker & Dickey [Homestead])
and
Symbolic Gesture (Joe Morris Trio [Soul Note]).
Joe Maneri's highly acclaimed recordings on ECM, HatHut, Leo and Avant have
created a new genre of beautiful and powerful music.
Philadelphia native Sunny Murray, now a resident of Paris, revolutionized the role of the jazz drummer.
He has worked closely with Albert Ayler and Cecil Taylor, and his influence on the last thirty-five years of improvised music cannot be overestimated.
This is a very rare US appearance that should
not be missed.
Perry recorded with Archie Shepp on Impulse, and with the great bassist Henry Grimes on the ESP label. He worked with Dave Brubeck from 1971-1974, worked and recorded with Gunther Hampel's Galaxie Dream Band, Charlie Haden's Liberation Orchestra, Ray Anderson, Carla Bley and Michael Mantler.
Robinson has toured Europe
countless times and is also one of the most sought-after clarinetists on
the European scene. In 1984, he formed the Perry robinson Quartet with
whom he toured the US, the Caribbean, and worked the New York jazz club
circuit, playing in such major clubs as the Blue Note and Fat Tuesdays.
Alan Silva's playing and live composition have been a highlight of the avant garde's living history for the past 35+ years. From his work with Sun Ra's Arkestra, through extended relationships with Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor, and Albert Ayler, on into the Celestial Communications Orchestra and the Frank Wright Center of the World Band, Silva has been one of the music's most consistently valuable thinkers.
Marshall Allen is best known for his nearly four-decade membership in (and current leadership of) the Sun Ra Arkestra.
Wilber Morris is best known for his work with Rashied Ali's Prima Materia.
Tom Halter (reeds),
Colin Fisher (trumpet, flugelhorn)Celebrating the release of their new album More Beautiful Than Death.
The first new release from the Grammy-nominated ten-piece since 1996 reveals
that the
Either/Orchestra has by no means been sitting still during the last
four years.
With a small but significant change of instrumentation - add congas/percussion, remove one trombone - and major changes in personnel - only bandleader Russ Gershon and veterans Tom Halter and Charlie Kohlhase are holdovers from their last album - the E/O has made its most sensual, rhythm-heavy recording ever.
Famous for the breadth of its musical vision, the E/O rides the powerful
drums of Harvey Wirht, from Suriname, and the exciting congas of Vicente
Lebron, from the Dominican Republic, on a trip from North American
jazz/blues/funk, to Latin jazz, and Township jazz/calypso, to Ethiopian pop
tunes from the '70s. All of these grooves are incorporated into original
compositions by Gershon, except for the three Ethiopian tunes which have
been arranged by the band.
The result is an intoxicating brew, forceful and seductive, with memorable
melodies, superb ensemble playing and some of the best soloing ever heard in
the long history of the Either/Orchestra. This is without a doubt the most
accessible E/O album ever. The groove emphasis brings the E/O's tradition of
challenging writing and cutting edge playing into a form that will be
enjoyed by fans of African music, Latin music, even reggae and jam bands,
without losing the core of E/O fans and jazz critics.
Sabir MateenMulti-instrumentalist Mateen (alto, tenor, clarinet, flute) made his recording debut with Horace Tapscott's Pan African People's Arkestra over two decades ago. After years of heavy dues paying, Mateen is now a luminous presence on the American improvised music scene, as part of TEST, the One World Ensemble, Tenor Rising, Sunny Murray's bands, the Raphe Malik Quartet, and other free-blowing enterprises.
"Saxophonist Sabir Mateen emerged on the west coast playing with eminence
grise Horace Tapscott, and his grasp of the traditions has a similar
depth and disregard for fashion. He has found his own voice, skippy and
playful like Ornette, but also vocalized and ecstatic like the players
encouraged by Coltrane. His clarinet is fluid and soulful; his flute
intelligent enough to keep airiness at bay."
-- Ben Watson, Hi-Fi News & Record
Review
Release party for his new CIMP CD, A Fine Intensity.
"Elliott Levin's powerful sax combines with the distinct sounds of Tyrone
Hill's trombone for a program of six distinctive compositions. Four longtime
players on the Philadelphia improvising music scene present music with wit
and swagger."
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