Cyro Baptista appears in New Jersey later this month.
World-class percussionist Cyro Baptista and Beat The Donkey, a highly creative ensemble that blends instrumentation and dance from countries throughout the world, will perform at Bergen Community College on Friday, March 27, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. in the Anna Maria Ciccone Theatre, 400 Paramus Road, Paramus. Tickets are $24 for general admission and $22 for students and senior citizens (65).
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From WAYWARD MUSIC, on March 14:
The Tom Baker Quartet Tom Baker Quartet will share an intimate, acoustic set with Anne La Berge, a flutist from the Netherlands. Exploring the edges of jazz/chamber/improvised music. Radiosonde is a performance group that investigates integrating dance and music through structured improvisations. Consisting of 9 performers, the group is led by musician Tom Baker and dancer Beth Graczyk. Together they develop unified scores that often contain a set of events or rules coupled with potent poetic images. The musicians include Jesse Canterbury, Gregg Campbell, Brian Cobb, and Tom Baker and five virtuosic dancers including Alia Swersky, Corrie Befort, Ezra Dickenson, Sean Ryan, and Beth Graczyk.
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From All About Jazz:
12-Mar-09 Reut Regev
This is R Time (Ropeadope)
Reviewed by Troy Collins11-Mar-09 Jurg Wickihalder Overseas Quartet
Furioso (Intakt Records)
Reviewed by John Sharpe10-Mar-09 Flow Trio
Rejuvenation (ESP Disk)
Reviewed by Raul d’Gama Rose10-Mar-09 Steve Lacy
The Forest and the Zoo (ESP Disk)
Reviewed by Henry Smith
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Erik Friedlander‘s latest is reviewed.
It’s a quiet pluck and a kick, a twitter reminiscent of the Grecian zither-based music from The Third Man that introduces you to improvisational cellist Erik Friedlander’s newest effort. Usually a manic, wiry bower with the likes of John Zorn and Laurie Anderson, Friedlander let go of the bow and played only pizzicato as the leader of BAT so to create this intimate brand of bop-infused balladry with the small-group groove of Herbie Nichols’ finest moments. (Friedlander’s band name actually comes from the time Oscar Pettiford busted his arm playing baseball and, in a sling, experimented with a cello and released classics like 1964’s My Little Cello.)
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From Bagatellen:
Aki Takase & Rudi Mahall – Evergreen
In its formative years, free jazz was, in part, an oppositional movement away from canonized jazz standards. The same tradition-bucking largely holds true today with many players avoiding embrace of the so-called Great American Songbook altogether in favor of other building blocks. The upshot is the recurring accusation that they couldn’t play them [...]
Rudresh Mahanthappa – Kinsmen
Rubbing collaborative elbows with one’s influences can be a transformative experience for any artist. Sonny Rollins seized just such opportunity in his friendly donnybrook with Coleman Hawkins for RCA. Mingus almost botched his with Ellington on the sow’s-ear-into-silk-purse Money Jungle session. Flash forward to present day and it’s altoist Rudresh Mahanthappa’s turn [...]
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