Avant Music News

From DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET:

April 28, 2009
Marc Edwards & Weasel Walter Group, Otto’s Shrunken Head
Marc Edwards, Forbes Graham, Darius Jones, Adam Lane, Elliott Levin, Weasel Walter

From Henry Grimes:

Saturday, May 2nd: noon (U.K. time, five hours later than New York), Cheltenham (U.K.) Jazz Festival: Alyn Shipton interviews Henry Grimes for audience members and BBC Radio 3, event # J21, Cheltenham Town Hall, Imperial Square, Cheltenham GL5O 1QA, Drawing Room, free but tickets required; and 4:3O p.m: Profound Sound Trio concert (Paul Dunmall / Henry Grimes / Andrew Cyrille), also at Town Hall, Pillar Room, event #J26, tickets £15, +44 (O)1242 77582O, box office (also in Town Hall), +44 (O)844 576 7979, cheltenhamfestivals.com/jazz, cheltenhamfestivals.com/jazz-2009/bbc,
cheltenhamfestivals.com/profound-sound-trio

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Tuesday, May 5th from 6 to 9 p.m: The Henry Grimes / Leo Lindberg / Brandon Ross trio concert played on April 15th at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn will be broadcast and Webcast on “Jazz Alternatives” over WKCR, 89.9 FM and wkcr.org as part of WKCR’s New York Music Alive series. Info: 212-854-992O

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Monday, May 11th, 6 p.m. (New York time): The Profound Sound Trio concert (Andrew Cyrille, Paul Dunmall, Henry Grimes) played at Cheltenham, U.K. on May 2nd (see above) will be Webcast at bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazzon3, information +44 O3 7OO 1OO 3OO.

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Henry’s friend Marc Ribot is having a week-long 55th-birthday retrospective concert series featuring various Marc Ribot-led groups in several venues around New York City between May 9th and May 16th. Happy birthday, Marc, and we wish you at least 55 more! The concerts include:

Wednesday, May 13th, music from 9:3O p.m: Marc Ribot’s Spiritual Unity quartet, w/ Roy Campbell, Jr., Henry Grimes, and Chad Taylor; and the Marc Ribot Trio featuring Henry Grimes and Chad Taylor, at Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St. (one block west of Third Ave.) at Astor Place (7th St.), NYC, tickets by phone at 212-967-7555 or 212-539-8778, joespub.com, myspace.com/joespub, joespub.com/component.., tix $2O, IRT #6 train to Astor Place, or N/ R/ W to 8th St. / NYU.

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Saturday, May 23rd, 11 a.m (NY time): The Henry Grimes interview by Alyn Shipton given on May 2nd at Cheltenham (U.K. — see above) will be Webcast at bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazzlibrary and will be available for seven days after initial transmission, information +44 O3 7OO 1OO 3OO.

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Wednesday, May 27th, concert at 1O p.m: Jason Hwang’s Spontaneous River, Galapagos, 16 Main St. at Water St. betw. Brooklyn & Manhattan Bridges, Brooklyn (DUMBO section), 718-782-5188 or 384-4586, galapagosartspace, galapagosartspace.com/directions, . Musicians (all string players except for Andrew Drury, drums) will include: Cristian Amigo, Trina Basu, Sarah Bernstein, Michael Bisio, David Chevan, Mark Chung, Andrew Drury, Bradley Farberman, Nicole Federici, Ken Filiano, Francois Grillot, Henry Grimes, Rosi Hertlein, Jason Hwang, Judith Insell, Clifton Jackson, Kirsten Jeme, James Keepnews, Daniel Levin, Marlene Rice, Dave Ross, Tor Snyder, David Soldier, Curtis Stewart, Elektra Stewart, Hans Tammen, and Tomas Ulrich. NOTE: Hans Tammen’s Third Eye Orchestra opens at 8 p.m. and includes: Robert Dick, Jason Hwang, Mari Kimura, Briggan Kraus, Denman Maroney, Chris McIntyre, Dafna Naphtali, Ursel Schlicht, David Soldier, Satoshi and Stomu Takeishi, and Tomas Ulrich.

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Sunday, May 31st: Henry Grimes and Andrew Cyrille, 15-minute concert in the Bang on a Can marathon at the World Financial Center, Winter Garden, West St. betw. Vesey & Liberty St’s., NYC, noon-midnight, free and open to the public, featuring many players all doing what they do in short sets of 15 minutes, info 718-852-7755, 212-945-O5O5