AMN Podcast: Present Music – Graffiti

April 6, 2009 — Mike

GraffitiPresent Music, Armando Luna
“Graffiti: I. Johann Sebastian Bach” (mp3)
from “Graffiti”
(Innova Recordings)

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Firehouse 12 To Present The Michaël Attias Quintet May 1st

April 6, 2009 — Mike

From Improvised Communications:

On Friday, May 1st, New York-based saxophonist/composer Michaël Attias will make his Firehouse 12 debut as part of the venue’s ongoing 2009 Spring Jazz Series. Fresh off a two-week stint performing his original live electronic score for the Yale Repertory Theater’s production of Dostoevsky’s “Notes From The Underground” in late March and early April, Attias will return to New Haven with his new quintet. The group expands his longtime trio, Renku, featuring bassist John Hébert and drummer/percussionist Satoshi Takeishi, to include French horn player Mark Taylor and pianist Jacob Sacks.

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Give The Cellist Some: Okkyung Lee / Daniel Levin / Peggy Lee / Alexander von Schlippenbach

April 6, 2009 — Mike

Reviews of cello-based albums at All About Jazz:

The cello has become somewhat like the bass clarinet in jazz—there are a significant number of practitioners on the instrument, yet it still wears the flag of rarity quite proudly. Even if it hasn’t been prominent, the instrument still has a long history in jazz, most notably beginning with Oscar Pettiford and Calo Scott in the Fifties and continuing with players like Joel Freedman, Abdul Wadud, Muneer Al Fatah, and Alan Silva in the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties. Four recent discs each display absolutely different approaches to the instrument in this music: transplanted New Yorkers Okkyung Lee and Daniel Levin; Vancouverite Peggy Lee’s highly composed octet; and New Hampshire native Tristan Honsinger, a stalwart of European free improvisation since the 1970s, in chamber trio with longtime associate, pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach.

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New on Tzadik

April 6, 2009 — Mike

From Tzadik:

Bill Laswell
Invisible Design II

Greg Wall’s Later Prophets
The Kook Project

Guy Klucevsek
Dancing on the Volcano

Tafilalt
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Free Jazz Blog Reviews

April 6, 2009 — Mike

From Free Jazz:

Sunday, April 5, 2009
Cécile Broché & Etienne Bouyer Duo (Igloo, 2008) ***½

Saturday, April 4, 2009
AlasNoAxis – Houseplant (Winter & Winter, 2009) ****

Friday, April 3, 2009
Michael Bisio Quartet – Live At The Vision Festival XII (Not Two, 2009) ****

Thursday, April 2, 2009
Vector Trio – Nomina (CDBaby, 2008) ****

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New festival to showcase innovation in music

April 6, 2009 — Mike

Stephen Drury and others will play in Colorado.

Three nationally and world-renowned musicians who are pushing the envelope of innovation in sounds and harmonies will headline the first Open Space Festival of New Music on the University of Northern Colorado campus next week.

Pianist Stephen Drury, composer Paul Rudy and bouzouki player Roger Landes will perform together and individually next Thursday and Friday between a series of lectures and presentations organized by UNC professors Paul Elwood and Sara Heimbecker.

Drury, the Boston Globe’s 1989 Musician of the Year, has performed or recorded with the American Composers Orchestra, the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Radio Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Boston Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, the Springfield (Mass.) and Portland (Maine) Symphony Orchestras and the Romanian National Symphony.

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