The Squid’s Ear Reivews

October 9, 2009 — Mike

From the Squid’s Ear:

Peter Evans:
nature / culture
(psi)

Archetti, Luigi / Bo Wiget:
Low Tide Digitals III
(Rune Grammofon)

Charity Chan:
Somewhere the sea and salt
(Ambiances Magnetiques)

Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Solar Research Arkestra:
Helsinki 1971 – The Complete Concert & Interview (2 CDs & DVD)
(Transparency)

Savoldelli, Boris & Elliott Sharp:
Protoplasmic
(MoonJune Records)

Blast 4tet:
Sift
(ReR Megacorp)

Cancura / Morris / Nazary:
Fine Objects
(Not Two)

Pansonic / Haino Keiji:
Shall I Download A Blackhole And Offer It To You
(Blast First Petite)

Fred Anderson:
Staying in the Game
(Engine)

Francois Carrier and Michel Lambert:
Nada
(Creative Sources)

Honsinger, Tristan & Massimo Simonini:
Call Me Us
(I Dischi de )

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Yuganaut on Short Midwest Tour

October 9, 2009 — Mike

ESP-Disk’s Yuganaut, featuring Steve Rush, Geoff Mann, and Tom Abbs, is currently on tour in Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

Yuganaut Tour Dates:
Friday Oct. 9th – 4pm – Chicago, IL – WNUR Live on the air
Friday Oct. 9th – 9:30pm – Chicago IL – The Velvet Lounge w/ video artist Selina Trepp
Saturday Oct. 10th – 4pm – Green Bay, WI – Melvin Mcgee’s Art Studio Tour
Saturday Oct 17th – 4pm – Ann Arbor, MI – Edge Fest – Yuganaut w/ Roscoe Mitchell

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Coming to Ars Nova Workshop

October 9, 2009 — Mike

From Philly’s Ars Nova:

Saturday, October 10, 8pm
CUONG VU QUARTET
Cuong Vu, trumpet; Stomu Takeishi, bass; Luke Bergman, bass; Ted Poor, drums

+ PLANET-Y
Yanni Papadopoulos, dg-20 Casio digital guitar; and Charles Cohen, Buchla
Music Easel

Vietnamese-born trumpeter Cuong Vu’s greatest renown has come from his membership over the past several years in the Pat Metheny Group. His arrival has coincided with a burst of experimentation in that long-running, ever-morphing ensemble, culminating in 2005′s hourlong epic The Way Up. Which means either that Vu has rubbed off on his boss or that Metheny simply recognized a kindred spirit in Vu’s own explorations. His latest, the 2007 quartet date Vu-Tet (ArtistShare), exists in a hazy cloud of jazz, rock and electronica influences, an expansive vision that is consistently gorgeous even at its edgiest. Vu has a knack for composing catchy complexity, dense thickets of sound that remain eminently hummable.

Tuesday, October 13, 8pm
THIRD MAN TRIO
Han Bennink, drums; Michael Moore, reeds; and Will Holshouser, accordion

Since the demise of the legendary and critically-acclaimed Trio Clusone – featuring Han Bennink, Michael Moore and Ernst Reijseger – in 1998, the jazz community has been anxiously awaiting a vehicle for composer Moore and the raucous Bennink to carry on with their peculiar melodic, harmonic and rambunctious work. Following a near decade-long search, Bennink and Moore, both members of Misha Mengelberg‘s Instant Composers Pool, found the ideal “third man” in Brooklyn-based accordionist Will Holshouser. Holshouser, a student of Anthony Braxton, has collaborated with Antony and the Johnsons, David Krakauer & Klezmer Madness, Maria Schneider and Regina Carter.

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Tenso Dagen Amsterdam

October 9, 2009 — Mike

Tenso Dagen Amsterdam takes place October 15-18 and features modern choral music:

The concerts feature the most important compositions from the 20th century chamber choir music canon. All the great names – Messiaen, Schnittke, Schönberg, Ligeti and Part – are represented, along with new works for a cappella chamber choir by composers from all over Europe.

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Larry Ochs Interview

October 9, 2009 — Mike

From NY’s Roulette:

Improv master Larry Ochs has played with everyone from John Zorn to Wadada Leo Smith, Anthony Braxton, Terry Riley, and Andrew Cyrille as well as being one of the driving forces behind the 30 year strong ROVA Sax Quartet. On Tuesday, October 13th at Roulette he presents the Larry Ochs Sax and Drumming Core with a meditation on and a 21st-century distillation of the songs of American and eastern European blues-shouters, and of traditional chant-singers from Asia and Africa. The result is strikingly modern.

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DMG Newsletter October 9th, 2009

October 9, 2009 — Mike

From DMG:

Elton Dean’s Ninesense! Vijay Iyer Trio! Joe Morris Qt! Darius Jones Trio! Ben Goldberg Qt! Bobby Bradford! Paul Rutherford! Mokuto with Herb Robertson!

Nine releases from CIMP & Cadence! Joelle Leandre & Jean Luc Cappozzo! Dewey Redman/Marshall Allen/David Bond! Gjerstad Calling Signals 08 with Lol Coxhill!

Nels Cline & G.E. Stinson! Dennis Gonzalez with Faruq Bey! the Northwoods Improvisers & the Entire Entropy Catalogue!…

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Downtown Music Gallery FREE In-Store Performance Schedule Continues with:

Sundays, October 11th – No in-store set while the Evan Parker Festival at The Stone Continues!

Sunday, October 18th at 6pm:
JOACHIM BADENHORST & NICO ROIG!
Superb New bass clarinet & baritone guitar duo!

Friday, November 6th at 6pm -
KEN ALDCROFT & WILLIAM PARKER – Rare Friday Set!
Toronto Jazz Guitar Great meets Downtown’s Best Bassist!

Sunday, November 15th at 6pm:
JEFF ARNAL & LIUDAS MOCHUNAS!
Downtown Drum Wiz Engages Lithuanian Saxist!

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Steve Lehman Profiled

October 9, 2009 — Mike

The New Haven Advocate features an article on Lehman in anticipation of his upcoming New Haven show.

The world of jazz has always had its share of egghead technicians, wild-eyed experimentalists and moldy-fig guardians of tradition. The different camps don’t generally play from the same score. The young saxophonist and composer Steve Lehman is the unusual figure who seems to have an affinity for all three perspectives.

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Jazz Listings from the New York Times

October 9, 2009 — Mike

From NYTimes.com:

JACOB FRED JAZZ ODYSSEY (Friday) Having recently expanded from trio to quartet form, this road-savvy band now includes the pianist Brian Haas, the bassist Matt Hayes, the drummer Josh Raymer and the lap steel guitarist Chris Combs. “One Day in Brooklyn” (Kinnara), the group’s new EP, documents a two-pronged shift: toward countrified timbres and post-bop exposition. At 7 p.m., Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, near Thompson Street, Greenwich Village , (212) 505-3474, lepoissonrouge.com; $15. (Chinen)20091008

LARRY OCHS SAX & DRUMMING CORE (Tuesday) The tenor and soprano saxophonist Larry Ochs is probably best known for his founding role in the Rova Saxophone Quartet, a new-music ensemble with more than 30 years of performing experience. “Stone Shift” (Rogue Art), his almost hypnotically intense new album, features the same ensemble heard here, with two assertive drummers (Scott Amendola and Donald Robinson); a keyboardist (Satoko Fujii); and a trumpeter (Natsuki Tamura). At 8:30 p.m., Roulette, 20 Greene Street, at Grand Street, SoHo , (212) 219-8242, roulette.org; $15; $10 for students and under 30. (Chinen)20091008

MARIO PAVONE (Tuesday and Wednesday) Mr. Pavone, a bassist and composer with an expansive worldview, surfaces with two groups next week, starting on Tuesday in Brooklyn, when he joins a trio with the saxophonist Mike DiRubbo and the drummer Tom Rainey. On Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. he leads a working group, Quartet Arc, with Tony Malaby on saxophone, Dave Ballou on trumpet and Gerald Cleaver on drums. (An earlier set, at 8, will feature a group led by the guitarist Joe Morris.) Tuesday at 8:30 p.m., Le Grand Dakar, 285 Grand Avenue, between Clifton Place and Lafayette Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, (718) 398-8900, granddakar.com; free. Wednesday, Local 269, 269 East Houston Street, at Suffolk Street, Lower East Side , (212) 228-9874; $10. (Chinen)

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