Avant Music News

From Cuneiform Records:

ALGERNON
April 24 – Orion Sound Studios – 2903 Whittington Ave., Suite C – Baltimore, Md. 21230 (with Ergo)

THE CLAUDIA QUINTET
January 9 – Winter Jazzfest in Manhattan – Bitter End – 147 Bleecker Street, New York, NY (9:45 pm) – special guest Gary Versace, piano
March – European tour

COSMOLOGIC
January 3 – Open Gate series, Eagle Rock – Los Angeles, CA
January 17 – Orange County Creative Music Collective series – Santa Ana, CA
March 28 – The Stone, New York City, NY

ERGO
January 28 – Caffe Vivaldi – 32 Jones St (off Bleecker) – New York, NY
April 24 – Orion Sound Studios – 2903 Whittington Ave., Suite C – Baltimore, Md. 21230 (with Algernon)

FORGAS BAND PHENOMENA
June 19 – NEARFest – Zoellner Auditorium – Bethlehem, PA

GUTBUCKET
January 16 – Jazzclub minden – Minden, Germany
January 17 – Club Hanseat – Salzwedel, Germany
January 18 – tba – Hannover, Germany
January 19 – Dumont – Aachen, Germany
January 20 – Workshop – Aachen, Germany
January 21 – Le Triton – Les Lilas (Paris), France
January 22 – Sonic – Lyon, France
January 24 – Bee-Flat – Berne, Switzerland
January 27 – Zeche Carl – Essen, Germany
January 29 – Tonne – Dresden, Germany
January 30 – Stellwerk – Hamburg, Germany
February 3 – Tel Aviv Jazz Festival – Tel Aviv, Israel

LARVAL
February 4 – The Stone – at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street – NYC, NY (special reunion performance from the Knitting Factory and Cuneiform Records periods)

LED BIB [2009 Barclaycard Mercury Prize-Album of the Year!]
January 27 – The Rainbow – 160 High Street Deritend, Birmingham, UK
February 5 – Liverpool Philharmonic Hall – Rodewald Suite – Hope Street, Liverpool L1 9BP, UK – 0151 709 3789
February 21 – Buxton Festival – Buxton, UK
April 21 – Leeds College of Music – Leeds, UK
April 22 – Tolbooth Arts Centre – Stirling, Scotland
June 27 – Real Ale Jazz and Blues Festival – Lichfield, UK
July 4 – Moseley Jazz Festival – Moseley, UK

ED PALERMO BIG BAND
February 5 – Five Towns College – Dix Hills, Long Island, NY 11746 (631) 424-7000 (with Napoleon Murphy Brock)
February 12 – Purdue University – Fort Wayne, Indiana (conducting/performing with the university jazz band and open to the public!)
February 13 – Purdue University – Fort Wayne, Indiana (conducting/performing with the university jazz band and open to the public!)
February 17 – Iridium – 1650 Broadway – Manhattan, New York, NY 10020 (212) 582-2121 : two sets at: 8:30 + 10:30 PM

RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL
April 17 – The Gatherings – St. Mary’s Hamilton Village (on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania) – 3916 Locust Walk (east of 40th & Locust) – Philadelphia, PA
April 18 – Orion Sound Studios – 2903 Whittington Ave., Suite C – Baltimore, Md. 21230

REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE
January 13 – Plough and Stars – 912 Mass Ave. – Cambridge, MA (617) 576-0032
January 21 – Vernissage Restaurant – 1627 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA, (617) 566-3340
February 11 – Amtrack Crescent Train – NYC to New Orleans

UNIVERS ZERO
February 6 – CD release concert! – Centre culturel Jacques Franck – Bruxelles (Saint Gilles), Belgium (with guests Andy Kirk and Jean-Pierre Soarez)
February 20 – Alter Ego Festival – Espace Cultural Victor Jara – Place Van Zeeland 31 – Soignies, Belgium (32) 67347 426 (Magma will also be appearing at the festival. What a team-up!)

ZEVIOUS
January 17 – BAR – New Haven, CT
March 5 – Ithaca Underground – Ithaca, NY
March 10 – The Melody Inn – Indianapolis, IN