DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET Photos

From DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET:

January 26, 2010
Darius Jones Quartet, Roulette
Lisle Ellis, Darius Jones, Jason Nazary, Angelica Sanchez

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This Weekend at the IBeam

From Brooklyn’s IBeam:

January 29th

8:30 and 10:00pm

$10 suggested

Tonino Miano/Brian Groder and Evan Mazunik’s ZAHA

In celebration of their recent release of “Shoot the Sun” on Snapback Records, ZAHA will perform a set of live compositions by Evan Mazunik for quintet. ZAHA, an interdisciplinary performance company, creates architecture for the imagination through installations, instant compositions, multimedia collaborations, and educational outreach programs. Founded in 2006 by artistic/producing director Evan Mazunik, ZAHA creates live compositions that play with the balance between structure and freedom. Tonino Miano and Brian Groder will open the evening with a piano/trumpet duo of original works.

First Set:

TONINO MIANO/BRIAN GRODER

Tonino Miano—piano

Brian Groder—trumpet

Second set:

ZAHA

Justin Wood—alto sax, flute

Frantz Loriot—viola

Sebastian Noelle—guitar

Ryan Kotler—bass

John O’Brien—drums

Evan Mazunik—live composition

www.evanmazunik.com

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January 30th

$10 Suggested

8:30 pm

DIANA WAYBURN ENSEMBLE

Diana Wayburn (flute/piano/composition)

Justin Wood (flute/sax)

Dawoud Kringle (sitar)

Ryan Kotler (doublebass)

The ensemble will present original compositions based primarily in

polyrhythms from West Africa and European counterpoint. Composed

music is developed with improvisation and influenced by bebop, Indian

music and classical music.

KALEIDHPHONIC

Kevin Nathaniel Hylton – Mbira, Rattles

M. Salieu Suso – Kora

Tripp Dudley – Tabla

A collage of colors stretched over a canvas of space and time to

create a beautiful painting of sound… like an artist’s easel having

a conversation with itself. Kaleidhphonic, begun February of 2009, is

a group made up of tabla, kora, mbira & flute which fuses Indian and

African music.

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Dana Reason Trio in Portland

From Portland Eye and Ear Control:

Sunday, January 31· Dana Reason Trio
featuring Dominic Duval (contrabass), Dana Reason (piano) and Tim DuRoche (drums)

WHERE: TaborSpace 5441 SE Belmont, Portland, http://taborspace.org/
WHEN: All programs at 7:30 pm — open to the public
COST: Admission: $10-15 sliding scale

Dominic Duval is a legendary free jazz musician based in NYC and one of the most recorded bassists working today. Active for 30+ years at the forefront of improvisation he spent 10 years working with the great piano genius Cecil Taylor. This is an extremely rare West Coast appearance for Duval.

Dana Reason teaches at Oregon State University and is the Founder and Director of the Between the Cracks: A Forum for Music, Arts, Science and Ideas, a cross-disciplinary initiative designed to foster a new community centered in creative, critical and cross-cultural exchange. She’s worked an extensive array of some of contemporary music’s finest innovators.

Tim DuRoche is a composer, jazz musician and artist who’s worked with an extensive array of US and European avant-garde jazz greats (including Frank Gratkowski, Perry Robinson, Toshi Makihara, Lisle Ellis and Paul Plimley) as well as with Beijing Opera musicians, Russian circus clowns, auctioneers, blues legends, performance poets, and as a composer of live soundtracks for classic silent film. His recent work has included collaborations with dance artists including Tere Mathern Dance, Oslund+Co., BodyVox, Cydney Wilkes, and Linda K.

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Myra Melford CD Release Tour Begins Tomorrow

From Improvised Communications:

Pianist/composer Myra Melford and her longstanding ensemble Be Bread will celebrate their new CD, The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12 Records), with a four-night tour of California starting tomorrow.

The group features Cuong Vu (trumpet), Ben Goldberg (clarinet), Brandon Ross (guitars), Stomu Takeishi (acoustic bass guitar) and Matt Wilson (drums).

01/27 :: Freight & Salvage (Berkeley, CA)
01/28 :: Kuumbwa Jazz Center (Santa Cruz, CA)
01/29 :: Redwood Jazz Alliance (Arcata, CA)
01/30 :: Redwood Jazz Alliance (Arcata, CA)

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Events in Los Angeles

REDCAT
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From Los Angeles New Music:

SCREAM Festival

January 27, 2010 from 6pm to 7pm – REDCAT $20/$16 Student with ID From the REDCAT website: Co-presented with the Southern California Resource for Electro-Acoustic Music Global music forms meet the digital surge of the 21st century as the Ka… Organized by REDCAT | Type: performance

Rats, Missincinatti, and Just-Intoned Voices

January 27, 2010 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm – Donald R. Wright Auditorium Pasadena Central Library From the Pasadena Creative Music website: Tonight’s concert opens with the world premiere of composer Cat Lamb’s Branches for just-intoned singers performed by a female choir assembled especially for… Organized by Pasadena Creative Music | Type: performance

KaiBorg CD Release Concerts!

January 28, 2010 from 8pm to 10pm – Metro Galleries From the Facebook event page: KaiBorg CD Release Concerts! Celebrating the release of their CD, “Harvesting Metadata.” San Diego, Bakersfield, Ventura KaiBorg is: David Borgo: soprano and sopranino… Organized by Jeff Kaiser | Type: performance

Steve Horowitz and the Code Ensemble

January 29, 2010 from 8:30pm to 10:30pm – REDCAT From the REDCAT Website: “If I were hired to score the picture today, I would hope that my score would come out sounding the way that Steve’s does.” David Shire “Invasion is an amazing journey throu… Organized by REDCAT | Type: performance

KaiBorg CD Release Concerts!

January 30, 2010 from 8pm to 10pm – San Buenaventura Artists Union From the Facebook Event Page: KaiBorg CD Release Concerts! Celebrating the release of their CD, “Harvesting Metadata.” San Diego, Bakersfield, Ventura KaiBorg is: David Borgo: soprano and sopranino… Organized by Jeff Kaiser | Type: performance

Steve Horowitz and the Code Ensemble

January 30, 2010 from 8:30pm to 10:30pm – REDCAT From the REDCAT Website: “If I were hired to score the picture today, I would hope that my score would come out sounding the way that Steve’s does.” David Shire “Invasion is an amazing journey throug… Organized by REDCAT | Type: performance

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Coming up at Ars Nova Workshop

From Philly’s Ars Nova Workshop:

Circulasione Totale Orchestra
Sat, 01/30/2010 – 8:00pm
International House Philadelphia

Trevor Dunn’s PROOFReaders perform the music of Ornette Coleman
Fri, 02/12/2010 – 8:00pm
Philadelphia Art Alliance

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Open Ears Music – Marcello Benetti 19 Jan 10

From Open Ears Music:

This is the audio archive from 19 Jan 10. The files are 128k VBR mp3s.

Musicians:
Marcello Benetti (drums and compositions), Jeff Albert (trombone), James Singleton (bass), Will Thompson (keys)
Set 1 (mp3)
Set 2 (mp3)

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Music and More Reviews

From Music and More:

FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 2010
Dave Rempis and Frank Roasly – Cyrillic (482 Music, 2010)

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2010
Mostly Other People Do the Killing – Forty Fort (Hot Cup, 2010)

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Dusted Reviews

From Dusted:

Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Album: Realism
Label: Nonesuch
Review date: Jan. 25, 2010

Artist: AFCGT
Album: AFCGT
Label: Sub Pop
Review date: Jan. 25, 2010

Artist: Citay
Album: Dream Get Together
Label: Dead Oceans
Review date: Jan. 25, 2010

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AMN Picks of the Week

Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that has caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended.

The Naked Future – Gigantomachia (2009)
The Godforgottens – Never Forgotten, Always Remembered (2009)
Frank Rosaly – Milkwork (2010)
Myra Melford / Be Bread – The Whole Tree Gone (2010)
Guapo – Elixirs (2008)

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