Lukas Ligeti on Tour

March 8, 2010 — Mike

From Lukas Ligeti:

2010 Lukas Ligeti Solo Concert Tour

Sat 3.20– University of Virginia, Bridge PA1, Charlottesville, VA, virginia.edu
Wed 3.24– Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY, galapagosartspace.com
Thu 3.25– Axiom Gallery for New and Experimental Media, 141 Green Street, Boston, MA, axiomart.org
Fri 3.26– Casa del Popolo, 4873 boul. St. Laurent, Montreal, Canada, casadelpopolo.com
Sat 3.27– Music Gallery, 197 John Street, Toronto, Canada, musicgallery.org
Mon 3.29– Metropolis Underground, Syracuse, NY
Tues 3.30– Garfield Artworks, Pittsburgh, PA
Wed 3.31– Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), 8501 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland, OH, mocacleveland.org
Thu 4.1 – Skylab, Columbus, OH
Fri 4.2 – Robinwood Concert House, Toledo, OH
Sat 4.3 – 44 Series @ Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Sat 4.3– Contemporary Space 13, Cincinnati, OH

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Umbrella Music Through March 18

March 8, 2010 — Mike
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten
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From Chicago’s Umbrella Music:

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Elastic
9:00PM | The Engines
Dave Rempis – saxophones
Jeb Bishop – trombone
Nate McBride – bass
Tim Daisy – drums

Wednesday, 10 March 2010
The Hideout
10:00PM | Ericson/Lonberg-Holm/Mueller
Sture Ericson – reeds
Fred Lonberg-Holm – cello
Jon Mueller – percussion
two sets
$7 cover
PLUS | DJ Sets : Jim Dorling spins 7″ Soul Jazz Singles

Thursday, 11 March 2010
Elastic
10:00PM | Free Fall
Ken Vandermark – clarinets
Håvard Wiik – piano
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten – bass
two sets

Sunday, 14 March 2010
The Hungry Brain
10:00PM | Sture Ericson with Chicago Friends
Sture Ericson – reeds
Others TBA

Wednesday, 17 March 2010
The Hideout
10:00PM | Rova Saxophone Quartet
Bruce Ackley – soprano & tenor saxophones
Larry Ochs – tenor & sopranino saxophones
Jon Raskin – baritone & alto saxophones
Steve Adams – alto saxophone
two sets
$10 cover
PLUS | DJ Sets : Josh Berman spins Vocals? Sound? Jazz?

Thursday, 18 March 2010
Elastic
10:00PM | Josh Abrams Quartet
David Boykin – saxophones
Jason Adasiewicz – vibes
Josh Abrams – bass
Frank Rosaly – drums
11:00PM | Frank Rosaly’s Cicada Music
James Falzone – clarinet
Keefe Jackson – bass clarinet
Jason Stein – bass clarinet
Jason Adasiewicz – vibes
Jason Roebke – bass
Frank Rosaly – drums

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All About Jazz Reviews

March 8, 2010 — Mike

From All About Jazz:

Royal Hartigan
Blood Drum Spirit (Innova Recordings)
Reviewed by Karl Ackermann

Pete Sinfield
Still (Expanded Edition) (Esoteric Recordings)
Reviewed by John Kelman

John Zorn
Femina (Tzadik)
Reviewed by Martin Longley

Kirk Knuffke
Amnesia Brown (Clean Feed Records)
Reviewed by Martin Longley

douBt
Never Pet a Burning Dog (Moonjune Records)
Reviewed by John Kelman

Accordion Three-Fer: Triphilia; Nice Guy Trio & Will Holshouser
Reviewed by Donald Elfman

William Parker
William Parker: Temporary & In the Shade of the Sun
Reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk

Multiple Artists
Moppa Elliott & Jon Irabagon: Accomplish Jazz and Forty Fort
Reviewed by Ivana Ng

Ergo
Multitude, Solitude (Cuneiform Records)
Reviewed by Elliott Simon

Grosse Abfahrt
Vanity (Emanem)
Reviewed by John Eyles

Elliott Sharp / Carbon
Void Coordinates (Intakt Records)
Reviewed by Nic Jones

David S. Ware
Saturnian (Solo Saxophones Volume One) (AUM Fidelity)
Reviewed by Nic Jones

Andrea Centazzo
Guitars (Ictus Records)
Reviewed by Elliott Simon

Paul Motian / Chris Potter / Jason Moran
Lost In A Dream (ECM Records)
Reviewed by John Kelman

Hamid Drake & Bindu
Reggaeology (Rogue Art)
Reviewed by John Sharpe

Mostly Other People Do the Killing
Forty Fort (Hot Cup Records)
Reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

Alberto Pinton / Jonas Kulhammar / Torbjorn Zetterberg / Kjell Nordeson
Chant (Clean Feed Records)
Reviewed by Stuart Broomer

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Upcoming Los Angeles Shows

March 8, 2010 — Mike

From Los Angeles New Music:

Shattered Shadows
March 8, 2010 from 8pm to 10pm – Zipper Concert Hall at the Colburn School
From the Monday Evening Concerts Website: The astonishing English composer Frank Denyer writes music that is like no other. His compositions inhabit a world of fragility, fragmentation and decay, whe…

NEW MUSIC MONDAY with DAVID SCOTT STONE + THE URXED + MIRROR TO MIRROR
March 8, 2010 from 9pm to 11:45pm – Echo Curio
From the Echo Curio website: Mr. DAVID SCOTT STONE returns again with his bi-weekly NEW MUSIC MONDAYS and we promise to keep them on track this time, every other week, no interruptions. Tonight we go…

March 9
Tuesday
Music of Jürg Frey
March 9, 2010 from 8pm to 10pm – The Wulf
From the Wulf website: selections from Les Tréfonds Inéxplores des Signes, Petit Fragment de Paysage and 60 Pieces of Sound. Performed by Matt Barbier, Eric km Clark, April Guthrie, Kathy Pisaro, Mic…

Trio Scordatura
March 9, 2010 from 8pm to 10pm – Electric Lodge
Part of Microfest, from the MicroFest event page: This extraordinary ensemble of Amsterdam-based microtonal virtuosi perform music of Fonville, Fox, Mâche, Margolis/Bwana, Partch, Radelescu, Tenney,…

March 10
Wednesday
Blast Phemy! 2: Text Of Light (feat. Lee Ranaldo) & Parallel
March 10, 2010 from 8pm to 11:45pm – Cinefamily
Performances at 8 and 10:15. From the Cinefamily website: Join Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo, collaborating live with saxophonist Ulrich Krieger and guitarist Alan Licht, as he goes to the blasp…

March 14
Sunday
Xenia Pestova and Jacob Sudol
March 14, 2010 from 8pm to 10pm – The Wulf
From the Wulf website: Toy piano, piano, Tibetan bells, and live electronics – Xenia Pestova and Jacob Sudol perform 30 second pieces and new music by Jacob Sudol.

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Glissando bin Laden – Electro-Acoustic Improvisations at Issue Project Room

March 8, 2010 — Mike

From NYTimes.com:

One way to understand the music of the improvising electro-acoustic quartet Glissando bin Laden — especially if you let the name sink in — is as a fight between rigid law and individual choice. It’s a band of aggression and subtle humor. It’s made one record, “Drone Level Orange,” released last year by the Carrier label (carrierrecords.com), and it headlined Thursday night’s showcase of improvised music from the Carrier roster at Issue Project Room in Gowanus, Brooklyn.

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Coming Soon From Moonjune Records

March 8, 2010 — Mike

From Moonjune Reconds:

douBt
Never Pet A Burning Dog

ALEX MAGUIRE Fender Rhodes el. piano, Hammond organ, Mellotron, synth
MICHEL DELVILLE electric guitar, Roland GR-09
TONY BIANCO drums
with special guest RICHARD SINCLAIR vocals (1, 5) and electric bass (1, 2)

With moods and registers ranging from heavy-rock riffs to cosmic grooves and on to more lyrical and pastoral flavors, douBt’s debut release, “Never Pet a Burning Dog”, sound like nothing less than the missing link between Sun Ra, John Zorn’s Masada, vintage Terje Rypdal, Sonic Youth and Ennio Morricone. The record also features guest contributions from Canterbury legend Richard Sinclair on vocals and bass. A new power electric jazz trio featuring Alex Maguire (Hatfield and the North, Elton Dean, Michael Moore), Michel Delville (The Wrong Object, Comicoperando, TZGIV) and Tony Bianco (Dave Liebman, Paul Dunmall, Alex von Schlippenbach), douBt combines the energy of rock, the spirit of free-jazz and the lyricism of post-Canterbury Nu-Jazz.

IRON KIM STYLE
Iron Kim Style

DENNIS REA 6 strings electric guitar
THADDAEUS BROPHY 12 strings electric guitar
BILL JONES trumpet
RYAN BERG bass guitar
JAY JASKOT drums
with IZAAK MILLS bass clarinet (Tracks 1 & 5)

Enthusiasts of critically acclaimed dark progressive band Moraine (manifest deNsity, MoonJune Records MJR028) will welcome Iron Kim Style, a related project in a completely different but equally compelling musical vein.

Iron Kim Style is an explosive Seattle-based jazz-rock improv quintet featuring Moraine’s Dennis Rea (6-string electric guitar) and Jay Jaskot (drums) alongside Bill Jones (trumpet), Thaddaeus Brophy (12-string electric guitar), and Ryan Berg (electric bass). Drawing on influences as diverse as Olivier Messiaen, electric-period Miles Davis, Terje Rypdal, John Abercrombie, heavy rock, and North Korean martial music, Iron Kim Style conjures spontaneous sonic epics that encompass everything from stomping grooves to grinding noise to passages of eerie beauty.

BEPPE CROVELLA
What’s Rattlin’ On The Moon? – Personal vision of the music of Mike Ratledge

BEPPE CROVELLA Mellotron, Fender Rhodes Stage 73 electric piano, Wurlitzer E200 electric piano, Hohner electric piano, Hohner Clavinet D6, Rösler Grand Piano, Hammond Organ M102, Farifsa Professional (neither analog or digital synthesizers, or other digital keyboards were used on this recording).

With his brilliant new MoonJune Records release What’s Rattlin’ on the Moon, veteran progressive musician and award-winning composer Beppe Crovella (Arti e Mestieri) delivers a heartfelt and long-overdue appreciation of one of the defining voices of the jazz-rock idiom, Soft Machine keyboard player and composer Mike Ratledge. More than any of his more widely recognized former bandmates, it was Ratledge who was truly the heart and soul of Soft Machine, his instantly identifiable sound and forceful, incandescent soloing providing the thread of continuity throughout most of the band’s many incarnations.

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