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This year’s Melbourne Jazz Festival takes place May 1-8. Among many other performers, highlights include:

Theo Bleckmann is performing “Songs for Voice, Loops and Toys” with John Hollenbeck

John Hollenbeck is performing with the Claudia Quintet, and is also playing again with Theo Bleckmann in “Joys and Desires”

Free-jazz pioneer Peter Brotzmann has his Australian debut, and is also having an exhibition, Peter Brötzmann: Graphic Work 1968 – 2010 showcasing his work design posters and LP covers over the decades.

Then there are legends including Charles Lloyd, Ahmad Jamal, Han Bennink and ethio-jazz innovator Mulatu Astatke who are also all making debut performances in Australia, performing in various quartets, doing solo sets, hosting conversation series and presenting masterclasses and workshops.

Finally, Tortoise are venturing out, their first gig there in almost ten years.

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From the Vision Festival folks:

Brötzmann & Drake
Sunday April 18 @ 7 & 9 pm
SEA Theater 2nd Floor
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
107 Suffolk Street near Rivington NYC

Peter Brotzmann & Hamid Drake in a special performance In NYC!
admission: $15 set / $20 for 2sets – stu. & sen.$10 & $15 for both sets
for more info: 212 254 5420 / www.visionfestival.org

From New York’s Roulette:

Phill Niblock : Remo Osaka
Mon Apr 12 – 8:30 PM
Phill Niblock – a New York-based minimalist composer and multi-media musician and director of Experimental Intermedia – presents a screening with music of the two parts of a new video project, Remo Osaka, a commission to make a new addition to the project “The Movement of People Working”, the first addition in exactly 20 years. This is the New York premier. The world / Japan premier was February 26 in Osaka.

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ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
Admission $15 Students/Seniors/Under 30s $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242

http://www.roulette.org/

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From Los Angeles New Music:

Dead Air Trio plus Dave Tohir and his Backbone
April 9, 2010 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm – Golden Avenue Church of Religious Science

Ted Byrnes/Anna Homler/Jorge Martin/Gregory Lenczycki
April 10, 2010 from 7pm to 10pm – pLAyLAnd

Synchromy Performances
April 10, 2010 from 7:30pm to 10pm – ASTO Museum of Art

Green Umbrella: Andriessen’s La Commedia
April 13, 2010 from 8pm to 10pm – Walt Disney Concert Hall

From New Thing Productions:

Russ Johnson’s Out To Lunch @ Le Moyne College in celebration of Eric Dolphy Day!

Wednesday, April 7th @ 7:30pm (one long set)
W. Carroll Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College
Syracuse, NY
(315) 445-4523
For more info:

http://www.lemoyne.edu/tabid/2005/Default.aspx

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=49790

Russ Johnson, trumpet
Roy Nathanson, alto sax
Myra Melford, piano
Brad Jones, bass
George Schuller, drums & bells

Other scheduled events that day:
4:30pm – Recollections of Eric Dolphy from Composer/Conductor Gunther Schuller.
6pm – The unveiling of a life size statue of Dolphy on the grounds of Le Moyne College.