Avant Music News

From Los Angeles New Music:

Michael Pisaro/Greg Stuart
May 15, 2010 from 8pm to 11pm – The Wulf
playing _ricefall (2) (performance version)_ and _close constellations and a drum on the ground

Giant Quartertuned+
May 16, 2010 from 3pm to 5pm – Rubenstein Hall
From the MicroFest event page: Featuring a retuned 12-foot custom Rubenstein piano played by Aron Kallay with Grace Zhao. Music of Alves, Corigliano, Haas, and Ives. $15 Donation at the door

Jazz Quartet Slumgum unites with string quartet
May 19, 2010 from 7pm to 10pm – Donald R. Wright Auditorium Pasadena Central Library
From the Pasadena Creative Music website: Slumgum is a quartet that combines elements of jazz, free improvisation, and contemporary classical music for a distinct and unique voice as a band. In this…

ResBox 05.20
May 20, 2010 from 8pm to 11pm – Steve Allen Theater
From the Facebook event page: Hi All! Here’s our May lineup… – TATSUYA NAKATANI w/ KRIS TINER + JEREMY DRAKE http://hhproduction.org/TATSUYA_NAKATANI_WORKS.html – MEM1 http://mem1.com – LAURA ESC…

Ted Byrnes, Steuart Liebig, Jorge Martin and Anna Homler.
May 22, 2010 from 7:30pm to 11:30pm – 4140 Eagle Rock Blvd.
“a variety of improv group(ing)s”

Pandora’s Box with Live Music by Tom Peters
May 28, 2010 from 8pm to 11pm – Boston Court Performing Arts Center
From the Facebook event page: Please join me as I present my latest silent film score to G.W. Pabst’s Pandora’s Box, starring the radiant Louise Brooks. For tickets, call 626-683-6883 or log on to ww…

Partch: Even Wild Horses
June 2, 2010 from 8:30pm to 10:30pm – REDCAT
$25 General/$20 Students w/ ID/$15 Cal Arts Students and Staff From the REDCAT website: “The intrepid coal-mine canary Partch remains inspirational, not least for the lonesome road he trekked in que…

Partch: Even Wild Horses
June 3, 2010 from 8:30pm to 10:30pm – REDCAT
$25 General/$20 Students w/ ID/$15 Cal Arts Students and Staff From the REDCAT website: “The intrepid coal-mine canary Partch remains inspirational, not least for the lonesome road he trekked in que…

From DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET:

May 12, 2010
Breakway, Issue Project Room
Paul Giallorenzo, Brian Labycz, Marc Riordan
Wally Shoup Quartet, Issue Project Room
Andrew Drury, Reuben Radding, Wally Shoup, Nate Wooley

May 11, 2010
Eyvind Opsvik’s Overseas, Nublu
Kris Davis, Eivind Opsvik, Akiko Pavolka, Jacob Sacks, Brandon Seabrook, Kenny Wollesen
Hanne Hukkelberg Solo, Nublu
Hanne Hukkelberg

From Ensemble Dal Niente:

Ensemble Dal Niente ends the 2009-2010 season with an evening of French music.

Chicago, IL, May 12, 2010 – Ensemble Dal Niente closes the 2009-2010 season with a concert of works by French composers, ranging from intimate works for solo harp and duo performers to large-scale ensemble pieces. The concert features soloist Janelle Jansen Lake performing music by Fabian Levy, Mabel Kwan and Greg Beyer performing a work by Philippe Hurel, and a duet by Tristan Murail performed by Alejandro Acierto and J. Austin Wulliman, as well as ensemble works by Boulez and Grisey.

French Music – Saturday, June 5, 7:30 PM – $15/5
Gottlieb Hall
38 S. Peoria, Chicago IL
Featured Composers: Boulez, Hurel, Grisey, Levy, Murail
Featured Artists: Alejandro Acierto, Greg Beyer, Mabel Kwan, Janelle Jansen Lake, J. Austin Wulliman

Ensemble Dal Niente’s French Music concert examines both the large and small scale, ranging from Fabian Levy’s stunning Les deux ampoules d’un sablier peu à peu se comprennent for solo amplified harp–performed by Janelle Jansen Lake–to Gérard Grisey’s hugely influential spectral piece, Partiels from Les Espaces Acoustiques, conducted by Michael Lewanski and constituting Ensemble Dal Niente’s largest instrumental ensemble performance to date. Also heard will be Pierre Boulez’s Dérive 1 for ensemble and Philippe Hurel’s Tombeau in memoriam Gérard Grisey, performed by Mabel Kwan and Greg Beyer, as well as Tristan Murail’s Les Ruines Circulaires performed by Alejandro Acierto and J. Austin Wulliman.

Coming to Out Of Your Head:

Weekly OOYH performances occur Tuesday nights at The Windup Space from 9:30 P.M. until Midnight and are free for all attendees. The Windup Space is located at 12 W North Avenue in Baltimore, MD (Google Map).

May 18, 2010
Brian Sacawa-reeds; Colin Renick-reeds; Jon Lipscomb-guitar; Savino Palumbo-synth; Chad Hochberg-drums

May 25, 2010
John Berndt-reeds; Zack Branch-cello; Jon Rogerson-guitar; Will Redman-drums

From NYTimes.com:

DARCY JAMES ARGUE’S SECRET SOCIETY/TODD SICKAFOOSE’S TINY RESISTORS (Friday and Saturday) This double bill features bands of different sizes and processes but similar temperaments. Mr. Argue’s group is a postmillennial take on the big band tradition, informed by rock and new-music protocols; Mr. Sickafoose, a bassist, explores some of the same ideas and textures in a combo format. At 10 p.m., Theaters at 45 Bleecker Street, at Lafayette Street, East Village, (212) 260-8250, searchandrestore.com; mnmp.org/html/may14-15.html; $15, $12 for students. (Chinen)

ELLERY ESKELIN TRIO/HAYES GREENFIELD TRIO (Monday) Ellery Eskelin is a tenor saxophonist drawn to rhythmic tumult and tonal friction, though he also has his soulful side; he appears at 8 p.m. with a trio featuring Gary Versace on organ and Tyshawn Sorey on drums. At 10 the focus shifts to another saxophonist, Hayes Greenfield, with another trio, featuring Dean Johnson on bass and Rob Garcia on drums. Both sets come courtesy of a new weekly series in the unlikely precinct of Times Square. Rosie O’Grady’s, 149 West 46th Street, Manhattan , (212) 869-0600, robertoswinds.com; $20, includes both sets and one drink. (Chinen)

ESP LIVE (Tuesday) In the first set of this series, organized by the experimental label ESP-Disk, the violinist Jason Kao Hwang presents Edge, his band with the cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, the bassist Ken Filiano and the drummer Andrew Drury (at 10 p.m.). The second set will feature Army of Strangers, a puckishly named collective with Jessica Pavone on violin and viola, Pete Fitzpatrick on guitar, Jonti Siman on bass and Harris Eisenstadt on drums (at 11). Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, near Bleecker Street, East Village , bowerypoetry.com; $10. (Chinen)

GOWANUS JAZZ FEST (Saturday) This inaugural festival, spanning three consecutive Saturday nights, reaches its midpoint with the Carlberg/Urie City Band, a large ensemble jointly led by the composers Frank Carlberg and Nicholas Urie, at 8 p.m. Also on the bill, at 9:30, is Chris Speed’s Yeah No, a sprightlier jazz-rock band of sorts led by Mr. Speed, a multireedist, and featuring the trumpeter Shane Endsley, the bassist Skuli Sverrisson and the drummer Jim Black. Douglass Street Music Collective, 295 Douglass Street, near Third Avenue , gowanusjazzfest.com; suggested donation $15. (Chinen)

? STEVE LEHMAN OCTET (Wednesday) The alto saxophonist Steve Lehman makes music informed by myriad traditions and rooted in contemporary compositional theory. Drawing here from “Travail, Transformation and Flow” (Pi) — one of the most impressive albums released last year — he reconvenes an abstracted-funk ensemble stocked with selfless improvisers like the trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson, the vibraphonist Chris Dingman and the trombonist Tim Albright. At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Jazz Gallery, 290 Hudson Street, at Spring Street, South Village , (212) 242-1063, jazzgallery.org; $20, $10 for members. (Chinen)

GIUSEPPI LOGAN’S 75TH BIRTHDAY BASH (Friday) Mr. Logan is an alto saxophonist whose promising start, on the mid-1960s free-jazz scene, was curtailed by a mysterious silence. (In one prominent accounting of the era, he was said to have vanished.) His return is now officially at hand, courtesy of an uncompromising new release on the Tompkins Square label, which he celebrates here (along with his birthday, about a week early). Also on the bill: TAUOM, a trio led by the Colombian pianist Ricardo Gallo, and the Befo’ Quotet, built around the flute playing and spoken-word poetry of Atiba Kwabena-Wilson. At 8 p.m. Issue Project Room, 232 Third Street, Third Floor, Gowanus, Brooklyn , (718) 330-0313, issueprojectroom.org; $10. (Chinen)

TONY MALABY CELLO QUARTET/MICHAËL ATTIAS’S BAD LUCID (Friday and Saturday) In the early sets of this engagement, at 9 p.m., the appealingly blustery tenor saxophonist Tony Malaby leads a group featuring the cellist Daniel Levin, with Eivind Opsvik on bass and Nasheet Waits on drums. At 10:30 Mr. Attias, another saxophonist of exploratory inclination, presents a band with Mr. Malaby, Mr. Waits and the bassist Mark Helias. Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, West Village , (212) 989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com; $10 cover per set, with a $6 minimum. (Chinen)

EIVIND OPSVIK OVERSEAS Tuesday) Eivind Opsvik is a bassist with an experimental streak but also a deep connection to melody, as he demonstrates with this band, featuring Tony Malaby on tenor saxophone, Jacob Sacks on keyboards and Kenny Wollesen on drums. Here and every other Tuesday this month, the group appears immediately after a solo set by the resourceful Norwegian singer-songwriter Hanne Hukkelberg. At 10 p.m., Nublu, 62 Avenue C, between Fourth and Fifth Streets, East Village , nublu.net; $10. (Chinen)

SAM RIVERS (Friday) Mr. Rivers, the octogenarian saxophonist, flutist and pianist who is rightly revered within avant-garde jazz circles, pays one of his infrequent visits from Florida, at the behest of the Lost Jazz Shrines series. He’ll be recalling the heyday of Studio Rivbea — the downtown loft that he ran in the 1970s — both musically (at 8:30 p.m.) and literally (in a free preshow talk, at 7). TriBeCa Performing Arts Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street , (212) 220-1460, tribecapac.org; $25, students $15. (Chinen)

From London’s Vortex:

Sunday 16 | 8.00pm

Mopomoso – monthly free improvisation night

Wary

Angel Faraldo (computer), Yolanda Uriz (flute), Ricardo Tejero (reeds) and Will Connor (percussion).

Cutting-edge computer powerhouse Angel Faraldo’s latest project brings together sensitive flute, angular melodic reeds and textural percussion in a far-reaching sonic landscape from this intriguing UK and Netherlands-based quartet, here to record their first CD.

Elisabeth Harnik

The Austrian pianist makes her debut solo appearance for Mopomoso. Elisabeth has been awarded many prizes for her compelling work, with festival appearances as far afield as Europe, the USA and China. ‘Harnik makes sound sculptures in wire. They flex, sometimes break, change with the light, but they always seem to work’ (The Wire).

Guazzaloca / Marshall / Mimmo

Nicola Guazzaloca’s ever intelligent and inventive piano playing with fellow Italian, Gianni Mimmo’s lyrical and deeply rooted saxophone are joined by the remarkable cellist Hannah Marshall in this, the trio’s second UK visit.

A music with a multiplexity of colour and line, rhythmic surprise and engaging warmth.

Marsh / Russell

Drummer Tony Marsh is rightly regarded as one of the UK’s leading drummers, having appeared with many of the finest musicians around.

His continuing exploration into the art of drumming, matched with an acute ear and an ability to ‘get inside the music’ is matched by a constant inventiveness. He is joined by Mopomoso host, guitarist John Russell for this debut duo performance.

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Monday 17 | 8.30pm

AlasNoAxis

AlasNoAxis is the culmination of Jim Black’s years of experience on stage and in the studio with some of the world’s greatest composers and improvisors, years of experimentation with new sounds and techniques and years of building powerful creative relationships with a circle of like-minded musicians.

‘While AlasNoAxis presents the mind’s eye with enough to contemplate, Jim Black’s deconstruction and reassembling of disparate musical art forms indicates an impressionistic outlook characterized by his eclectic vision and – striking – artistic signature’ (All About Jazz, NY).

Chris Speed (tenor sax, clarinet), Hilmar Jensson (guitar), Skuli Sverrisson (bass) and Jim Black (drums).

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Wednesday 19 | 8.30pm

Steve Noble 4tet

Featuring Jason Yarde, Orphy Robinson and John Edwards

Drummer Steve Noble’s latest quartet brings together four of London’s leading improvisers. Major figures in the Jazz Warriors, Orphy Robinson (vibraphone) and Jason Yarde (saxophone), have gone on to embrace a wide range of musical styles with improvisation at its heart.

Bassist John Edwards and Steve Noble are forging a reputation as one of the most dynamic and hard-hitting rhythm sections currently active on the European scene – whether in Noble’s power trio N.E.W, or with the legendary saxophonist Peter Brotzmann.

From Brooklyn’s IBeam:

June 4th, $10 Suggested Donation

8:30 pm
Put a Motor in Yourself
Jaun Pablo Carletti – Drums
Jonathan Goldberger – Guitar
JP Slegelmich – Piano / Keys

10:00 pm
DDYGG Reunion Gig
Mark Dodge – Drums
Brian Drye – Trombone
Khabu Young – Guitars
Matt Glassmeyer – Various Items
Mike McGinnis – Woodwinds

June 5th, 8:00 pm, $10 Suggested Donation

Dollshot
Rosalie Kaplan, voice
Noah Kaplan, saxophone
Wes Matthews, piano
Giacomo Merega, electric bass

June 15th, $10 Suggested Donation

8:00 pm
Tim Berne‘s Los Totopos
Ches Smith – Drums
Tim Berne – Saxophone
Oscar Noriega – Bass Clarinet / Clarinet
Matt Mitchell – Piano
10:00 pm
Brian Drye’s Bizingas
Brian Drye – Trombone
Kirk Knuffke – Cornet
Ches Smith – Drums
Jonathan Goldberger – Guitar

June 30th, 9:00 pm, $10 Suggested Donation

(Set 1)
Craig Taborn – Solo Piano

(Set 2)
Tim Berne / Matt Mitchell Duo
Tim Berne – Saxophone
Matt Mitchell – Piano

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