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From SoundArt:

Wednesday, June 30, 8pm $15/10

The DownTown Ensemble will perform improvisatory works by the noted jazz composer Carla Bley. The work will be realized in the improvisational approach developed during the heyday of downtown new music going on in SoHo in the 70s into the 80s. The DownTown Ensemble is one of the last surviving performing groups associated with the musical styles that emerged around loft concerts at legendary spaces such as The Kitchen, Experimental Intermedia, The Alternative Museum, The Clocktower, etc. The featured performers will be Daniel Goode, Larry Polansky, and Peter Zummo.

The program will also feature John Cage’s Indeterminacy performed by William Hellermann, narrator, and Joseph Kubera, pianist. Though Indeterminacy is one of John Cage’s best known pieces, it was rarely performed live, and when it was it was always performed by John Cage and David Tudor, pianist. The DownTown Ensemble has chosen to give this performance to see how well the piece serves as more than a performance vehicle for Cage and his unique voice, but as a composition available for performance by other musicians.

They also have earlier dates in upstate New York.

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From NY’s RUCMA:

June 14:

7PM – Steve Dalachinsky / Loren Mazzacane Connors Duo
Steve Dalachinsky – Poetry
Loren Mazzavane Connors – Guitar

8PM – Ilgenfritz, Moritz, Sinton, Loriot and Drury
James Ilgenfritz – Bass
Jonathan Moritz – Tenor Sax
Josh Sinton – Bari Sax
Frantz Loriot – Viola
Andrew Drury – Drums

9PM – Pete Robbins’s siLENT Z
Pete Robbins – Sax & compositions
Jesse Neuman – Cornet
Mike Gamble – Guitar
Eivind Opsvik – Bass
Tommy Crane – Drums

10PM – FinDelMundo *** All the way from Argentina ***
Gustavo Hunt – Clarinet
Claudio Pena – Cello
Gabriel Spiller – Drums
June 21: DAY TWO OF VISION FESTIVAL XV

7:30PM – Brad Farberman Ensemble
Chris Dimeglio – trumpet
Jason Kao Hwang – violin
Brad Farberman – guitar & compositions
Jared Pauley – keys
Dan Tamberelli – bass
Dave Miller – drums

8:30PM – Darius Jones Trio
Darius Jones – sax
Adam Lane – bass
Jason Nazary – drums

9:30PM – The Lowest Common Denominator
Tim Berne – alto saxophone
Herb Robertson – trumpet
Matt Mitchell – electronics
Dan Weiss – drums

10:30PM -Crackleknob
Nate Wooley – trumpet
Mary Halvorson – guitar
Reuben Radding – contrabass