From the Squid’s Ear:
Activity Center (Renkel / Beins):
lohn & brot
(Absinth Records)Kim Johannesen and Svein Magnus Furu:
The Eco Logic
(Creative Sources)Marion Brown:
Why Not?
(ESP-Disk)Aki Takase and Louis Sclavis:
Yokohama
(Intakt)Charles Tyler:
Ensemble
(ESP)Lethe:
Catastrophe Point #5
(Intransitive)Loris:
The Cat From Cat Hill
(Another Timbre)
From Pittsburgh New Music Net:
Monday July 5
Kahil El-Zabar & Hamiet Bluiett Ritual Trio (from Chicago)
with Thoth Trio
8 pm $15/$20Kahil EL’Zabar is a jazz multi-instrumentalist (mainly a percussionist) and composer. He regularly records for Delmark Records. He joined the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in the early 1970s, and became its chairman in 1975. He formed the musical groups Ritual Trio and the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, both of which remain active. Musicians with whom Kahil EL’Zabar has collaborated include Dizzy Gillespie, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Cannonball Adderley, and Paul Simon.
Hamiet Bluiett is an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. His primary instrument is the baritone saxophone, and he is considered one of the finest living players of this instrument. In the late 1960s, Bluiett co-founded the Black Artists’ Group (BAG) of St. Louis, Missouri, a collective dedicated to fostering creative work in theater, visual arts, dance, poetry, film, and music. Bluiett joined the Charles Mingus Quintet and the Sam Rivers large ensemble. In 1976, he co-founded the World Saxophone Quartet (along with two other Black Artists’ Group members, Julius Hemphill and Oliver Lake), which soon became jazz music’s most renowned saxophone quartet. Since the 1990s, he has led a virtuosic quartet, the Bluiett Baritone Nation, made up entirely of baritone saxophones, with drum set accompaniment. In the 1980s, he also founded The Clarinet Family, a group of eight clarinetists playing clarinets of various sizes ranging from E-flat soprano to contrabass. Bluiett has also worked with Babatunde Olatunji, Abdullah Ibrahim, Stevie Wonder, and Marvin Gaye. He has recorded for numerous labels including India Navigation, Black Saint, Justin Time, Soul Note, and Knitting Factory.
Mon July 12
William Hooker (from NYC)
with Matta Gawa (from Washington, D.C.)
8 pm $10/$12Hooker is an acclaimed percussionist since the mid-’70s, releasing over 20 CDs on labels such as Knitting Factory, Ecstatic Peace and Silkheart. As a composer, he has received commissions from Meet the Composer, the NY State Council on the Arts, and Real Art Ways, and led many creative ensembles with musicians from diverse backgrounds, including Lee Ranaldo, David Murray, David S. Ware, William Parker, DJ Spooky and Thurston Moore. Hooker often reads his poetry during performances as part of the musical compositions.
Matta Gawa’s debut album ‘BA’ is distributed through ESP-Disk. Drummer Sam Lohman worked with Steve Mackay of the Stooges and Acid Mothers Temple. Guitarist Ed Ricart works with Marshall Allen of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Peter Brotzmann, Herb Robertson, Jason Ajemian, and members of Fugazi, Bardo Pond, Pinback, Stinking Lizaveta, and the Swirlies.
Mon July 26
Aram Shelton Quartet (from Chicago)
with Dave Bernabo & Darryl Fleming
8 pm $8/$10A multi-instrumentalist on saxophones & clarinets, composer and improviser, Aram Shelton was recently featured in Downbeat, and compared in the press to a young Roscoe Mitchell or Anthony Braxton. His groups in Chicago include the Fast Citizens (Delmark Records), Rolldown (Cuneiform), and his own Arrive. While studying at Mills, Shelton developed compositions wherein written phrases played by orchestral instruments are rearranged via custom built patches in MAX/MSP. He continues to improvise and compose electroacoustic music focused on these concepts. Meanwhile, he’s been fortunate to perform with a wide variety of talented musicians including Ken Vandermark, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Weasel Walter, Rob Mazurek, Jessica Pavone, Kevin Drumm, and Chris Brown. He has performed in Europe, Canada and the United States including appearances at Chicago Jazz Fest, Suoni per il Popolo in Montreal, and Krakow Autumn Jazz Fest. Other recordings of his are on 482 Music, Locust Music, and his own Singlespeed Music.
Mon Aug 2
Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Trio (from Chicago)
with Mike Klobuchar & Ed Tarzia
8 pm $15/$20Ernest “Khabeer” Dawkins is an American jazz saxophonist, principally active in free jazz and post-bop. He was a neighbor of Anthony Braxton as a child. During the ’70s, he began studying with members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), such as Joseph Jarman and Chico Freeman. He worked with Ed Wilkerson, the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble and Douglas Ewart before founding his own New Horizons Ensemble, which plays regularly in Chicago as well as at jazz festivals and on tour in Europe. He has several releases out on the Delmark and Silkheart labels.
From NY’s Roulette:
Wed Jul 7 – 8:00 PM
Mary Halvorson QuintetThu Jul 8 – 8:00 PM
Mary Halvorson QuintetFri Jul 9 – 8:00 PM
Mary Halvorson TrioFri Jul 16 – 8:30 PM
Shoko NagaiSat Jul 17 – 8:30 PM
Shoko Nagai / VortexWed Jul 28 – 8:30 PM
Darius JonesThu Jul 29 – 8:30 PM
Darius JonesFri Jul 30 – 8:30 PM
Darius Jones
WNYC features a few free downloads of the Braxton 65th birthday performances:
Legendary experimental jazz musician, composer, and multi-hyphenate Anthony Braxton, was honored last week on his 65th birthday. The two-night celebration, produced by the non-profit Tri-Centric Foundation, featured an array of contemporary jazz music’s leading lights, including John Zorn, Steve Coleman, Dave Douglas and Nicole Mitchell. “If it weren’t for Anthony Braxton,” exclaimed a clearly humbled Zorn said from the stage, “we all wouldn’t be standing here.”
From the Internet Archive:
“La Differanza” was released in 2000 as the second SADO’s record. This is the 10th anniversary edition, specially remixed for free download. An early work of SADO but still very representative of the band. Based on Jacques Derrida’s “Difference” notion. Jacques Derrida begins the essay “Différance” (perhaps the most systematic articulation of the non-concept that, according to Derrida, he “has been able to utilize” in previous works) by talking about the letter a and trying to explain (though not justify; instead perform an “insistent intensification of its play”) the neologism that he developed. In the first few paragraphs of the essay, he talks about writing and how the neologism (“neographism” he calls it) is “a lapse in the discipline and law” of that system, a sort of distruption in writing and, if I may add, in language and the order of signs in general. Sado’s “LA DIFFERANZA” follows this scheme, nothing more, nothing less.
With Paolo Baltaro, Sandro Marinoni, Diego Marzi, Gianni Opezzo and Boris Savoldelli.
From NYTimes.com:
On Tuesday night Le Poisson Rouge, the all-embracing hot spot for new music, presented the top-notch International Contemporary Ensemble, called ICE, and the dynamic JACK Quartet in a program to celebrate this year’s participants. Chances are that many of the young listeners who packed the club and cheered the performances knew little, if anything, about the role of Darmstadt in the contemporary music battles of earlier years. By the late 1960s Darmstadt had evolved into a more genuinely experimental venture, where composers of all stripes, like John Cage, Morton Feldman and Gyorgy Ligeti, shared their nondogmatic music.
