Avant Music News

From Henry Grimes:

Sunday, August 29th, 2O1O, 6 p.m: Audrey Chen (cello, opening); Henry Grimes, solo bass, violin, and poetry; Henry Grimes and Audrey Chen together at the finale, Windup Space, 12 West North Ave., Baltimore, MD 212O1, 41O-244-8855, http://www.thewindupspace.com, mailto:windupspace@gmail.com, this concert presented by Creative Differences.

Monday, August 3Oth, 8 p.m: Henry Grimes, solo bass, violin, and poetry, Thunderbird Café, 4O23 Butler St., Lawrenceville section of Pittsburgh, PA, 412-682-O177, http://www.thunderbirdcafe.net, mailto:info@thunderbirdcafe.net.

Friday through Sunday, Sept. 3rd-5th, music from 9:3O p.m: Henry Grimes, Edward “Kidd” Jordan, and many master Chicago musicians, including Tatsu Aoki (Fri.), Harrison Bankhead (Sat. & Sun.), Avreeayl Ra (Sat.), Isaiah Spencer (Sun.), Chad Taylor (Fri.), Mars Williams (Sat.), Francis Wong (Fri.), and more surprise guests, in Chicago Jazz Festival after-sets at the great Fred Anderson’s Velvet Lounge, 67 East Cermak Rd. (East 22nd St. betw. S. Michigan & S. Wabash Ave’s), Chicago, IL 6O616, music from 9:3O p.m., 312-791-9O5O, http://www.velvetlounge.net, mailto:velvetchicago@gmail.com.

Wednesday, Sept. 8th, 1O-11 p.m: Henry Grimes solo radio broadcast with Lazaro Vega over WBLV-FM, 9O.3 / WBLU-FM, 89.9, Blue Lake Public Radio, Twin Lake, Michigan 49457, 231-894-5656, ext. 1O4, http://www.bluelake.org, mailto:radio@bluelake.org, to be Webcast over http://bluelake.ncats.net.

Friday, Sept. 1Oth, 11:3O p.m: Henry Grimes w/ Jane Bunnett & Andrew Cyrille, Guelph Jazz Festival at St. George’s Anglican Church, 99 Woolwich St., Guelph, Ontario N1H 3V1, Canada, 519-763-4952, 519-822-1366, http://www.guelphjazzfestival.com, mailto:info@guelphjazzfestival.com, http://www.saintgeorge.ca, mailto:office@saintgeorge.ca.

Sunday, Sept. 12th, 1O:3O a.m!: Marc Ribot Trio w/ Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor, Guelph Jazz Festival, at Guelph Youth Music Center, 75 Cardigan St., Guelph, Ontario N1H 3G7, Canada, 519-763-4952, 519-837-1119, http://www.guelphjazzfestival.com,
mailto:info@guelphjazzfestival.com, http://www.gymc.ca, mailto:info@gymc.ca.

Monday, Sept. 13th, 8 p.m: Henry Grimes w/ Jane Bunnett & Andrew Cyrille at Gallery 345, 345 Sorauren Ave., Toronto, Ontario M6R 2G5, Canada, 416-822-9781, http://www.gallery345.com/performances.php, mailto:gallery345@gmail.com.

Tuesday, Sept. 14th, 12:3O p.m: Henry Grimes master class at Humber College, 3199 Lake Shore Blvd. West, Toronto, Ontario M8V 1K8, Canada, main music office, A-1O1, 416-675-3111, x 34O7, http://www.humber.ca/program/music, mailto:enquiry@humber.ca,

http://creativeandperformingarts.humber.ca/music/music.html.

Wednesday, Sept. 15th, early evening: Henry Grimes visit to the Colored Musicians Club, 145 Broadway, Buffalo, NY 142O3, 716-855-9383, http://www.coloredmusiciansclub.org, mailto:gscott2679@aol.com, a historic club where Albert and Gene Ammons, William “Count” Basie, Art Blakey, Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, James Moody, Hezekiah “Stuff” Smith, Sonny Stitt, and many more have played in the past while on the road.

Thursday, Sept. 16th, 1O a.m(?): Henry Grimes master class, Buffalo Academy for Visual & Performing Arts, 45O Masten Ave, Buffalo, NY 142O9, 716-816-422O, http://buffaloschools.org/Visual_PerformingArts.cfm, mailto:dbrown@buffaloschools.org.

Thursday, Sept. 16th, 8 p.m: Henry Grimes (solo bass, solo violin, poetry) in the church sanctuary at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Asbury Hall, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, NY 142O2, 716-854-1694, 716-835-7362, http://www.hallwalls.org/music,
mailto:steve@hallwalls.org.

Tuesday, Sept. 21st: Official release date of Henry Grimes and Rashied Ali’s CD “Spirits Aloft,” recorded in concert at Rutgers / Camden in Feb., ‘O9, on Porter Records (PR-4O49), http://www.porterrecords.com, mailto:email@porterrecords.com.

Friday, Sept. 24th, 7 p.m: Henry Grimes and Marilyn Crispell, Rubin Museum of Art, 15O West 17th St., New York City, 212-62O-5OOO, “Harlem in the Himalayas” series, http://www.rmanyc.org, mailto:info@rmanyc.org, online ticket sales http://www.rmanyc.org/harleminthehimalayas

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From NYTimes.com:

Taka Kigawa (Monday) This formidable young pianist has the technique and imagination to clarify the structure and musical syntax of difficult works. His program is all modern and stylistically rigorous: Pierre Boulez’s Sonata No. 1, Jason Eckardt’s “Echoes’ White Veil,” Matthias Pintscher’s “On a Clear Day” and two modernist oldies: Webern’s Variations (Op. 27) and Xenakis’s “Evryali.” At 7:30 p.m., Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, near Thompson Street, Greenwich Village , (212) 505-3474, lepoissonrouge.com; $20. (Kozinn)

The Stone (Friday through Sunday, Tuesday through Thursday) Annie Gosfield and Roger Kleier have organized a busy lineup of contemporary fare at the Stone this month. Highlights this week include Ne(x)tworks performing pieces by Joan La Barbara and others and the pianist Stephen Gosling performing works by John Adams and Ms. Gosfield. Times vary. The Stone, Avenue C and Second Street, East Village , thestonenyc.com; $10. (Schweitzer)

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From Oakland’s 21 Grand Arts Space:

Friday, August 20, 2010
Common Eider King Eider + Woom + Gentle

Saturday, August 21, 2010
aures + Fred Frith/Mark Miller + more

Thursday, August 26, 2010
daniel mcanulty + Dan Good + Michael Walker

Saturday, August 28, 2010
transbay skronkathon

Wednesday, September 1, 2010
10th Anniversary: ARAB ON RADAR + XBXRX

Friday, September 3, 2010
“The OTHER Other”

London Ontario Live Arts is a four-day fest in Canada featuring some interesting performances.

Rhys Chatham Trumpet Trio
RHYS CHATHAM TRUMPET TRIO (featuring Frank Rosaly & David Daniel) Paris-based musician and composer Rhys Chatham has reached legendary status in experimental music circles, best-known most recently for high profile…

Chicago Underground Duo
The Chicago Underground Duo formed in late 1997 as an organic offshoot of the larger Chicago Underground Collective. The Duo consists of Rob Mazurek (cornet, electronics, piano) and Chad Taylor (percussion, electronics…

Fond Of Tigers
Fond of Tigers have been developing a complicated, beautiful sound since 2003. Featuring seven of Vancouver’s leading creative musicians, Fond of Tigers play a layered, nuanced music that explores musical possibilities…

Capillary Action
Spread across Philadelphia, Chicago, Minneapolis, and San Francisco, Capillary Action are an all-acoustic quintet that cannibalize and intuitively synthesize the sharp-angled ferocity of DC hardcore, the melancholy of…

Tony Conrad
TONY CONRAD (b. 1940) is one of the most compelling figures in 20th century music, a profoundly influential composer whose radical styles defies textbook definitions and challenge accepted notions of the minimalist…

UWO Contemporary Music Ensemble
Lead by Paul Frehner and Jill Ball, the Ensemble will perform Terry Riley‘s seminal minimalist composition ‘In C’ (1964), and lend a percussive marimba based interpretation to Philip Glass‘s ‘String Quartet No.3′ (1985…

Lee Ranaldo
The Text of Light group was formed in 2001 with the idea to perform improvised music to the films of Stan Brakhage and other members of the American Cinema avante garde of the 1950s-60s (Brakhage’s film ‘Text of Light’…

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Coming to the Vortex:

Friday August 27 |
Loop Night

Dave Manington’s Riff Raff
The starting point for Riff Raff’s music is collective improvisation but compositionally it draws on as wide a range of styles from folk, electronic and classical music, as well as contemporary jazz. The original Quartet has been augmented to a quintet following a successful collaboration with vocalist Brigitte Beraha at the Loop festival Feb ’09. Dave Manington (double bass/compositions), Brigitte Beraha (vocals), Tomas Challenger (tenor sax), Ivo Neame (piano/Rhodes) and Tim Giles (drums/percussion).

Jon Irabagon (solo set)
Winner of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition in 2008, Jon Irabagon has performed extensively as both a sideman and as a leader in an ever-expanding range of projects, from the most straight ahead to the most searching.

Saturday August 28
An evening with Steve Beresford and Friends
Multi-instrumentalist and doyen of the free improv scene, pianist Steve Beresford, has played with everyone from Derek Bailey‘s Company and John Zorn to The Slits and The Flying Lizards. Tonight he’ll be putting together a cast of like minded and equally talented musicians to give you the perfect Saturday night. Musicians will include: Ute Kanngiesser (cello), Roger Turner (drums), E.Laine (voice), Alan Tomlinson (trombones), Max Eastley (self-made instruments)

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From NYTimes.com:

Taylor Ho Bynum New Sextet (Saturday) An adventurous cornetist with a clear sense of rugged independence — next month he’ll take a two-week tour of his native New England via bicycle, playing concerts along the way — Taylor Ho Bynum has his best compositional output in this chamberlike group, with veteran partners like the guitarist Mary Halvorson and the saxophonist Jim Hobbs. At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Jazz Gallery, 290 Hudson Street, at Spring Street, South Village , (212) 242-1063, jazzgallery.org; $20, members $10. (Chinen)

Oliver Lake Organ Quartet (Tuesday and Wednesday) The incisive alto saxophonist Oliver Lake has a soulful recent album, “Makin’ It” (Passin’ Thru), featuring a trio with Jared Gold on Hammond B3 organ. Here Mr. Lake expands to a quartet, enlisting Mr. Gold along with the trumpeter Freddie Hendrix and the drummer Chris Beck. At 7 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan , (212) 576-2232, jazzstandard.net; $20. (Chinen)

Paul Motian, Mark Turner, Tony Malaby, Bill Frisell (Tuesday through Thursday) One of the great rites of summer in New York is the annual two-week Village Vanguard engagement by Mr. Motian, a slippery drummer; Mr. Frisell, a shadowy guitarist; and Joe Lovano, a gruff-meets-gentle tenor saxophonist. This year there’s a wrinkle: that all-star trio will headline at the club for a week, preceded by this less familiar aggregation. Like Mr. Lovano, Mr. Malaby and Mr. Turner are tenor and soprano saxophonists, but each has his own irrefutable style, respectively suggesting earth and air. (Through Aug. 29.) At 9 and 11 p.m., Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th Street, West Village , (212) 255-4037, villagevanguard.com; $25 cover, with a one-drink minimum. (Chinen)

Matthew Shipp (Monday) Every aspect of music-making sets off a calculation, in real time, for Mr. Shipp. Performing a pair of solo piano sets here, he’ll bring a revisionist impulse to standards and originals alike, drawing partly from “4D” (Thirsty Ear), his most recent release. At 8 and 10:30 p.m., Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, Greenwich Village , (212) 475-8592, bluenote.net; $15 cover at tables, $10 at the bar, with a $5 minimum. (Chinen)

Trio 3 With Geri Allen (Friday and Saturday) Never mind the redundancy in the title or that this avant-garde collective actually works here as a quartet. The alto saxophonist Oliver Lake, the bassist Reggie Workman and the drummer Andrew Cyrille are battle-ready teammates; they stand only to gain from the addition of the pianist Ms. Allen, as they recently proved on an album called “At This Time” (Intakt). At 8:30 and 11 p.m., Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, Clinton , (212) 581-3080, birdlandjazz.com; $30 or $40 cover, with a $10 minimum at tables. (Chinen)

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