Endangered Blood [Speed/Noriega/Dunn/Black]! Leroy Jenkins Quintet! Nate Wooley Quintet! Russ Lossing Trio! Steve Lacy’s ‘Blinks’! Phil Cohran ’94! Scott Amendola/Jeff Parker Trio! Buddy Miller with Marc Ribot & Bill Frisell!
Praxis’ Profanation! Little Axe! Darren Johnston & Aram Shelton QT! Albert Mangelsdorff/Francois Jeanneau Trios! Open Orchestra & John Tchicai! Jim O’Rourke/Christoph Heeman! Borbetmagus & Thurston Moore LP’s! Quiet Sun! Mani Neumeier & Makoto Kawabata! Joachim Badenhorst & Mogil!
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The DMG Free-In-Store Performance Series Continues With:
This Sunday, March 6th at 6pm [two hour set]:
An Evening with MARCO CAPPELLI & IMPROVVISATORE INVOLONTARIO Festival!
one of several dates in a row the this group will perform in NYC; see our gig lists below for other dates The IMPROVVISATORE INVOLONTARIO performance at DMG will Feature:
Gaia Mattiuzzi – vocals, Antonino Chiaramonte, Anna Troisi – live electronics, Flavio Zanuttini – trumpet, Alberto Popolla – bass clarinet, Gaetano Messina – violin, Tommaso Vespo – piano, Marco Cappelli, Enrico Cassia, Fabrizio Licciardello, Paolo Sorge – electric guitars, Alessandro Salerno – classical guitar, Michele Caramazza, Luca Lo Bianco – electric basses Antonio Quinci, Andrea Sciacca – drums, Francesco Cusa – drums, conduction of Naked Musicians orchestra
Sunday, March 13th – Yet Another Great Double-Header with:
6pm: LOUIE BELOGENIS & SHANIR BLUMENKRANZ!
Amazing Tenor sax & Contrabass Duo!
7pm: DEE POP 55th Birthday Celebration with Special Guests!
Sunday, March 20th at 6pm:
MICHAEL ATTIAS / DANIEL LEVIN / JUAN PABLO CARLETTI!
Wow! A Wonderful New Sax/Cello/Drums Trio!
Sunday, March 27th at 6pm:
KYOKO KITAMURA & JEN BAKER!
Extraordinary Vocal & Trombone Duo!
Sunday, April 3rd Double Header:
6pm: NICO SOFFIATO – Guitar / NICK VIDEEN – Alto Sax / GIACOMO MEREGA – El. Bass / ZACH MANGAN – Drums
7pm: THE CHIVES with STEVEN LUGERNER – Reeds, MATTHEW WOHL – Bass & MAX JAFFE – Percussion!
Sunday, April 10th at 6pm:
RAS MOSHE & THE MUSIC NOW ENSEMBLE!
Sunday, April 17th at 6pm:
DANIEL CARTER & PASCAL NIGGENKEMPER!
Legendary multi-winds player & new acoustic bass wiz!
Sunday, May 1st at 6pm:
JACQUES DEMIERRE & VINCENT BARRAS – Sound Poetry!
Sunday, May 8th – Two Sets Featuring:
6pm – TREVOR DUNN & PETER VAN BERGEN – Great Bass & Drums Duo!
7pm – ANDY HAAS / WILL McEVOY / DAVID GOULD – Amazing Sax/Bass/Drums Trio!
Sunday, May 15th at 6pm:
PINKBROWN Featuring:
XANDER NAYLOR – Guitar / JOHAN ANDERSSON – Saxes / MAX JAFFE – Drums!
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ELLIOTT SHARP at 60!
A Celebration of DownTown Pioneer E#!
March 4th & 5th, 2011
718-330-0313 / INFO AND TICKETS: www.issueprojectroom.org
March 4
at 110 Livingston St. (upcoming home of Issue Project Room)
7:00 PM
VIP Cocktail Reception, Food, and Special Performances by Elliott Sharp, Jo Andres, Steve Buscemi, Tracie Morris, and Jack Womack
Trilogy: Premiere of a new interdisciplinary work by Elliott Sharp (music), Steve Buscemi (text and narration), Jo Andres (film) (15′)
Velocity of Hue: solo acoustic guitar performance by Elliott Sharp (15′)
Words & Music: Elliott Sharp with long-time collaborators: author Jack Womack, Interdisciplinary poet Tracie Morris (15′)
8:00 PM
The Boreal: Composed by Elliott Sharp and performed by JACK Quartet. For The Boreal, Sharp constructed special bows out of ball chain or springs which allows the JACK Quartet to produce unearthly sounds. Occam’s Razor: Performed by the JACK Quartet together with the Sirius Quartet, also longtime Sharp collaborators.
9-11:30PM After party
March 5
At the Old American Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11215
5-7pm
Free open rehearsal and discussion of Flexagons, a new composition by Elliott Sharp performed by his Orchestra Carbon and conducted by Butch Morris.
7:30-8:30 PM
Screening of “Doing The Don’t” – A documentary on various aspects of Sharp’s work and life by award-winning filmmaker Bert Shapiro
8:30-8:50 PM
Octal: excerpts from Octal for 8-string guitarbass (20′) Octal is a collection (two volumes to date released by Cleanfeed Records in Lisbon) of compositions for Sharp’s 8-string guitarbass, custom-made for him by luthier Saul Koll.
9:00-9:50 PM
Flexagons: performed by Orchestra Carbon conducted by Butch Morris (45′) The group includes Curtis Fowlkes – trombone, Chris McIntire – trombone, Jenny Lin – piano, Danny Tunick – percussion, vibraphone, Kevin Ray – bass, Reuben Radding – bass, Judith Insell – viola, Rachel Golub – violin, Ha-Yang Kim-cello, Briggan Krauss – alto sax, Oscar Noriega – reeds, E#-guitar, reeds.
10:00-10:30 PM
Oligosono: 20 minute piece for solo piano composed by Sharp for Jenny Lin in 2004 that makes use of many of the personal extended techniques he developed on guitar but here translated to the keyboard instrument.
10:40-11:20 PM
Bootstrappers: JG Thirwell-electronics and laptop; Anthony Coleman-piano; Carl Stone-laptop; Melvin Gibbs-bass; Don McKenzie-drums; Sharp-guitar, electronics.
11:30-11:45 PM
Amygdala: guitar solo composed by Sharp and performed by Marco Cappelli; Amygdala was commissioned in 2003 by classical guitar visionary Marco Cappelli for his Extreme Guitar Project, a critically-acclaimed collection on Mode Records. Amygdala is a dramatic show-stopper with bravura techniques and wild sounds.
12:00-12:30AM All-Guitar SyndaKit
This performance of SyndaKit is for 12 electric guitars and players will include Ben Tyree, Marco Cappelli, Angela Babin, Marc Sloan, Ron Anderson, Zach Layton, Dave Scanlon, Debra DeSalvo, James Ilgenfritz, Anders Nilsson, and Sharp
