Heaven Gallery in July

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Performances coming to Chicago’s Heaven Gallery:

Friday, July 1

TREVOR WATTS/VERYAN WESTON

Trevor Watts – saxophones
Veryan Weston – piano

Trevor Watts & Veryan Weston present ‘Dialogues’ – the conversational
nature of improvised music.

For the first time as a duo in North America, Veryan Weston & Trevor
Watts present a music developed in the 1960s in England by themselves
and others, and which reflect the very conversational nature of
improvisation. Where subjects and themes can be visited and revisited
in ways that explore spontaneous creative music making.

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DIJKSTRA/KARAYORGIS QUINTET

Jorrit Dijkstra – alto sax (Boston)
Jeb Bishop – trombone
Pandelis Karayorgis – piano (Boston)
Jason Roebke – bass
Frank Rosaly – drums


Saturday, July 2

PREMOTICON

Patrick Breiner – saxophones (Madison)
Will McEvoy – bass (NYC)

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SWIRM (NYC)

Brad Henkel – trumpet
Dave Grollman – percussion


Saturday, July 9

RIGGS/ROYAL

Christopher Riggs – guitar
Andrew Royal – violin

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KIMMEL/LONBERG-HOLM

Jeff Kimmel – bass clarinet
Fred Lonberg-Holm – tenor guitar


Saturday, July 16

NO PROTEST


Saturday, July 23

NO PROTEST


Saturday, July 30

NICK BROSTE TRIO

Nick Broste – trombone
Keefe Jackson – reeds
Anton Hatwich – bass

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NICK MAZZARELLA TRIO

Nick Mazzarella – saxophone
Anton Hatwich – bass
Frank Rosaly – drums

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The Stone in July

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July at New York’s Stone:

7/1 Friday (KR)
8 pm
Soulstorm
Ivo Perelman (tenor sax) Daniel Levin (cello) #1 (double bass)

10 pm
Michaël Attias’s Clinamen Orchestra: Eleven Aprils
Michaël Attias (alto sax) Ralph Alessi (trumpet) Matt Moran (vibraphone) Sean Conly (double bass) Tom Rainey (drums) Joachim Badenhorst (bass clarinet) Mark Taylor (french horn) Ben Gerstein (trombone) Russ Lossing (piano) John Hébert (bass) Satoshi Takeishi (drums)

7/2 Saturday (MP)
8 pm
Joe McPhee, Ken Filiano and Lou Grassi
Joe McPhee (alto and soprano sax) Ken Filiano (bass) Lou Grassi (drums)

10 pm
John Hébert’s Sounds of Love—The Music of Charles Mingus
Tim Berne (alto sax) Taylor Ho Bynum (trumpet) Fred Hersch (piano) John Hébert (bass) Ches Smith (drums)
The legendary Fred Hersch joins this all star ensemble for an evening paying tribute to one of Jazz’s greatest composers!

7/3 Sunday (MP)
8 pm
Luis Lopes Humanization Quartet
Luis Lopes (guitar) Rodrigo Amado (tenor sax) Aaron Gonzalez (double bass) Stefan Gonzalez (drums)

10 pm
Kirk Knuffke / Stephen Gauci / #1 / Kenny Wollesen
Kirk Knuffke (trumpet) Stephen Gauci (tenor sax) #1 (bass) Kenny Wollesen (drums)

7/4 Monday
7:15 and 9 pm
KARL BERGER’S STONE WORKSHOP ORCHESTRA
7:15—Workshop/Rehearsal
9:00—Performance
Frederika Krier (violin) Miguel Malla (clarinet) Steve Swell (trombone) Art Bailey (accordion) Jeremy Carlstedt (drums) Jorge Sylvester, David Schnug (alto sax) Stephen Gauci (tenor sax) Catherine Sikora (tenor and soprano sax) Skye Steele (violin) Sylvain Leroux (flutes) Thomas Heberer (trumpet) Patrick Glynn, Adam Caine, (guitar) Dominic Lash, David Perrott, Adam Lane (bass) Ingrid Sertso (vocals) Karl Berger (piano, melodica, conducting)
All are welcome to the 7:15 rehearsal and 9:00 performance for one fee of 20 Dollars (10 Dollars for students, musicians and seniors). Contact creativemusicstudio@gmail.com for future participation in Karl Berger’s Workshop Orchestra project.

7/5 Tuesday (MJ)
8 pm
Lossing / Belogenis / Wollesen
Russ Lossing (piano) Louie Belogenis (tenor and soprano sax) Kenny Wollesen (drums)

10 pm
Angelica Sanchez/Wadada Leo Smith Duo
Angelica Sanchez (piano) Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet)

7/6 Wednesday
8 pm
Billy Fox’s Blackbirds and Bullets
Billy Fox (director, composer, percussion) Gary Pickard (alto and soprano sax) Miki Hirose (trumpet) Matt Parker (tenor sax) Julianne Carney (violin) Evan Mazunik (keyboard) James Ilgenfritz (bass) Arei Sekiguchi (drums)

10 pm
Harris Eisenstadt and September Trio
Harris Eisenstadt (drums) Ellery Eskelin (tenor sax) Angelica Sanchez (piano)

7/7 Thursday (KR)
8 pm
Brandon Ross Solo
Brandon Ross (guitar)

10 pm
Elliott Sharp and Mary Halvorson
Elliott Sharp (guitar) Mary Halvorson (guitar)

7/8 Friday (KR)
8 pm
Red Rain Trio
Joe Hertenstein (drums) Masabumi Kikuchi (piano) Pascal Niggenkemper (bass)

10 pm
Ken Vandermark, Steve Swell, Sean Conly and Chad Taylor
Ken Vandermark (sax) Steve Swell (trombone) Sean Conly (bass) Chad Taylor (drums)

7/9 Saturday (KR)
8 pm
Fight the Big Bull
Bob Miller (trumpet) Reggie Pace, Bryan Hooten (trombone) Jason Scott (clarinet, sax) John Lilley (sax) Matthew White (guitar) Cameron Ralston (bass) Pinson Chanselle (drums)

10 pm
Ken Vandermark & Chad Taylor Duo
Ken Vandermark (sax) Chad Taylor (drums)

7/10 Sunday (DDT)
8 pm
Lawnmower
Jim Hobbs (alto sax) Steve Fell (guitar) Pete Fitzpatrick (guitar) Luther Gray (drums)

10 pm
Cylinder
Darren Johnston (trumpet) Aram Shelton (alto sax) Lisa Mezzacappa (double bass) Kjell Nordeson (drums)

7/11 Monday
7:15 and 9 pm
KARL BERGER’S STONE WORKSHOP ORCHESTRA
7:15—Workshop/Rehearsal
9:00—Performance
Frederika Krier (violin) Miguel Malla (clarinet) Steve Swell (trombone) Art Bailey (accordion) Jeremy Carlstedt (drums) Jorge Sylvester, David Schnug (alto sax) Stephen Gauci (tenor sax) Catherine Sikora (tenor and soprano sax) Skye Steele (violin) Sylvain Leroux (flutes) Thomas Heberer (trumpet) Patrick Glynn, Adam Caine, (guitar) Dominic Lash, David Perrott, Adam Lane (bass) Ingrid Sertso (vocals) Karl Berger (piano, melodica, conducting)
All are welcome to the 7:15 rehearsal and 9:00 performance for one fee of 20 Dollars (10 Dollars for students, musicians and seniors). Contact creativemusicstudio@gmail.com for future participation in Karl Berger’s Workshop Orchestra project.

7/12 Tuesday (DDT)
8 pm
Joe Morris & Agusti Fernandez
Joe Morris (guitar) Agusti Fernandez (piano)

10 pm
Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten, Nate Wooley, Joe McPhee, Joe Morris
Joe McPhee (soprano sax, pocket trumpet) Nate Wooley (trumpet) Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten (bass) Joe Morris (guitar)

7/13 Wednesday (KR)
8 pm
Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten & Joe McPhee
Joe McPhee (tenor sax) Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten (bass)

10 pm
Tim Berne, Michael Formanek and Ches Smith
Tim Berne (alto sax) Michael Formanek (double bass) Ches Smith (drums)

7/14 Thursday (KR)
8 pm
Tim Berne & Kris Davis Duo
Tim Berne (sax) Kris Davis (piano)

10 pm
Kris Davis, Ingrid Laubrock and Tyshawn Sorey
Kris Davis (piano) Ingrid Laubrock (tenor sax) Tyshawn Sorey (drums)

7/15 Friday (KR)
8 pm
Nate Wooley Quintet
Nate Wooley (trumpet) Josh Sinton (bass clarinet) Matt Moran (vibes) Dan Peck (tuba) Harris Eisenstadt (drums)

10 pm
Adam Lane’s Full Throttle Orchestra
Nate Wooley, Herb Robertson (trumpets) Avram Fefer (alto sax, clarinet) David Bindman (tenor and soprano sax) Matt Bauder (tenor and baritone sax) Reut Regev, Tim Vaughn (trombones) Adam Lane (double bass) Igal Foni (drums)

7/16 Saturday (RK)
8 and 10 pm
JOHN ZORN IMPROV NIGHT—A STONE BENEFIT
John Zorn (sax) and many special guests
COME AND SUPPORT THE STONE! THESE NIGHTS PAY OUR RENT—SO IF YOU WANT THE STONE TO CONTINUE COME ON DOWN! TWENTY DOLLARS

JULY 17—31
NEW ALBION
CURATED BY FOSTER REED
As Sir Francis Drake, the Elizabethan explorer and pirate, discovered California, New Albion searches for new musical territories. Like a small ship on the ocean, a small press or art gallery; we are blind navigators. With composers and performers we develop, record and release about six titles a year. Our logo is the triangle and the spiral, a compound symbol of strength and motion, of pitch and time, of being here and going there… Once we created an imaginary road sign that we painted and drove to Rte. 50 in the middle of Nevada. There it became our postcard, our place, our mooring.

7/17 Sunday
8 pm
Ben Senterfit
Ben Senterfit (tenor and alto saxes) Peter O’Brien (percussion) Jarad Astin (hammond organ)
Works by Senterfit, Astin, “Big” John Patton, Jack Macduff, and beyond… post soul-jazz and boogaloo organ tradition.

10 pm
Rhys Tivey
Rhys Tivey (trumpet) Ross Pederson (drums) Francois Moutin (bass)
Original works.

7/18 Monday
7:15 and 9 pm
KARL BERGER’S STONE WORKSHOP ORCHESTRA
7:15—Workshop/Rehearsal
9:00—Performance
All are welcome to the 7:15 rehearsal and 9:00 performance for one fee of 20 Dollars (10 Dollars for students, musicians and seniors). Contact creativemusicstudio@gmail.com for future participation in Karl Berger’s Workshop Orchestra project.

7/19 Tuesday (JC)
8 pm
Jeffrey Roden “12 Prayers”
Jeffrey Roden (piano)
12 Prayers is 12 pieces for solo piano performed in one movement, dedicated to Arvo Part as well as Morton Feldman.

10 pm
Gyan Riley
Gyan Riley (guitar)
A veritably virtuosic multi-national plucked string frenzy! Classical guitarist/composer Gyan Riley teams up with composer, vocalist and guzheng master Wu Fei.

7/20 Wednesday
8 pm
Alexander Turnquist
Alexander Turnquist (12-string guitar) Liam Singer (piano) Matthew Koren (vibraphone) Christopher Tignor (violin)
Gradually evolving long form pieces.

10 pm
Slow Six
Slow Six (electronics) Colin Jacobsen (violin) Margaret Kampmeier (piano) Christopher Tignor (violin, live electronics)
Works from Tignor’s recent “Core Memory Unwound”.

7/21 Thursday
8 pm
Nurit Tilles
Nurit Tilles (piano)

10 pm
Nurit Tilles
Nurit Tilles (piano)

7/22 Friday
8 pm
SATIEfaction
Margaret Lang Tan (keyboards)
SATIEfaction Satie and Satie-inspired music from John Cage and Toby Twining.

10 pm
Richard Teitelbaum
Richard Teitelbaum (electronics)

7/23 Saturday
8 pm
Gareth Flowers Acousmatic
Gareth Flowers (trumpet, processing)

10 pm
Min Xio Fen/Jane Ira Bloom/Jin Hi Kim
Jane Ira Bloom (soprano sax, live electronics) Jin Hi Kim (komungo, electric komungo) Min Xiao-Fen (pipa, child’s pipa, sanxian, electronics, vocals)

7/24 Sunday
8 pm
Jarrett Cherner
Jarrett Cherner (piano)
Piano/bass/drums and the Mivos string quartet, original music and at least one sweet and twisted arrangement of a jazz standard.

10 pm
Contemporaneous
Postminimalist Jukebox:

Dylan Mattingly (b. 1991): Lighthouse (Refugee Music for a Pacific Expatriate) (2010).

Gabrielle Herbst (b. 1986): Stormy Goggles (2009).

Bryce Dessner (b. 1976): Quintets (2007).

John Adams (b. 1947): String Quartet (2008).

7/25 Monday
7:15 and 9 pm
KARL BERGER’S STONE WORKSHOP ORCHESTRA
7:15—Workshop/Rehearsal
9:00—Performance
All are welcome to the 7:15 rehearsal and 9:00 performance for one fee of 20 Dollars (10 Dollars for students, musicians and seniors). Contact creativemusicstudio@gmail.com for future participation in Karl Berger’s Workshop Orchestra project.

7/26 Tuesday
8 pm
SO Percussion

10 pm
Miguel Frasconi and David First
Miguel Frasconi (glass, electronics) David First (guitar, electronics)

7/27 Wednesday
8 pm
Eszter Balint
Eszter Balint (voice, violin, guitar) Chris Cochrane (guitar, voice)

10 pm
John Esposito
John Esposito (piano) Jeff Marx (sax) Jeff Siegel (percussion) Lara Steele (projections)

7/28 Thursday (AC)
8 pm
Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros (accordion) Rosi Herlein (violin, voice)

10 pm
Monique Buzzarte
Deep Listening compositions including Oliveros’ “The Gender of Now: There But Not There” with pianist Sarah Cahill.

7/29 Friday
8 pm
Sarah Cahill
Sarah Cahill (piano)
New York premiere of Paul Dresher’s new piece “Two, Entwined”.

10 pm
Carl Stone
Carl Stone (electronics)

7/30 Saturday (JI)
8 pm
William Winant
William Winant (percussion) Okkyung Lee (cello) Thomas Buckner (voice) Zeena Parkins (harp)
John Cage’s “FOUR6” (1992).

10 pm
Zeena Parkins
Zeena Parkins (harp)

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Two New Releases of Note

Recently, we’ve been apprised of new releases from Little Worlds and Perhaps Contraption. Both are offering free streams to these albums.

It is probably best just to let the bands explain themselves. Little Worlds, a new group from New York, writes:

Written by 20th century Hungarian composer Bela Bartok, Mikrokosmos, or Little Worlds, was originally intended as a progressive study of piano technique. Since their completion in 1939, the study and performance of these 153 etudes has become standard in the classical music community. Offering insight into Bartok’s innovative use of rhythm, harmony and musicality, the pieces are often cited as the master composer’s most important musical testament. These brief melodies are inflected with new meaning by guitarist, Ryan Mackstaller, trombonist Rick Parker and drummer Tim Kuhl. The trio draws from their dynamic musical experiences in the rock, jazz, avant garde and improvised music scenes of Brooklyn, NY in their dynamic performance of these classical etudes.

We’ve featured Perhaps Contraption before. This new release, while just as weird as their 2010 release, Sludge and Tripe, focuses more on their folk side.

Oozed out obsessively over the past 5 years, Business is a startling psychedelic avant-folk excursion; melding twisted pop, mathematic expulsions & entwined woodwind soundscapes. Built around intricate acoustic guitar and fleshed out with bassoon, saxophones, flutes and percussion, the journey is comprised of two distinct segments.

Enjoy both.

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All About Jazz Reviews

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From All About Jazz:

Billy Bang / Bill Cole
Duet (Self Produced)

Curtis Macdonald
Community Immunity (Greenleaf Music)

konstruKt
Vibrations of the Day konstruKt a Full Moon

Ken Vandermark Predella Group
Strade d’Acqua / Roads of Water (Multikulti Project)

Archie Shepp and Joachim Kuhn
Archie Shepp and Joachim Kuhn: Wo!man

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