HUIB EMMER – Green Desert
ELODIE – La Lumiere Parfumee
ARVO ZYLO – 333
JOЁLLE LÉANDRE & INDIA COOKE – Journey
BEAT CIRCUS – Boy From Black Mountain
LED BIB – Sensible Shoes
GUTBUCKET – A Modest Proposal

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From Tuscaloosa’s Creative Campus:

Harris Eisenstadt and his critically acclaimed quintet Canada Day will lead off Sonic Frontiers, a cutting-edge avant-garde jazz series on The University of Alabama campus. The first concert will be at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27, 2012 at UA’s Ferguson Center Theater. The concert is free and open to the public. The Sonic Frontiers series is designed to further artistic diversity on the UA campus, says series organizer Dr. Andrew Raffo Dewar, assistant professor in New College and the School of Music. The concerts will foster creative exchange among between music professionals, UA students, faculty and staff, and the greater community through performances and class visits by world-class performers of avant-garde jazz.

Subsequent concerts and events:

Wednesday, March 21: Saxophonist Jack Wright, the “Johnny Appleseed of free improvisation,” will visit a New College seminar and perform a community-outreach solo concert in a venue to be determined. For details, to go http://soundcloud.com/jackwright

Friday, April 6: Bassist and composer Trevor Dunn‘s Endangered Blood quartet from New York will perform at 7:30 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Theater. Dunn is known for his work with the rock band Mr. Bungle, but Endangered Blood is his avant-jazz project featuring internationally acclaimed musicians Jim Black on drums and Chris Speed and Oscar Noriega on saxophone. Endangered Blood on YouTube

Monday, April 23: A public screening of eminent ethnomusicologist Steven Feld’s 2009 documentary film about Ghanaian musician, inventor and visual artist Nii Noi Nortey, “Accra Trane Station: The Music and Art of Nii Noi Nortey,” will be at 5:30 p.m. in 132 Lloyd Hall.

Wednesday, April 25: Nii Noi Nortey, the acclaimed saxophonist and saxophone inventor from Accra, Ghana, will offer a two-day residency involving a concert of solos, duos and trios with Dewar and renowned Japanese-American percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani at 7:30pm on April 25th at the Ferguson Center Theater. Nortey’s visit includes four class visits at UA on April 25 and 26 in the School of Music and New College.

Related articles

• Sam Rivers, Pioneering Jazz Saxophonist/Composer, Has Died (current.com)
• Sam Rivers: Saxophonist at the cutting edge of jazz’s avant garde (independent.co.uk)
• Harris Eisenstadt’s Canada Day at Timucua white house- Sunday, February 26th (thecm5.com)

The composer Morton Feldman wrote vast works of whisper-soft chords and eerie harmonies that unfold with glacial, regal slowness. Encouraged by John Cage, Feldman — who had a day job working in his family’s coat-manufacturing business until he was 44 — created music that used neither tonal nor serial techniques.

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• Music Review: Blair McMillen Plays Morton Feldman at Bargemusic – Review (nytimes.com)
• Floating on a Boat, Four Hands on the Piano (nytimes.com)

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Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that has caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended.

Nooumena – In Memory of a Next World (2006)
Christian Vander – John Coltrane l’Homme Suprême (2011)
Method of Defiance – Incunabula (2011)
Anduin – Stolen Years (2012)
Anthony Braxton – Quartet (Avignon) 1974
Anthony Braxton – Quartet (Paris) 1969
Anthony Braxton – Solo (Ghent) 1969 to 1971

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• Anthony Braxton: Composition, Improvisation, Synthesis (Mixed Media) (popmatters.com)

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From NYTimes.com:

Mr. Wuorinen, known for his complex, 12-tone music, has denounced populist trends in classical music. But along with his modernist colleagues Pierre Boulez and Elliott Carter, Mr. Wuorinen seems to have mellowed in recent years, writing more accessible pieces like this whimsical cantata for four singers and chamber ensemble. It was commissioned for the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music in Lenox, Mass., and received its premiere there last August.

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• Music Review: Peter Serkin at 92nd Street Y – Review (nytimes.com)

Jason Stein Quartet – The Story This Time (Delmark, 2011) *****
Pete Robbins Transatlantic Quartet – Live in Basel (Hate Laugh Music, 2011) ****

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Theatre Intangible has a podcast of Andrew Raffo Dewar’s October Nashville performance.

Bill Laswell is interviewed regarding his latest projects.

A posthumous Graham Collier 2CD release is on the way.

Red Light New Music is featuring The Viola In My Life: The Influence of Morton Feldman, Monday, February 27th, 2012 at 8pm at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space ($15 / $12 students and seniors).

A recent show of the Cornell Avant Garde Ensemble is reviewed.

Ben Goldberg, Jeff Parker, and Ches Smith kick off San Diego’s fresh sound series.

Henry Grimes plays in Israel this week.

WED. 2/22, 7:30 PM – Viva Vocalists (student ensemble of the Fisher Ensemble) presents two one-act operas from the Golden Age of television: Kurt Weill‘s Down in the Valley (1945-48) and Douglas Moore‘s Gallantry (1958).

THU. 2/23, 8 PM – Jim Bartz/StringStation, atmospheric music using an amazing new electric guitar/digital hybrid instrument

FRI. 2/24, 8 PM – Beth Fleenor in her Crystal Beth incarnation leads you into altered states

SAT. 2/25, 8 PM – Nonsequitur presents pianist Adam Tendler performing John Cage’s complete Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano

FRI. 3/2, 8 PM – Seattle Composers’ Salon, new music by Jay Hamilton, Clement Reid, John Teske, Terry Wergeland

SAT. 3/3, 8 PM – Nonsequitur presents Electro-Gals, a collective of women making electronic music. This one features Heather Perkins (Portland), Briana Marela (Olympia), and Christi Denton (Portland)

THU. 3/8 – Andy Clausen and the Wishbone Project, CD release concert

FRI. 3/9 – Monktail Creative Music Concern Composers Series, Vol. 8

SAT. 3/10 – electroacoustic music from Los Angeles by Yann Novak + Robert Crouch + Sublamp

FRI. 3/16 – Hollow Earth Radio’s Magma Festival presents four trios of multiples: Angelina Baldoz, Samantha Boshnack, Lesli Dalaba (trumpets); Beth Fleenor, Paul Hoskin, Jenny Ziefel (clarinets); Byron Au Yong, Tari Nelson-Zagar, Paul Rucker (strings); Stuart Dempster, Paul Kikuchi, Susie Kozawa (percussion/objects)

SAT. 3/17 – Seattle Pianist Collective, program TBA

SAT. 3/24 – Hollow Earth Radio’s Magma Festival – Figeater, King Tears Bat Trip, WA, T’th & Hare’

THU. 3/29, 7:30 PM – DoubleSharp presents Russian pianist Anton Batagov performing music of Philip Glass and Debussy

FRI. 3/30, 7:30 PM – DoubleSharp presents Russian pianist Anton Batagov performing music of Anton Batagov

February 16, 2012
Dave Rempis & Joshua Abrams, Elastic, Chicago
Dave Rempis Josh Abrams

February 16, 2012
Helen Gillet & Michael Zerang, Elastic, Chicago
Helen Gillet Michael Zerang

February 15, 2012
Kyle Bruckmann’s Wrack, Hideout, Chicago
Anton Hatwich Jason Stein Jen Clare Paulson Kyle Bruckmann Tim Daisy

February 13, 2012
Extraordinary Popular Delusions, Beat Kitchen, Chicago
Brian Sandstrom Jim Baker Joe Adamik Mars Williams

Sunday, February 26th 2012
Harris Eisenstadt Canada Day @ the Timucua white house
2000 S. Summerlin St., Orlando
7:30 pm, free admission

www.timucua.com

http://www.harriseisenstadt.com/

Sunday, March 25th 2012
cm5 One and One Series:
Jaap Blonk solo and Fred Ho solo @ the Timucua white house
2000 S. Summerlin St., Orlando
7:30 pm, free admission

www.timucua.com

http://www.jaapblonk.com/

http://www.bigredmediainc.com/brmflash/

Sunday, April 1st 2012
cm5 All-Trombone Affair
Wolter Wierbos solo and David Manson’s SWARM for trombone octet @ the Timucua white house
2000 S. Summerlin St., Orlando
7:30 pm, free admission

http://timucua.com/

http://www.wolterwierbos.nl/

http://www.davidmanson.net/fr_home.cfm

Sunday, April 8th 2012
Endangered Blood (Chris Speed, Oscar Noriega, Trevor Dunn and Jim Black)
@ the Timucua white house
2000 S. Summerlin St., Orlando
7:30 pm, free admission

www.timucua.com

http://www.myspace.com/benefitbandmusic/

Sunday, July 8th 2012
Trevor Watts and Veryan Weston @ the Timucua white house
2000 S. Summerlin St., Orlando
7:30 pm, free admission

www.timucua.com

http://www.myspace.com/trevorwatts2

http://www.myspace.com/veryanweston

Related articles

• Harris Eisenstadt’s Canada Day at Timucua white house- Sunday, February 26th (thecm5.com)
• Tatsuya Nakatani, David Pate and Kevin Stever at Timucua white house- Sunday, February 19th (thecm5.com)
• cm5 presents Emily Hay at Timucua white house, September 4th (thecm5.com)