Live at Roulette

Roulette, an experimental showcase, is featuring the following performances:

Thursday March 3
Triptych Myth

Triptych Myth is a true musical collective consisting of Tom Abbs on double bass, cello, violin, didgeridoo, Chad Taylor on drum set and percussion, and Cooper-Moore performing on a multitude of self made and traditional musical instruments, piano, flute, bamboo flutes, ashimba, diddley-bo, mouth-bow, horizontal-hoe-handle harp, teze, wooden three string banjo and electronics. In describing the music that they create, Cooper-Moore states, “We are three, no, not just three musicians improvising with one another, but three worlds, three oscillating galaxies colliding. The music results from that. When it’s working for me, there is the sense of Future Past, a Hubble image.”

Friday March 4
Joe Mcphee (Trio X)

Trio X pays homage to the history, inspiration and promise of Harlem, with the SUGAR HILL SUITE. To quote Loren Schoenberg, Executive Director of the Jazz Museum of Harlem, “jazz lives and breathes in Harlem today, not just in the gloried past of yesterday.” Along with the inspiration of the giants upon whose shoulders we stand, we remember that Great Day, one Saturday in August, 1958, and the fact that Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington couldn’t make the photo shoot. We remember the Apollo Theater, the Savoy Ballroom, the Cotton Club, Small’s Paradise, and look forward to the promise of a new artistic renaissance.

Saturday March 5
Ned Rothenberg

Solo concert “This is not about virtuosity, in spite of Rothenberg’s superb technique…. Other kinds of music might entertain you, cheer you up or pump the blood, but his clarifies the mind and throws your soul wide open.” Manfred Pabst, Neue Z¸richer Zeitung

Sunday March 6
Michael Attias
THE CLINAMEN ORCHESTRA

“Sometimes”, wrote Lucretius, “at uncertain times and places, the eternal, universal fall of the atoms is disturbed by a very slight deviation – the clinamen”. The unpredicted swerve of one atom which in collision creates a multiplicity of worlds, gives its name to the Clinamen Ensemble, featuring MichaÃŽl Attias on alto saxophone, Ellery Eskelin on tenor saxophone, Mark Taylor on French horn, Matt Moran on vibraphone, Brad Jones on bass, and Satoshi Takeishi on percussion. Meters in meltdown, something like Klee’s checkerboard all right angles softened by breath, a two becoming three becoming one, Attias’ music is a turbulent flow of time and color.

Wednesday March 9
Gina Leishman

The Poetics of No Piano Music inspired by some of her favourite writers & poets – Brecht, Shakespeare, Edith Sitwell, amongst others – with the aid of anything but a piano (accordion, ukelele, bass clarinet, glass and voice). With special guest bassist Greg Cohen

Thursday March 10
TEST – Sabir Mateen, Daniel Carter, Matt Heyner, Tom Bruno

Practicing functional anarchy with a far-ranging textural diversity (due in part to the multiple wind instruments mastered by Daniel and Sabir), TEST are forward motion cutting pure and true through the presently ruling culture of destruction. The infamous NYC quartet has its roots in mid 70’s loft jazz and these distinguished masters of sound and youthful hustle are far out!!

Friday March 11
Daniel Smith

Sound artist/ engineer Daniel Smith works with multiple soundsystems; seperate sound sources are played back in any combination from and to created spaces and inflated environments. Daniel will endeavor to entertain you on this night with a recontextualised selection of recordings he’s made, mixed and interspersed with his own original compositions. He will play through a 4-channel soundsystem.

Saturday March 12
Oliver Lake Trio

featuring- Pheeroan Ak Laff drums – Baikida Carroll trumpet – Oliver Lake sax
“This is a reunion of sorts, three old friends getting together to create some great music. Sounds ,colors, rhythms,life,intensity, warmth, strecthin’ out, stretchin’ in , havin’ fun!”

Sunday March 13
Barry Weisblat

Debut of a new piece for table-steel guitar featuring snare/cymbalist Sean Meehan and electric double-bassist Margarida Garcia. Commissioned by the Jerome Foundation for Roulette. After many years of intrigue and experimentation with the ubiquitous 555 industrial timing chip, for use as a sound and light oscillator/modulator, Weisblat’s new inspiration with this chip is to drive electronic switching relays to actuate the strings of a guitar.