Gordon Beeferman Performances in New York

From Gordon Beeferman:

Gordon Beeferman’s MUSIC FOR AN IMAGINARY BAND
performs at Konceptions @ Korzo;
OTHER LIFE FORMS performs at Evolving Music and at Cornelia Street Café

Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 9pm
MUSIC FOR AN IMAGINARY BAND
“[A] commanding avant-jazz ensemble” Time Out New York

Gordon Beeferman’s MUSIC FOR AN IMAGINARY BAND performs at the Konceptions jazz series at Korzo. MUSIC FOR AN IMAGINARY BAND, led by composer-pianist Beeferman, is a (real) septet comprised of some of New York’s most uniquely creative musicians. The band explores the territory where classical ‘new-music,’ jazz and free improvisation intersect. Beeferman’s compositions range from the gnarly to the operatic, and are both incredibly detailed and very free; the band’s intensive improvisational explorations are tethered to highly structured frameworks.
More info: http://www.gordonbeeferman.com/imagband.html

Personnel: Rich Johnson, trumpet; Catherine Sikora, alto sax; Joachim Badenhorst, tenor sax and clarinet; Ken Thomson, bass clarinet and baritone sax; James Ilgenfritz, bass; Ches Smith, drums; Gordon Beeferman, piano and compositions

Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 9pm
Konceptions @ Korzo, 667 5th Avenue (between 19th/20th Streets), Brooklyn
suggested donation

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Monday, May 30, 2011, 8pm
Evolving Music presents
OTHER LIFE FORMS
A new avant-jazz quartet comprising four bright talents of NYC’s creative music scene, Stephanie Griffin (viola), Gordon Beeferman (piano), Evan Lipson (bass) and Andrew Drury (drums), OTHER LIFE FORMS combines complex written charts with virtuosic individual and collective improvisation. Premiering original compositions by Beeferman and Lipson. (Artist bios below)

Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center
107 Suffolk Street, New York City (@ Rivington, Lower East Side)

$15

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Sunday, June 5, 2011, 6pm
OTHER LIFE FORMS
at Serial Underground
Cornelia Street Café

29 Cornelia Street (W4/Bleecker)

$10 + one-drink minimum (cash only)
Reservations: (212) 989-9319

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