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  • Jazz Listings from the New York Times

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    From NYTimes.com: A BODY WITHOUT ORGANS (Sunday) This metaphysically named series, held every other Sunday in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, reflects the rugged ideals of its organizer, the drummer Mike Pride. In the later sets here, at roughly 10 p.m., he leads a quartet called From Bacteria to Boys; an earlier set, at 9, features a quartet…

  • New on Aum Fidelity

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    A new release from the combination of Morris, Cancura, and Gray is available. Joe Morris: bass Petr Cancura: tenor and alto saxophone Luther Gray: drums Wildlife is the debut recording of a new group concept from Jazz Master nonpareil Joe Morris. Within this trio anything is possible. Joe Morris is here featured on bass. Petr…

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    Image of Nate Wooley From DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET: July 11, 2009 Dan Peck Trio, IBeam Tom Blancarte, Dan Peck, Mike Pride Nate Wooley and Peter Evans Duo, IBeam Peter Evans, Nate Wooley

  • Coming to the ISSUE Project Room

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    From NY’s ISSUE Project Room: 07/15 @ 8pm – Mari Kimura with Liubo Borissov and Kevork Mourad Organic Digits: Kimura-Borissov-Mourad Project Mari Kimura teams up with visual artists Liubo Borissov and Kevork Mourad, presenting everything from her virtuosic solo works of her signature bowing technique Subharmonics, to realtime interactive audio visual works, using Issue Project…

  • Issue Project Room, an Avant-Garde Arts Group, Bites Off a Lot to Chew

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    NYTimes.com profiles the Issue Project Room. But last year Issue Project Room, a nonprofit arts space that was founded in the East Village and for the last four years has been in Brooklyn, was dealt a dauntingly large number. As part of a city deal, a developer that was converting the former Board of Education…

  • Jazz Listings From The New York Times

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    Rashied Ali via last.fm In the Times: RASHIED ALI QUINTET (Wednesday and Thursday) Rashied Ali has had a substantial career in the jazz avant-garde, but hard bop is the foundation for this quintet, which works here to celebrate the release of a new album, “Live in Europe” (Survival). The band’s rough-and-tumble front line features the…

  • Floating Points Festival at the ISSUE Project Room

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    Zeena Parkins via last.fm From New York’s ISSUE Project Room: A month-long program experimenting with and utilizing ISSUE Project Room’s custom-built 15 channel hemispherical speaker system, the Floating Points Festival returns this year with a line-up of luminary sound artists including Hisham Bharoocha, Morton Subotnick, Stephen Vitiello, Zeena Parkins, Suzanne Thorpe, C. Spencer Yeh, and…

  • Avant Improv in Brooklyn

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    From Brooklyn’s MonkeyTown: Lou Rossi/Carlos’ Red Shoes/Glass Bees/Frogwell July 14th Monkeytown 58 N3rd Street (Between Whyte and Kent) Williamsburg, Brooklyn, $5 cover. This four-band bill celebrates Bastille Day with electric ambience and organic improv providing a diverse sonic feast. Featuring everthing from crystaline guitar trails to laptop bubblebaths, sineous tuba melodes and the iPhone-as-instrument to…

  • Harris Eisenstadt In July

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    From Improvised Communications: Saturday, July 4th at 10:00 p.m. The Harris Eisenstadt Trio Cornelia Street Cafe Sunday, July 12th at 7:30 p.m. Sean Moran’s Small Elephant Barbès Friday, July 31st at 10:00 p.m. Kaoru Watanabe’s NakaNaka series presents: Harris Eisenstadt’s Woodblock Prints Drom Related articles by Zemanta Harris Eisenstadt In July (improvisedcommunications.wordpress.com) Reminder: Harris Eisenstadt’s…

  • Sonomu Reviews

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    From Sonomu: DJ Olive, Triage (Room 40) Gregor Asch aka DJ Olive has found a second, antipodean home in Room 40, an upside-down Brooklyn where instead of teasing out unheard-of beats he abandons them altogether in favour of atmosphere and introspection. Triage is the final installment of a trilogy for the label, designed like “Buoy”……

  • Feeding Those Young and Curious Listeners

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    Le Poisson Rouge is featured in by NYTimes.com: There are alternative sites for experimental contemporary music, like Joe’s Pub and the Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village, Roulette in SoHo, Barbès and the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn. But the programming of contemporary music from the classical tradition is especially lively at Le Poisson Rouge.…

  • Harris Eisenstadt Performances In June

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    From Improvised Communications: Drummer/composer Harris Eisenstadt is laying a bit low this month waiting for his first child to be born, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still a few gigs worth mentioning around New York, including a performance with Jessica Pavone’s new name-challenged quartet and duets with Brahim Fribgane (in Howard Mandel’s ethnomusicology class…

  • Jazz Listings From The New York Times

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    John Medeski via last.fm From NYTimes.com: THE BLOOM FESTIVAL (Friday and Thursday) This monthlong series, running Thursday and Friday nights, turns the spotlight on female artists, and specifically those upholding against-the-grain ideals. On Friday the event’s namesake, the soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom, leads a restless trio with the bassist Mark Helias and the drummer…

  • June at Brooklyn’s IBeam

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    From Brooklyn’s IBeam: June 12th @ 9:00 pm – $10 The Second Approach Trio (Russia, Moscow) With Special Guest – Roswell Rudd (Trombone) Andrei Razin – Piano/Compositions Tatiana Komova – Vocals Igor Ivanushkin – Acoustic Bass Based in Moscow, Russia, The Second Approach consists of a classically-trained composer and improvising pianist Andrei Razin, an improvising…

  • Tortoise: Subtle Indie Rock, Aged for 20 Years

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    From NYTimes.com: Tortoise, an instrumental five-piece band from Chicago, makes music of elaborate detail, rarely settling for a broad stroke when a sharp inflection might suffice. Most of the songs in its show on Saturday night, at the Bell House in Brooklyn, came with the complex interior movements of a timepiece.

  • New Concert Series at Brooklyn’s IBeam

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    Inaugurating a new concert series curated by Brooklyn-based composer/clarinetist Jeremiah Cymerman, the first installment of the Telluric Currents series will take place from June 19th-21st at Brooklyn’s IBeam. Future installments will occur once every three months for three nights, three sets per night. Celebrating the diversity and creativity of New York’s underground musicians, each night…

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    Image of Nate Wooley DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET: May 21, 2009 MAP, The Stone Mary Halvorson, Tatsuya Nakatani, Reuben Radding May 24, 2009 Crackleknob, Issue Project Room Mary Halvorson, Reuben Radding, Nate Wooley Related articles by Zemanta Crackleknob CD Release Party At Issue Project Room May 24th (improvisedcommunications.wordpress.com) AAJ Review: Crackleknob (improvisedcommunications.wordpress.com) Crackleknob Reviewed In The Wire (improvisedcommunications.wordpress.com)…

  • Jazz Listings From the New York Times

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    Bill Frisell (via last.fm) In the Times: DARCY JAMES ARGUE’S SECRET SOCIETY (Friday) “Infernal Machines” (New Amsterdam) is the long-awaited debut of this modern big band, led by Mr. Argue, an indefatigable young composer. Girded with indie-rock textures and a generous sense of drama, it deserves the big unfurling that has been organized here. At…

  • The iO Quartet performs Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram in New York

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    From Brooklyn’s West Nile, coming May 16: iO Quartet performs Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram with interludes by Mario Diaz de Leon and Doron Sadja curated by Mario Diaz de Leon “The music of Iancu Dumitrescu explores the ultimate sense of sound guiding the listener through new spheres of sonic adventure, a kind of cryptic…

  • Firehouse 12 To Present The James Carney Group May 15th

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    From Improvised Communications: On Friday, May 15th, New Haven’s Firehouse 12 will present a two-set performance by Brooklyn-based pianist/composer James Carney and his longstanding working ensemble, the James Carney Group. Carney and the band, which features trumpeter Ralph Alessi, trombonist Josh Roseman, bassist Chris Lightcap and drummer Mark Ferber, will preview segments of his new…

  • Jeremiah Cymerman at Sonic Circuits

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    From DC’s Sonic Circuits: Sunday May 3 Doors 730pm Music 7pm SHARP $7 PYRAMID ATLANTIC 8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring MD 20910 301.608.9101 located three blocks south of the silver spring metro station (red line) Free parking in gated lot out front INFO: http://www.dc-soniccircuits.org DIRECTIONS: http://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org Jeremiah Cymerman (pronounced SIMMER-man) is a composer and clarinetist…

  • Jazz Listings From The New York Times

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    Image via Wikipedia From the Times: AB BAARS TRIO WITH KEN VANDERMARK (Sunday) Ab Baars, a saxophonist and clarinetist prominent on the robust Dutch jazz scene, has a new album, “Goofy June Bug” (Wig 15), featuring this trio — with Wilbert de Joode on bass and Martin van Duynhoven on drums — along with Mr.…

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    Gerald Cleaver (via last.fm) In the Times: BISHOP-CLEAVER-FLOOD (Tuesday) As on a recent album, “Time and Imaginary Time” (Envoi), the saxophonist Andrew Bishop engages in an equal exchange with the drummer Gerald Cleaver and the bassist Tim Flood, expanding compositional frames and exploring open space. At 10 p.m., the Stone, Avenue C and Second Street,…

  • Mary Halvorson And Jessica Pavone On Tour

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    From Improvised Communications: Next week, Mary Halvorson and Jessica Pavone will tour the East Coast in support of their recently released third recording, Thin Air (Thirsty Ear). 04/15: Slainte (Portland, ME) 04/16: The Lily Pad (Cambridge, MA) 04/17: The Buoy (Kittery, ME) 04/18: National Spiritual Alliance Hall (Amherst, MA) 04/19: The Third Degree (Asbury Park,…