Tag: New York City
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Mixology Festival Coming to Roulette in May
Elliott Sharp (via last.fm) From Roulette: HARVESTWORKS INSIDE: Pamela Z / Elliot Sharp Thu May 14 – 8:30 PM The 2009 edition of Harvestworks’ Spring performance series ‚”Harvestworks Inside” with three exceptional programs exploring gesture and physical computing in live performance. Pamela Z will present new work for voice, electronics, video, and gesture controllers. Elliott…
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American Composers Orchestra Season Finale
Lukas Ligeti (via last.fm) The American Composers Orchestra has its final show of the season happening May 1st in NY. American Composers Orchestra, the nation’s most consistently adventurous champion of new orchestral work, returns Underground for five World Premieres at 7:30PM on Friday, February 20, presented by Carnegie Hall at Zankel Hall. The concert continues…
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Firehouse 12 To Present The Michaël Attias Quintet May 1st
From Improvised Communications: On Friday, May 1st, New York-based saxophonist/composer Michaël Attias will make his Firehouse 12 debut as part of the venue’s ongoing 2009 Spring Jazz Series. Fresh off a two-week stint performing his original live electronic score for the Yale Repertory Theater’s production of Dostoevsky’s “Notes From The Underground” in late March and…
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Harris Eisenstadt In April
From Improvised Communications: After a four-week residency in March at IBeam with his nonet, Woodblock Prints, drummer/composer Harris Eisenstandt is taking a break from leading his own bands in April, but you can still catch him performing in New York with others throughout the month. 04/03: Saris, The Stone 04/05: Korea 21: Music Here and…
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Bang on a Can Marathon in DC Area
Bang on a Can All-Stars (via last.fm) From Black Plastic Bag: For the past few years, the annual Bang on a Can Marathon in New York City has had my mouth watering, juxtaposing performances of fascinating and often under-performed avant-garde classical music with shows by cutting-edge popular music performers (and generally blurring the line between…
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Firehouse 12 Records To Release New CDs From Carl Maguire And John Hébert
From Improvised Communications: On June 16th, Firehouse 12 Records will release music from its two newest artists, keyboardist/composer Carl Maguire’s longstanding band Floriculture and bassist/composer John Hébert. Sided Silver Solid (FH12-04-01-009) is Floriculture’s second recording and its first as a quintet featuring new members, violist Stephanie Griffin and multi-instrumentalist Oscar Noriega. Hébert makes his recorded…
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Greenleaf Music Streaming Albums for Free
Today Greenleaf Music announced that they are streaming at least some of their albums for free. For those who are reading that are not a member of our email list, we announced yesterday that we are now offering streaming of our entire front-line catalogue at our store. We feel like it’s a big step in…
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Excursion to the Left Coast: John Zorn @ Yoshi’s San Francisco
Masada (via last.fm) From Black Plastic Bag: I recently flew across the country to watch a New York musician play a series of concerts in San Francisco. If that doesn’t seem to make much sense, consider that downtown legend John Zorn, a recent recipient of the half-a-million-bucks Macarthur “Genius” grant, almost never plays live except…
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Positive Catastrophe CD Release Concerts At Jazz Gallery May 8th and 9th
From Improvised Communications: On Friday, May 8th and Saturday, May 9th, Positive Catastrophe will celebrate the release of its debut recording, Garabatos Volume One (Cuneiform Records), with a two-night stand at New York’s Jazz Gallery. The brainchild of cornetist/composer Taylor Ho Bynum and multi-instrumentalist/composer Abraham Gomez-Delgado, this self-described trans-idiomatic ten-piece little big band connects the…
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Fast ‘N’ Bulbous in New York Tonight
From Captain Beefheart Up Sifter: We’ve just received an announcement about the Fast ‘N’ Bulbous performance scheduled for Tuesday, March 10th in New York. Fast ‘N’ Bulbous performs at (Le) Poisson Rouge Tuesday March 10th 2009. Related articles by Zemanta Even more treats at The Knit (beefheart.com) Beefheart Night at the Knit (beefheart.com) Fast goes…
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DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET Photos
Image via Wikipedia From DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET: March 04, 2009 Raoul Bjorkenheim & Lukas Ligeti Duo, The Stone Raoul Bjorkenheim, Lukas Ligeti Related articles by Zemanta 11/10/08 – Lukas Ligeti (portlandeyeandearcontrol.blogspot.com) AUDIBLE THINK: December 5, 2007: Daniel Levin & Ingebrigt Haker Flaten (audiblethink.blogspot.com)
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KFJC Reviews
Image via Wikipedia From KFJC: Tickmayer, Stevan Kovacs – “Cold Peace Counterpoints” – [Rer Megacorp] A crazy cut-up tour de force of keyboards, string instruments, percussion, and sampling, all whirled together in Tickmayer’s compositional blender. Piano, organ, and harpsichord-type sounds are heard throughout, but it’s not all about keyboards; Track 7 goes heavy on electric…
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Kidd Jordan Trio at RUCMA
Image via Wikipedia From New York’s RUCMA: Start: 02/27/2009 – 7:30pm SPECIAL PERFORMANCE @ CLEMENTE SOTO VELEZ! Kidd Jordan Trio: Kidd Jordan — tenor saxophone William Parker — bass Hamid Drake — drums 2 sets @ 7:30PM and 9PM SEA Theater at Clemente Soto Velez 107 Suffolk Street, 2nd Floor, south of Rivington New York,…
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Rudresh Mahanthappa: A Passage to India
Image via Wikipedia Mahanthappa is profiled in the New Yorker. Jazz musicians have two fundamental goals: creating music that keeps listeners wondering what’s next, and finding a novel context within which to explore old truths. (There are no new truths.) Whenever a musician achieves this synthesis, usually after years of apprenticeship and exploration, a rumble…
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Musique Machine Reviews
From Musique Machine: Various Artists – Favourite, Places Favorite Places is a compilation based on the idea of the artists choosing to represent in sound their favorite places. It’s the type of concept which sounds intriguing, but in practice is somewhat confining. The locations chosen by the artists are often surprising in their banality, and…
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Throbbing Gristle US Tour
Image via Wikipedia Throbbing Gristle will tour this Spring. DATES ANNOUNCED FIRST US TOUR SINCE 1981 INCLUDING COACHELLA AND FIRST TIME EVER SHOWS IN NYC AND CHICAGO 4/16/09 MASONIC HALL BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 4/19/09 COACHELLA INDIO, CA 4/21/09 UCLA LOS ANGELES, CA** 4/23/09 GRAND REGENCY BALLROOM SAN FRANCISCO, CA 4/25/09 EPHIPHANY EPISCOPAL CHICAGO, IL **”In…
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Jazz Listings From The New York Times
Image via Wikipedia In the Times: ADOBE PROBE (Saturday) The alto saxophonist Tim Berne presides over this typically oblique ensemble but entrusts a lot of decisions to his collaborators: the multireedist Chris Speed, the trumpeter Shane Endsley, the guitarist Mary Halvorson, the pianist Matt Mitchell, the bassist John Hebert and the drummer Gerald Cleaver. At…
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Meehan/Perkins Duo at Carnegie Hall
An upcoming performance from the Meehan/Perkins Duo: The Meehan/ Perkins Duo (Todd Meehan and Douglas Perkins), comprised of two of the country’s leading contemporary percussionists, will perform a concert on Friday, January 16 at 8 PM at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. This is the first full-length recital for these two since they performed in NYC…
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Richardson / Carter / Jordan / Moss / Gruner at RUCMA
Coming up at New York’s RUCMA: Start: 12/29/2008 – 9:00pm End: 12/29/2008 – 10:30pm Timezone: Etc/GMT-4 Richardson / Carter / Jordan / Moss / Gruner Monday, December 29 @ 9 PM Yippie Café: 9 Bleecker Street, near Bowery General Admission: $10 Demian Richardson (trumpet) Daniel Carter (reeds) Andrew Jordan (reeds and percussion) David Moss (bass)…
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Arts for Art Gala Fundraiser December 15
From RUCMA: ARTS FOR ART, INC. cordially invites you to a GALA FUNDRAISER to create the INNOVATIVE ARTS CENTER A Place for Innovation in Music, Arts and Thinking. MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2008 Dinner & Open Bar: 7:30pm – 9:30pm Performances: 9:30pm – 11:00pm Attire: Festive THE ANGEL ORENSANZ FOUNDATION 172 Norfolk Street New York, NY,…
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Upcoming Gigs from Terry McManus
From Terry McManus: Born in Brooklyn, New York, guitarist Terrence McManus grew up in New Jersey and Connecticut. He has performed with Bill Frisell, Tim Berne, Ellery Eskelin, Mark Helias, Gerry Hemingway, Anthoney Cox, Kermit Driscoll, Gene Bertoncini, Russ Lossing, Marty Eurlick, and Michael Sarin, and has performed at Carnegie Hall, the New York Guitar…
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Coming up at RUCMA
From New York’s RUCMA: RUCMA Series 2008 @ the Yippie Cafe Monday, December 1, 7:30 pm Brad Farberman’s Music for Ears Jam Session at 9 pm David Rothenberg (clarinets) Darius Jones (alto sax) Dave Sewelson (bari sax) Brad Farberman (guitar) Andrew Drury (drums) Wednesday, December 3, 8:00 pm Cristian Amigo & Kingdom of Jones Cristian…
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