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  • October at Roulette

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    William Hooker via last.fm The October schedule from New York’s Roulette: Fay Victor Ensemble “The FreeSongSuite” Thurs Oct 1 – 8:30 PM Bisio / Crothers Fri Oct 2 – 8:30 PM Jane Rigler Roulette CHILDREN’S CONCERT $5 Sat Oct 3 – 8:30 PM Tom Hamilton & Bruce Eisenbeil w/ William Hooker Sat Oct 3 –…

  • Jim O’Rourke, Once an Insider, Worked Alone and on the Outside for ‘The Visitor’

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    Jim O’Rourke via last.fm Jim O’Rourke is profiled and his new release is discussed. Mr. O’Rourke, 40, is about equally known for his own music — albums like “Eureka,” “Insignificance” and his remarkable new one, “The Visitor” — as for his work for other people. For about 10 years, starting in the mid-1990s, Mr. O’Rourke,…

  • Out on New World Records

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    A new release from New World Records: Andrew Byrne: White Bone Country Andrew Byrne (b. 1966) has lived and worked mostly in New York since the early 1990s. This tripartite CD has a mobile-like character, working entirely with a fabric of piano and metal percussion in changing manners and images, all of them remote from…

  • AUM Fidelity To Present NYC Label Showcase October 15th

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    David S. Ware via last.fm From Improvised Communications: On Thursday, October 15th at 7:30 p.m., AUM Fidelity will present a label showcase at New York’s Abrons Arts Center featuring notable performances by three of its artists on one bill. The event will celebrate the release of alto saxophonist Darius Jones‘ debut recording as a bandleader,…

  • Telluric Currents at Brooklyn’s IBeam

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    From the IBeam: Continuing the new concert series curated by Brooklyn-based composer/clarinetist Jeremiah Cymerman, the second installment of the Telluric Currents series will take place September 25th and 26th at Brooklyn’s I-Beam. Future installments will occur once every three months for three nights, three sets per night. Celebrating the diversity and creativity of New York’s…

  • Coming up at Roulette: Three Nights of Sparks

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    Image of Nate Wooley From New York’s Roulette: Sparks (Peter Evans and Tom Blancarte) has been playing together since 2005. From the beginning of the formation of the duo, they have been constantly working to push their own boundaries of density and speed of interaction while freely improvising. They have performed extensively in New York…

  • Harris Eisenstadt In August

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    Improvised Communications provides Eisenstadt’s upcoming performances. Jason Kao Hwang’s Edge Sunday, August 9th @ Flushing Meadows Corona Park (New York, NY) Jessica Pavone Presents Wordless Songs Inspired by Life’s Cast of Characters Wednesday, August 12th @ Barbès (Brooklyn, NY) Dave Ballou /Ben Gerstein/James Ilgenfritz/Harris Eisenstadt Tuesday, August 18th @ Le Grand Dakar (Brooklyn, NY) Please…

  • Eli Keszler & Ashley Paul at Metropolis 8/10

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    From Syracuse’s New Thing Productions: August 10th @ 8pm Eli Keszler & Ashley Paul $5-$10 Donation Metropolis Underground 615 S. Main St (backside of bldg, first door on your left) N. Syracuse, NY 13212 Eli Keszler, using drums, along with crotales, bells, bowed metal, strings, Eli creates a unique whirlwind of sound that balances sparse…

  • International Contemporary Ensemble 2009-2010 Season

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    ICE has released its schedule for the coming season. Excerpts below. Friday, September 25, 8:30pm CD Release Event: Mario Diaz de León on Tzadik Roulette 20 Greene Street Reservations/Tickets: 212.219.8242 Mario Diaz de León’s music focuses on acoustic/electronic hybrids that often fuse the two elements into unified meta-instruments. Often structured as walls and gestures of…

  • Piano Festival at the Cornelia Street Cafe

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    From New York’s The Cornelia Street Cafe: PIANO FESTIVAL – A NIGHT OF DUOS August 14, 9pm, 10pm, 11pm 9pm – Jacob Sacks/Yoon Sun Choi 10pm – Russ Lossing/Mat Maneri 11pm – Hankus Netsky / Marty Ehrlich Cornelia Street Café presents a night of Piano Duos August 14th, 9pm – 11pm as part of it’s…

  • Free Jazz Blog Reviews

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    Jim Black via last.fm From Free Jazz: Sunday, July 19, 2009 Simon Jermyn’s Trot A Mouse (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2009) ***½ Saturday, July 18, 2009 Jacob William Quartet – Secondary Deviations (Ayler, 2009) ***½ Thursday, July 16, 2009 Trespass Trio – … Was There To Illuminate The Night Sky (Clean Feed, 2009) ***** Monday,…

  • Ten Questions with Steve Lehman

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    From Glowing Realm: Steve Lehman is a composer/alto saxophonist living in NY. I first saw him as part of Anthony Braxton’s 12 1tet at the Iridium in 2006, and since then have really gotten into his music. His writing is very complex, but clear enough to be easily digestible. He also has a knack for…

  • 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…

  • New Thing Productions in July and August

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    The latest schedule from Syracuse’s New Thing Productions: July 24th @ 8pm Andrew Lamb Solo $5-$10 Donation Andrew Lamb (Saxophones, Flutes, Woodwinds) Born in Ingold, North Carolina and grew up in Chicago and predominately in South Jamaica, Queens. Having studied with AACM charter member Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Lamb came into New York’s “avant – garde’…

  • Mary Halvorson In July

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    Live shows of Mary Halvorson, reported by Improvised Communications: Mary Halvorson Trio Tuesday, July 14th @ Molde Jazz Festival (Molde, Norway) Friday, July 17th @ Bimhuis (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone Tuesday, July 21st @ Bowery Poetry Club (New York, NY) Saturday, July 25th @ The Windup Space (Baltimore, MD) Monday, July 27th…

  • The Squid’s Ear Reviews

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    From The Squid’s Ear: Max Eastley & Rhodri Davies – Dark Architecture Ima Ensemble – Tumma Speak Easy (Wassermann / Minton / Lehn / Blume) – Backchats Sylvain Chauveau – Touching Down Lightly Evan Parker / John Wiese – C-Section Per Anders Nilsson / Sten Sandell / Raymond Strid – Beam Stone Ami Yoshida /…

  • Eli Keszler, Ashley Paul, Silvum at Sonic Circuits

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    From DC’s Sonic Circuits: Tuesday July 7 Doors 730pm Music 8pm 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 DIRECTIONS: http://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org INFO: dc-soniccircuits.org Eli Keszler Using drums, along with crotales, bells, bowed…

  • This Week at the ISSUE Project Room

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    From New York’s ISSUE Project Room: 07/02 @ 8pm – Hisham Bharoocha w/Ben Vida + Ateleia w/Sadek Bazaraa + Ateleia and Sadek Bazaraa + Hisham Bharoocha w/ Ben Vida Issue Project Room Doors at 8PM Tonight’s performance marks a new instance of ‘Archegram’, the ongoing collaboration between musician James Elliott, aka Ateleia, and visual artist…

  • Musicka Mystica Maxima Fest September in New York

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    John Zorn via last.fm The Musicka Mystica Maxima Fest takes place at Santos Party House, New York, NY, 21 and 22 September 2009. The lineup of the two-day fest includes Genesis Breyer P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle with Thee Majesty featuring Bryin Dall and Morrisson Edley, John Zorn and Bill Laswell, and Daniel Higgs.

  • New on Ayler Records

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    Joe McPhee via last.fm Ayler Records has a handful of new releases: Eyal Maoz & Asaf Sirkis – Elementary Dialogues Eyal Maoz and Asaf Sirkis share a long history of collaboration. Combining composition and improvisation, their intuitive rapport guides the way through a musical conversation full of unexpected twists and turns and sudden bursts of…

  • Interview with Matana Roberts

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    From New York’s Roulette: On Thursday, June 18th at 8:30pm, Matana Roberts presents ILLUMINATION, a collection of sound paintings that testify to why any artist would chose to live in New York in the first place. A city unlike any other, with an artistic spirit unlike any other. An Illumination in sound, space, real time.…

  • 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…

  • Brotzmann / Pliakas / Wertmuller on Tour

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    From Marino Pliakas: Peter Brotzmann (GER), Reeds Marino Pliakas (CH), E-Bass Michael Wertmueller (CH), Drums June 9 – Pittsburgh, PA : New Hazlett Theater, http://www.newhazletttheater.org/ June 10 – Baltimore, MD: The Windup Space, http://www.thewindupspace.com June 11 – Washington, DC: Velvet Lounge, http://www.velvetloungedc.com June 12 – St.Louis, MO: LEMP Arts Center, http://www.lemp-arts.org/ June 13 – Chicago,…

  • 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…