Tag: NewYork
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Interview with Lisle Ellis
From Roulette NYC: Lisle Ellis, is a New York-based bassist, composer, visual artist, and teacher. On September 26th at Roulette, Ellis presents Stomping Ground – a “band” of shifting dimensions and a “song” without end – investigating ideas of community and a spectrum of diversity through traditional, experimental, and futuristic concepts, attempting to convey meaningful…
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Lukas Ligeti’s Postmodern Post-African Fusion
Lukas Ligeti via last.fm Ligeti’s upcoming Chicago show is previewed by the Reader: On Thursday night Elastic plays host to an intriguing New York trio called Hypercolor. I’ve never seen the group live, and they only have a handful of tracks on their Myspace page, but the presence of percussionist and composer Lukas Ligeti, son…
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Coming up at RUCMA
Image via Wikipedia From New York’s Rise Up Creative Music & Arts: MONDAY September 21 3 SETS !!! 7:30 PM Francois Grillot’s French Contraband Francois Grillot – Bass Others – TBA 9:00 PM Present Personic Patrick Brennan – alto sax Bern Nix – guitar Lisle Ellis – bass 10:30 PM Special Guests From Japan Sachi…
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Ken Vandermark in the Belly of the Beast
Ken Vandermark via last.fm The Chicago Reader discusses Ken Vandermark‘s increased nationwide prominence. “In North America the only thing that’s happened with festivals have been in Canada—Vancouver, Victoriaville,” he told me. “I’m invisible in the mainstream jazz world in the U.S. I’m generally never covered in mainstream American publications devoted to jazz.” While Vandermark has…
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Sonomu Reviews
From Sonomu: Various Artists, Echoes of Polyhymnia (Hypnos) Hypnos now boasts a long history and impressive discography of highly-accomplished ambient music hovering in dark, but not lightless, regions, several of which are compilations of exclusive tracks. Recently it added to this bounty with two anthologies released more or less simultaneously. … [read] Posted by Stephen…
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September at Roulette
William Hooker via last.fm The September schedule from New York’s Roulette: 3 NIGHTS: SKELETON$ BIG BAND: New Works for a Larger Ensemble Wed-Fri Sept 7, 8 & 9 – 8:30 PM INTERPRETATIONS: Works by Yusef Lateef and Adam Rudolph Thurs Sept 17 – 8:00 PM Gordon Beeferman’s MUSIC FOR AN IMAGINARY BAND Tue Sept 22…
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Mary Halvorson On Tour
From Improvised Communications: Mary Halvorson Trio Tuesday, August 4th @ Yoshi’s (Oakland, CA) Thursday, August 6th @ The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA) Matana Roberts Sunday, August 9th @ The Stone (New York, NY) Tom Rainey Friday, August 21st @ The Stone (New York, NY) Positive Catastrophe Tuesday, August 25th @ Freddy’s Bar & Backroom…
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The boundless sonic creativity of Okkyung Lee
Okkyung Lee via last.fm From the Chicago Reader: Okkyung Lee, who plays Sunday night at the Pritzker Pavilion in Min Xiao-Fen’s Asian Trio, is one of the most beguiling young figures in New York’s creative-music community. The Korean cellist—she came to the U.S. in 1993, at age 18—moves effortlessly between different worlds without changing her…
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Jon Irabagon finds the balance between inside and outside jazz
From the Chicago Reader: Saxophonist Jon Irabagon, who grew up in Morton Grove and later Gurnee and studied music at DePaul University, has steadily made a name for himself since relocating to New York in 2001 to pursue further studies at the Manhattan School of Music. For the plast few years he’s earned plaudits for…
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Ras Moshe Ensemble in Syracuse
From New Thing Productions: Thank you to everyone that came to the show last night, as usual, Thinguma*jigSaw put on such a nice intimate show that again made me think about picking up the saw as a musical instrument. So hot on the feet of this last gig, here is another one for you. Free…
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