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All About Jazz profiles William Parker:

William Parker’s East Village apartment is abuzz with activity on what would seem to be a typical November afternoon in the hive of New York free jazz. Cell phones and laptops are whirring, Parker making arrangements for an upcoming tour as his wife, the dancer and tireless organizer Patricia Nicholson, sets details for an upcoming fundraiser in her efforts to find a permanent home and performing space for Art for Arts and RUCMA, the sibling organizations that put on the annual Vision Festival as well as year-round concerts. Meanwhile, son Isiah—who has been performing with his father and plays in several bands on his own—is meeting with friends in the back bedroom. The exposed brick walls are a scrapbook for Parker’s travels, covered in musical instruments and exotic hats from around the world. Instrument cases and a baby grand piano occupy much of the front room. A set of wooden shelves strains in agony under the weight of LPs, four box sets of Mozart crowning the collection.

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SpiderMonkey Stories: November Joys

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Taylor Ho Bynum discusses some upcoming shows.

9pm, Fri 11/14 – THB Trio (with Mary Halvorson, guitar; Tomas Fujiwara, drums). Did you see the fabulous NY Times piece on Mary?

10:30pm, Fri 11/14 – THB Sextet (with Matt Bauder, tenor sax & clarinet; Jason Kao Hwang, violin & viola; Mary Halvorson & Evan O’Reilly, guitars; Tomas Fujiwara, drums). The sextet’s set at the Vision Festival last June was just broadcast on BBC 3 Radio, along with an interview, it’s streaming this week on the BBC website, check it out. I tried to find a way to say “and now for something completely different”, but I think they edited it out.

9pm & 10:30pm, Sat 11/15 – THB & SpiderMonkey Strings (with Jason Kao Hwang, violin; Jessica Pavone, viola; Tomas Ulrich, cello; Pete Fitzpatrick, guitar; Joseph Daley, tuba; Luther Gray, drums; Kyoko Kitamura, vocals & electronics). We’ll be performing an extended suite called Madeleine Dreams, using text from my sister Sarah Shun-lien Bynum’s novel Madeleine is Sleeping, along with music from our first CD Other Stories and original arrangements of compositions by Ornette, Duke, Sun Ra. (By the way, she’s got a new book out, Ms. Hempel Chronicles. Read it!)

Then SpiderMonkey Strings hits the road. We’ll be playing in Boston for the first time since 2004 and making the group’s New Haven debut.

3pm, Sun 11/14, FREE – THB & SpiderMonkey Strings
Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont Street, Boston MA

8:30 & 10pm, Fri 11/21 – THB & SpiderMonkey Strings
Firehouse 12, 45 Crown St, New Haven CT

Other than a December performance in Poland with Braxton, these will be my last concerts of 2008. After a wild and woolly year, I’m hoping to take a few months to lay low and compose some new music, go into the proverbial woodshed for a bit, maybe even do some blog writing. And we got to make sure “they” don’t try and blow up the world in their final two months! Good luck to us all.

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EDGE Quartet in Syracuse

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From New Thing Productions:

New Thing Productions Presents:
Tuesday September 30th, 2008 at 8 PM
EDGE Quartet
Metropolis Underground
615 S. Main Street Route 11 , backside of building
North Syracuse, NY
http://www.myspace.com/metropolisundergroundinc

The EDGE Quartet is:
Taylor Ho Bynum – cornet, flugelhorn
Andrew Drury – drum set
Jason Kao Hwang – composer/violin, viola
Special Guest Joe Daley – tuba

Nested in the urban mountains of New York City, EDGE embraces both past and future with musical tales celebrating life and loss. Their instruments, resonant with human and animal overtones, sing through sharp lines vibrating between histories, cultures and genres. Their first CD Edge 2006 reached #14 on the national CMJ radio charts and Stories Before Within, recently released on Innova, hit #9 this past March. EDGE has been presented by the Vision Festival XI NYC , the National Bohemian Home Jazz Festival Detroit , An Die Music Baltimore , the Deep Listening Institute, Brooklyn College, the Stone and many other venues. Upcoming performances include Edgefest Ann Arbor , the Coastal Jazz and Blues Festival Vancouver and Casa del Popolo Festival Montreal.

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