1. Edom, The Fugu Plan & Kaoru Watanabe
Date: Monday, November 25, 2013
Time: 8pm – 11pm
Venue: Spectrum (121 Ludlow, Second Floor, New York, NY, 650-400-5100)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz/improv
1) Eyal Maoz’s Edom (Tzadik Records)
Check it out at http://youtu.be/
Brian Marsella (keys); Shanir Blumenkranz (bass); Yuval Lion (drums) and Eyal Maoz (guitar)
2) The Fugu Plan – Japan/ USA
3) Kaoru Watanabe’s Bloodlines (with: Sara Schoenbeck – bassoon, Marika Hughes- cello and Kaoru Watanabe – Japanese and western flutes)
2. James “Biscuit” Rouse and Band
Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Time: 9:30pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz/funk
I’m glad to announce that on Monday, November 25, 2013 Ill be performing music from my latest album “Conversations In Analog” as well as special arrangements of some of my favorite covers, that I’ve created just for the occasion. Those who know me know well that any James Rouse show will bring lots of great music, great people, and laughter! (Just check out the posts from my page!) Please see www.jamesrousemusic.com for more info about me as an artist, and come out Nov 25th to join me on another step in my diverse musical journey. See you there…
Bass- Reggie Young
Keys- Akie Bermiss
Guitar- John Cave
Percussion- David Deej DiGiantomasso
special guests:
Charisa the ViolinDiva
Philip Lassiter
3. Helen Gillet
Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Time: 7pm
Venue: Rockwood Music Hall (196 Allen St, New York, New York 10002)
Ticket: free
Genre: electronic cello solo
Helen mixes French pop, Avant Jazz, Folk & Classical Cello
Globe Trotting, multi-faceted, jazz-based cellist, singer, composer and improviser Helen Gillet is a “mixed bag” of musical influence. She has won awards as best “other instrument” in New Orleans’ Best of the Beat Awards and Downbeat Magazine recently nominated her a Rising Star in the 61st Annual Critic’s Poll. She believes music to be an expression of the entire human condition, performing an eclectic mix of French pop, Avant Garde Jazz, North Indian, Folk and Classical styles.
Helen Gillet was raised in Belgium, Singapore, Illinois and Wisconsin, and landed in her current hometown of New Orleans in 2003. She has performed at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, French Quarter Festival, Kennedy Center, Italy’s Mirano Otre Festival and more. Recent collaborators include, Kid Koala, Hamid Drake, Van Dyke Parks, Marianne Faithful, Cassandra Wilson, The Mardi Gras Indian Orchestra.
She has 4 self-produced albums: “Newton Circus” (2009) by her French big band Wazozo; an instrumental jazz album “Running of the Bells” (2011) by The Helen Gillet Trio with Tim Green (saxophones/bells), and Doug Garrison (drums) which received a four star review in Downbeat’s October 2011 issue. Her unique solo album “Helen Gillet” (2012) combines real-time cello, loops, and vocals in a beautiful pastiche of sound and her latest album is a live duo recording entitled: “Ferdinand”” (2013) with jazz bassist James Singleton.
4. Gowanus Co.
Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Time: 7pm to 10pm
Venue: Douglass Street Music Collective (295 Douglass Street, between 3rd & 4th Ave., Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz/improv
Special evening in honor of Han-earl Park (he’s leaving the U.S. in December) with Christopher Hoffman, Dan Blake, Fay Victor, Han-earl Park, Ingrid Laubrock, Jason Kao Hwang, Jeremiah Lockwood (Jeremiah joins after 8PM), Josh Sinton, Ken Filiano, Kyoko Kitamura, Michael Evans, Nick Didkovsky, Olie Brice, Russ Lossing (Russ Lossing until 8:30PM), Tom Rainey, Viv Corringham and more.
Modeled on the week-long Company events Derek Bailey did for several decades, featured performers are asked to play in two or more groups consisting of 3-6 people each. Josh Sinton, Han-earl Park and Kyoko Kitamura will decide what those groups are ahead of time. Each group will get to play for at least 10-15 minutes. After all the prearranged groups have played, performers will spontaneously form their own groups and play through the night.
5. William Parker & Patricia Nicholson/Cooper-Moore & Pascal Niggenkemper
Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: JACK ( 505 ½ Waverly Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11238 Between Fulton – Atlantic in Clinton Hill, C or G train to Clinton-Washington)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz/improv/modern dance/spoken words
Cooper-Moore: flute, mouth-bow, TeZe, zither
Pascal Niggenkemper: double bass
William Parker: bass, shakuhachi, percussion
Patricia Nicholson Parker: dance, voice, poetry
William Parker is a master musician, improviser, and composer. He plays the bass, shakuhachi, double reeds, tuba, donso ngoni and gembri. He was born in 1952 in the Bronx, New York. He studied bass with Richard Davis, Art Davis, Milt Hinton, Wilber Ware, and Jimmy Garrison. He entered the music scene in 1971 playing at Studio We, Studio Rivbea, Hilly’s on The Bowery and The Baby Grand, playing with many musicians on the avant-garde school Bill Dixon, Sunny Murray, Charles Tyler, Billy Higgins, Charles Brackeem, Alan Silva, Frank Wright, Frank Lowe, Rashid Ali, Donald Ayler, Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor, Jimmy Lyons, Milford Graves and with traditionalists like Walter Bishop, Sr. and Maxine Sullivan. Early projects with dancer and choreographer Patricia Nicholson created a huge repertoire of composed music for multiple ensembles ranging from solo works to big band projects. Parker played in the Cecil Taylor unit from 1980 through 1991. He also developed a strong relationship with the European Improvised Music scene playing with musicians such as Peter Kowald, Peter Brotzmann, Han Bennink, Tony Oxley, Derek Bailey, Louis Sclavis, and Louis Moholo. He has also taught music workshops throughout the world including Paris, Berlin and Tokyo and the Lower East Side. Parker is also a theorist and author of several books including the Sound Journal, Document Humanum, Music and the Shadow People and The Mayor of Punkville.
Patricia Nicholson Parker, founder and director of Arts for Art and the Vision Festival, began organizing in 1981, when she organized and choreographed A Thousand Cranes Opera at Dag Hammerskjold Plaza for the opening of the UN Special Sessions on Disarmament. In 1984 and again in ‘88, she worked with Peter Kowald and William Parker to help organize the Sound Unity Festivals. In 1993, she successfully initiated and coordinated the Improvisers Collective, which ran through 1995 with weekly performances at Context Studios on Avenue A in the East Village. The Collective consisted of avantjazz musicians, dancers, poets and visual artists, providing these artists with opportunities for multidisciplinary experimentation in composition and improvisation. The success of the Collective suggested the Vision Festival. Ms. Parker founded Arts for Art, a non-profit organization in 1995 to present the Vision Festival. She is also active as a poet, dancer, and choreographer.
German-french bassist, composer and improviser Pascal Niggenkemper has been living in New York City since 2005. He is active in the creative music scene in the US and Europe.
As a composer, performer, instrument builder/designer, storyteller, teacher, mentor, and organizer, Cooper-Moore has been a major, if somewhat behind-the-scenes, catalyst in the world of creative music for over 30 years. As a child prodigy Cooper-Moore played piano in churches near his birthplace in the Piedmont region of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. His performance roots in the realm of avant jazz music date to the NYC Loft Jazz era in the early/mid-70s. His first fully committed jazz group was formed in 1970 – the collective trio Apogee with David S. Ware and drummer Marc Edwards. Sonny Rollins asked them to open for him at the Village Vanguard in 1973, and they did so with aplomb.
6. GegeDidi
Date: Wednesday, November 27 2013
Time: 7pm
Venue: Goodbye Blue Monday (1087 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York 11221)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: improvised music
GegeDidi: Alex Wing (David Boykin Expanse, Hanah Jon Taylor Artet, Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble, Avreaayl Ra’s Devotion, SoSaLa, Dadad) and Eli Wing (King Cake, HongKongathon, Bear Necessities, Maracatu NY) perform improvised music, punk, straight-ahead, and more on multiple instruments.
https://myspace.com/gegedidi
7. THE RED MICROPHONE
Date: Friday, November 29 2013
Time: 6pm & 7pm
Venue: The Brecht Forum (388 Atlantic Ave., NY, Brooklyn.)
Ticket: $11
Genre: jazz/protest music/improv
THE RED MICROPHONE performs on Ras Moshe’s “Music Now!” series for the first time at the Brecht Forum’s new location in Brooklyn. This day-after-Thanksgiving gig will be a feast for the ears……… NYC-based quartet of rad musicians journeying through free jazz, dissident swing, modernist blues and contemporary composition. At once exploratory, listenable, compelling and patently “downtown”, call it post-Ornette, Post-Dolphy, post-Punk, post-Occupy music as revolutionary as the times demand…
“Holiday Music” with THE RED MICROPHONE:
John Pietaro-Vibes/Percussion
Rocco John Iacovone-Alto and Soprano Saxes
Ras Moshe-Tenor and Soprano Saxes+Flute
Nicolas Letman-Burtinovic-Bass
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8. Various Artists
Date: Saturday, November 30, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: JACK ( 505 ½ Waverly Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11238 Between Fulton – Atlantic in Clinton Hill, C or G train to Clinton-Washington)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz/improv
AURAL DYSTOPIA at JACK with the nouveau funketeers of excessive expression – special guests SUPERLITH from Philadephia PA–
8PM === CHRIS PITSIOKOS + PHILIP WHITE
9PM === SUPERLITH (DAN BLACKSBERG + JULUIS MASRI)
10PM === BRANDON SEABROOK + PASCAL NIGGENKEMPER + MIKE PRIDE
11PM === RON ANDERSON + STUART POPEJOY + MICHAEL EVANS
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