During the 1970s and 1980s, the Woodstock-based Creative Music Studio was widely considered as the premier center for the study of contemporary creative music.
This full-day colloquium will capture many oral histories concerning the Creative Music Studio years and the variegated impact of those experiences on the musical outlook of its participants and the larger world of music and culture.
Billy Bang, a violinist known for intense performances and a wide-ranging sensibility, died Monday night, his agent Jean-Pierre Leduc confirmed. Bang, who had been suffering from lung cancer, was 63.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Born William Walker in 1947, Bang was an important figure on the experimental jazz scene that blossomed in New York in the 1970s. But he gained wider recognition in the last decade for a series of recordings which drew on his military service during the Vietnam War.
Date: Monday, April 11, 2011
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Shrine (2271 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd, NY)
Ticket: donation
Genre: French Jazz
Mademoiselle Fleur is with an interesting life story involving a journey from her native Morrocco to France and now USA… Mademoiselle Fleur performs some of the most beautiful pieces of French music (with personal arrangements) and enjoys to do this in New York, this jazzy city that is now her home.
Date: Monday, April 11, 2011
Time: 6pm – 2:00am
Venue: Rosie O’Grady’s Limerick Bar (149 W 46th Street, New York, NY)
Roberto’s Winds and Michiko Studios presents a benefit concert for Japan, with help from DooBeeDooBeeDoo and others. 100% of the proceeds will be go to the Coltrane House of Osaka.The Coltrane House Of Osaka is establishing a fund which will help musicians and musical institutions which have been affected by the disaster. Yasuhiro Fujioka, the president of the Coltrane House, is a prominent figure in the Japanese jazz community and has a long affiliation with Roberto Romeo, owner of Roberto’s Winds and Michiko Studios.
.jpg?__nocache__=1 "tff11-official-selection-laurel-cmyk-300(3)")
Special Tribeca Drive-In event with film excerpts and a free live concert by the 20-piece Caribbean big band “SEPTENTRIONAL” on April 22 at the North Cove in Battery Park City
