01/26 Thursday
7:00 PM Anthony Coleman -- with Michael Attias and Satoshi Takeishi
Anthony Coleman is a composer, improvising keyboardist and teacher, born in New York City on August 30th, 1955. Coleman is a member of the faculty of Boston's New England Conservatory, in the Contemporary Improvisation Department, where he also teaches Jazz and Composition students.
His ensembles have included the trio Sephardic Tinge (three CD's: Sephardic Tinge (1995), Morenica (1998), and Our Beautiful Garden is Open (2002) - all on Tzadik) and Selfhaters Orchestra (two CD's: Selfhaters (1996) and The Abysmal Richness of the Infinite Proximity of the Same (1998), both on Tzadik). Other CD's include the cycle by Night (1987 - 1992), a series of works inspired by Coleman's experiences in (the ex-) Yugoslavia (Disco by Night, Avant 1993), Shmutsige Magnaten, a live solo performance from the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival, Summer, 2005 which features interpretations of the songs of Mordechai Gebirtig, and Freakish: Anthony Coleman Plays Jelly Roll Morton (both on Tzadik). Pushy Blueness (Tzadik) and Lapidation (New World) are both recordings of his chamber music. Coleman has toured and recorded with John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Marc Ribot, Shelley Hirsch, Roy Nathanson and many others.
SATOSHI TAKEISHI (Percussion, Electronics)
Satoshi Takeishi, drummer, percussionist, and arranger is a native of Mito, Japan. He studied music at
Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. While at Berklee he developed an interest in the
music of South America and went to live in Colombia following the invitation of a friend. He spent four
years there and forged many musical and personal relationships. One of the projects he worked on
while in Colombia was 'Macumbia' with composer/arranger Francisco Zumaque in which traditional,
jazz and classical music were combined. With this group he performed with the Bogota symphony
orchestra to do a series of concerts honoring the music of the most popular composer in Colombia,
Lucho Bermudes. In 1986 he returned to Miami, U.S. where he began working as an arranger/
producer as well as a performer. In 1987 he produced 'Morning Ride' for jazz flutist Nestor Torres on
Polygram Records. His interest expanded to the rhythms and melodies of the middle east where he
studied and performed with Armenian-American oud master Joe Zeytoonian. Since moving to New
York in 1991 he has performed and recorded with many musicians such as Ray Barretto, Carlos
'Patato' Valdes, Eliane Elias, Marc Johnson, Eddie Gomez, Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, Anthony
Braxton, Mark Murphy, Herbie Mann, Paul Winter Consort, Rabih Abu Khalil, Erik Friedlander, Ned
Rothenberg, MIchael Attias,Shoko Nagai, Paul Giger, Toshiko Akiyoshi Big Band, Ying String Quartet,
Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, Dhafer Youssef, Lalo Schifrin and Pablo Ziegler to name a few.
He continues to explore multi-cultural, electronics and improvisational music with local musicians and
composers in New York.
MICHAËL ATTIAS
After migrations spanning North Africa, the Middle East, Western Europe and the American Midwest, saxophonist Michaël Attias settled in New York City where he currently enjoys rich activity as leader, sideman, composer, and improviser. Exposing himself to a wide range of situations and collaborations, he has created a supple, passionate and uncompromising language in which to render the diversity of his imagination and commitments. All About Jazz.Com has called him "a significant new voice on the alto saxophone"; All Music Guide has described his playing as "both lyrical and explorative."
He has performed and recorded for bandleaders such as Anthony Braxton, Paul Motian, and Anthony Coleman; performed in New York City everywhere from the Village Vanguard to the Stone; appeared at international festivals such as the North Sea, Banlieues Bleues and the Istanbul Jazz Festival; and, as a sideman, appeared on recordings with some of today´s most compelling and original musicians: Paul Motian, Masabumi Kikuchi, Tony Malaby, Ralph Alessi, John Hébert, Nasheet Waits, Sean Conly, Ken Filiano, Kris Davis, Taylor Ho Bynum, and many others.
His current projects as a leader include his long-standing trio Renku, with John Hébert and Satoshi Takeishi; Twines of Colesion, with Hébert, Takeishi, Tony Malaby, Russ Lossing; Spun Tree, with Ralph Alessi, Sean Conly, Tom Rainey; and Face/Swap, a collaborative duo with percussionist Satoshi Takeishi. 2011 saw the debut of the eleven piece Clinamen Orchestra, including all of the players above + vibraphonist Matt Moran, hornist Mark Taylor and trombonist Ben Gerstein, and the collaborative quintet Fugu, with Alessi, Waits, Thomas Morgan and Jacob Sacks. Since 2005, he has released four critically acclaimed albums under his name and is planning two releases in 2012: Renku's third album and the debut of Spun Tree.
10:00 PM Lindenbomber Fleet
Mia Friedman - violin/voice
Lautaro Mantilla - guitar
Beth McDonald - tuba
Borey Shin - accordion
Lindenbomber Fleet is a band that writes and plays mostly instrumental
songs, but violinist/songwriter, Mia Friedman will occasionally meow.
http://soundcloud.com/lindenbomberfleet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxRkSkX4WYk
01/27 Friday
7:00 PM Yani Batteau and the Styles
Yani Batteau calls her music 'Americana Soul'. Her musical roots run deep encompassing the sounds and lore of Vintage Country, traditional folk and the unique mystique embedded in Appalachian culture. Her banjo picking style extends beyond claw hammer tradition as she skillfully launches into improvisational riffs that are at once complex and dynamic. She is joined by her seasoned bandmates, The Styles, Steve Sidhly on Guitar and Marty White on bass.
"Yani Batteau has carved out her own niche of what she calls
mountain music. Her latest album 'Fearless' includes a sly
banjo-driven cover of Johnny Cash's 'Ring of Fire'."
The Boston Globe 2/24/11
"An adroit, yet mysterious, amalgamation of country styles"
John Gersh
“Yani is so skillful, making the difficult seem effortless as her fingers fly over the strings…”
Lucy Holstedt - Berklee College of Music
“I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t love to hear Yani sing and play.
Kirk Etherton - writer and musician
8:00 PM Allan Chase & Friends
Allan Chase-alto and baritone saxes
Keala Kaumeheiwa-bass
Luther Gray-drums
and a Special Guest!
9:00 PM Composers Saxophone Quartet
Mark Zaleski- soprano sax
Rick Stone- alto sax
Sean Berry- tenor sax
Kathy Olson- bari sax
This group performs original compositions and/or arrangements by members of the band and local composers including Ayn Inserto, Brian Friedland, Randy Pingrey, Rick Stone, and Kathy Olson.
For more information about the group and to view a short video from a previous performance please visit our website:
http://kathyolsonmusic.com/sax-4-tet/
10:00 PM Tal Zilber
Israeli born pianist Tal Zilber enjoys an unusually diverse career of classical, jazz, and pop performances as well as composing, arranging, and improvising. His chamber and orchestral arrangements have been performed by the Carmel String Quartet and the Be’er Sheva Symphony Orchestra. In 2009 he performed his electro acoustic compositions on the Louisiana-Texas electro acoustic music festival (LaTex). His original incidental music for the play “Chulsha” by Ran Apelberg, was performed at the Fringe Festival in Haifa, Israel under the direction of David Shushan
In the classical music scene, Zilber has appeared as a soloist with the Ramat Hasharon Orchestra in Tel Aviv and his recordings were featured on the Galei Zahal radio station in Israel. Zilber was chosen to serve as an Outstanding Musician in the Israeli Defense Forces and during the three years of his military service, he was chosen by the Zionist Federation to participate in a concert tour in Australia. Prizes and Awards include the Andre Watts Scholarship, the America-Israel culture foundation scholarship, the Lillian H. Duncan Prize and the Marian Fox Martel scholarship.
Zilber holds a M.M from Rice University, a Performance Diploma from Indiana University, and a B.M. from the Rubin Israeli Music Academy, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. His has performed in the Masterclasses of Pnina Salzman, Ronan O'Hara, Evelyne Brancart, Tamás Ungár and the Eroica Trio. Past teachers include Brian Connelly, Edmund Battersby, Michael Boguslavsky, and Alexander Volkov.
Zilber is currently pursuing a Doctorate Degree in Contemporary Improvisation at the New England Conservatory in the studios of Ran Blake and Bert Seager.
11:11 PM gaT
The Gill Aharon Trio is rarely a trio.
Gill Aharon - pen and piano
Randy Wooten - drums
Jef Charland - bass
Andrew Stern - guitar
Rick Stone- alto sax
Kelly Roberge - tenor sax
Daniel Rosenthal - trumpet
01/28 Saturday
1:00 PM Matthew Heck and friends
Beethoven: Romance for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 40 (Piano reduction by Jurgen Sommer)
Bloch: Nigun (Improvisation) from Baal Shem (Three Pictures of Chassidic Life) for Violin & Piano
Brahms: Sonatensatz (Scherzo) for Violin & Piano, Op. Post.
intermission
Brahms: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 60
8:00 PM Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica
Referencing the exotica of Martin Denny, Milt Raskin, Tchaikovsky, and Shostakovich among others, Mr. Ho’s, Orchestrotica--as a vibraphone quartet--presents an original third-stream collection of updated jazz, chamber, and world music reaching towards the South Pacific via Asia, the Middle East, the Balkans, and Latin America. Led by, multi-percussionist, vibraphonist and composer Brian O’Neill (crashandboom.com) the group normally features bass flute/woodwinds (Geni Skendo), percussion (NorikoTerada), and acoustic bass (Jason Davis). While the "deliciously demented and entertaining" Orchestrotica (The Wall Street Journal) does perform classics by the original artists of the exotica style, the group focuses on "serious jazz and chamber-music writing" (Boston Herald) written by O’Neill that is highly influenced by his fifteen-year career as a percussionist. The quartet often reinterprets classical melodies, improvising over them and adding exotic sounds from around the world leading AllAboutJazz to say, "...if John Zorn is an exotica Picasso, O’Neill is his Georges-Braque counterpart [and] may be, in the long run, a stronger exoticist than Zorn." In June 2011, they released their debut quartet CD, Third River Rangoon, which the Boston Phoenix called "...a rigorous classical-jazz hybrid..." and Lucid Culture called "...a a lushly nocturnal collection ...genius."
The CD continues their Exotica for Modern Living series, which opened with The Unforgettable Sounds of Esquivel, their 23-pc big band formation performing the lost space-age pop music of Esquivel. The debut CD reached #4 on the CMJ jazz charts, was a Top Album for 2010 (AllAboutJazz) and received 4 stars from the Sunday London Times. Both CDs were recently featured in CA Modern Magazine.
Twitter: @orchestrotica
10:00 PM Conscious Minds presents VVS1
01/29 Sunday
10:00 AM Yoga with Natalie
10:00 - 11:15 - Gentle/Beginner
11:30 - 12:45 - Vinyasa
3:15 PM LongyLaboratory concert series, Peter J. Evans curator
Flandrew Fleisenberg
Evans-Anti-Art-Ensemble
FREE
7:00 PM Pandelis Karayorgis Trio
Pandelis Karayorgis, piano
Jef Charland, bass
Luther Gray, drums
The Boston-based pianist-composer helms one of the best progressive piano trios anywhere. His cerebral, kinetic, witty, and propulsive playing and writing build on the foundation of greats such as Thelonious Monk and Cecil Taylor.
Kevin Lowenthal, Boston Globe, June 2009
" … these guys are as connected in musicianship as a piano trio can be. They think, breath, anticipate, and play as one--in the best sense. … Right in the pocket of empathy and insight ... "
Stu Vandermark, Boston Jazz Scene, May 2010
http://karayorgis.com/
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=101776359
http://www.myspace.com/luthergray
01/30 Monday
5:40 PM Yoga with Natalie - Vinyasa
8:00 PM Jerry Bergonzi Group
Tenor saxophonist, Jerry Bergonzi, is an internationally recognized jazz performer, composer, author and educator. His music is renowned for its innovation, mastery, and integrity. Relentless drive, inner fire, total command, awesome technique, elastic lyricism, rich resonance, world-class, a musical visionary, are among the rave reviews credited to his sound. Bergonzi's music has been applauded throughout the world at festivals, concert halls, and jazz venues and his dedication to jazz music has been well documented by an extensive discography.
10:22 PM The Fringe
The Fringe are one of the genuine living treasures of the Boston jazz scene. Originally formed back in 1971 by tenor-saxophonist George Garzone, bassist Richard Appleman, and drummer Bob Gullotti as an outlet for their free jazz improvisations, The Fringe have entertained and enlightened Boston area jazz audiences for over 30 years. Bassist Appleman left the band in 1985 to become Chairman of the Bass Department at Berklee College and was replaced by veteran bassist John Lockwood.
Along with their impressive tenure with The Fringe, Gullotti, Garzone, and Lockwood are in great demand as session players and have played with many of the greats of contemporary jazz. Along with keeping up with a busy performance schedule, each of them are well-respected educators helping to inspire the jazz musicians of tomorrow.
www.thefringejazz.com/
