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06/09 Saturday

8:00 PM New Language Collaborative

$15 admission

Eric Zinman Piano
Glynis Lomon Cello, Voice
Syd Smart Drums and Percussion

ERIC ZINMAN

At the forefront of creative music for more than 20 years, Eric
Zinman's piano playing has been described by Bob Rusch as a "fleet
and appealing touch". Rooted in the language of his teacher's Bill
Dixon, Cecil Taylor, Paul Bley, Lowell Davidson and many others. His
style is marked by his relation to the trap set drums, varying
densities of sound masses and melodies spanning the whole keyboard
with a surprising variety of touches, dynamics, phrasing and silence.
There is also an arresting balance between the pedaled and unpedaled
sounds. Eric Zinman has played with Craig Schildhauer, Raqib Hassan,
Toshi Makihara, Sabir Mateen, Marco Eneidi, Lisle Ellis, Peter
Valsamis, Tatsuya Nakatani, Glynis Lomon and Blaise Siwula,Ernst-
Ludwig Petrowsky, Jan Roder, Thomas Rehnert, . Mario Rechtern,
Benjamin Duboc, Didier Lasserre, John Voigt and Laurence Cook. Mr
Zinman has also composed music for dance and theatre using verbal
directives as well as graphic scores.

Syd Smart
Musician / Manager / Educator
World community through the language of music
Syd’s life has been a path of using music to create community. He began studies in percussion as a child with his father and older brother. Other major teachers include: Chief Bay, Milford Graves, Ken McIntyre, Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon, Babatunde Olatunji, Steve Barrios, Ibrahima Camara, Jose Luis Quintana”Canguito”, Angel Sanchez” Cepillo”.
Syd majored in Music Education at Central State University and in 1973, received a Black Music Fellowship to teach and study at Bennington College, were he completed his B. A. Degree.
He was the founder of “Friends of Great Black Music”, an organization in support of local artists involved in the musics of the African and American Diaspora. He was also a co-founder of the “Annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert Series” now in its twenty ninth year.
Syd has had extensive experience composing for dance and with Joan Green co- founded the “Children’s Dance Project”, which eventually expanded to become the “Cambridge Performance Project”, a city wide performing arts program.
He was awarded a “Dance Belt Award” by the Mayor Of the City of Cambridge for constant and long standing support of the movement arts community.
Annually, Syd co-conducted “Sound & Movement in Nature”, a workshop offered by the Expressive Therapies division of Lesley University.
In 1992, Syd was a resident performing artist at the World Exposition, “Expo 92”, in Seville, Spain. While there, he also began curriculum development of an Integrated Thematic Unit on Andalusia culture, for third and fourth graders in the Cambridge Public Schools.
He has been part of a team of curriculum developers for a soon to be published curriculum that integrates African drumming with mathematic concepts.
Syd holds a Masters Degree in Education from Lesley University, has taught instrumental music in Cambridge Public Schools. He was an Education Manager and Learning Center Director for Mars Music, a national retail chain and largest provider of private music instruction in America.
Performance experience includes: Karamu House, Art of Black Dance and Music, Rod Rodgers Dance Co., Boston Art Ensemble, Sam Rivers, Jimmy Lyons, Bill Dixon, in Spain with; Juan Oliva, Angel de Jesus and in Africa with the Kampala Jazz All-Stars. Syd is most recently known for his work with Stan Strickland & Ascension, Paradigm Shift, Samba Tremeterra and action painter, Nancy Ostrovsky.

Cellist Glynis Lomon went to Bennington College to continue her classical cello studies in 1973 where she met and began performing with musician/composer Bill Dixon. The music of Dixon's ensemble combined the exploration of the frontier of sound that she loved with rich rhythms, emotional expression, and the art and science of improvisation. Glynis has been privileged to play with Bill Dixon, Arthur Brooks, Jimmy Lyons, Cecil Taylor, Butch Morris, Syd Smart, William Parker, Greta Buck, Dennis Warren, Lowell Davidson, and many others. Recently she has been playing with pianist Eric Zinman in collaborations with Sabir Mateen, Blaise Siwula, Laurence Cook and others.

10:00 PM D. Gross/Samuel James/Moses Atwood

D. Gross…Guitar, Harmonica, Banjo

“The newest old-timey roots guy to be awesome around here. He busts a mean harmonica over a shuffling acoustic guitar and mixes Appalachia with Mississippi Delta just fine.” -Portland Phoenix

http://www.myspace.com/danagross

Samuel James…Classical and Resonator Guitar

Delta and Piedmont Blues

Winner of the 2007 Best Blues Act (Portland Phoenix)

http://www.myspace.com/sugarsmallhouse

Moses Atwood…Classical/Steel Guitars, Harmonica

Winner of 2007 Best Singer/Songwriter (Portland Phoenix)

"Those of you searching for the heir apparent to Micah Blue Smaldone and Ray LaMontagne need look no further than Moses Atwood, Portland's latest pure, unadulterated talent." - Sam Pfeifle, The Portland Phoenix

http://www.myspace.com/mosesatwood