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01/24 Sunday
6:00 PM Gillypad
6pm Notrio
7pm The Bebop Trio
Lefteris Kordis - piano
Alec Spiegelman - clarinet
Thor Thorvaldsson - drumset
The Bebop Trio plays freely improvised suites of unjustly forgotten lines from the 1950's. Expect to hear some of the compositions (by Elmo Hope, Herbie Nichols, Lennie Tristano, and others) that will also show up on their forthcoming, self-titled, Creative Nation Music album, to be released in early 2010.
8pm The Gill Aharon Trio
The band is:
Randy Wooten - drums
Gill Aharon - piano and compositions
Jef Charland - bass
Blake Newman - bass
Andrew Stern - guitar
Alec Spiegelman - winds/horns
Rick Stone- Alto
Kelly Roberge - tenor
Eric Hofbauer - guitar
9:30pm A Night of duo Improvisation
Featuring Anthony Coleman & Peter Negroponte, Davindar Singh & Andrew Hock
Anthony Coleman is a composer, improvising keyboardist and teacher, born in New York City on August 30th, 1955. 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 (Tzadik), a live solo performance from the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival, Summer, 2005 which features interpretations of the songs of Mordechai Gebirtig, and Pushy Blueness (Tzadik) and Lapidation (New World), 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. Coleman is currently on the NEC faculty in the Contemporary Improvisation Department, where he also teaches Jazz and Composition students. His CD, Freakish: Anthony Coleman Plays Jelly Roll Morton has just been released by Tzadik.
http://www.myspace.com/antcol8
"Drummer Peter Negroponte is powerful and propulsive, odd that I haven't heard of him until now" - BLG (Downtown Music Gallery, NYC)
http://www.myspace.com/peternegroponte