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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.