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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: innova Recordings announces 24-artist series at
The Stone in NYC from May 17 – 31
Saint Paul-based innova Recordings, the label of the American
Composers Forum, is excited to announce the details of a two-week-plus
residency at the John Zorn-founded non-profit venue The Stone in New
York City. 24 different artists from New York, Florida, Colorado,
Minnesota and beyond will be taking the stage and showcasing innova’s
diverse roster in genres from avant garde classical to jazz to world
to electronic and all points in between. Each night will feature a
pair of sets from two different but complementary artists at 8 and 10
p.m.
Label director Philip Blackburn invited artists with releases in the
past two years to perform, and then built the two-set nights around
themes, including “Demented But Mellow Jazz,” “Man-Machine Meld” and
“Jazz Beyond This World.” For example, the sets on Thursday, May 19
will highlight “Drums Galore” with Blood Drum Spirit (a quartet
featuring David Bindman on saxophones, Wes Brown on bass, Art Hirahira
on piano and Royal Hartigan on drums) exploring the world’s rhythmic
traditions through a jazz lens at 8 p.m. and drummer Sean Noonan’s
Boxing Dreams String Quartet (Tom Swafford and Patti Kilroy on violin,
Leanne Darling on viola, David West on cello, and Noonan on percussion
and stories) bringing the story of Noonan’s “Night Music, Book 1” to
life.
The sets on May 25 explore “Fiddles and Those Who Love Them” with ANA
Milosavljevic at 8 p.m. and Todd Reynolds at 10 p.m. ANA, a multi-
talented Serbian native and Manhattan-based composer and violinist,
has brought her music everywhere from Carnegie Hall to the Cornelia
Street Café, with Lucid Culture calling a recent performance at
Lincoln Center “absolutely devastating.” And Reynolds will be
performing works from his freshly minted innova CD Outerborough, which
String magazine called “[p]layful like Milhaud, but hard-edged like
Hendrix.”
Other highlights include George Lewis & Marina Rosenfeld on May 20,
Ken Field’s Revolutionary Snake Ensemble on May 22, and Prester John
on May 24, all at 8 p.m. Lewis and Rosenfeld plumbed the possibilities
of spontaneous composition and fusion on their groundbreaking innova
vinyl release Sour Mash, encouraging listeners to mix and match their
works on multiple turntables to generate new compositional
possibilities. Saxophonist and composer Ken Field will be bringing his
avant second line funk band from Boston for their first performance in
the boroughs in two years. And Prester John, comprised of guitarist
Shawn Persinger and mandolinist David Miller, will be performing works
from their innova release Desire for a Straight Line, which the
Village Voice called “an eclectic assortment of slipstream
compositions touching on prog-tinged jazz, classical, manouche, and
newgrass idioms.”
The residency will close out on May 31 with two sets by what Blackburn
terms “Long-Lived Foursomes from Far Away.” Saint Paul’s Zeitgeist
celebrated their 30th anniversary this year with the release of Here
and Now on innova and will kick off the night at 8 p.m. while sax all-
stars PRISM Quartet will close out the night performing work from
their own Dedication, which celebrates their 20th anniversary. The
range of composers represented in this pairing is truly dizzying,
including Ivo Medek, Tim Berne, Andrew Rindfleisch, William Bolcom,
Eleanor Hovda, Zack Browning, and many, many more.
Audio samples of all 24 artists are available on innova’s Soundcloud
page at: http://soundcloud.com/innovadotmu/sets/the-stone and program
descriptions and personnel appear below.
Publicity photos available: http://acfmusic.org/innova/artists/ContactSheet.pdf
MORE INFO:
The Stone
Avenue C and East 2nd Street
New York, NY 10009
212.473.0043
www.thestonenyc.com
Calendar: www.thestonenyc.com/calendar.php?month=2
Music Tuesday through Sunday, 8 and 10 pm
Admission: $10 per set, students 13 to 19 admitted half price,
children under 12 free
No advance ticket sales. All admissions are at the door prior to each
performance.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Steve McPherson, innova Publicist
inno...@composersforum.org, 651.251.2825
innova’s home page: innova.mu
innova on Facebook: facebook.com/innovadotmu
innova on Twitter: twitter.com/innovadotmu
May 17, 8pm
Salo
Ben Gallina (bass, compositions) Red Wierenga (piano, keyboards) Alex
Wyatt (drums) Josh Rutner (clarinet, bass clarinet) Andrew Smiley
(guitar) Ed RosenBerg (tenor saxophone) Alex Hamlin (alto, bari
saxophone).
Sometimes watercolor sometimes meat grinder. If undercooked then
seasoned well at least. If overcook than crispy-like, or stew. Maybe a
film with no screen. Plays novels and songs mostly but the characters
always change their hearts and faces.
http://www.salomusic.com/
May 17th, 10pm
THE KATIE BULL GROUP PROJECT
Katie Bull (vocals, composer, lyricist) Landon Knoblock (piano) Joe
Fonda (bass) George Schuller (drums) Jeff Lederer (reeds)
The Katie Bull Group Project presents music from its upcoming June
innova release FREAK MIRACLE.
A downtown cutting-edge inter-arts vocalist, joined by veteran
improvisational masters - Bull and her Group Project will present a
bevy of Bull compositions, interspersed with diamond-in-the-rough
takes on the family jewels: Jobim, VanHeusen, and Gershwin. Charts are
nautical maps that set the band free on open seas. Bull and her band
of out(er)-edged dervishes are uncategorizable. Falling between
genres, slipping sliding bumping grinding swinging and
spinning light out of something blue.
http://www.katiebull.com
Wednesday, May 18, 8pm
Andrew Sterman Group
Andrew Sterman (tenor saxophone, flutes) Todd Reynolds (violin) Mick
Rossi (piano) Kermit Driscoll (bass) Tim Horner (drums)
Andrew Sterman's music mixes a chant sensibility with improvised forms
and long passages of composed chamber jazz. At times deeply calm,
other times inciting, Sterman uses his saxophones and flutes as
instruments of medicine and instruments of quirky humor. Concert set
includes pieces from his 2011 Innova release Wet Paint.
http://andrewsterman.com/
May 18, 10pm
Jon Irabagon’s Outright!
Jon Irabagon (saxophone) Ralph Alessi (trumpet) Jacob Sacks (piano)
John Hebert (bass) Tom Rainey (drums)
Continuing in the vein created in his first Outright! record, Jon has
written a new set of music that takes the different and disparate
styles found under the jazz umbrella and has combined them, using
group and free improvisation to tie them all together. These
influences include references to the music of King Curtis, the Brecker
Brothers, Duke Ellington, Ornette Coleman, and Mongo Santamaria.
http://www.jonirabagon.com/
Thursday, May 19, 8:00 pm
blood drum spirit
david bindman (saxophones) wes brown (contrabass) art hirahara (piano)
royal hartigan (drumset, African percussion)
blood drum spirit brings a new global vision to music, exploring deep
into the world's great traditions through the prism of live jazz
performance. Ensemble members have lived, played and toured all over
the planet, including four tours of China. We incorporate elements
(such as asymmetrical time cycles and polyrhythms) from Asian,
African, Native American, and other musical cultures into our
compositions, interactions, and improvisations.
http://www.blooddrumspirit.com/
May 19, 10 p.m.
Sean Noonan's Boxing Dreams String Quartet
Tom Swafford (violin) Patti Kilroy (violin) Leanne Darling (viola)
David West (cello) Sean Noonan (drum set, percussion, stories)
Drummer, composer, and storyteller Sean Noonan will premiere "Night
Music" Book 1, a story transformed into a musical dream, about a
wayfaring stranger, who accidently passes through a door becoming
trapped inside a wall. The man eventually becomes apart of the wall,
living a life of solitude. He learns the only way to overcome his
existence is by creating his own world through dreams and stories. The
evening is an album release concert for Sean Noonan's latest album
"Set the Hammer Free"
http://www.noonansmusic.com/
Friday, May 20, 8pm
George Lewis (computer) Marina Rosenfeld (turntables)
George Lewis and Marina Rosenfeld perform "Sour Mash", their
collaborative vinyl composition released in 2009 on Innova. For this
performance, Lewis will play computer and Rosenfeld turntables, using
their composition as an electro-acoustic palette for live
recombination.
http://www.marinarosenfeld.com/
May 20, 10:00 pm
Psychoangelo
Glen Whitehead (trumpets, minute devices) Michael Theodore (guitars,
small objects)
Colorado acoustic/electro-device duo Psychoangelo (Glen Whitehead
trumpet, electronics, Michael Theodore, various instruments,
electronics) employ trumpets, small objects, minute noise makers,
metals, sand, grains, and guitar to forge layered mutations of sonic
happenings that move, breath, shrink and expand in ambient orchestral
tapestries.
http://www.psychoangelo.com/
Sunday, May 22, 8pm
Ken Field's Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
Alex Smith (elec bass) Blake Newman (acoustic bass) Joey Lefitz
(drums) Kenny Wollesen (drums) Alex Asher (trombone) Josh Roseman
(trombone) Daniel Heath (trombone) Jerry Sabatini (trumpet)
Ken Field (alto sax)
Boston saxophonist & composer Ken Field (Birdsongs of the Mesozoic,
Willie Loco Alexander, Chandler Travis Philharmonic, Bridgman/Packer
Dance, Sesame St) brings his improvisational brass band, with releases
on Innova & Cuneiform, to NYC for their first area performance in 2
years. This special collaboration with guests Wollesen and Roseman
will be recorded. Avant second line funk.
http://www.revolutionarysnakeensemble.org/
May 22, 10pm
Joel Harrison’s String Choir Project
Music of Paul Motian
Zach Brock, Sam Bardfeld, Mat Maneri, Dana Leong (string quartet)
Liberty Ellman and Joel Harrison (guitars)
STRING CHOIR performs composer/ guitarist Harrison's arrangements of
the music of legendary jazz drummer Paul Motian. His arrangements
follow Harrison's vision, while attempting to capture Paul’s elusive,
beguiling approach to drumming and writing. The music is at once
quizzical, playful, melancholy, and fierce, falling between classical,
jazz, and folk traditions
http://www.joelharrison.com/
Tuesday, May 24th 8pm
Prester John
Shawn Persinger (guitar, vocals) David Miller (mandolin, vocals)
"Kitchen-Sink" guitarist Shawn Persinger pulls out all the stops with
mandolinist David Miller. You'll hear prog-tinged jazz, rock,
classical, klezmer, manouche, newgrass and pop...all in one song! The
rare act that lives up to the hyperbole.
http://www.persingermusic.com/
May 24, 10pm
Shadow Trio
Gene Segal (guitar, composition) Steve Laspina (bass) Jeff Davis
(drums) Jon Irabagon (sax)
“The way I see it, composition is more than a vehicle for
improvisations. I wrote this music with that thought in mind. I am
also looking forward to performing it with a very special group of
musicians, in a great venue for live music.” — Gene Segal
http://www.genesegal.com/
Wednesday, May 25, 8:00pm
ANA Milosavljevic (composer, violinist, electric violinist) with
guests performers
A multi-talented Serbian native and Manhattan-based artist, Ana has
stunned audiences at venues from the legendary Carnegie Hall and
Kennedy Center to the cozy Cornelia Street Café and all points in
between. Her cutting-edge contemporary music repertoire is influenced
by various genres including traditional Balkan music, electronica,
jazz, pop, and hip-hop. For her Stone performance, Ana is creating new
works featuring her red Viper electric violin; she will also present
selections from her new innova CD Reflections and a new work by Eve
Beglarian.
http://www.anamilo.com/
May 25, 10pm
Todd Reynolds (violin)
Master fiddler Todd Reynolds will play tunes from his latest innova
release including David T. Little’s “and the sky was still there”,
Paula Matthusen’s “The End of an Orange,” and his own stuff like “Icy
Sleeves of Green,” “Outerborough,” among others.
http://toddreynolds.wordpress.com/
Thursday, May 26, 8pm
Denman Maroney
Theo Bleckmann (voice) Denman Maroney (hyperpiano)
Theo and Denman will perform Denman's song cycle of poems by W.B.
Yeats called "Music for Words, Perhaps" and recently released on
eponymous Innova CD 717. The cycle includes settings of "The Song of
the Happy Shepherd," "The Second Coming," "The Crazed Moon," "The Song
of Wandering Aengus," "A Drinking Song," "A Drunken Man's Praise of
Sobriety," "The Cap and Bells," "Three Songs to the One Burden," "The
Two Trees," and "The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner."
http://www.denmanmaroney.com/
May 26th, 10pm
Adam Niewood & his Rabble Rousers
Jesse Lewis (guitar) Kristjan Randalu (piano, Rhodes) Chris Higgins
(acoustic bass) Matt Brewer (acoustic+electric bass) Rohin Khemani
(table, drums, percussion, loops and effects) Greg Ritchie (drums)
Adam Niewood (saxophones, woodwinds, EWI, composition)
Serendipitously all seven original members from the Innova Recordings
double-disc release "Epic Journey," are gathered here. Bandleader and
composer Adam Niewood started writing music for his 7-piece ensemble
thinking of it more like an orchestra: Two drummers, two bass players,
two chordal instruments, and a choir of woodwinds and Electronic Wind
Instrument... The ensemble floats seamlessly from one composition to
the next. Playing all original selections from Niewood's double CD
"Epic Journey" spanning a broad variety of sonic textures - along with
some newer intricately orchestrated works featured on Niewood's
upcoming Innova Release "Homage" featuring John Scofield, John
Patitucci, and Jack DeJohnette.
http://www.niewood.com/
Friday, May 27, 8:00pm
Neil Rolnick
Neil Rolnick (laptop) MAYA: Sato Moughalian (flute), Bridget Kibbey
(harp), John Hadfield (percussion) Robert Osborne (baritone) Bob Gluck
(piano)
Neil Rolnick and friends will perform music from two of his Innova
CDs. From the most recent release, Extended Family, Bob Gluck will
join him on Faith, an extended virtuoso romp for piano and computer
which ranges from sweet chorales to interactive improvisations and
back to twisted ragtime. From Rolnick's CD Digits, Robert Osborne will
perform the song cycle Making Light of It, on poems by Philip Levine,
and the trio MAYA (Sato Moughalian, flute; Bridget Kibbey, harp and
John Hadfield, percussion) will play Uptown Jump.
http://www.neilrolnick.com/
May 27, 10 pm
Alexander Berne & ‘The Abandoned Orchestra’
A Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Abandoned Orchestra.
Floridian reedman/composer, Alexander Berne effuses ambient solo
atmospherics with mournful wind instruments and nuanced studio craft.
Long-breathed and contemplative, Berne’s music is enshrined in his 3CD
innova release, “Composed and Performed by,” newly reimagined here for
live solo with electronics — a concerto with abandoned orchestra.
http://www.alexanderberne.com/
Saturday, May 28, 8pm
GLASS FARM ENSEMBLE
Gregor Kitzis (violin) Matt Goeke (cello) Yvonne Troxler (piano)
The Glass Farm Ensemble will be performing Paula Matthusen's in
Absentia for violin, piano and miniature electronics. Hans Witschi's
New Work for violin, cello, and piano (world premiere) commissioned by
GFE, Yvonne Troxler's Brouhaha for violin, cello and three glass bowls
and Bruno Mantovani's 8 Moments Musicaux for violin, cello and piano.
Matthusen's in absentia examines by way of sonic resonance ideas of
memory, and how repetition of the facets of the remembered may
eventually create its own patterns in absence of the thing remembered.
Witschi's new composition works with visual images and their
transformation into sound. Troxler's Brouhaha explores the sound
qualities of strings and glass bowls played with mallets, ball
bearings and other devices. 8 Moments Musicaux by the famous young
French composer Bruno Mantovani are virtuous contemplations on the
possibilities of the three instruments.
http://www.glassfarm.org/index1z.htm
May 28, 10:00pm
Jamie Begian's Lost and Found
Jon Blanck (tenor saxophone) Jamie Begian (guitar) Chris DeAngelis
(bass) Tim Walsh (drums)
Jamie Begian's Lost and Found is a quartet that, collectively, has no
idea what it's doing but isn't afraid to do it anyway. Open-ended
exploration of our original themes with a focus on funky grooves can
be expected, as well as rapid-fire changes of texture and style.
http://www.jamiebegian.com/
Sunday, May 29, 8pm
Jason Kao Hwang/ EDGE
Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet, flugelhorn) Andrew Drury (drum set) Ken
Filiano (string bass) Jason Kao Hwang (composer, violin/viola)
EDGE has embraced both past and future with musical offerings resonant
with human and animal overtones. Their instruments sing through sharp
lines vibrating between history, cultures and genres. They will
perform music that is new and old and current.
http://www.jasonkaohwang.com/
May 29, 10 pm
The Paul Austerlitz Group
Paul Austerlitz (bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet) Benito Gonzalez
(piano) Eric Wheeler (bass) Babatunde Lea (drums)
Trio versions of music from Austerlitz’s innova CD entitled Journey,
plus new compositions. Freely improvised explorations of Haitian and
Afro-Dominican roots, focusing on conversations between the bass
clarinet and drum.
http://www.paulausterlitz.org/
Tuesday, May 31, 8pm
Zeitgeist
Heather Barringer & Patti Cudd (percussion) Pat O’Keefe (woodwinds)
Shannon Wettstein (piano)
Lauded for providing “a once-in-a-lifetime experience for adventurous
concertgoers,” Minnesota-based Zeitgeist new music ensemble has
birthed over 150 works in its three-decades-long existence, from Budd
and Rzewski to Kitzke and the next up-and-comers. The Stone
performance, featuring their signature combination of two percussion,
piano and reed, draws from some of their recent innova releases,
including Into the Same River by Czech Ivo Medek, If Tigers Were
Clouds by the late Eleanor Hovda, and Night Singing by Ohio-based
Andrew Rindfleisch.
http://www.zeitgeistnewmusic.org/
May 31, 10pm
PRISM Quartet: Matthew Levy, Timothy McAllister, Zach Shemon, and
Taimur Sullivan (saxophones)
PRISM, a leading quartet of sax all-stars, performs a program of
stunning music from their new innova CD, DEDICATION, featuring 23
short works composed in 2004 in celebration of the Quartet’s 20th
anniversary. Music by Tim Berne, William Bolcom, Zack Browning, Robert
Capanna, Donnacha Dennehy, Dennis DeSantis, Nick Didkovsky, Jason
Eckardt, Roshanne Etezady, Reneé Favand-See, Perry Goldstein, Jennifer
Higdon, Libby Larsen, Matthew Levy, Keith Moore, Greg Osby, Frank J.
Oteri, James Primosch, Tim Ries, Adam Silverman, Ken Ueno, Gregory
Wanamaker, and Chen Yi.
http://www.prismquartet.com/
The Stone in NYC from May 17 – 31
Saint Paul-based innova Recordings, the label of the American
Composers Forum, is excited to announce the details of a two-week-plus
residency at the John Zorn-founded non-profit venue The Stone in New
York City. 24 different artists from New York, Florida, Colorado,
Minnesota and beyond will be taking the stage and showcasing innova’s
diverse roster in genres from avant garde classical to jazz to world
to electronic and all points in between. Each night will feature a
pair of sets from two different but complementary artists at 8 and 10
p.m.
Label director Philip Blackburn invited artists with releases in the
past two years to perform, and then built the two-set nights around
themes, including “Demented But Mellow Jazz,” “Man-Machine Meld” and
“Jazz Beyond This World.” For example, the sets on Thursday, May 19
will highlight “Drums Galore” with Blood Drum Spirit (a quartet
featuring David Bindman on saxophones, Wes Brown on bass, Art Hirahira
on piano and Royal Hartigan on drums) exploring the world’s rhythmic
traditions through a jazz lens at 8 p.m. and drummer Sean Noonan’s
Boxing Dreams String Quartet (Tom Swafford and Patti Kilroy on violin,
Leanne Darling on viola, David West on cello, and Noonan on percussion
and stories) bringing the story of Noonan’s “Night Music, Book 1” to
life.
The sets on May 25 explore “Fiddles and Those Who Love Them” with ANA
Milosavljevic at 8 p.m. and Todd Reynolds at 10 p.m. ANA, a multi-
talented Serbian native and Manhattan-based composer and violinist,
has brought her music everywhere from Carnegie Hall to the Cornelia
Street Café, with Lucid Culture calling a recent performance at
Lincoln Center “absolutely devastating.” And Reynolds will be
performing works from his freshly minted innova CD Outerborough, which
String magazine called “[p]layful like Milhaud, but hard-edged like
Hendrix.”
Other highlights include George Lewis & Marina Rosenfeld on May 20,
Ken Field’s Revolutionary Snake Ensemble on May 22, and Prester John
on May 24, all at 8 p.m. Lewis and Rosenfeld plumbed the possibilities
of spontaneous composition and fusion on their groundbreaking innova
vinyl release Sour Mash, encouraging listeners to mix and match their
works on multiple turntables to generate new compositional
possibilities. Saxophonist and composer Ken Field will be bringing his
avant second line funk band from Boston for their first performance in
the boroughs in two years. And Prester John, comprised of guitarist
Shawn Persinger and mandolinist David Miller, will be performing works
from their innova release Desire for a Straight Line, which the
Village Voice called “an eclectic assortment of slipstream
compositions touching on prog-tinged jazz, classical, manouche, and
newgrass idioms.”
The residency will close out on May 31 with two sets by what Blackburn
terms “Long-Lived Foursomes from Far Away.” Saint Paul’s Zeitgeist
celebrated their 30th anniversary this year with the release of Here
and Now on innova and will kick off the night at 8 p.m. while sax all-
stars PRISM Quartet will close out the night performing work from
their own Dedication, which celebrates their 20th anniversary. The
range of composers represented in this pairing is truly dizzying,
including Ivo Medek, Tim Berne, Andrew Rindfleisch, William Bolcom,
Eleanor Hovda, Zack Browning, and many, many more.
Audio samples of all 24 artists are available on innova’s Soundcloud
page at: http://soundcloud.com/innovadotmu/sets/the-stone and program
descriptions and personnel appear below.
Publicity photos available: http://acfmusic.org/innova/artists/ContactSheet.pdf
MORE INFO:
The Stone
Avenue C and East 2nd Street
New York, NY 10009
212.473.0043
www.thestonenyc.com
Calendar: www.thestonenyc.com/calendar.php?month=2
Music Tuesday through Sunday, 8 and 10 pm
Admission: $10 per set, students 13 to 19 admitted half price,
children under 12 free
No advance ticket sales. All admissions are at the door prior to each
performance.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Steve McPherson, innova Publicist
inno...@composersforum.org, 651.251.2825
innova’s home page: innova.mu
innova on Facebook: facebook.com/innovadotmu
innova on Twitter: twitter.com/innovadotmu
May 17, 8pm
Salo
Ben Gallina (bass, compositions) Red Wierenga (piano, keyboards) Alex
Wyatt (drums) Josh Rutner (clarinet, bass clarinet) Andrew Smiley
(guitar) Ed RosenBerg (tenor saxophone) Alex Hamlin (alto, bari
saxophone).
Sometimes watercolor sometimes meat grinder. If undercooked then
seasoned well at least. If overcook than crispy-like, or stew. Maybe a
film with no screen. Plays novels and songs mostly but the characters
always change their hearts and faces.
http://www.salomusic.com/
May 17th, 10pm
THE KATIE BULL GROUP PROJECT
Katie Bull (vocals, composer, lyricist) Landon Knoblock (piano) Joe
Fonda (bass) George Schuller (drums) Jeff Lederer (reeds)
The Katie Bull Group Project presents music from its upcoming June
innova release FREAK MIRACLE.
A downtown cutting-edge inter-arts vocalist, joined by veteran
improvisational masters - Bull and her Group Project will present a
bevy of Bull compositions, interspersed with diamond-in-the-rough
takes on the family jewels: Jobim, VanHeusen, and Gershwin. Charts are
nautical maps that set the band free on open seas. Bull and her band
of out(er)-edged dervishes are uncategorizable. Falling between
genres, slipping sliding bumping grinding swinging and
spinning light out of something blue.
http://www.katiebull.com
Wednesday, May 18, 8pm
Andrew Sterman Group
Andrew Sterman (tenor saxophone, flutes) Todd Reynolds (violin) Mick
Rossi (piano) Kermit Driscoll (bass) Tim Horner (drums)
Andrew Sterman's music mixes a chant sensibility with improvised forms
and long passages of composed chamber jazz. At times deeply calm,
other times inciting, Sterman uses his saxophones and flutes as
instruments of medicine and instruments of quirky humor. Concert set
includes pieces from his 2011 Innova release Wet Paint.
http://andrewsterman.com/
May 18, 10pm
Jon Irabagon’s Outright!
Jon Irabagon (saxophone) Ralph Alessi (trumpet) Jacob Sacks (piano)
John Hebert (bass) Tom Rainey (drums)
Continuing in the vein created in his first Outright! record, Jon has
written a new set of music that takes the different and disparate
styles found under the jazz umbrella and has combined them, using
group and free improvisation to tie them all together. These
influences include references to the music of King Curtis, the Brecker
Brothers, Duke Ellington, Ornette Coleman, and Mongo Santamaria.
http://www.jonirabagon.com/
Thursday, May 19, 8:00 pm
blood drum spirit
david bindman (saxophones) wes brown (contrabass) art hirahara (piano)
royal hartigan (drumset, African percussion)
blood drum spirit brings a new global vision to music, exploring deep
into the world's great traditions through the prism of live jazz
performance. Ensemble members have lived, played and toured all over
the planet, including four tours of China. We incorporate elements
(such as asymmetrical time cycles and polyrhythms) from Asian,
African, Native American, and other musical cultures into our
compositions, interactions, and improvisations.
http://www.blooddrumspirit.com/
May 19, 10 p.m.
Sean Noonan's Boxing Dreams String Quartet
Tom Swafford (violin) Patti Kilroy (violin) Leanne Darling (viola)
David West (cello) Sean Noonan (drum set, percussion, stories)
Drummer, composer, and storyteller Sean Noonan will premiere "Night
Music" Book 1, a story transformed into a musical dream, about a
wayfaring stranger, who accidently passes through a door becoming
trapped inside a wall. The man eventually becomes apart of the wall,
living a life of solitude. He learns the only way to overcome his
existence is by creating his own world through dreams and stories. The
evening is an album release concert for Sean Noonan's latest album
"Set the Hammer Free"
http://www.noonansmusic.com/
Friday, May 20, 8pm
George Lewis (computer) Marina Rosenfeld (turntables)
George Lewis and Marina Rosenfeld perform "Sour Mash", their
collaborative vinyl composition released in 2009 on Innova. For this
performance, Lewis will play computer and Rosenfeld turntables, using
their composition as an electro-acoustic palette for live
recombination.
http://www.marinarosenfeld.com/
May 20, 10:00 pm
Psychoangelo
Glen Whitehead (trumpets, minute devices) Michael Theodore (guitars,
small objects)
Colorado acoustic/electro-device duo Psychoangelo (Glen Whitehead
trumpet, electronics, Michael Theodore, various instruments,
electronics) employ trumpets, small objects, minute noise makers,
metals, sand, grains, and guitar to forge layered mutations of sonic
happenings that move, breath, shrink and expand in ambient orchestral
tapestries.
http://www.psychoangelo.com/
Sunday, May 22, 8pm
Ken Field's Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
Alex Smith (elec bass) Blake Newman (acoustic bass) Joey Lefitz
(drums) Kenny Wollesen (drums) Alex Asher (trombone) Josh Roseman
(trombone) Daniel Heath (trombone) Jerry Sabatini (trumpet)
Ken Field (alto sax)
Boston saxophonist & composer Ken Field (Birdsongs of the Mesozoic,
Willie Loco Alexander, Chandler Travis Philharmonic, Bridgman/Packer
Dance, Sesame St) brings his improvisational brass band, with releases
on Innova & Cuneiform, to NYC for their first area performance in 2
years. This special collaboration with guests Wollesen and Roseman
will be recorded. Avant second line funk.
http://www.revolutionarysnakeensemble.org/
May 22, 10pm
Joel Harrison’s String Choir Project
Music of Paul Motian
Zach Brock, Sam Bardfeld, Mat Maneri, Dana Leong (string quartet)
Liberty Ellman and Joel Harrison (guitars)
STRING CHOIR performs composer/ guitarist Harrison's arrangements of
the music of legendary jazz drummer Paul Motian. His arrangements
follow Harrison's vision, while attempting to capture Paul’s elusive,
beguiling approach to drumming and writing. The music is at once
quizzical, playful, melancholy, and fierce, falling between classical,
jazz, and folk traditions
http://www.joelharrison.com/
Tuesday, May 24th 8pm
Prester John
Shawn Persinger (guitar, vocals) David Miller (mandolin, vocals)
"Kitchen-Sink" guitarist Shawn Persinger pulls out all the stops with
mandolinist David Miller. You'll hear prog-tinged jazz, rock,
classical, klezmer, manouche, newgrass and pop...all in one song! The
rare act that lives up to the hyperbole.
http://www.persingermusic.com/
May 24, 10pm
Shadow Trio
Gene Segal (guitar, composition) Steve Laspina (bass) Jeff Davis
(drums) Jon Irabagon (sax)
“The way I see it, composition is more than a vehicle for
improvisations. I wrote this music with that thought in mind. I am
also looking forward to performing it with a very special group of
musicians, in a great venue for live music.” — Gene Segal
http://www.genesegal.com/
Wednesday, May 25, 8:00pm
ANA Milosavljevic (composer, violinist, electric violinist) with
guests performers
A multi-talented Serbian native and Manhattan-based artist, Ana has
stunned audiences at venues from the legendary Carnegie Hall and
Kennedy Center to the cozy Cornelia Street Café and all points in
between. Her cutting-edge contemporary music repertoire is influenced
by various genres including traditional Balkan music, electronica,
jazz, pop, and hip-hop. For her Stone performance, Ana is creating new
works featuring her red Viper electric violin; she will also present
selections from her new innova CD Reflections and a new work by Eve
Beglarian.
http://www.anamilo.com/
May 25, 10pm
Todd Reynolds (violin)
Master fiddler Todd Reynolds will play tunes from his latest innova
release including David T. Little’s “and the sky was still there”,
Paula Matthusen’s “The End of an Orange,” and his own stuff like “Icy
Sleeves of Green,” “Outerborough,” among others.
http://toddreynolds.wordpress.com/
Thursday, May 26, 8pm
Denman Maroney
Theo Bleckmann (voice) Denman Maroney (hyperpiano)
Theo and Denman will perform Denman's song cycle of poems by W.B.
Yeats called "Music for Words, Perhaps" and recently released on
eponymous Innova CD 717. The cycle includes settings of "The Song of
the Happy Shepherd," "The Second Coming," "The Crazed Moon," "The Song
of Wandering Aengus," "A Drinking Song," "A Drunken Man's Praise of
Sobriety," "The Cap and Bells," "Three Songs to the One Burden," "The
Two Trees," and "The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner."
http://www.denmanmaroney.com/
May 26th, 10pm
Adam Niewood & his Rabble Rousers
Jesse Lewis (guitar) Kristjan Randalu (piano, Rhodes) Chris Higgins
(acoustic bass) Matt Brewer (acoustic+electric bass) Rohin Khemani
(table, drums, percussion, loops and effects) Greg Ritchie (drums)
Adam Niewood (saxophones, woodwinds, EWI, composition)
Serendipitously all seven original members from the Innova Recordings
double-disc release "Epic Journey," are gathered here. Bandleader and
composer Adam Niewood started writing music for his 7-piece ensemble
thinking of it more like an orchestra: Two drummers, two bass players,
two chordal instruments, and a choir of woodwinds and Electronic Wind
Instrument... The ensemble floats seamlessly from one composition to
the next. Playing all original selections from Niewood's double CD
"Epic Journey" spanning a broad variety of sonic textures - along with
some newer intricately orchestrated works featured on Niewood's
upcoming Innova Release "Homage" featuring John Scofield, John
Patitucci, and Jack DeJohnette.
http://www.niewood.com/
Friday, May 27, 8:00pm
Neil Rolnick
Neil Rolnick (laptop) MAYA: Sato Moughalian (flute), Bridget Kibbey
(harp), John Hadfield (percussion) Robert Osborne (baritone) Bob Gluck
(piano)
Neil Rolnick and friends will perform music from two of his Innova
CDs. From the most recent release, Extended Family, Bob Gluck will
join him on Faith, an extended virtuoso romp for piano and computer
which ranges from sweet chorales to interactive improvisations and
back to twisted ragtime. From Rolnick's CD Digits, Robert Osborne will
perform the song cycle Making Light of It, on poems by Philip Levine,
and the trio MAYA (Sato Moughalian, flute; Bridget Kibbey, harp and
John Hadfield, percussion) will play Uptown Jump.
http://www.neilrolnick.com/
May 27, 10 pm
Alexander Berne & ‘The Abandoned Orchestra’
A Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Abandoned Orchestra.
Floridian reedman/composer, Alexander Berne effuses ambient solo
atmospherics with mournful wind instruments and nuanced studio craft.
Long-breathed and contemplative, Berne’s music is enshrined in his 3CD
innova release, “Composed and Performed by,” newly reimagined here for
live solo with electronics — a concerto with abandoned orchestra.
http://www.alexanderberne.com/
Saturday, May 28, 8pm
GLASS FARM ENSEMBLE
Gregor Kitzis (violin) Matt Goeke (cello) Yvonne Troxler (piano)
The Glass Farm Ensemble will be performing Paula Matthusen's in
Absentia for violin, piano and miniature electronics. Hans Witschi's
New Work for violin, cello, and piano (world premiere) commissioned by
GFE, Yvonne Troxler's Brouhaha for violin, cello and three glass bowls
and Bruno Mantovani's 8 Moments Musicaux for violin, cello and piano.
Matthusen's in absentia examines by way of sonic resonance ideas of
memory, and how repetition of the facets of the remembered may
eventually create its own patterns in absence of the thing remembered.
Witschi's new composition works with visual images and their
transformation into sound. Troxler's Brouhaha explores the sound
qualities of strings and glass bowls played with mallets, ball
bearings and other devices. 8 Moments Musicaux by the famous young
French composer Bruno Mantovani are virtuous contemplations on the
possibilities of the three instruments.
http://www.glassfarm.org/index1z.htm
May 28, 10:00pm
Jamie Begian's Lost and Found
Jon Blanck (tenor saxophone) Jamie Begian (guitar) Chris DeAngelis
(bass) Tim Walsh (drums)
Jamie Begian's Lost and Found is a quartet that, collectively, has no
idea what it's doing but isn't afraid to do it anyway. Open-ended
exploration of our original themes with a focus on funky grooves can
be expected, as well as rapid-fire changes of texture and style.
http://www.jamiebegian.com/
Sunday, May 29, 8pm
Jason Kao Hwang/ EDGE
Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet, flugelhorn) Andrew Drury (drum set) Ken
Filiano (string bass) Jason Kao Hwang (composer, violin/viola)
EDGE has embraced both past and future with musical offerings resonant
with human and animal overtones. Their instruments sing through sharp
lines vibrating between history, cultures and genres. They will
perform music that is new and old and current.
http://www.jasonkaohwang.com/
May 29, 10 pm
The Paul Austerlitz Group
Paul Austerlitz (bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet) Benito Gonzalez
(piano) Eric Wheeler (bass) Babatunde Lea (drums)
Trio versions of music from Austerlitz’s innova CD entitled Journey,
plus new compositions. Freely improvised explorations of Haitian and
Afro-Dominican roots, focusing on conversations between the bass
clarinet and drum.
http://www.paulausterlitz.org/
Tuesday, May 31, 8pm
Zeitgeist
Heather Barringer & Patti Cudd (percussion) Pat O’Keefe (woodwinds)
Shannon Wettstein (piano)
Lauded for providing “a once-in-a-lifetime experience for adventurous
concertgoers,” Minnesota-based Zeitgeist new music ensemble has
birthed over 150 works in its three-decades-long existence, from Budd
and Rzewski to Kitzke and the next up-and-comers. The Stone
performance, featuring their signature combination of two percussion,
piano and reed, draws from some of their recent innova releases,
including Into the Same River by Czech Ivo Medek, If Tigers Were
Clouds by the late Eleanor Hovda, and Night Singing by Ohio-based
Andrew Rindfleisch.
http://www.zeitgeistnewmusic.org/
May 31, 10pm
PRISM Quartet: Matthew Levy, Timothy McAllister, Zach Shemon, and
Taimur Sullivan (saxophones)
PRISM, a leading quartet of sax all-stars, performs a program of
stunning music from their new innova CD, DEDICATION, featuring 23
short works composed in 2004 in celebration of the Quartet’s 20th
anniversary. Music by Tim Berne, William Bolcom, Zack Browning, Robert
Capanna, Donnacha Dennehy, Dennis DeSantis, Nick Didkovsky, Jason
Eckardt, Roshanne Etezady, Reneé Favand-See, Perry Goldstein, Jennifer
Higdon, Libby Larsen, Matthew Levy, Keith Moore, Greg Osby, Frank J.
Oteri, James Primosch, Tim Ries, Adam Silverman, Ken Ueno, Gregory
Wanamaker, and Chen Yi.
http://www.prismquartet.com/
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