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Saturday 9/30/06 - 9:30PM Reptet (Seattle) Friday 9/29/06 - 9:30PM Daniel Menche Olivia Block Thursday 9/28/06 - 10:00PM Improvised Music Series Jackson/Lonberg Holm/Rosaly Keefe Jackson - reeds, Fred Lonberg Holm - cello, Frank Rosaly - drums Ingebrigt Haaker-Flaten Quintet Ola Kvernberg - violin, Dave Rempis - saxophones, Jeff Parker - guitar, Ingebrigt Haaker-Flaten - bass, Frank Rosaly - drums Sunday 9/24/06 - 7:30PM Silo Trio Audrey Chen - cello, Nate Wooley - trumpet, Leonel Kaplan - trumpet Alessandro Bosetti solo voice/electronics Haushcka aka Volker Bertelmann - solo piano Saturday 9/23/06 - 9:30PM VOICES presents Marvin Tate Jus Hambone and more! Friday 9/22/06 - 9:30PM Hermit Arts presents Thursday 9/20/06 - 10:00PM Improvised Music Series Falzone/Mulvenna Duo James Falzone - clarinet, Tim Mulvenna - percussion Matt Schneider Trio Josh Berman - cornet, Matt Schneider - guitar, Nate McBride - bass Tuesday 9/19/06 - 8:00PM Triage Noise Series aurelien besnard / steve hess duo subtle harmonic interference; a transistor radio being cooked inside a 1970s microwave as storm warnings try to make their vocies heard the narrow circle ensemble Steve Hess/Aurelien Besnard/Greg Hamilton/Jason Roebke/Brain Labycz silence and sound battle it out in a 15th century scottish castle. the result fall to the stones below and fill the arean with joy. adam sonderberg solo computers and other objects processed to a point of recognition only a few can hope to obtain Saturday 9/16/06 - 9:30PM Vandermark 5 Ken Vandermark - reeds, Dave Rempis - saxophones, Fred Lonberg-Holm - cello, Kent Kessler - bass, Tim Daisy - drums Friday 9/15/06 - 9:30PM Vandermark 5 Ken Vandermark - reeds, Dave Rempis - saxophones, Fred Lonberg-Holm - cello, Kent Kessler - bass, Tim Daisy - drums Thursday 9/14/06 - 10:00PM improvised music series Josh Abrams Group Fred Lonberg-Holm, Tomeka Reid - cello Ben Vida, Jeff Parker - guitar Nate McBride, Josh Abrams - bass Wednesday 9/13/06 - 10:00PM International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) presents ICE FEST Program II Ensemble Breekbaar David Schotzko - percussion; Joshua Rubin - clarinet ICE members David Schotzko (percussion) and Joshua Rubin (clarinet) are Breekbaar, Dutch for "fragile." Dedicated to creating a repertory of works for the unusual combination of percussion and clarinet, Breekbaar will present a varied and exciting program of works by Franco Donatoni, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Philippe Manoury, Ignacio Baca Lobera, and several new works by young composers written just for the occasion. Tuesday 9/12/06 - 9:00PM Ping Tree Jazz Ensemble Art Davis, John Wojochiechowski, Eric Hochberg, Tim Davis, Bill Overton, Dave Onderdonk, Pat Brady Ping Tree was founded in fall 2005 by trumpeter Art Davis and composer/pianist Pat Brady as a vehicle for new music. Ping Tree's music is formed from rock, funk, african, latin and other styles into jazz. www.pingtree.com myspace.com/pingtree Monday 9/11/06 - 9:00PM Jabberwhorl Gtar Ensemble abe gibson, alex wing, bill mackay, jesse thomas, minh nyguen, brian labycz, chris lange, michael silvestri, brian ashby, matt field, matthew daniel, cliff ingram, arvo zylo Saturday 9/9/06 - 9:00PM Nuestro Tambo Ruben Gerena (Co-Director), Angel M Fuentes (Co-Director), Johnny Tirado, Lizette Torres, Roberto Perez, Melanie Maldonado, Saul Melendez, Jose Natal Nuestro Tambo, a Chicago-based group that celebrates the AfroPuerto Rican traditions of Plena and Bomba... This group is unique in that it represents Bomba as a living musical form rather than a folkloric tradition. Nuestro Tambo is comprised of twenty-something and thirty-something men and women who have committed themselves to the promotion and celebration of these genres. They compose original songs, incorporate their urban experience through the usage of elements such as rap and easily interchange instruments, microphones and dance space with one another, as all of the members are interdisciplinary artists. Nuestro Tambo has departed from what has become accepted as the traditional representation of Bomba music and has made this music more accessible to young urban dwellers more often drawn to the commercialized forms of Salsa, Hip Hop and Reggaeton. This group was the first AfroPuerto Rican music group to have a weekly contract at a nightspot, helped inaugurate the City of Chicagos Millennium Park and has partnered with other music aficionados to create AGUZATE a cohort that is dedicated to the production of AfroLatino events. As a contributing member of AGUZATE, Nuestro Tambo helped produce, sponsor and perform in the first Tribute to the Sonero (the Spanish word for improvisational singer.) This group makes a necessary contribution to gamut of Latino music in Chicago. Unlike many other local groups, they are able to fuse traditional music with the contemporary urban experience. This is evidenced by one of their most notable Plenas La Bandera (Written by Ramon Lopez) a song about the citys historic Puerto Rican enclave in Humboldt Park. myspace.com/nuestrotambo Friday 9/8/06 - 9:00PM Discrete Reading Series Anne Boyer Kasey Mohammed Thursday 9/7/06 - 10:00PM improvised music series Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Strings Nicole Mitchell - flutes; Renee Baker - viola; Tomeka Reid - cello; Josh Abrams - bass Wednesday 9/6/06 - 10:00PM Lucky 7's Jeff Albert - trombone, tuba, Jeb Bishop - trombone, Keefe Jackson - reeds, Josh Berman - cornet, Jason Adasiewicz - vibraphone, Matt Golombisky - bass, Quin Kirchner - drums Tuesday 9/5/06 - 7:30PM Doug Lofstrom and the New Quartet Doug Lofstrom - bass, compositions, James Sanders - violin, Michael Levin - reeds, Leandro Lopez-Varady - piano, Sarah Allen- drums The New Quartet presents classical, jazz and world music in a chamber music setting, and features some of the Chicago area's best and most versatile musicians. Featured with the New Quartet is violinist James Sanders. Sanders, who also leads his own Latin-jazz orchestra, Conjunto, is an active chamber and orchestral musician who regularly performs with the Ravinia Festival Orchestra and the Chicago Sinfonietta. Multi-reedist Michael Levin has performed with artists as diverse as Diane Schuur, Clark Terry, the Temptations and the Revolution Ensemble. Pianist Leandro Lopez-Varady, originally from Argentina, settled in Chicago after touring the Far East with jazzman Eldee Young. Rounding out the group is Sarah Allen, renowned jazz drummer and percussionist with the Northbrook Symphony. Composer and bassist Doug Lofstrom, formerly composer-in-residence for the Metropolis Symphony Orchestra and musical director of Chicago's Free Street Theater, has composed and arranged a wealth of stunning orchestral and chamber music. His works have been performed by the St. Louis, Atlanta, and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras, and the Present Music, Tales & Scales and Revolution chamber ensembles, among other groups. He is currently on the faculty of Chicago's Columbia College. Deliberately eclectic, the group’s repertoire juxtaposes chamber music of Bartok and Debussy with early classics by Duke Ellington, tangos by Astor Piazzolla and Lofstrom’s original music and arrangements of traditional music from around the world. Doug Lofstrom has long dreamed of presenting the music he loved - without artificial boundaries. The embodiment of that dream is the New Quartet. More information on the group is available at: www.douglofstrom.com Sunday 9/3/06 - 10:00PM Sidemen Big Band www.sidemenbigband.com Saturday 9/2/06 - 9:30PM The Bakery DJ T.Rue – (montreal) Drum & Bass/Electro/Crunk Myspace.com/teerue DJ Itchy Fingers (chi) Hip-Hop/Downtempo Myspace.com/itch13 Friday 9/1/06 - 9:30PM Leaves myspace.com/leaveschicago Charles Rumback-drums, Charles Gorczinski - alto sax; Tyler Beach-guitar; Daniel Thatcher - bass The Lickets lickets.com |