July 14, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
July 13, 2012 Jazz Gallery CD Release concert: Hafez Moderqadek’s “Post-Chromodal Out!” Quite a line-up: Hafez, saxophone; Amir ElSaffar, trumpet; Royal Harrtigan, drums; Vijay Iyer, piano; Ken Filiano, bass. Vijay performed at Spruce Street Forum back when he was still …
July 14, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
July 12 Kitano Jazz Club David Lopato Quartet: Lopata, piano; Marty Ehrlich, soprano sax, B flat clarinet, flute; Ratzo Harris, bass (6-string); Richie Barshay, drums. I went to hear Marty and was pleased to hear the other good musicians as …
July 13, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
July 11, 2012 Barge Music: Here and Now Series Flux Quartet: Tom Chiu, violin; Conrad Harris, violin; Max Mandel, viola; Felix Fan, cello John Cage “Centennial Celebration” Part 2 Barge Music always amazes me. It overlooks the Frank Gehry building …
July 11, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
July 10, 2012 Guggenheim Museum Composing with Patterns: Music at Mid-Century One wonderful night after another. This was put together by talented Christopher McIntyre and Luke DuBois with Luke presenting an informative pre-concert talk in the Peter B. Lewis Theater. …
July 11, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
July 8, 2012 MoMA Summergarden New Juilliard Ensemble New Music for Large Ensembles I went to this because Henrik Strindberg’s music was being performed. Henrik is from Stockholm and I met him in Iceland at the Nordic Days Music Festival …
July 11, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
July 7, 2012 River to River Festival Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts The Source of Uncertainty II with Morton Subotnick What a night. I was so pleased to hear both historical and new music by Subotnick as well as …
July 7, 2012 | Posted in So Forth, Uncategorized
July 6, 2012 Cornelia Street Cafe Mark Helias - The Parlance of our Times Mark Helias, bass; Tim Berne, alto saxophone, Kirk Knuffke, trumpet; Mark Ferber, drums. This is a new line-up with longtime colleague Tim Berne. The notes say …
July 7, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
July 5, 2012 Cornelia Street Cafe Ben Allison, bass; Michael Saxon, saxophones; Rudy Royston, drums. I went here this night as it is close and getting to far away places in this heat sounded too-hard. I was pleased to hear …
July 5, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
July 4, 2012 55 Bar Fay Victor’s ExPosed Blues Band with Anders Nilsson After a lovely 4th of July BBQ at Peter Matthew’s in Brooklyn I wended my way back to Manhattan to hear Fay and Anders. This hot weather has …
June 30, 2012 | Posted in So Forth
June 28, 2012 The Performing Garage Git Along lil Doggies Performed by Corey Dargel, Oleg Dubson, Wil Smith, and Sammy Tunis. I am so glad I was there. It was beautifully produced, very funny, irreverent and smart. The actors moved …