Kelvin Pittman- Solo Sax
JP Jenkins- Solo Guitar
a trio of Andy Hayleck, Tyler Wilcox, Paul Neidhardt
show at 7pm $6 sugg donation for performers
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A listing of free jazz, improv and other strange musical events in and around Portland, OR.
When | Fri Jul 16, 2010 |
Where | third floor of the Pioneer Place Mall (Atrium Bldg) in downtown Portland OR |
Jacob Wick and Wilson Shook from out of town (see bios below) and locals JP Jenkins, Kelvin Pittman and Greg Skloff tonight 7pm at the Wail 5135 NE 42nd ave... www.jacobwick.info Jacob Wick was born near Chicago, IL in 1985. An “edgy, fiercely smart improviser” (Philadelphia Weekly), who Downbeat calls “exciting and curious,” his playing has been described as everything from “inhuman” (Chicago Reader) to “a Shakespeare soliloquy” (allaboutjazz.com). He has so far released two CDs: the first, an entirely improvised duo CD with drummer Andrew Greenwald (37:55 [2008]– Creative Sources); the second, with a collaborative trio White Rocket (White Rocket [2009]– on Diatribe). As a composer, performer, and improviser, his goal is not necessarily to cross boundaries, but rather to inhabit and exploit them. To this end, he leads or co-leads several groups, all exploring the soft tissue that binds genres, forms, and practices: A Mown Lawn, a chamber group exploring non-narrative song; even though you’re only 9, locating the intersection of folk forms and loosely composed improvisation; White Rocket, a cross-Atlantic trio wading through the mud between jazz, Karnatak music, and contemporary classical composition; and a duo with percussionist Andrew Greenwald, using textural improvisation to reduce the two instruments into one. His sound sculptures mistletoe and rain, clouds have been shown in Chicago (Heaven Gallery) and New York (Issue Project Room). He has performed with dancer/choreographer Christine Elmo and performance artists Amir Mogharabi and Eagle Ager, as well as musicians such as Andrew D’Angelo, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Mark Turner, and Han Bennink. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. Wilson Shook (seattle) alto saxophone gallery1412.org/wilsonshook.html Wilson Shook is an improvising saxophonist living in Seattle, Washington. Wilson’s music emphasizes focus, texture, chance and exploration. It is ‘new music’ in that it explores each new moment and seeks to develop a critical awareness of the present. Sonically, Wilson's music is informed by lower case and minimalist aesthetics, while embracing the full range of his instrument. He is especially interested in incidental or 'between' sounds: material that exists on the edges and in the cracks of the conventional sonic palate. As an artist and activist, Wilson is concerned with the actualization of feminist and libertarian ethics. Investigating the interplay between artistic freedom and freedom at large, Wilson views improvisation as a model of interaction that can inform diverse situations and relationships. Wilson currently performs solo, as well as with the Gust Burns Quartet, 'A Saxophone Quartet' (with Paul Hoskin, Kelvin Pittman and Tyler Wilcox), bst.cr (with Ben Bennett and Ryan Jewell) and in various ad hoc and piece-oriented collaborations. Previous and continuing collaborators include: Gust Burns, Carol Genetti, Bonnie Jones, Jack Wright, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Bob Marsh, Nate Wooley, Gino Robair, Tyler Wilcox, Greg Kelley, Jaimie Branch, Jacob Wick, Jonathan Zorn, Mark Collins, Teri Nelson-Zagar, Dave Knott, and many others. Wilson is the director of Gallery 1412, an artists’ collective and performance space, and is a member of the Seattle Improvised Music board of directors.
The Creative Music Guild is pleased to announce the culminating show of our 2010 Spring Season. Please join us for an evening of extraordinary music by acclaimed musicians Tatsuya Nakatani (percussion) and Seth Olinsky (guitar). These master musicians from divergent but complimentary aesthetic backgrounds will traverse thrilling musical landscapes in this rare duo collaboration.
This show is FREE to all Members of the Creative Music Guild including those who become members at the CMG table on the night of the show.
Sunday, April 25th Tatsuya Nakatani and Seth Olinsky
Where: Worksound 820 SE Alder, Portland OR http://www.worksoundpdx.com/
When: April 25th, 2010 8pm
Cost: $6 general, FREE to all CMG Members!
Bios:
Tatsuya Nakatani, originally from Osaka, Japan, is a contemporary improvising percussionist. Nakatani has created his own instrumentation, effectively inventing many instruments and extended techniques. He utilizes drumset, large bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, metal objects, bells, and various sticks and bows to create an intense, organic music that defies category or genre. His music is based in experiment and improvisation, jazz, free jazz, rock, and noise, yet retains the sense of space and beauty found in traditional Japanese folk music.
In his ecstatic performances, Nakatani erects and then dismantles unique sonic realms that are at once focused and expansive, consuming and liberating. Nakatani has performed or recorded with some of the great improvising musicians of the last 20 years including Ken Vandermark, Peter Brotzmann, Joe McPhee, Mary Halvorson, Reuben Radding, and the late Peter Kowald. In addition to live solo and ensemble performances Nakatani works as a sound designer for film and television and teaches Masterclasses and Workshops at the University level. He also heads H&H Production, an independent record label and recording studio based in Easton, Pennsylvania. He was selected as a performing artist for the Pennsylvania Performing Artist on Tour (PennPat) roster as well as a Bronx Arts Council Individual Artist grant.
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Seth Olinsky is a guitarist, vocalist, composer and core member of acclaimed experimental rock group Akron/Family. He has conducted Rhys Chatham's guitar piece at Lincoln Center two years running. Olinsky has recorded with master free jazz drummer Hamid Drake, William Parker, and continues to perform and record with many notable musicians.
3/23/10 Tuesday
8 pm
Brains: Drew Ceccato (sax) Chris Golinski (drums)
Jacob Zimmerman (alto sax) Tim DuRoche (drums)
Others TBA
Performing at The Wail, Portland, OR
Cost: $5-10 Sliding Scale Donation
Consisting of a left half known as Drew Ceccato (winds) and right half that answers to Chris Golinski (percussion), Brains plays improvised music meant to stir aggressive thought and produce anything but indifferent emotional responses. Their music comes in waves of energetic output that cohesively guide a daring listener through a multitude of different sonic spacescapes. Encompassing influences from both modern improvisational music to throw-back 70’s free-jazz, these two musical astronauts have a lot to say. Brains is good, Brains is bad, Brains is something we all have. Look for their self-titled debut album, coming out on FYO Records in March 2010. www.myspace.com/brainsmusic
Saxophonist and composer Jacob Zimmerman (b.1986) studied at the renowned Garfield High School in Seattle, and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts where he received a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Saxophone Performance. Zimmerman is currently a 2nd year Masters Composition student at Mills College in Oakland, California. His teachers have included Roscoe Mitchell, Jerry Bergonzi, James Fei, Joe Morris, Anthony Coleman, Allan Chase, and John Mallia. Zimmerman has performed at a variety of prominent venues and festivals including the North Sea Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, Jordan Hall in Boston, and Avery Fisher Hall in New York. www.jacobrexzimmerman.com
Tim DuRoche is a Portland, OR-based artist and arts and culture advocate who’s worked for nearly two decades at the intersections of the visual, performing, literary and media arts. He is a jazz musician-composer and conceptual artist fascinated by the slim corridors running between art, utility, entertainment, and civic engagement. In addition to site-specific performances, sound installations, composition, nightclub, and festival appearances, DuRoche is a well-respected jazz and culture writer.
Better Homes & Gardens (Reed Wallsmith, Sly Pig, Tim DuRoche, and Bob Jones) will be performing Tuesday, February 3 at Valentines (232 SW Ankeny Street in Portland) along with Oakland’s Painted Cakes and Portland’s own Bird Costumes. Music at 9 pm.
On the menu: Free Improvisation for a Brave New World. Shades and flavors recalling revolutionary jazz from the nostalgic era of late-60s Vietnam escalation, when fire, beauty, freedom and raw story-telling was a powerful currency in film, popular music and on the street and jazz was still a threat to the Man. Ah the good old days.
The Willamette Week’s Whitney Hawke gives it a high-five: “More exciting for Portlanders is the rare appearance of local gems Better Homes and Gardens—an orchestral indie ensemble comprised of members from Blue Cranes, the Decemberists and Evolutionary Jass Band.”
John Weise and PDX Large Ensemble at Worksound (820 SE Alder)
$8 ($6 for students, CMG members)
John Wiese is an artist and composer from Los Angeles, California. His ongoing projects include LHD and Sissy Spacek, with plenty of freelance work with many artists as diverse as Sunn O))), Wolf Eyes, Merzbow, Dave Phillips, Smegma, Kevin Drumm, Cattle Decapitation, and C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core). He has toured extensively throughout the world, covering Europe, Scandinavia and Australia as a member of Sunn O))), the UK as part of the Free Noise tour (a tentet including Evan Parker, C. Spencer Yeh, Yellow Swans, etc.), the United States alongside Wolf Eyes, and recently performed in the 52nd Venice Biennale with artist Nico Vascellari. More information can be found at www.john-wiese.com.
Wiese will be performing with members of Yellow Swans, Smegma, Flaspar, Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly!, Evolutionary Jass Band, Cex Fucx, Au, Better Home and Gardens, Dash!, Blue Cranes, and many others.Thollem McDonas
pianist/composer/improviser etc.
Pacific Northwest Tour Portland dates
Dec. 5th at Enterbeing 1603 NE Alberta st
Thollem Mcdonas Piano
with an ensemble featuring a score by Scott Stobbe for violin, 2 saxophones, guitar, percussion and piano.
Dec. 6th at Worksound 820 SE Alder St.
with Derek Johnson-solo cello with slide projector
plus And, a Portland based band Featuring Scott Brazieal-piano Drew Adams-Guitar/vocals Kelvin Pittman-Saxophone, Drums.
Dec. 10th at Sound Roots School of Modern Music 412 NE Beech St.
Thollem McDonas-Solo Piano
Dec. 11th at the Artistery 4315 SE Division 7$ 7pm
Thollem McDonas-solo piano
plus Kimya Dawson, L’Orchidee D’Hawai,
and Angelo Spencer
Dec. 12th At the Boxlift Building 333 NE Handcock St. (free with donations for Thollem)
Featuring music for and with grand piano music by Thollem McDonas, Bonnie Miksch, Branic Howard and others.....
All shows except Dec. 11th, 8pm
5$ donation with no one turned away
His music is diverse, with each album and every concert exploring a variety of approaches and paths, resulting in dramatically different outcomes.
Thollem is a recent recipient of a Meet The Composer grant. He was commissioned by The Limon Dance Company for a large-scale piece in commemoration of their 50th year anniversary. Last Autumn he spent 15 weeks playing 65 concerts circumnavigating the U.S. This September he has been invited to perform the late works of Claude Debussy on the piano on which they were written, as well as his own comprovisations with Stefano Scodanibbio. This will be the first album (They're Seen From Other Places) ever recorded on Debussy's piano.
Thollem has performed in theaters, art galleries, universities, elementary schools, concert halls, jazz clubs, rock clubs, festivals, warehouses, house concerts, streets, forests, riots and on television and radio. He has performed piano concertos with symphonies, played in West African drumming troupes, Javanese gamelan ensembles, an afro-punk band, with hundreds of free improv groups, and as an accompanist and a composer for opera and modern dance. His music appeals to a wide variety of audiences because of these rich and wildly disparate experiences. Currently Thollem Primarily plays his own comprovisations he calls Eccentriclect Music, for people and everyone else.
8PM Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Fez Ballroom, 314 SW 11th, Portland
Tickets $15.00 / $12.00 for CMG members and students with ID. 21 and over only.
Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love duo and the John Butcher, Torsten Muller & Dylan Van der Schyff