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Tuesday, September 21 •
8:00 p.m. Willem Breuker Kollektief @ Trinity Episcopal Church, 371 Delaware Ave. Buffalo $12 general, $10 members/students/seniors Willem Breuker (saxophones/clarinet) Hermine Deurloo (saxophone, harmonica) Maarten van Norden (saxophones) Boy Raaymakers (trumpet) Andy Altenfelder (trumpet) Andy Bruce (trombone) Bernard Hunnekink (trombone, tuba) Arjen Gorter (bass) Henk de Jonge (piano) Rob Verdurmen (percussion) Now enjoying its 30th anniversary this year, the Willem Breuker Kollektief remains one of Europe's finest ensembles playing contemporary and improvised music. They are equally at home in jazz clubs as in philharmonic halls. Led by saxophonist/clarinetist/composer Willem Breuker, the ten piece Kollektief plays a hybrid of music which cuts across traditional musical lines. The Kollektief's approach involves combinations of jazz and 'serious' (i.e. classical) music with many popular genres, from marching band and circus music to latin dance and music for film and theatre. The result is both humorous and surprising, full of false starts and stops, clean breaks, sudden shifts in musical mood, and above all, a fine sense of irony. At one moment, the Kollektief van be churning out hot jazz, European Style, and the next moment, tearing through a classical repertory with all the irreverence of Spike Jones. Founded in 1974, the Kollektief consists of ten musicians who are improvisors and journeymen with excellent professional credentials, and Breuker writes his refreshing music with these musicians specifically in mind. While most of the Kollektief's music is written by Willem (with occasional pieces by band members), each musician contributes his improvisatory brilliance to the collective sound. And whether playing Breuker, Weill, Gershwin, Morricone, Prokofiev or Ellington, the Kollektief maintains an orchestral precision that, in the words of one critic, "would be the envy of most philharmonics". The Kollektief have been one of the busiest ensembles in Europe for the last twenty years, touring extensively in Eastern and Western Europe, the USA, Canada, Mexico, Russia, and India, playing an average of 85 concerts a year. They have twelve compact discs to their credit, numerous radio and television performances, and their own annual festival in Amsterdam. “Group members wander through the audience, offering instruments to anyone brave enough to contribute to their glorious racket and go through innumerable street-theater inspired cameos of absurdity on stage. They are so full of life and enthusiasm and possess such a rare creative presence that they make a considerable impression on all whom they encounter.” -Craig N. Pearce |
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OCTOBER This tour is sponsored in part by Pro Helvetia, Switzerland. |
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SOUNDLAB PRESENTS Sunday, October 17 • 9:00 p.m. Blue Collar @ SOUNDLAB 110 Pearl St. (at Swan) downtown Buffalo Steve Swell (trombone) Nate Wooley (trumpet) Tatsuya Nakatani (drums, percussion) Blue Collar is a free improvising trio exploring the possibility of stopping time. The group's goal with each piece of music is to subtly change the listening environment, to infuse silence with a specific meaning. Though the instrumentation leaves room for brash, jazz-oriented interjections, Blue Collar turns its attention to the smallest and subtlest of sonic details, creating music that takes its cue from speech, silence, and the everyday sounds that are taken for granted. |
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HALLWALLS AND RESURRECTION MUSIC PRESENT Friday, October 22 • 9:00 p.m. Full-Blown Trio [actually Dave Burrell/Joe McPhee Duo]  @ Trinity Episcopal Church, 371 Delaware Ave. Buffalo $12 general, $8 members/students/seniors Dave Burrell (piano) [played as duo with Joe McPhee] Distinguished composer/pianist Dave Burrell is a performing artist of singular stature on the international contemporary music scene. His dynamic compositions, with blues and gospel roots recall the tradition of Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, and Duke Ellington. After majoring in music at the University of Hawaii, he enrolled at Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1961. After graduating with degrees in composition/arranging and performance in 1965, he moved to New York City, where he quickly established himself as one of the most innovative and original pianists collaborating with the emerging leaders in contemporary jazz. During the last 30 years Dave Burrell has appeared on 106 recordings, 22 under his own name. Burrell is renowned for his many pivotal recordings with saxophonists such as Archie Shepp , Pharoah Sanders, Marion Brown and David Murray, to name a few. Three towering figures of creative music, pianist Dave Burrell, bassist William Parker and drummer Andrew Cyrille join together in an all-star summit for a night of incendiary music as Full Blown Trio. "Transcendence doesn’t begin to describe the vibe," raved Philadelphia's City Paper, about the trio's Philly debut. Bassist William Parker, co-founder of the Vision Festival, has been called "the most consistently brilliant free jazz bassist of all time" (The Village Voice) for his work with his own Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, and with Cecil Taylor's Unit, the David S. Ware Quartet, Matthew Shipp, Other Dimensions in Music, and a who's who of the creative music scene. Drummer Andrew Cyrille is a living legend among jazz drummers well known for his years with Cecil Taylor and countless others. |
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NOVEMBER Tuesday, November 2 • 8:00 p.m. Triptych Myth @ Trinity Episcopal Church, 371 Delaware Ave. Buffalo $10 general, $8 members/students/seniors Cooper-Moore (piano, homemade instruments) Tom Abbs (contrabass, tuba) Chad Taylor (drums) Cooper-Moore is a composer-improviser, instrumentalist, designer and builder of musical instruments, and music educator living and working in New York City. A native of the Piedmont area of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Cooper-Moore began studying piano at age eight. Four years later, he was listening to Monk, Mingus, and Ornette and working on improvisation. Moving to New York in 1973, Cooper-Moore took over the five-floor 501 Canal Street building and transformed it into an artist living/work space, making a wealth of experimentation between performing and visual artists possible. While his attention was focused on piano performance in New York clubs and touring abroad, Cooper-Moore began designing and building musical instruments and played them in collaboration with all kinds of artist at lofts, galleries, artist spaces, museums, and in the streets of New York City. Over the years, Cooper-Moore has built an extensive instrument collection using such material as paper, bamboo, metal, wood, and acrylic. He most often performs with his ashimba (a type of xylophone), diddly-bow, and horizontal hoe-handle harp. Cooper-Moore is also respected as the official storyteller of Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Virtuosic pianist Cooper-Moore jumping from the ivories to bamboo flutes to the banjo and then to his homemade Didly Bow, Tom Abbs floating between sheets of bass and bow to the tuba like a force of nature, and Chad Taylor driving it home with his astounding agility, playing drums and vibraphone simultaneously. Don’t miss this unusually flexible and broad ranging trio. |
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Thursday, November 18 •
8:00 p.m. Bobby Bradford & the Frode Gjerstad Trio 
@ Trinity Episcopal Church, 371 Delaware Ave. Buffalo $12 general $8 members/students/seniors Bobby Bradford (cornet) Frode Gjerstad (clarinet, alto saxophone) Øyvind Storesund (contrabass) Paal Nilsen-Love (drums) One of the greatest trumpeters to emerge from the avant-garde, Bobby Bradford, grew up in Dallas, Texas playing trumpet locally with such local players as Cedar Walton and David Newman. In 1953, he moved to Los Angeles where he met and played with Ornette Coleman and Eric Dolphy. Bradford spent time in the military and in school before becoming Don Cherry's replacement with the Ornette Coleman Quartet in 1961-1963, a period when the group unfortunately rarely worked. Settling in Los Angeles, Bradford became a schoolteacher and also began a longtime association with clarinetist John Carter. His mellow trumpet blended in well with Carter's dissonant flights. He recorded with Ornette Coleman in 1971, but otherwise is best known for his playing and recordings with Carter. Since the clarinetist's death, Bradford frequently led a quintet (the Mo'tet) featuring Vinny Golia and occasionally Marty Ehrlich. In the '90s, he also performed with John Stevens' Freebop, the David Murray Octet, and Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra. Frode Gjerstad is one of the few Norwegian musicians playing modern improvised music outside the 'ECM-school'. He has chosen to play with foreign musicians because there is no tradition in Norway for free improvised music. Gjerstad has played with many master musicians including John Stevens, Borah Bergmann, Hamid Drake, William Parker, Rashid Bakr, and Peter Brötzmann. Paal Nilssen-Love started playing with Frode Gjerstad at an early age and has risen to prominence as one of the new musicians in Norway. He has played and recorded with international sax-players Mats Gustafsson, Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark, and Peter Brøtzmann, and with super-guitarist Pat Metheney. He is a permanent member of Brötzmann’s Chicago 10tet. |
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DECEMBER Tuesday, December 14 • 8:00 p.m. Fred Anderson Trio @ Trinity Episcopal Church, 371 Delaware Ave. Buffalo $12 general $8 members/students/seniors Fred Anderson (tenor saxophone) William Parker (contrabass) Hamid Drake (drums) Chicago jazz patriarch and master tenor saxophonist extraordinaire, Fred Anderson was born in Monroe, Louisiana, in 1929. A founding member of the AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians), Fred has been guiding light for decades through his work both as a musician and producer. His renowned Southside Chicago club, The Velvet Lounge has been a major breeding ground for adventurous jazz for nearly thirty years. Fred’s appearance in Hallwalls’ spring 2004 concert series with drummer Chad Taylor was unforgettable and his return with the formidable rhythm team of Parker and Drake promises to be no less. |
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