Sunday, April 18 at 8:00 p.m.
William Parker/Kidd Jordan
Sabir Mateen/Alvin Fielder Quartet
Last concert in Hallwalls Black 'n' Blue Theatre
ONLY $5!

Kidd Jordan (tenor saxophone)
Sabir Mateen (saxophones, clarinet, flute)
William Parker (contrabass)
Alvin Fielder (drums)

New Orleans’ Edward 'Kidd' Jordan is probably the single most under documented jazz musician of his generation. A fact that is even more remarkable when you consider that he is also one of the busiest working musicians in the world. He’s collaborated with a staggering array of prominent musicians, from Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder to Aretha Franklin and the Supremes as well as Milford Graves, Ed Blackwell, Ornette Coleman, Cannonball Adderley and Cecil Taylor, to name but a few. Fortunately, this fact has not lost on his appreciative European audiences. He has been granted the honor of knighthood by the French government for his contribution to the European performing arts. At 74 years old, Jordan remains one of the most ferocious and powerful saxophonists alive, as his Buffalo debut will no doubt confirm.

SOLUTION/PASTORALE
An evening of live-mixed video and original music by Dziga Vertov Performance Group with Douglas Rosenberg (video) Scott Fields (guitar, composer) and Ryan Smith, (laptop computer, composer). This work combines Rosenberg’s rich, evocative video imagery with the electronic and processed original compositions of Fields and Smith. The video and soundscapes are inter-related and inseparable from each other and together form a rich and compelling performance art event. The evening is in two parts, SOLUTION, a work that interrogates the Holocaust in images music and text and PASTORALE, a cine-poem of movement and landscape.

Dziga Vertov Performance Group was founded by visual artist/director Douglas Rosenberg in 1991. The group's purpose is to create works bridging numerous disciplines including dance, visual and media arts. DVPG takes its name from the Russian filmmaker of the early 1900's. DVPG's fundamental mission is to create new and challenging works of art based in the language of performance, dance and media that combine disciplines including sound, text, video and projected images. The purpose of the work is to engage the audience, other artists and community groups in a dialogue that reaches beyond the usual performer/spectator relationship. In order to do this, DVPG has set out to create a hybrid form of performance that is intended to both engage and challenge, using concepts and images that speak to contemporary and historical issues of human existence.

Soundlab Presents:
Friday, April 30 at 9:00 p.m.
Corsano/Flaherty/Baczkowski/Conrad
@ SOUNDLAB 110 Pearl St. (at Swan) downtown Buffalo
www.bigorbitgallery.com

Chris Corsano (drums)
Paul Flaherty (alto/tenor saxophones)
Steve Baczkowski (baritone saxophone)
Tony Conrad (bowed amplified skins, etc.)

"While buckleheaded fascists continue to try and stop the progressive roiling of the essential ecstatic impulse that lurks in us all, Flaherty and Corsano negate their every thrust with gorgeous parries of sheer emotional intellect." -Byron Coley
For the past 5 years, saxophonist Paul Flaherty and drummer Chris Corsano have operated together in duo format as well as in collaborations with some of the finest freedom thinkers around including Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Jim O'Rourke, Daniel Carter, Wally Shoup, and Steve Swell. Together, Flaherty & Corsano seek to champion the cause of total free improvisation, an often misunderstood, underestimated, and sometimes even hated art form (thus their acclaimed duo LP The Hated Music). Joining them is baritone saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Steve Baczkowski, and legendary wildcard Tony Conrad, who is sure to infuse the proceedings with his own unique brand of musical anarchism.
www.yod.com/hatedmusic.html

Tuesday, May 4 at 9:00 p.m.
Sound on Survival
SOUNDLAB 110 Pearl St. (at Swan) Buffalo
www.bigorbitgallery.com

Marco Eneidi (alto saxophone)
Lisle Ellis (contrabass)
Peter Valsamis (drums)

Friday, May 7 at 8:00 p.m.
Bruce Eisenbeil Trio
Burchfield-Penney Arts Center, Rockwell Hall Buffalo State College

Bruce Eisenbeil (electric and acoustic guitars)
Katsuyuki Itakura (piano)
Stephen Flinn (drums)

The Wire wrote, "Electric guitarist Eisenbeil is developing a distinctive voice . . . His scurrying, skittering style generates animated fluxations, which are integrated successfully within the overall group sound . . ." Each of Eisenbeil's cd's - OPIUM, MURAL and NINE WINGS - has received critical acclaim. He has performed throughout the USA, Japan, Brazil, Paris, Berlin and at many festivals including the Texaco New York Jazz Festival, Vision Festival, CMJ Music Conference, Buffalo Interprov Festival, Philadelphia Mellon Jazz Festival, Trenton Avant-garde Festival, and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Eisenbeil has collaborated with many fine musicians including: Cecil Taylor, David Murray, Milford Graves, Evan Parker, Wolfgang Fuchs, Ellery Eskelin, Andrew Cyrille, William Parker, Micheal Manring and many others. The readers and writers of Cadence Jazz Magazine voted OPIUM, his recent CD, one of the top 10 new jazz releases of 2002. His work has been featured in many magazines. Eisenbeil has been interviewed in AVANT and featured in CADENCE with a cover story.
For more info see: www.eisenbeil.com

Saturday, May 15 at 9:00 p.m.
Kevin Norton's Living Language
SOUNDLAB 110 Pearl St. (at Swan) Buffalo
www.bigorbitgallery.com

Louis Belogenis (tenor/soprano saxophones)
Thomas Ulrich (cello)
John Lindberg (contrabass)
Kevin Norton (drums, vibraphone, compositions)