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tiny pianist
with a big avant-garde heart
gets MORE romantic

Friday, February 3 at 8:00pm

Ethnic Heritage Ensemble

with Kahil El’Zabar, percussion
Corey Wilkes, trumpet/percussion
Ernest Dawkins, alto/tenor saxophone/percussion

Performing together for over 25 years, the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble was founded by El’Zabar and tenor saxophonist Edward Wilkerson, Jr., who sought to fuse contemporary Afro-American musics with more traditional African instrumentation and rhythms. Now featuring Joseph Bowie, who was the leader of the jazz-funk group Defunkt, and Ernest Dawkins, founder of the New Horizons Ensemble, the trio’s “harmonically provocative and rhythmically seductive", Chicago Tribune, compositions impart an ancestral wisdom that conjure an energy rarely encountered in contemporary music.

+ Leroy Jenkins/Myra Melford Duo

with Leroy Jenkins, violin
Myra Melford, piano

Leroy Jenkins founded one of the first of many AACM ensembles, Creative Construction Company, in the late 60’s (with Braxton, Smith and Steve McCall). In 1970, this group provided New York City with its first performance of any AACM ensemble, taking what had previously been confined to Chicago into the national circuit. Jenkins has performed with Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler, and Alice Coltrane, but it was his work with the Revolutionary Ensemble (co-founded with bassist Sirone and drummer Jerome Cooper) that gained Jenkins’ prominence as the most significant violinist of the modern era. For this performance he is joined by the innovative and thoughtful pianist Myra Melford, who has collaborated with Han Bennink, Dave Douglas and Joseph Jarman.

young clarinetist
his homage to steve lacy
is quirky and odd

Goldberg has been around for ages - I'm surprised to see him described as "young".

Maybe "young at heart" was too many syllables?

BUT POINT WELL TAKEN, MY BAD

(Whatever happened to this thread.)

I'm continuing to listen to a lot of mid-60s adventurous Blue Note stuff (Sam Rivers, Andrew Hill, Bobby Hutcherson, Don Cherry, etc.).

I don't spend enough time checking out new jazz either.

cdbaby has generous sound bites:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/sunnyjaincollective

Whoa, I went to jazz school with that guy for a year or so. He was a really good drummer, but I didn't know he had a thing going on now.

Inernational House in Philadelphia is hosting a jazz series that might draw out even the likes of me:

Seraphic Light: Celebrating John Coltrane’s 80th Birthday

Anyhow, some of you should really check out Ayelet Rose Gottlieb's Mayim Rabim. (I've said more on other threads.)

The drummer is the dude who plays snare for Slavic Soul Party, he's a nice dude and I've been wanting to check out his jazz stuff.

http://cdbaby.com/cd/seigfried