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Free Workshop: Fridays with MAX
The Center for New Music, in association with the Manhattan Producers’ Alliance, will host a series of free MAX workshops every Friday afternoon in August, from 2:30-5:30 PM. Composers and performers who apply this juggernaut of a software to their artistic practice are welcomed to stop by to hear lectures from experts, troubleshoot patches, and participate in […]
DUO: Peter Broetzmann, reeds + Paal Nilssen-Love, drums
Purchase Tickets Now “Brötzmann and Nilssen-Love have a history going back 15 years, based on a predilection for musical intensity, an innate respect for technical excellence and an indifference to the pigeonholing of genres. Their age difference of over 30 years brings a refreshing bearing to their roughshod, roller-blading excursions across windblown jazz, punk, and […]
Best Coast Jazz Composers Series #3: ARAM SHELTON
[Shelton] brings to mind a young Anthony Braxton, with an acerbic asceticism, obliquely rooted in jazz, at work.” – All About Jazz Composer, bandleader and reed player Aram Shelton presents a concert of new music inspired by the canyonlands of southeastern Utah, for a quartet of accomplished Bay Area and Chicago-based improvisers. Aram […]
Best Coast Jazz Composers Series #2: PHILLIP GREENLIEF
with: Nora Stanley, alto saxophone Steve Adams, alto saxophone Jon Raskin, baritone saxophone Cory Wright, clarinet Kyle Bruckmann, oboe Ellen Burr, flute Phillip Greenlief, alto and tenor saxophone Leyya Mona Tawil, movement Claudia La Rocco, poetry Fresh from a three-month residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts, saxophonist and composer Phillip Greenlief presents a […]
Ochs-Tarasov Duo & Michael Vlatkovich Quartet
Vladimir Tarasov Michael Vlatkovich Ochs and Tarasov first met in 1983 in the USSR when Rova and Tarasov jammed there in Lithuania. Most other concerts between these two musicians have taken place on tour in Europe and Russia as well as in California in a trio called “Jones Jones” that includes bassist […]
Invented Instruments by David Samas: Closing Reception & Artist Presentation
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Greg Johnson and Glass Brick Boulevard
After the successful release of “best when lived” in 2008, Glass Brick Boulevard stripped down as a lean piano trio featuring composer/pianist Greg Johnson, bassist Rob Fordyce, and drummer Jimmy Sage. After a health related hiatus, Glass Brick Boulevard resurfaced. GBB-an original contemporary jazz power trio with a delicate touch that will make you dance […]
Addleds Sound Laboratory #3
Addleds – the brutally minimal improvising quartet of Kyle Bruckmann (oboe/English horn), Tony Dryer (contrabass), Jacob Felix Heule (percussion), and Kanoko Nishi (koto) – explores counterintuitive cross-genre collaboration in a mini-series supported by the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music’s Musical Grant Program. Night 3, the finale, features two varied chamber-jazz groupings: special out-of-town guests […]
Addleds Sound Laboratory #2
Addleds – the brutally minimal improvising quartet of Kyle Bruckmann (oboe/English horn), Tony Dryer (contrabass), Jacob Felix Heule (percussion), and Kanoko Nishi (koto) – explores counterintuitive cross-genre collaboration in a mini-series supported by the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music’s Musical Grant Program. Night 2 features the numinous electro-acoustic dronescapes of Ben Bracken and Ashley […]