ROSI HERTLEIN & HOWARD JOHNSON, MONIKA HEIDEMANN at Roulette: 8 & 9 PM

ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242

contact: [email protected] http://www.roulette.org/

Friday, April 20th

“Avant-Jazz - Still Moving” Festival

8:00 pm - Rosi Hertlein with Howard Johnson
9:30 pm - Monika Heidemann: The Monika H. Band

Rosi Hertlein with Howard Johnson

Violinist & singer Rosi Hertlein shares her artistic devotions among the worlds of classical music, free improv & jazz. Her work includes collaborations with Joe McPhee, Pauline Oliveros, Reggie Workman, Vincent Chancey and others. Her acclaimed CD, Rosi Hertlein’s Improvising Chamber Ensemble's (ICE) “Two Letters I’ll Keep” was released in November 2001. She also has recorded as special guest on Joe McPhee’s Trio X CD, “Rapture”. In June 2002 she premiered a work of Cecil Taylor’s with the Sound Vision Orchestra and Mr. Taylor on piano. She performs with Reggie Workman’s African-American Legacy Project, the Jump Arts Orchestra (conducted by Butch Morris), sings with the Riverside Opera Company, performs in theatrical productions with DADAnewyork and is a member of the improvisational group, Earth People. She also collaborates and performs frequently with composers and performers in Europe. She presently is involved with the Improvising Chamber Ensemble (ICE), which features her own compositions and concepts.

Tonight Hertlein performs with avant-multi-instrumental-improviser-extraordinare, Howard Johnson. One of the top tuba soloists since the early '60s, Johnson is a versatile player whose instruments include tuba, baritone, other reeds and trumpet. He moved to New York in 1963, where he worked with Charles Mingus, Hank Crawford and Archie Shepp. In 1966, he started a 20-year off-and-on association with Gil Evans. Johnson's four-tuba group, Substructure, performed with Taj Mahal, and, in the late '70s, he formed a different tuba band, Gravity. Johnson has recorded with Crawford, Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition, Jimmy Heath, Bob Moses, George Gruntz's Concert Jazz Band and frequently with Evans's orchestra, among others.

Monika Heidemann: The Monkia H. Band

Monika Heidemann twists together vocal improvisation, jazz sensibility, pop melodies and the grind of rock n’ roll, exploring the colliding worlds of the technical and spontaneous. Tonight she performs with her group, the Monika H. Band: Brandon Seabrook (guitar), Dave Treat (drums), Erik Deutsch (piano/keys) & Jonti Simon (bass) w. guest filmmaker Vignesh Swaminathan. Heidemann is the leader, writer, and vocalist of this self-titled NYC-based project, now in its third year. Her compositions and lyrics are a platform for her band to tell the ever-changing musical story of her songs, teetering between the written music and the band’s own playful additives and interpretations. Monika will be performing with her band as well as premiering an extended music video produced in collaboration with San Francisco independent filmmaker Swaminathan. Vig is the founder of Floating World Films, a San Francisco based film collective dedicated to the pursuit of experimental cinema.