Experimental Music at Roulette: Lois V Vierk with Gold-Kato-Klucevsek-Lancaster-Polansky-Redhage (Live Taping for Roulette TV)
Dates:
Sun Oct 21, 2007 00:00 - Mon Sep 10, 2007
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
Sunday, October 21st
Lois V Vierk with Gold-Kato-Klucevsek-Lancaster-Polansky-Redhage (Live Taping for Roulette TV)
Solo and Ensemble Music with Matthew Gold, marimba, Sachiko Kato, piano, Guy Klucevsek, accordion, Margaret Lancaster, flute, Larry Polansky, electric guitar, Jody Redhage, cello
Lois V Vierk, from Lansing Illinois, in suburban Chicago, was born in 1951. She studied composition at California Institute of the Arts with Mel Powell, Leonard Stein, and Morton Subotnick. For ten years she studied Gagaku (Japanese Court Music) with Mr. Suenobu Togi in Los Angeles, and for two years she studied in Tokyo with Mr. Sukeyasu Shiba, the lead ryuteki flutist of the emperor's Gagaku Orchestra.
Ms. Vierk has spent most of her career in New York City. Her music has achieved an impressive international reputation. Recently it was presented in "composer’s portrait" concerts at German Radio, Cologne and by other German and Swiss ensembles. Commissions include Silversword for the Lincoln Center Festival, where it was performed by the Reigakusha Ensemble of Tokyo, River Beneath the River, commissioned by the Barbican Center, London, for the Kronos Quartet, which has played it many times. Among the many performers and presenters who have commissioned her are pianists Ursula Oppens, Frederic Rzewski, Aki Takahashi, and Margaret Leng Tan; accordionist Guy Klucevsek, cellist Maya Beiser and percussionist Steven Schick, Ensemble Modern, the Kitchen, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, the Bang on a Can Festival, L'Art Pour L'Art, and Music from Japan. Co-creations with tap-dance choreographer Anita Feldman have been commissioned by the American Dance Festival, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Meet the Composer and others.
In July 2007 the feature length film "Everywhere At Once" feautring Vierk's music premiered at Canne, France, in an off-festival venue. (Filmmakers are Holly Fisher and Peter Lindbergh with narration by Jeanne Moreau.) Ms. Vierk's music has been performed at major venues worldwide, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Glasgow (by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra), Darmstadt, Radio Bremen, the Huddersfield Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Edmonton New Music Festival (Canada), the Suntory Festival (Tokyo), and the Adelaide Festival (Australia). Her music is available on Tzadik Records, XI Records, oodiscs, Sony Classical, Starkland Records.
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
Sunday, October 21st
Lois V Vierk with Gold-Kato-Klucevsek-Lancaster-Polansky-Redhage (Live Taping for Roulette TV)
Solo and Ensemble Music with Matthew Gold, marimba, Sachiko Kato, piano, Guy Klucevsek, accordion, Margaret Lancaster, flute, Larry Polansky, electric guitar, Jody Redhage, cello
Lois V Vierk, from Lansing Illinois, in suburban Chicago, was born in 1951. She studied composition at California Institute of the Arts with Mel Powell, Leonard Stein, and Morton Subotnick. For ten years she studied Gagaku (Japanese Court Music) with Mr. Suenobu Togi in Los Angeles, and for two years she studied in Tokyo with Mr. Sukeyasu Shiba, the lead ryuteki flutist of the emperor's Gagaku Orchestra.
Ms. Vierk has spent most of her career in New York City. Her music has achieved an impressive international reputation. Recently it was presented in "composer’s portrait" concerts at German Radio, Cologne and by other German and Swiss ensembles. Commissions include Silversword for the Lincoln Center Festival, where it was performed by the Reigakusha Ensemble of Tokyo, River Beneath the River, commissioned by the Barbican Center, London, for the Kronos Quartet, which has played it many times. Among the many performers and presenters who have commissioned her are pianists Ursula Oppens, Frederic Rzewski, Aki Takahashi, and Margaret Leng Tan; accordionist Guy Klucevsek, cellist Maya Beiser and percussionist Steven Schick, Ensemble Modern, the Kitchen, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, the Bang on a Can Festival, L'Art Pour L'Art, and Music from Japan. Co-creations with tap-dance choreographer Anita Feldman have been commissioned by the American Dance Festival, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Meet the Composer and others.
In July 2007 the feature length film "Everywhere At Once" feautring Vierk's music premiered at Canne, France, in an off-festival venue. (Filmmakers are Holly Fisher and Peter Lindbergh with narration by Jeanne Moreau.) Ms. Vierk's music has been performed at major venues worldwide, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Glasgow (by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra), Darmstadt, Radio Bremen, the Huddersfield Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Edmonton New Music Festival (Canada), the Suntory Festival (Tokyo), and the Adelaide Festival (Australia). Her music is available on Tzadik Records, XI Records, oodiscs, Sony Classical, Starkland Records.
Experimental Music at Roulette: Kyoko Kitamura & Valerie Vasilevsky
Dates:
Fri Oct 05, 2007 00:00 - Mon Sep 10, 2007
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
Friday, October 5th
Kyoko Kitamura & Valerie Vasilevsky
ok|ok - Mike McGinnis: reeds, Khabu: guitar, Kyoko Kitamura: voice and laptop.
Several Japanese silent animations from the 1920's and 30's will merge with live performance by ok|ok. ok|ok will honor the original content and add English translation as well as original music both composed and improvised.
Theater director/writer Valeria Vasilevski and vocalist Kyoko Kitamura first started exchanging creative ideas informally (at a cafe in Brooklyn) in the beginning of 2007. The purpose: to come up
with ideas, no matter how strange or unrealistic, for multi-media projects which incorporated music, visuals, and Japan. Since then, the meetings have given birth to several possible projects, from
small and light to big and heavy, based on classic Japanese animation from the 20's, 30's and 40's. The first of these ideas will be realized in October 2007 at Roulette.
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
Friday, October 5th
Kyoko Kitamura & Valerie Vasilevsky
ok|ok - Mike McGinnis: reeds, Khabu: guitar, Kyoko Kitamura: voice and laptop.
Several Japanese silent animations from the 1920's and 30's will merge with live performance by ok|ok. ok|ok will honor the original content and add English translation as well as original music both composed and improvised.
Theater director/writer Valeria Vasilevski and vocalist Kyoko Kitamura first started exchanging creative ideas informally (at a cafe in Brooklyn) in the beginning of 2007. The purpose: to come up
with ideas, no matter how strange or unrealistic, for multi-media projects which incorporated music, visuals, and Japan. Since then, the meetings have given birth to several possible projects, from
small and light to big and heavy, based on classic Japanese animation from the 20's, 30's and 40's. The first of these ideas will be realized in October 2007 at Roulette.
Roulette Benefit Night : Experimental Improv Night: Shelley Hirsch, Ikue Mori, Nate Wooley, Ned Rothenberg, Sylvie Courvoisier and many more!
Dates:
Fri Sep 28, 2007 00:00 - Mon Sep 10, 2007
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $20
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
Friday, September 28th
BENEFIT for ROULETTE: Improv Night: Shelley Hirsch, Ikue Mori, Nate Wooley, Ned Rothenberg, Sylvie Courvoisier and many more!
All tickets $20
A night to benefit Roulette, filled with intense, free-wheeling and unpredictable improvisations by…
Shelley Hirsch has been called “enormously inventive, scathingly satiric and virtuosic...a brilliant overwhelming presence on stage” by the New York Times. She is a vocalist, composer and performance artist whose work for stage, concert, record, film, television and radio incorporates extended vocal techniques, real and imaginary language, international music styles, stream of consciousness, electronics, characterizations, movement and mixed media. Her work has been presented on 5 continents and at music venues throughout the U.S. Hirsch is the recipient of three NYFA awards in music composition and new forms, an NEA New Forms Interarts grant and of commissions from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (music for theater), NYSCA (electronic music) and New Radio and Performing Arts.
Nate Wooley is one of a handful of trumpet players redefining the instrument's role and technique, pushing the trumpet inside out, concentrating more on frequency, density, silence, and velocity than melody, rhythm, and harmony. Touching Extremes called his first solo disc, "Wrong Shape to be a Storyteller" (Creative Sources) "exquisitely hostile". His acoustic trumpet playing references desiccated breathing, tape and electronic composition and harsh noise, while still maintaining a rigorous sense of composition. His second full-length solo disc, "Beast," was released in 2006. Since his arrival in New York in 2001, Wooley has made a name for himself as a leader (Blue Collar with Steve Swell & Tatsuya Nakatani and the Nate Wooley Quartet and Trio) and as a sideman (with Daniel Levin, Mike Pride, Harris Eisenstadt, Assif Tsahar). In the past three years, his ability to fit a unique personality into many differing musical idioms has earned him spots on stage and in the studio with artists such as Paul Lytton, Anthony Braxton, Joe Morris, David Grubbs, Wolf Eyes and Tony Malaby.
Composer/Performer Ned Rothenberg has been internationally acclaimed for both his solo and ensemble music, presented for the past 25 years in North and South America, Europe and Asia. He leads the trio Sync, with Jerome Harris (guitars) and Samir Chatterjee (tabla). Recent recordings include Intervals, a double CD of solo work, and Are You Be, by R.U.B. (Rothenberg, Kazuhisa Uchihashi and Samm Bennett) on Rothenberg's Animul label. Chamber music releases include Ghost Stories, on Tzadik and Power Lines on New World, along with Port of Entry, Sync's release on Intuition. Other collaborators have included Sainkho Namchylak, Paul Dresher, John Zorn, Marc Ribot and Yuji Takahashi. Rothenberg generates a remarkable variety of new timbres through unique playing techniques including circular breathing allowing for extremely long melodic patterns, multiphonic chords, precise overtone control, elaborate rhythmic tonguing attacks, control of overlapping beat frequencies, combinations of the previous, and much more. His music evokes an emotional spectrum from humor to pathos, a feeling of rhapsodic melancholy to simple awe at encountering a sound never before experienced.
Composer/pianist Sylvie Courvoisier was born and raised in Lausanne, Switzerland. She started playing piano at age six. In 1998, she moved to Brooklyn, where she currently resides. She has played and recorded with John Zorn, Tony Oxley, Yusef Lateef, Dave Douglas, Joelle Leandre, Butch Morris, Fred Frith, Michel Godard and Mark Nauseef, among others. She has been commissioned to write music for concerts, radio, dance and theater. Commissions include the Vidy Theater of Lausanne, Pro Helvetia and Germany's Donaueschingen Musiktage Festival. Her debut recording "Sauvagerie Courtoise" on Unit Records was released in 1994. Her second recording, ''Ocre", on Enja Records, led to appearances on concert stages all over Europe. In the following years, Courvoisier released six CDs as a leader, ten CDs as a co-leader, and more than twenty recordings as a side-person or as a guest. Since 1995, she has been touring widely with her own groups and as a side-person in the USA, Canada and Europe. She currently leads her quintet, Lonelyville, and the Trio Abaton. She is a member of Mephista, an improvising trio with Ikue Mori and Susie Ibarra, the Herb Robertson Quintet with Tim Berne, Tom Rainey and Mark Dresser and John Zorn’s Cobra. She also performs regularly in duos with violinist Mark Feldman. Awards include Switzerland's 1996 Prix des jeunes createurs and Zonta Club's 2000 Prix de la Creation. More info at: http://www.sylviecourvoisier.com/
Ikue Mori began her musical activity playing drums with the seminal DNA band (with Arto Lindsay and Tim Wright) in the late 70s. During this time, she developed her unique method of performing improvisations with drum machines that eventually led to her creative uses of the laptop computer. She has since collaborated with many avant-garde performers including Zeena Parkins, Fast Forward, Mark Tomkin's Dance Company, Anthony Coleman, Shelley Hirsch, Fred Frith and John Zorn. She is a recipient of the Prix Ars Electronica Digital Music Award of Distinction. She has worked with Dave Douglas's “Witness Freakin" ensemble and John Zorn's Electric Masada. Current working groups include Mephista, with Sylvie Courvoisier and Susie Ibarra, a quartet with Kim Gordon, DJ Olive and Jim O’Rourke, a duo project with Zeena Parkins, a trio with Haco and Aki Onda, and Hemophiliac with John Zorn and Mike Patton.
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $20
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
Friday, September 28th
BENEFIT for ROULETTE: Improv Night: Shelley Hirsch, Ikue Mori, Nate Wooley, Ned Rothenberg, Sylvie Courvoisier and many more!
All tickets $20
A night to benefit Roulette, filled with intense, free-wheeling and unpredictable improvisations by…
Shelley Hirsch has been called “enormously inventive, scathingly satiric and virtuosic...a brilliant overwhelming presence on stage” by the New York Times. She is a vocalist, composer and performance artist whose work for stage, concert, record, film, television and radio incorporates extended vocal techniques, real and imaginary language, international music styles, stream of consciousness, electronics, characterizations, movement and mixed media. Her work has been presented on 5 continents and at music venues throughout the U.S. Hirsch is the recipient of three NYFA awards in music composition and new forms, an NEA New Forms Interarts grant and of commissions from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (music for theater), NYSCA (electronic music) and New Radio and Performing Arts.
Nate Wooley is one of a handful of trumpet players redefining the instrument's role and technique, pushing the trumpet inside out, concentrating more on frequency, density, silence, and velocity than melody, rhythm, and harmony. Touching Extremes called his first solo disc, "Wrong Shape to be a Storyteller" (Creative Sources) "exquisitely hostile". His acoustic trumpet playing references desiccated breathing, tape and electronic composition and harsh noise, while still maintaining a rigorous sense of composition. His second full-length solo disc, "Beast," was released in 2006. Since his arrival in New York in 2001, Wooley has made a name for himself as a leader (Blue Collar with Steve Swell & Tatsuya Nakatani and the Nate Wooley Quartet and Trio) and as a sideman (with Daniel Levin, Mike Pride, Harris Eisenstadt, Assif Tsahar). In the past three years, his ability to fit a unique personality into many differing musical idioms has earned him spots on stage and in the studio with artists such as Paul Lytton, Anthony Braxton, Joe Morris, David Grubbs, Wolf Eyes and Tony Malaby.
Composer/Performer Ned Rothenberg has been internationally acclaimed for both his solo and ensemble music, presented for the past 25 years in North and South America, Europe and Asia. He leads the trio Sync, with Jerome Harris (guitars) and Samir Chatterjee (tabla). Recent recordings include Intervals, a double CD of solo work, and Are You Be, by R.U.B. (Rothenberg, Kazuhisa Uchihashi and Samm Bennett) on Rothenberg's Animul label. Chamber music releases include Ghost Stories, on Tzadik and Power Lines on New World, along with Port of Entry, Sync's release on Intuition. Other collaborators have included Sainkho Namchylak, Paul Dresher, John Zorn, Marc Ribot and Yuji Takahashi. Rothenberg generates a remarkable variety of new timbres through unique playing techniques including circular breathing allowing for extremely long melodic patterns, multiphonic chords, precise overtone control, elaborate rhythmic tonguing attacks, control of overlapping beat frequencies, combinations of the previous, and much more. His music evokes an emotional spectrum from humor to pathos, a feeling of rhapsodic melancholy to simple awe at encountering a sound never before experienced.
Composer/pianist Sylvie Courvoisier was born and raised in Lausanne, Switzerland. She started playing piano at age six. In 1998, she moved to Brooklyn, where she currently resides. She has played and recorded with John Zorn, Tony Oxley, Yusef Lateef, Dave Douglas, Joelle Leandre, Butch Morris, Fred Frith, Michel Godard and Mark Nauseef, among others. She has been commissioned to write music for concerts, radio, dance and theater. Commissions include the Vidy Theater of Lausanne, Pro Helvetia and Germany's Donaueschingen Musiktage Festival. Her debut recording "Sauvagerie Courtoise" on Unit Records was released in 1994. Her second recording, ''Ocre", on Enja Records, led to appearances on concert stages all over Europe. In the following years, Courvoisier released six CDs as a leader, ten CDs as a co-leader, and more than twenty recordings as a side-person or as a guest. Since 1995, she has been touring widely with her own groups and as a side-person in the USA, Canada and Europe. She currently leads her quintet, Lonelyville, and the Trio Abaton. She is a member of Mephista, an improvising trio with Ikue Mori and Susie Ibarra, the Herb Robertson Quintet with Tim Berne, Tom Rainey and Mark Dresser and John Zorn’s Cobra. She also performs regularly in duos with violinist Mark Feldman. Awards include Switzerland's 1996 Prix des jeunes createurs and Zonta Club's 2000 Prix de la Creation. More info at: http://www.sylviecourvoisier.com/
Ikue Mori began her musical activity playing drums with the seminal DNA band (with Arto Lindsay and Tim Wright) in the late 70s. During this time, she developed her unique method of performing improvisations with drum machines that eventually led to her creative uses of the laptop computer. She has since collaborated with many avant-garde performers including Zeena Parkins, Fast Forward, Mark Tomkin's Dance Company, Anthony Coleman, Shelley Hirsch, Fred Frith and John Zorn. She is a recipient of the Prix Ars Electronica Digital Music Award of Distinction. She has worked with Dave Douglas's “Witness Freakin" ensemble and John Zorn's Electric Masada. Current working groups include Mephista, with Sylvie Courvoisier and Susie Ibarra, a quartet with Kim Gordon, DJ Olive and Jim O’Rourke, a duo project with Zeena Parkins, a trio with Haco and Aki Onda, and Hemophiliac with John Zorn and Mike Patton.
Experimental Music at Roulette: Ellery Eskelin, Vincent Courtois, Sylvie Courvoisier
Dates:
Sat Sep 15, 2007 00:00 - Mon Sep 10, 2007
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
Saturday, September 15th
Vincent Courtois, Sylvie Courvoisier & Ellery Eskelin
Parisian cellist Vincent Courtois and New York saxophonist Ellery Eskelin met in Europe in 2000 while performing in a large ensemble project led by Lebanese oud player Rabih Abou-Khalil. Sensing an immediate musical rapport they began discussing the possibility of a collaboration. Both musicians admired the playing of Swiss pianist Sylvie Courvoisier (now living in Brooklyn) and with her formed their trio in 2002, performing original compositions as well as completely improvised concerts. The ensemble was invited to debut at the prestigious Banlieues Bleues Festival in Paris and has since toured Europe in 2003, 2005 and 2007. This current tour in the U.S. is made possible in part with support from Chamber Music America and French American Cultural Exchange's CMA/FACE French-American Jazz Exchange Program, funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Cultural France and FMEO - Le Bureau de la Musique Francaise and will culminate with a studio recording for release in 2008.
Vincent Courtois was born in Paris in 1968 and began playing the cello at age six. He studied classical cello at the conservatory in Aubervillier with E. Faure, R. Pidoux and F. Lodeon, while discovering jazz and improvisation with Didier Levallet and Dominique Pifarely. In 1988, Vincent began playing in various Parisian groups (with Christian Escoude and Michel Petrucianni) and his first CD as a leader, titled "Cello News", was released in 1990. Since then Vincent has recorded eight CDs as a leader, among them: "Translucide" (with Michel Godard and Noel Akchote) and "The Fitting Room" with (Dominique Pifarely and Marc Ducret) both for Enja Records. Vincent played in several of Rabih Abou Khalil's bands ("Yara" and "The Cactus of Knowledge") and plays frequently with clarinetist Louis Sclavis ("L'affrontement des pretendants" and "Napoli's walls" on ECM Records). Vincent also plays regularly with trombonist Yves Robert ("In Touch", ECM) and has played or recorded with Pierre Favre, James Newton, Laurent de Wilde, Jim Black, Tomas Stanko, Dave Douglas, Tom Rainey, Mark Nauseef, Joachim Kuhn, and Francois Corneloup, among others. More info at: http://vcourtoi.club.fr/index.html
Composer/pianist Sylvie Courvoisier was born and raised in Lausanne, Switzerland. She started playing piano at age six. In 1998, she moved to Brooklyn, where she currently resides. She has played and recorded with John Zorn, Tony Oxley, Yusef Lateef, Dave Douglas, Joelle Leandre, Butch Morris, Fred Frith, Michel Godard and Mark Nauseef, among others. She has been commissioned to write music for concerts, radio, dance and theater. Commissions include the Vidy Theater of Lausanne, Pro Helvetia and Germany's Donaueschingen Musiktage Festival. Her debut recording "Sauvagerie Courtoise" on Unit Records was released in 1994. Her second recording, ''Ocre", on Enja Records, led to appearances on concert stages all over Europe. In the following years, Courvoisier released six CDs as a leader, ten CDs as a co-leader, and more than twenty recordings as a side-person or as a guest. Since 1995, she has been touring widely with her own groups and as a side-person in the USA, Canada and Europe. She currently leads her quintet, Lonelyville, and the Trio Abaton. She is a member of Mephista, an improvising trio with Ikue Mori and Susie Ibarra, the Herb Robertson Quintet with Tim Berne, Tom Rainey and Mark Dresser and John Zorn’s Cobra. She also performs regularly in duos with violinist Mark Feldman. Awards include Switzerland's 1996 Prix des jeunes createurs and Zonta Club's 2000 Prix de la Creation. More info at: http://www.sylviecourvoisier.com/
Ellery Eskelin moved to New York in 1983 after a year and a half on the road with swing era trombonist Buddy Morrow and began studies with saxophonists George Coleman and David Liebman while performing with a wide variety of musicians from the jazz world. Eskelin's recorded output begins in 1987 with the first of three recordings by the cooperative group Joint Venture for the German record label Enja which began his exposure on the European international touring circuit. In 1994 he formed his current working band including accordionist Andrea Parkins and drummer Jim Black. Eskelin's compositions for this group introduce a fundamental shift in the relationship between written and improvised material ranging from seamless flow to high contrast and juxtaposition in an effort to give each piece a unique form. To date Eskelin has written over 50 compositions for this group, each of which has been documented on a series of releases on the Swiss hatHUT record label. The band tours regularly and has performed hundreds of concerts in worldwide. Other side projects include a group featuring guitarist Marc Ribot and drummer Kenny Wollesen. Eskelin also tours and has recorded with Dutch drummer Han Bennink. In 2000 Eskelin formed a special ensemble consisting of strings, vibraphone and saxophone performing completely improvised music documented on "Vanishing Point" (hatOLOGY). Over the years Eskelin has played with Joey Baron, Gerry Hemingway, Mark Helias, among others. As a side-person Eskelin has worked with a broad cross section of jazz, avant-pop and new-music figures such as organist Brother Jack McDuff, composer Mikel Rouse, guitarist Eugene Chadbourne, oud player and composer Rabih Abou-Khalil, drummer Daniel Humair and the pseudo-group "The Grassy Knoll". Eskelin's recordings as a leader and co-leader (there are twenty) have been named in Best of the Year critics' polls in the New York Times, The Village Voice, and major jazz magazines in the US and abroad. DownBeat Magazine named Eskelin as one of the “25!
Rising
Stars for the Future” in its January 2000 issue as well as including him in the "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition" category of their Annual Critics Polls in 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. Eskelin was also a nominee for the prestigious Jazzpar award in 2003. More info at: http://home.earthlink.net/~eskelin/
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
Saturday, September 15th
Vincent Courtois, Sylvie Courvoisier & Ellery Eskelin
Parisian cellist Vincent Courtois and New York saxophonist Ellery Eskelin met in Europe in 2000 while performing in a large ensemble project led by Lebanese oud player Rabih Abou-Khalil. Sensing an immediate musical rapport they began discussing the possibility of a collaboration. Both musicians admired the playing of Swiss pianist Sylvie Courvoisier (now living in Brooklyn) and with her formed their trio in 2002, performing original compositions as well as completely improvised concerts. The ensemble was invited to debut at the prestigious Banlieues Bleues Festival in Paris and has since toured Europe in 2003, 2005 and 2007. This current tour in the U.S. is made possible in part with support from Chamber Music America and French American Cultural Exchange's CMA/FACE French-American Jazz Exchange Program, funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Cultural France and FMEO - Le Bureau de la Musique Francaise and will culminate with a studio recording for release in 2008.
Vincent Courtois was born in Paris in 1968 and began playing the cello at age six. He studied classical cello at the conservatory in Aubervillier with E. Faure, R. Pidoux and F. Lodeon, while discovering jazz and improvisation with Didier Levallet and Dominique Pifarely. In 1988, Vincent began playing in various Parisian groups (with Christian Escoude and Michel Petrucianni) and his first CD as a leader, titled "Cello News", was released in 1990. Since then Vincent has recorded eight CDs as a leader, among them: "Translucide" (with Michel Godard and Noel Akchote) and "The Fitting Room" with (Dominique Pifarely and Marc Ducret) both for Enja Records. Vincent played in several of Rabih Abou Khalil's bands ("Yara" and "The Cactus of Knowledge") and plays frequently with clarinetist Louis Sclavis ("L'affrontement des pretendants" and "Napoli's walls" on ECM Records). Vincent also plays regularly with trombonist Yves Robert ("In Touch", ECM) and has played or recorded with Pierre Favre, James Newton, Laurent de Wilde, Jim Black, Tomas Stanko, Dave Douglas, Tom Rainey, Mark Nauseef, Joachim Kuhn, and Francois Corneloup, among others. More info at: http://vcourtoi.club.fr/index.html
Composer/pianist Sylvie Courvoisier was born and raised in Lausanne, Switzerland. She started playing piano at age six. In 1998, she moved to Brooklyn, where she currently resides. She has played and recorded with John Zorn, Tony Oxley, Yusef Lateef, Dave Douglas, Joelle Leandre, Butch Morris, Fred Frith, Michel Godard and Mark Nauseef, among others. She has been commissioned to write music for concerts, radio, dance and theater. Commissions include the Vidy Theater of Lausanne, Pro Helvetia and Germany's Donaueschingen Musiktage Festival. Her debut recording "Sauvagerie Courtoise" on Unit Records was released in 1994. Her second recording, ''Ocre", on Enja Records, led to appearances on concert stages all over Europe. In the following years, Courvoisier released six CDs as a leader, ten CDs as a co-leader, and more than twenty recordings as a side-person or as a guest. Since 1995, she has been touring widely with her own groups and as a side-person in the USA, Canada and Europe. She currently leads her quintet, Lonelyville, and the Trio Abaton. She is a member of Mephista, an improvising trio with Ikue Mori and Susie Ibarra, the Herb Robertson Quintet with Tim Berne, Tom Rainey and Mark Dresser and John Zorn’s Cobra. She also performs regularly in duos with violinist Mark Feldman. Awards include Switzerland's 1996 Prix des jeunes createurs and Zonta Club's 2000 Prix de la Creation. More info at: http://www.sylviecourvoisier.com/
Ellery Eskelin moved to New York in 1983 after a year and a half on the road with swing era trombonist Buddy Morrow and began studies with saxophonists George Coleman and David Liebman while performing with a wide variety of musicians from the jazz world. Eskelin's recorded output begins in 1987 with the first of three recordings by the cooperative group Joint Venture for the German record label Enja which began his exposure on the European international touring circuit. In 1994 he formed his current working band including accordionist Andrea Parkins and drummer Jim Black. Eskelin's compositions for this group introduce a fundamental shift in the relationship between written and improvised material ranging from seamless flow to high contrast and juxtaposition in an effort to give each piece a unique form. To date Eskelin has written over 50 compositions for this group, each of which has been documented on a series of releases on the Swiss hatHUT record label. The band tours regularly and has performed hundreds of concerts in worldwide. Other side projects include a group featuring guitarist Marc Ribot and drummer Kenny Wollesen. Eskelin also tours and has recorded with Dutch drummer Han Bennink. In 2000 Eskelin formed a special ensemble consisting of strings, vibraphone and saxophone performing completely improvised music documented on "Vanishing Point" (hatOLOGY). Over the years Eskelin has played with Joey Baron, Gerry Hemingway, Mark Helias, among others. As a side-person Eskelin has worked with a broad cross section of jazz, avant-pop and new-music figures such as organist Brother Jack McDuff, composer Mikel Rouse, guitarist Eugene Chadbourne, oud player and composer Rabih Abou-Khalil, drummer Daniel Humair and the pseudo-group "The Grassy Knoll". Eskelin's recordings as a leader and co-leader (there are twenty) have been named in Best of the Year critics' polls in the New York Times, The Village Voice, and major jazz magazines in the US and abroad. DownBeat Magazine named Eskelin as one of the “25!
Rising
Stars for the Future” in its January 2000 issue as well as including him in the "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition" category of their Annual Critics Polls in 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. Eskelin was also a nominee for the prestigious Jazzpar award in 2003. More info at: http://home.earthlink.net/~eskelin/
Experimental Sound & Art @ Roulette: Jerome Cooper & Beth Cummins
Dates:
Fri Sep 14, 2007 00:00 - Mon Sep 10, 2007
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
Friday, September 14th
Jerome Cooper and Beth Cummins : SoundImages
Soundimages is a multimedia collaboration between visual artist Beth Cummins and percussionist Jerome Cooper.
Beth Cummins is a New York City-based photographer and videographer. She has had numerous photographic exhibitions, as well as providing writings and photographs for commercial publication. She began her artistic consanguinity with Jerome Cooper by fusing live performance with accompanying slide shows at The Alternative Museum, Experimental Intermedia and other similar venues. Their newest collaboration furthers their previous aural and visual synergy with the addition of video. This video is an extension of an on-going synthesis of music, portraits and nature studies, titled Human Nature; the driving impetus and theme being a search for unity of the elements of the arts, nature and human beings.
Jerome Cooper's fruitful musical legacy with the Revolutionary Ensemble and stints with Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor and others reads like a who's who in cutting-edge jazz. Nowadays Cooper's polyrhythmic drumming and multitasking persona are prime factors in his mesmerizing solos. Wonderful combinations of Indonesian gamelan, West African timbres, jazz kit and garage band electronics surprise and merge in a satisfying post-everything style.
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
Friday, September 14th
Jerome Cooper and Beth Cummins : SoundImages
Soundimages is a multimedia collaboration between visual artist Beth Cummins and percussionist Jerome Cooper.
Beth Cummins is a New York City-based photographer and videographer. She has had numerous photographic exhibitions, as well as providing writings and photographs for commercial publication. She began her artistic consanguinity with Jerome Cooper by fusing live performance with accompanying slide shows at The Alternative Museum, Experimental Intermedia and other similar venues. Their newest collaboration furthers their previous aural and visual synergy with the addition of video. This video is an extension of an on-going synthesis of music, portraits and nature studies, titled Human Nature; the driving impetus and theme being a search for unity of the elements of the arts, nature and human beings.
Jerome Cooper's fruitful musical legacy with the Revolutionary Ensemble and stints with Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor and others reads like a who's who in cutting-edge jazz. Nowadays Cooper's polyrhythmic drumming and multitasking persona are prime factors in his mesmerizing solos. Wonderful combinations of Indonesian gamelan, West African timbres, jazz kit and garage band electronics surprise and merge in a satisfying post-everything style.
