The (Boston) Black Lamb Jazz Trio; from NY & Boston

Two renowned and creative masters From NY’s downtown scene, plus a leading Boston virtuoso Andrew Lamb (aka The Black Lamb), multi saxophones, flute, woodwinds, Joe Fonda, bass, Luther Gray, drums.   The Creative Music Series proudly presents the (Boston) Black Lamb Trio Spotlighting New and innovative music on our stage, and to share their (musical) beauty with all walks of life. treat yourself! A rare NY + Boston combination (for our age!), like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane">John Coltrane</a> and his progeny, Lamb's vehicle is the psalm-like expression of his tenor saxophone Steven Loewy of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allmusic">Allmusic</a> writes that Andrew Lamb is "a serious musician seeking to uplift his soul through art, and, The results reflect his quest, testifying to his musical abilities, enormous potential, and depth of character."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lamb_(musician)#cite_note-pilgrimage-1">[1]</a> “I sincerely believe that the arts and music in particular are essential to the healing and balance of humanity and the universe at large”. My compositions are organic, not based on refurbished ideas or concepts, but on moments that I have seen, felt, embraced, and risen beyond”.   <a href="https://andrewlambtrio.bandcamp.com/">andrewlambtrio.bandcamp.com</a> Joe Fonda is a powerful, technically felicitous bassist whose presence on the American jazz scene continues to grow. He's one of those people who speaks of jazz as "the music"… Like his sometime employer Anthony Braxton, he's excited about the whole of jazz, and…the music his quartet plays on Live At The Bunker can be angular and freewheeling. Intern’l improvised music archive Joe was an original member of the influencial 5tet known the NU Band featuring the late great trumpeter Roy Campbell and alto Mark Whitecage. Look for Joe to lead a revised NU Band in ’25! “It’s not unusual for jazz musicians of (Luther) Gray’s generation to pull music from the rock and pop world into their universe. But Gray is especially adept at drawing from multiple influences in a single gig and making it part of a unified whole.” — Jon Garelick, The Boston Globe Jazz drummers, in general, are philosophers when contrasted with the dumb jock model often attributed to boomer era fossil rock. Mr. Gray is a thinking drummer with an expansive kindliness about him that shifts to striking capacities of concentration when he engages his kit. Luther also has water cascades, whitewater rapids and quiet frog splashes in vernal pools worked into the repertoire. Faucet splashes from urban sinks, a slow dripping leak and a morning shower are in there too as well as the various rounds of waves at oceanic edges...flow.   Bios: Andrew Lamb (born August 26, 1958, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton,_North_Carolina">Clinton</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina">North Carolina</a>) is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz">jazz</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxophone">saxophonist</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flute">flautist</a>. Lamb was raised in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago">Chicago</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica,_Queens">South Jamaica, Queens</a>. Having studied with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Creative_Musicians">AACM</a> charter member <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalaparusha_Maurice_McIntyre">Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre</a>, Lamb came into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City">New York City</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-garde">avant-garde</a> community during the 1970s, becoming an active presence in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford-Stuyvesant,_Brooklyn">Bedford-Stuyvesant</a> arts world. In 1994, he led a session for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delmark_Records">Delmark</a>, composing all the pieces on Portrait in the Mist, which featured vibraphonist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Smith_(jazz_musician)">Warren Smith</a>, bassist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilber_Morris">Wilber Morris</a>, and drummer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Strobert&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1">Andrei Strobert</a>. Lamb has since recorded duets with Warren Smith (Duet, WISland, 1999, and Dance of the Prophet), made a trio recording with Eugene Cooper and Andrei Strobert (Kiki Records), and in 2003 released Pilgrimage on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIMP">CIMP</a> with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Abbs">Tom Abbs</a> and Andrei Strobert, as well as a later release with his group The Moving Form, Year of the Endless Moment (Engine Studios). Lamb has also recorded with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Grimes">Henry Grimes</a>’s Sublime Communication trio Live from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKCR-FM">WKCR</a> (2004) and Live at Edgefest in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Arbor,_Michigan">Ann Arbor</a> (2005), both on the JazzNewYork Productions label. Lamb has been part of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Silva">Alan Silva</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_band">big band</a> project, the Sound Visions Orchestra, and has also been a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Taylor">Cecil Taylor</a> big band. In 2005, Lamb played in the Sublime Communication trio in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin">Berlin</a> and in the Henry Grimes Quartet with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Allen">Marshall Allen</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid_Drake">Hamid Drake</a> at the tenth annual Vision Festival, and he has also toured with the Grimes-led quartet Spaceship on the Highway.   Joe Fonda is a composer, bassist, recording artist, interdisciplinary performer, producer and educator. An accomplished international Jazz artist, Fonda has performed with his own ensembles throughout the United States ,Canada , Europe and Asia. He has collaborated and performed with such artists as Anthony Braxton ,Archie Shepp, Ken McIntyre, Lou Donaldson, Bill and Kenny Barron, Leo Smith, Perry Robinson, Dave Douglas, Curtis Fuller, , Bill Dixon, Han Bennink, Bobby Naughton, Xu Fengia, Randy Weston, Gebhard Ullmann, Carla Bley, Carlo Zingaro, Barry Altschul, Billy Bang. Fonda was the bassist with the renowned Anthony Braxton sextet, octet, tentet, from 1984 through 1999. As a composer, Fonda has been the recipient of numerous grants and commissions From Meet the Composer New York and the New England Foundation on the Arts . He has released twelve recordings under his own name. (Reviews and recordings available). the producer and musicial director for the Connecticut Composers and improvisors Festival from 2001 to 2011. Currently Fonda has been recording and touring extensively with the Fonda-Stevens Group, Conference Call , The Fab Trio, The Nu Band and Bottoms Out , with performances at the Bim huis in Amsterdam, Holland, Prague Jazz Festival, Czech Republic, Jazz Halo Festival, Belgium, Jazz Festival Thurinsen, Weimer, Germany, Berlin Jazz Festival Berlin Germany and numerous other international gatherings…   Drummer Luther Gray, though largely self-taught, his musical training involved drum lessons from Kim Martin, Larry Bright, Steve Bagby, and Mickey Newman. In 1995 he graduated the University of Miami with a Bachelor of Music, after which he taught privately and performed in the Washington , D.C. area with, among others, Butch Warren, Cecil Payne, Webster Young, Tsunami, Liquorice, Peter Edelman, Jenny Toomey, Bob Butta, and Buck Hill. Since moving to Boston he has resumed teaching private drum lessons and has played with Joe Morris, Jay Hoggard, Joe McPhee, Timo Shanko, Cameron Brown, Allan Chase, Joseph Daley, Sabir Mateen, Roy Campbell, Ida, Geoff Farina, Andrew White, Rob Brown, Bill Lowe, Greg Abate, Raqib Hassan, Bill Pierce, Mitch Seidman, Steve Swell, Joe Beck, Fred Anderson, Ken Vandermark and many others. In addition to his performing schedule Luther teaches art and music at an after-school program for elementary school children.

The New School of Music

Boston’s Charlie Kohlhase's Colossal (9 Saxophone) Jazz Band

7:45 start actually: The World Saxophone Quartet, ROVA Saxophone 4tet, Your Neighborhood Saxophone Qrt, &nbsp;Odean Pope’s Saxophone Choir, others near or far away… NOW (and It’s been since 6-18-18!) The Colossal (9 Saxophone) Saxophone Support Group (Jazz Band), lead by Boston’s Charlie Kohlhase. Charlie Kohlhase: alto &amp; baritone saxophones Temidayo Balogun: tenor saxophone Allan Chase: soprano, alto &amp; baritone saxophones Neil Leonard: alto saxophone &amp; bass clarinet Seth Meicht: tenor saxophone Kathy Olson: baritone saxophone Brian Price: tenor saxophone &amp; clarinet Jason Robinson: soprano &amp; tenor saxophones Jared Sims: tenor &amp; baritone saxophones &amp; flute &nbsp; Music by Kohlhase, Julius Hemphill, Steve Lacy and John Tchicai. &nbsp; “Kohlhase’s own themes are as action-packed as a comic book and as spontaneous in feel as graffiti.”(Nate Dorward, Squid’s Ear) ... “Kohlhase's hallmark is an active imagination and a scrupulous attention to detail; his tunes are exceedingly well-crafted and the band brings them to life with fire and conviction.”&nbsp;- Chris Kelsey, All Music Guide&nbsp; “As a mainstay in Boston’s jazz scene, saxophonist Charlie Kohlhase has helped cultivate the city as one of America’s most fertile hotbeds for creative music.” (John Murph, Jazz Times Magazine) "Charlie Kohlhase's music is post-modern, free yet not inchoate, merging the harmonic sophistication of bebop with more asymmetrical approaches to form." --Bob Blumenthal. Alto, tenor and baritone saxophonist&nbsp;Charlie Kohlhase&nbsp;has been a mainstay of Boston’s jazz scene for over twenty years, and, internationally recognized!.&nbsp;Whether leading his two newest bands, performing in a dozen others or writing over 50 compositions, his music spans a broad range of styles with an emphasis on the contemporary and the improvised. Note re: Charlie K. &nbsp;Charlie has also been active in Jazz radio for many years as an Important Free Jazz source and currently hosts “Research and Development," a program devoted to modern jazz heard on WMBR, 88.1FM in Cambridge, Massachusetts and on the web. Every Monday, 2-4PM! In Cambridge and Boston and all of New England and beyond, Charlie Kohlhase, is that Jazz iconic figure: a seasoned leader, composer, multi-saxophonist, educator, and radio host (WMBR-FM)—a world class musician and traveler—with endless ideas and music about and arrangements of modern Jazz’s history; AND, an extensive repertoire of his own compositions, often incorporating the mainstream with the free-form into a seamless journey; not to mention the gifted young and other seasoned musicians he has associated himself for more than 30 years including this evening. Born and raised in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (11/28/56), Charlie began playing saxophones at 18.&nbsp;After private studies with Stan Strickland and Roswell Rudd , he moved to Boston in 1980. In 1989, he formed the Charlie Kohlhase Quintet , an ongoing project that has performed locally and nationally for a decade and half. Their long-awaited live 2-CD set, “Play Free Or Die,” has been released on the Boxholder label to critical acclaim. Kohlhase also leads the CK5, a second quintet that recently released its live debut, “CK5 Live!” Charlie's Most notable band, Explorer's Club and the Saxophone Support Group , are charting new territory. Explorer's Club , another quintet for Kohlhase, builds upon his long relationship with New England saxophonist Matt Langley. SSG is an ever-changing quartet to a nonet of local sax luminaries. In addition, he co-led groups with the great Danish/Congolese saxophonist John Tchicai for New England tours in 1997, 1998 and 2003.&nbsp;Charlie was also a member of Either/Orchestra from 1987 to 2001, playing throughout North America, Europe and Russia.&nbsp;His recordings with Tchicai and Roswell Rudd have received critical acclaim. Charlie was an artist-in-residence at Harvard in 2003 with Dave Douglas and Roswell Rudd.&nbsp;That same year, he recorded with Anthony Braxton's Genome Project and worked with violinist/composer Leroy Jenkins at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art. Charlie has also recently been touring in a trio with John Tchicai and Garrison Fewell .&nbsp; Charlie also teaches at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts and offers private lessons. <a href="http://charliekohlhase.com/index.htm" target="_blank">charliekohlhase.com</a> &nbsp;

Jazz in Arlington: Todd Brunel Jazz 4tet: New Emergence: The Out and the Sublime.

Creative Jazz / New Music Laura Jordan percussion Rick Mclaughlin bass Peter Cassino piano Todd Brunel Clarinets and saxophones This program is supported in part by a grant from the Arlington Commission for the Arts &amp; Culture, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency. &nbsp; The Creative Music Series presents The Arlington Jazz debut of this Brunel quartet, who is also a resident of Arlington, especially formed for this Arlington performance for an evening Of an eclectic mix of compositions by Duke Ellington, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Jack Dejonette, Jerome Kern, and include their own compositions and other contemporary music arrangements. &nbsp; The quartet weaves effortlessly beyond music genres to bring an evening of pure unadulterated sonic joy! Todd Brunel is a critically acclaimed clarinetist and sax player who has never been able to follow directions or labels. He has performed with John Tchicai, Lawrence ‘Butch’ Morris and folk icon Judy Collins. He has made numerous recordings with PBS and collaborates frequently with composer P Andrew Willis. He is a member of Know Orchestra and Listen to This (with Rick M.) and a former member of MusAner and the Eric Hofbauer Quintet. Laura Jordan is a contemporary percussionist who has performed with Bang-On-A-Can All Stars, has performed internationally as a world music and jazz artist. She is a Peabody Career Grant recipient and has performed at Avery Fisher Hall, Merkin Hall and is a Grover Percussion endorsing artist. Rick McLaughlin is a highly in demand bassist and professor at Berklee College of Music. He is a member of the Grammy nominated group Either Orchestra, and has performed with Don Byron, John Zorn and Danilo Perez. Peter Cassino is a professor of music at the Longy School of Music at Bard College and former department chair of the Modern American Music Department. In the 1960s Peter lived in West Berlin and performed with many aspiring young musicians of that era including trumpeter Benny Bailey, alto saxophonist Leo Wright, and drummer Joe Harris.

St. John's Episcopal Church

Taylor Ho Bynum’s JAK4 From Mass, Canada & NY / So. Africa

<a href="https://www.creativemusicseries.com/" target="_blank">https://www.creativemusicseries.com/</a> Taylor Ho Bynum’s JAK4 From Mass, Canada &amp; NY / So. Africa Taylor Ho Bynum’s JAK4 THB – cornet, flugelhorn, compositions Jacqueline Kerrod – harp Allison Burik – bass clarinet Ken Filiano – bass He's more than important! A commander of the cornet/brass, a leader &nbsp; With the stellar 4tet on tour leading to a recording! For the first time in five years, since the release of his critically acclaimed 2019 recording&nbsp;The Ambiguity Manifesto&nbsp;(Firehouse 12 Records), Taylor Ho Bynum leads a band on the road for a week of concerts throughout New England, culminating in a live recording of this new all-acoustic improvising quartet at Firehouse 12 in New Haven on Friday May 31. &nbsp; Tuesday May 28, 7pm: Baker-Berry Library at Dartmouth College, Hanover NH Wednesday May 29, 7:30pm: Jazz Shares at Holyoke Media, 1 Court Plaza, Holyoke, MA Thursday May 30, 8pm: Creative Music Series at The Lilypad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA Friday May 31, 8:30 &amp; 10pm: Firehouse 12, 45 Crown St, New Haven CT &nbsp; Featuring a new cast of deeply creative artists and an unusual instrumentation of subtle timbres and sonic possibility, THB’s JAK4 offers a contemplative and organic approach to creative music making, freely blending the composed and the spontaneous, maximizing the individual agency of the performers while in service to the collective sound. In addition to the live quartet recording that will be made on the tour’s final concert, Bynum and harpist Jacqueline Kerrod’s debut album as a collaborative duo,&nbsp;Simple Ways Such Self, will be released on Orenda Records on May 3, 2024, and will be available at these performances. Taylor Ho Bynum: Taylor’s expressionistic playing on cornet and other brass instruments, his expansive vision as composer, and his idiosyncratic improvisational approach have been documented on over twenty recordings as a bandleader and over a hundred as a sideperson. Taylor still plays with friends in collective ensembles like his duo with Tomas Fujiwara, Illegal Crowns (with Fujiwara, Benoit Delbecq, and Mary Halvorson), and Geometry (with Kyoko Kitamura, Tomeka Reid, and Joe Morris), and as a sideperson in Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double and Shizuko, Jim Hobbs &amp; the Fully Celebrated Orchestra in JP every month, and Bill Lowe’s Signifyin’ Natives. Bynum’s two decades of work with Anthony Braxton is recognized as one of the most generative partnerships of that legendary composer’s career, with projects ranging from duos to orchestras and everything in between.&nbsp; From 2004-2019, Bynum maintained an ever-evolving ensemble that morphed between his Sextet, 7-tette, 9-tette, and 15-piece Plustet. Always anchored by a core trio with Mary Halvorson and Tomas Fujiwara, Taylor is the director of the Coast Jazz Orchestra at Dartmouth, where he also teaches composition, improvisation, and music history. Bynum also worked closely with such departed masters as Bill Dixon and Cecil Taylor, with other collaborative credits including The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, Nels Cline, Emily Coates, Bill Cole, Kris Davis, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Stephen Haynes, John Hebert, Fred Ho, Jason Kao Hwang, Titus Kaphar, Ingrid Laubrock, Living by Lanterns, Nicole Mitchell, Joe Morris, Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng, Mali Obomsawin, William Parker, Matana Roberts, Eliott Sharp, Wadada Leo Smith, Tyshawn Sorey, Yo La Tengo, and Zemog El Gallo Bueno. Bynum is also recognized for his “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjLDHxRqBz8" target="_blank">Acoustic Bicycle Tours</a>” (East Coast 2010, West Coast 2014),&nbsp;where he traveled to concerts solely by bike across thousands of mile. <a href="http://www.taylorhobynum.com/" target="_blank">www.taylorhobynum.com</a> Classically trained from the age of 9, South African harpist&nbsp;Jacqueline Kerrod&nbsp;has worked at the highest level in the classical, pop, free jazz, and improvised music worlds. Her debut solo record “17 Days In December” (2021) released on Orenda Records was noted as a best debut 2021 by&nbsp;The New York City Jazz Record. She has toured nationally and internationally with composer and multi-reedist Anthony Braxton, both in duo and as part of his ZIM music ensemble. She was a founding member and co-songwriter of the pop duo Addi &amp; Jacq, who were winners of NYC's Battle of the Boroughs WNYC 2015, and toured her show “Harps Uncovered” featuring vocalist Hannah Sumner through twelve states of the US. She has played principal harp with top orchestras and performed with elite chamber groups (Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players), contemporary music ensembles (International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), the Argento Chamber Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, Wet Ink, Alarm Will Sound and Metropolis Chamber Ensemble), and pop superstars including Anohni, Rufus Wainwright and Kanye West. Described as an ‘eclectic harpist’ by Lucid Culture,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Most recently, she has begun a local series dedicated to improvised and experimental music hosted by Morpeth Contemporary art gallery in the heart of Hopewell, NJ. For more information visit:&nbsp;<a href="http://jacquelinekerrod.com/" target="_blank">jacquelinekerrod.com</a> Within recent years, Tio'tia:ke/Montréal-based artist&nbsp;Allison Burik&nbsp;has emerged a key part of the city's vibrant jazz and experimental music scenes.&nbsp;Their recent debut solo album,&nbsp;Realm, explores the sonic possibilities of the woodwinds through electronics and contact microphones, resulting in soundscapes that are both earthy and alien.&nbsp; A member of groups such as Bellbird (alongside Claire Devlin, Eli Davidovici, and Mili Hong) and duo Umbrella Pine, they've also played various projects fronted by acclaimed musician Mali Obomsawin including on her celebrated 2022 album&nbsp;Sweet Tooth.&nbsp;Originally from Kansas City, Burik moved to Boston to pursue degrees from Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory. Following their graduation, they've maintained a steady engagement with an array of different musical forms. Over the years, they have worked with notable musicians including Taylor Ho Bynum, George Garzone, Joe Morris, Tyshawn Sorey, Ingrid Laubrock, Ran Blake, Carla Kilhstedt, Anthony Coleman, Frank Tiberi, Bobby Watson, Jaleel Shaw, Kaïa Kater, Tia Fuller, and others. Ken Filiano: Maybe the world’s most in demand Jazz/Creative Music bassist, for decades, and to come! Also a composer, improviser, and teacher who performs around the world, fusing the rich traditions of the double bass with his own seemingly limitless imagination. A “creative virtuoso” (JazzValley), Ken has performed and recorded with a veritable who's who in multiple genres, from Anthony Braxton to Pablo Ziegler. Ken leads two quartets, Quantum Entanglements and Baudolino's Dilemma, and is co-leader of The Steve Adams/Ken Filiano Duo and other collective ensembles. Ken's extensive discography includes the solo CD, "Subvenire"(Nine Winds) and Quantum Entanglements's "Dreams From a Clown Car" (Clean Feed). Ken has performed and/or recorded with Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso, Bobby Bradford, Anthony Braxton, Connie Crothers, Bill Dixon, Ted Dunbar, Giora Feidman, Vinny Golia, Taylor Ho Bynum, Jason Kao Hwang, Joseph Jarman, Raul Juanena, Joelle Leandre, Frank London, Tina Marsh, Warne Marsh, Dom Minasi, Hafez Modirzadeh, Barre Phillips, Roswell Rudd, ROVA Saxophone Qt., Paul Smoker, Fay Victor, Andrea Wolper, Pablo Ziegler, and many more leading artists in jazz and improvised music. Ken was on the faculty at Mansfield (PA) University. He teaches master classes in bass and improvisation, has a private bass studio, is a frequent guest teacher at School for Visual Arts and Hunter College (New York City), and is a Guiding Artist and Advisor at Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, NY. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

Lilypad

From New York special guest: Sam Newsome, Soprano saxophone (+):  A Jazz performance legend in his own time.

Newsome: Yet a master really overlooked, part of so much creative music ‘round the globe! With Boston’s own creative musicians, our important leaders: ﻿1st set: Sam Newsome, solo soprano! 2nd set: The quartet! Newsome, Rosenthal, Lantner, Karlson   What is a CMS (Boston) project: Premier Out-of-State/Region musician(s) with Boston’s own creative; and chosen by our musician(s): Boston invites the Jazz / Improv world in!   You (should) know of, have heard live these exclusive (our) home musicians, central to a growing, important, creative music scene!   Eric Rosenthal, drums, 4tet formed by, the significant .01% creative improv music monthly Lilypad series curator!  There isn’t another drummer you’d want to hear than Eric!   Steve Lantner, piano, There isn’t another pianist you’d want to hear than Steve!   Brittany Karlson, bass, There isn’t another young bassist you’d want to hear than Brittany! Event: Music: Improv, Free Jazz, New Music A rhythm “section” of leading master &amp; up-and-coming Boston creative improv artists!    (Sam) “Newsome expands the sound of a single soprano saxophone into a one man band.” Mark Corroto - All About Jazz wrote: The Straight Horn of Africa, “a modern masterpiece.” - Ed Enright, Downbeat magazine   Many of the notes and sounds used in his compositions and improvisations stem from his sound palette of extended techniques and saxophone preparations.   New York-based saxophonist and composer Sam Newsome in the medium of solo saxophone, an approach for which he gained world-wide critical acclaim with his 2009 recording, Blue Soliloquy: Solo Works for Soprano Saxophone.   Conceptually speaking, Newsome sees himself more along the lines of a visual artist who paints with notes and sounds rather than shapes and colors.   Sam Newsome (born April 28, 1965) He studied Jazz Composition &amp; Arranging at the Berklee College of Music from 1983 to 1987 under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Pierce_(saxophonist)">Bill Pierce</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Garzone">George Garzone</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_McGhee">Andy McGhee</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Crook">Hal Crook</a>. Some of his classmates were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javon_Jackson">Javon Jackson</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danilo_Perez">Danilo Perez</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delfeayo_Marsalis">Delfeayo Marsalis</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Turner_(musician)">Mark Turner</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Joseph">Julian Joseph</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donny_McCaslin">Donny McCaslin</a>.   In 1995 Newsome decided to concentrate exclusively on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soprano_saxophone">soprano saxophone</a>. In 2005, Newsome began focusing on solo saxophone performance. In addition to his solo recordings and performances, Newsome has collaborated with saxophonist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Liebman">David Liebman</a>, drummer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cyrille">Andrew Cyrille</a>, pianists <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Iverson">Ethan Iverson</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Pilc">Jean-Michel Pilc</a>. Newsome also plays regularly as a member of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francisco_Mora_Catlett&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1">Francisco Mora Catlett</a>'s AfroHorn, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Plus">The Bad Plus</a>: Science Fiction, Fay Victor's SoundNoise and On the Quiet Side, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Okura">Meg Okura</a>'s Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble. Newsome has since released several critically acclaimed solo saxophone CDs:    Sonic Journey: Live at the Red Room (2020); ·        Chaos Theory: Song Cycles for Prepared Saxophone (2019); ·        Sopranoville: Works for Prepared and Non-Prepared Saxophone (2017); ·        The Straight Horn of Africa (2014); ·        The Solo Concert: Sam Newsome Plays Monk and Ellington (2013);  ·        The Art of the Soprano, Vol. 1 (2012).    Newsome often attaches tube extensions to the neck of the soprano that significantly changes the timbre of the instrument as well as extends the soprano’s range by an octave or two.  Newsome has also received numerous accolades for his adventurous work, including this year’s 2020 Instant Award in Improvised Music, along with fellow avant-gardists Peter Brotzmann and John Butcher. He was also named a nominee for Soprano Saxophonist of the Year by the 2020 Jazz Journalist Association. Past recognitions include the 2018 New Music USA Grant, the 2018 Alpert/Ragdale Prize in Music Composition and the 2016 NYFA Fellowship for Music Composition   In addition to his solo work, Newsome leads a trio with Hilliard Greene and Reggie Nicholson. He is a frequent collaborator with drummer Andrew Cyrille, vocalist Fay Victor, and tours regularly with Pepperland, a music and dance work by Mark Morris and Ethan Iverson that pays tribute to The Beatles.

CMS Series presents: An exquisite Jazz Duet, NY’s Cooper-Moore, piano & Boston, Francisco Mela, drums

www.creativemusicseries.com Free Jazz, New Music, Improv Their “Music Frees Our Souls” performance Cooper-Moore: “his solo piano tour de force of musical styles will also take the listener on an adventurous journey”&nbsp;All About Jazz. Francisco Mela is a favorite among jazz's elite instrumentalists; all of whom cite his charisma, sophistication, and life-arming spirit as an extension of his incredible talents as a composer and drummer $18, $15 seniors, students &nbsp; "I believe it is my work to express in the Music the pain of loss and injustice, and to give expression to the victory of outlasting our losses and to our facing down adversity. And in the Music I feel it a duty to remember the struggle and the overcoming, and to express faith, forbearance, and hope in a better world."- Cooper-Moore. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGi56Psisw0" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGi56Psisw0</a> “Cooper-Moore is a great, overlooked pianist – his neglect as regrettable as that of Herbie Nichols in his day…” The Journal of Music &nbsp; “ Cooper-Moore is one of those cats that’s been a prime mover in creative improvised music for years, but has next to nothing in terms of a discography to show for it. He’s living proof that the recorded legacy of the music, while seemingly vast, is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what has transpired and lives on only in the memories of those who have witnessed it first hand through concerts and performance.”&nbsp;Free Music Archives (FMA). “…that despite his hair-trigger improvisational tendencies Cooper-Moore remains at his core one of the most lyrical musical souls” FMA&nbsp;&nbsp; Francisco Mela Boston’s most in demand Jazz drummer! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjLU4YgCh3c" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjLU4YgCh3c</a> Francisco Mela is a favorite among jazz's elite instrumentalists; all of whom cite his charisma, sophistication, and life-arming spirit as an extension of his incredible talents as a composer and drummer.&nbsp;Including McCoy Tyner, Joe Lovano, Kenny Barron, Quincy Jones, John Scofield, Cooper-Moore, many more. "...Mela's drumming is expressive and rudimentary perfect, laying down an expansive palette, while not crowding his fellow accompanists."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Mela#cite_note-4" target="_blank">[4]</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All about Jazz "Mela also has one of the most mercurial and quickest-thinking brains in music and can be both powerful and lucid, turning on a dime from an almost other-worldly, hallucinatory voice to a musician with a painterly, patrician demeanor."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Mela#cite_note-5" target="_blank">[5]</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;LatinJazzNet "...the drummer achieves a rare balance between sophistication and abandon, as he delivers imrepressible rhythmic layers behind, between and around the rest of his band."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Mela#cite_note-6" target="_blank">[6]</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All about Jazz <a href="http://www.franciscomela.com/" target="_blank">Francisco Mela</a>&nbsp;is a man who lives to drum.&nbsp;&nbsp;NY Times Cooper-Moore, bio: Pianist / Multi-Instrumentalist / Composer / Instrument Builder As a composer, performer, instrument builder/designer, storyteller, teacher, mentor, and organizer, Cooper-Moore has been a major, if somewhat behind-the-scenes, catalyst in the world of creative music for over 40 years. As a child prodigy Cooper-Moore played piano in churches near his birthplace in the Piedmont region of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. His performance roots in the realm of avant jazz music date to the NYC Loft Jazz era in the early/mid-70s. His first fully committed jazz group was formed in 1970 – the collective trio Apogee with David S. Ware and drummer Marc Edwards. A studio recording of this group was made in 1977, and issued as Birth of a Being on hatHut under Ware’s name in 1979 (re-mixed and re-issued in expanded form on AUM Fidelity in 2015!). He earned a B.A. in Music Education from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and later studied composition-arranging at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, moving to New York in 1973. Sonny Rollins asked them to open for him at the Village Vanguard in 1973, and they did so with aplomb. Following an evidently rather trying European tour with Ware, Beaver Harris, and Brian Smith in 1981, Cooper-Moore returned home and completely destroyed his piano, with sledgehammer and fire, in his backyard. He didn’t play piano again until some years after, instead focusing his energies from 1981-1985 on developing and implementing curriculum to teach children through music via the Head Start and other music programs. Returning to New York in 1985, he spent a great part of his creative time working and performing with theatre and dance productions, largely utilizing his hand-crafted instruments. It was not until the early 90s, when William Parker asked him to join his group In Order To Survive, that Cooper-Moore’s pianistic gifts were again regularly featured in the jazz context. In the early ‘aughts the group Triptych Myth was his own first regular working jazz group in decades and together they blazed some trails and released two albums: one rich formative, and one exquisite. A destined creative re-union with David S. Ware in the Planetary Unknown quartet, the Digital Primitives trio with Assif Tsahar &amp; Chad Taylor, and continued work with William Parker followed. Cooper-Moore’s creative life continues well-strong and unabated into the present day. He was the Lifetime Achievement Honoree at the 22nd iteration of Vision Festival, NYC on May 29, 2017. Cooper-Moore also has written and performed for playwrights and choreographers. &nbsp; Francisco Mela: Born in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayamo,_Cuba" target="_blank">Bayamo, Cuba</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Mela#cite_note-ayvamusica1-1" target="_blank">[1]</a>&nbsp;Francisco Mela studied at the Music School of Arts El Yarey<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Mela#cite_note-ayvamusica1-1" target="_blank">[1]</a>&nbsp;as a teenager before furthering his studies at the National School of Arts for Teachers, el CENCEA.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Mela#cite_note-ayvamusica1-1" target="_blank">[1]</a>&nbsp;He taught at Rafael's Cabrera Conservatory of Music and played with some of the country's top Latin jazz musicians, as well as leading his group, MelaSon Latin Jazz Band, that toured throughout Mexico. In 2000, he moved to Boston to study at&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berklee_College_of_Music" target="_blank">Berklee College of Music</a> and shortly afterwards invited to join their faculty where he still instructs!&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Mela#cite_note-ayvamusica1-1" target="_blank">[1]</a> He became the house drummer at the Wally's Café. It was here where he developed the concept for what would later be his own group. In 2005, Mela joined the quartet of saxophonist&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lovano" target="_blank">Joe Lovano</a>. Of particular note was the group's 2008 album on&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Note_Records" target="_blank">Blue Note</a>&nbsp;entitled&nbsp;Folk Art.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Mela#cite_note-Nastos_at_Blue_Note-2" target="_blank">[2]</a>&nbsp;Later that year, Mela was approached by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_Tyner" target="_blank">McCoy Tyner</a>&nbsp;to join his trio. Said Tyner of his new young drummer, “Mela is just a fantastic player. He has his own style and his own sound, which is what I look for in a drummer.” Mela was named the Twin Cities Jazz Festival's first artistic director in 2014,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Mela#cite_note-3" target="_blank">[3]</a>&nbsp;Before appointment, he served as artistic director for the Xalapa Jazz Festival in Veracruz, Mexico (2010-2013). In late 2016, Mela was part of an inaugural ensemble that joined Afro-Cuban pianist&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chucho_Vald%C3%A9s" target="_blank">Chucho Valdés</a>&nbsp;and saxophonist Joe Lovano for an international tour throughout Europe and North America. Mela has released eight albums as a leader:&nbsp;Melao,&nbsp;Cirio,&nbsp;Tree of Life,&nbsp;Fe, and&nbsp;MPT Volume 1, including the three volume duet series, “Music Frees Our Souls”, affirming Mela’s unique niche in the melting pot that is now New York’s jazz and avant-garde scene. &nbsp; &nbsp;

An acoustic/elec duet from NY, Caroline Davis & Wendy Eisenberg

Caroline Davis, alto, flute &amp; synthesizer and Wendy Eisenberg, electric guitar. &nbsp;New Music, Free Jazz, Improv.&nbsp; &nbsp; And a new venue for CMS, located not far to the west of Harvard Sq., off of Mt. Auburn St and the hospital.&nbsp;Some parking in their lot. &nbsp; <a href="https://daviseisenberg.bandcamp.com/album/accept-when" target="_blank">https://daviseisenberg.bandcamp.com/album/accept-when</a> Caroline, “I’m totally more interested in putting the science into the music,” Davis, 37, said over drinks at a Brooklyn coffee shop in June. But in balancing intellect and emotion, the edge goes to the latter. For all of Davis’ logical rigor—and her willingness to deploy it in the service of her art—she makes sure that the science informs, rather than dictates, the music’s direction. Mobile since her birth in Singapore, composer, saxophonist, and vocalist Caroline Davis’s expression covers a wide range of styles, owed to her shifting environment as a child. From angular, melody-present instrumental outfits to soulful, quirky song writing, Caroline’s persona is recognizably present. As an improviser and saxophonist, she has released six albums under her name. Davis is an advocate for social justice in the realms of gender (This Is a Movement, The New School), IAJE’s Sisters and Mutual Mentorship in Jazz, the Kennedy Center’s Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program, for Musicians.&nbsp;And organizing community events under the moniker Creatives for Abolition, supporting artistic endeavors and the message of prison abolition. The experimental guitarist explores multiple approaches to genre and technique through inventive playing and clever songcraft on the new album Auto. Wendy Eisenberg is an improviser and songwriter who uses guitar, pedals, the tenor banjo, the computer, the synthesizer and the voice. Their work spans genres, from jazz to noise to avant-rock to delicate songs; their performances span venues, from international festivals to intimate basements. Though often working solo as both a songwriter and improviser, with acclaimed releases on Tzadik, VDSQ, Out of your Head, and Garden Portal, they also perform in the rock band Editrix, and in endless other combinations of their heroes and peers including Allison Miller, Carla Kihlstedt, John Zorn, Billy Martin, and Caroline Davis. They are also a writer on music and other things, with published essays on music in Sound American, Arcana, and the Contemporary Music Review. <a href="https://www.wendyeisenberg.com/albums" target="_blank">https://www.wendyeisenberg.com/albums</a> Caroline Davis is active as both a side-person and a leader in a diverse set of expressions. Davis has shared the stage with Lee Konitz, Rajna Swaminathan, Michelle Boulé, Angelica Sanchez, John Zorn, Bari Kim, The Femme Jam, Matt Mitchell, Terry Riley, Miles Okazaki, and Billy Kaye. She has won Downbeat’s Critic’s Poll Rising Star Alto-Saxophonist (2018) and has been included in numerous Reader and Critics Polls including in 2023. Her work has garnered much praise from NPR, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Wire, DownBeat, and many international publications. Alive with nurturing visions of simple sonic offerings to morph our present situation, Caroline Davis’ main reason for playing music is to connect with others, beckoning new vistas among curious listeners. She regularly sings and writes songs with the experimental R&amp;B band, My Tree&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://www.carolinedavis.org/home-1" target="_blank">https://www.carolinedavis.org/home-1</a> Davis’ latest trio album,&nbsp;Alula&nbsp;(New Amsterdam), mines the anatomical world—the title referring to an appendage on a bird’s wing that aids aerial navigation—for material that can be transformed into artistic analogs. In that respect, the project resembles the saxophonist’s previous disc, 2018’s&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/2JPzBB7" target="_blank">Heart Tonic</a>&nbsp;(Sunnyside), which drew on cardiology. And like her previous release, the new effort reflects her intellectual bent: Davis holds a doctorate in music cognition from Northwestern University and lectures widely on music. &nbsp; A rigorous intellectual, Caroline Davis makes intensely visceral music that mines everything from the cardiology of the human heart (Heart Tonic, 2018) to the anatomy of flight (Alula, 2019) to the shapeshifting nature of grief (Portals, Volume 1: Mourning, 2020). On&nbsp;Captivity, her incendiary new release with her band Alula, the superb alto saxophonist and composer transmutes her alchemical mix of art and science into a cry for justice for incarcerated heroes who’ve soared above prison walls by keeping hope alive. &nbsp; Through the years, her work continues to garner praise in domestic and international publications. Davis has shared musical moments with Lee Konitz, Angelica Sanchez, The Femme Jam, Matt Mitchell, Terry Riley, Miles Okazaki, Thana Alexa, and Billy Kaye, among many others. When she was 6 years old, her family moved to Atlanta, Georgia, and she began playing saxophone at Sequoyah Middle School; Then moved to Carrollton, Texas. After high school, she went to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Arlington" target="_blank">The University of Texas at Arlington</a>, where she majored in Cognitive Psychology and Music (2004). During this time, she was also introduced to the education program at Litchfield Jazz Camp, in Connecticut. Her love for jazz blossomed here!<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Davis_(saxophonist)#cite_note-2" target="_blank">[2]</a>After her studies, she served as an adjunct instructor at&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_University" target="_blank">Northwestern University</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DePaul_University" target="_blank">DePaul University</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_College_Chicago" target="_blank">Columbia College Chicago</a>. Today, Caroline’s music covers a wide range of styles, owed to this shifting environment. As a leader, she has released seven albums: &nbsp; Meanwhile, Eisenberg was actively involved in the Western Massachusetts music scene, living there until recently moving to New York, and worked with several rock and noise bands including the Birthing Hips, whose dissolution inspired&nbsp;Auto. “I need to be in a punk band at the same time as I need to be playing free improv at the same time as I need to be playing songs,” Wendy Eisenberg explains, detailing their creative process. “All at the same time—otherwise none of the practices will work for me.” Listening to Eisenberg’s work, this is easily understood. Wendy Eisenberg …come from punk, but also the worlds of improvisation and composition. Eisenberg played in the recently defunct&nbsp;<a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/12/05/567834546/birthing-hips-internet-is-beautifully-deranged" target="_blank">Birthing Hips</a>, the brawny and brainy punk band from Boston. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Take Eisenberg’s new record,&nbsp;Auto, for example. The album opens with the ballad “I Don’t Want To,” which combines clean sounds from Eisenberg’s ES-175 and glitchy electronics à la Jim O’Rourke and David Grubbs’ experimental creations as Gastr Del Sol. “Centreville” follows, with Eisenberg taking a tech-y and angular approach to guitar riffage, followed by the sunny, jazz-pop groove of “No Such Lack.” In just three tracks, Eisenberg has covered plenty of ground and the album proceeds with sustained versatility throughout. Each stylistic jump on&nbsp;Auto&nbsp;is studied and focused and serves a distinct musical purpose, so the album makes the case that this sort of big-ears, genre-hopping approach is home for Eisenberg and is an aesthetic in and of itself. It’s no surprise when Eisenberg name-drops composer John Zorn’s iconoclastic Naked City band—whose extreme genre-pastiche approach is both groundbreaking and truly incomparable—as part of their education. “I went to NEC [New England Conservatory] for their Contemporary Improv masters,” the guitarist says. “It happened to coincide with Zorn’s 60th birthday concerts, where I got to play a bunch of Naked City parts.” After college, Eisenberg continued to have multiple stylistic irons in the fire. Eisenberg was quick to become a regular player in the New York City experimental scene, where they stayed connected with Zorn, who released&nbsp;The Machinic Unconscious, Eisenberg’s trio record with bassist Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle and countless Zorn projects) and drummer Ches Smith (Marc Ribot, Tim Berne). It’s easy to hear similarities between Birthing Hips—whose own “genre-play,” as Eisenberg explains, is quickly identifiable, especially on “Strip Tease,” where Beethoven’s “Ode To Joy” theme can be heard accompanied by a blast of noise-rock ripping—and&nbsp;Auto, but the latter feels much more nuanced and personal. As a player, Eisenberg takes on such a wide variety of playing approaches, from angular riffing to contrapuntal chord melodies to short flashes of bossa nova comping and so much more—all of which seem to come naturally and in support of the well-crafted songs.

New School of Music

You never hears such Jazz sounds before! An Appetite for Adventure continues…

A This Music Series presentation: …Because the musicians arriving from our neighboring states, are unique and creative improvisers expressing the explorations that go beyond the club, venue, classroom or your RAP/LP turntable; CD, or streaming internet, &nbsp;&nbsp;video, even an AI; because it’s very ALIVE! PRESENTING: (The) Bookers (Rovinsky/Duval/Larocca) with special guests Sandy Ewen &amp; Tom Weeks First Set: Tom Weeks (Alto Sax) Luke Rovinsky (Electric Guitar) Caleb Duval (Double Bass) Michael Larocca (Drumset &amp; Percussion) &nbsp; Second Set: Sandy Ewen (Electric Guitar) Luke Rovinsky (Electric Guitar) Caleb Duval (Double Bass) Michael Larocca (Drumset &amp; Percussion) &nbsp; These are leaders, creators, builders of a free Jazz, free form music scene and community in Connecticut and NY, too, invited to perform in our TM/This Music, Mass series, to create a connection between New England musical scenes that benefits not only the musicians traveling to be heard elsewhere, but benefits you the listener, by experiencing their creativity and unison in being more than neighborly towards vital and valuable mutual cooperation and exchanging. &nbsp; Come and hear the best of the rest, playing sounds you never heard before! &nbsp; Brian Slattery, New Haven Independent: "Speaking of Never Ending Books, the album HI-FI LO-IQ, by Bookers — Michael Larocca on drumset and percussion, Luke Rovinsky on electric guitar, and Caleb Duval on double bass — marks the debut release of F.I.M. Records, spawned from the F.I.M. series of shows at the State Street arts spot that has become a haven and stomping ground for New Haven’s newest generation of free-improv and experimental musicians. The liner notes for HI-FI LO-IQ give a sense of what’s in store. The album “may be proof of concept, but Bookers itself is not an exercise,” the notes read. “Bookers is not self-expression, unless itching your leg or screaming in a mirror is self-expression. Bookers may be humorous, but only in the way watching a person drink milk when they expect orange juice is humorous or watching a man gravely injure himself is humorous. The bookers practice is a sound methodology in every sense, including the water one. Bookers is simple, intuitive music from Connecticut for all to enjoy.” That mix of serious and playful appears in virtually every second of the record, which finds Larocca, Rovinsky, and Duval each setting off musical ideas like tiny explosions, perhaps of live ammunition, perhaps of rubber balls or confetti, that then bounce and flutter around the room at high velocity. There is a keen sense of music from various sources being taken apart and scrambled, and of new music being built before our very ears, sometimes with the air of a furrowed brow, sometimes with the flavor of cartoon characters creating Rube Goldberg music that they already know will fail to catch their mouse, and they don’t care. They’re serious musicians who like to have fun, who don’t take themselves too seriously. As the musicians associated with F.I.M. are the inheritors and latest iteration of a free-improv tradition in New Haven now three generations deep, it’s heartwarming to hear the music being carried forward by such capable hands." &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

CMS presents, a South American now a Boston creative Jazz pianist, Tatiana, joined again by two young and vital other Boston Jazz creatives.

Growing and heard more often—for an inter-generational new journey, The Creative Music Series presents: Tatiana Castro Mejia’s Trio, piano, Evan Palmer, upright bass, John Dalton, drums 7:45PM, doors: 7:15 $18, $15 seniors, students, cash, venmo &nbsp; Lead by&nbsp;Tatiana Castro Mejia,&nbsp;pianist, and poet who moved here just before the Pandemic, she brings her personal and cultural improv and free Jazz to Boston to express a unique “hemispheric” language of improvisation through Free-Jazz. “…from her creative need to express from the music and from the word:&nbsp;Find(ing) paths that explore beyond the song.&nbsp;Explore in narration, storyteller.&nbsp;Let the word recite next to the music.&nbsp;Play with it from improvisation, and let it interact with the sound.&nbsp;Music and text.&nbsp;Text and music”.&nbsp;And&nbsp;Castro Mejia&nbsp;carries it out from three different perspectives: compositions with music and words, instrumental (with the music suggesting poetic figures) and narrated (where the voice is expressed musically)”.&nbsp;- El Intruo From a very young age she always had an interest, a curiosity for the creative, to assemble and disassemble, mostly from the sound, but at times touching other languages: dance, writing, dramaturgy. Today, more than 20 years after having decided to dedicate her life to music, she walks a path where improvisation plays a leading role and she seeks to cross lines with dance and theater, with writing and poetry. She studied at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia) where she graduated obtaining the title of "Master of Music with Emphasis in Jazz". Between 2005 and 2006 she studied with the Argentine pianist Ernesto Jodos in Buenos Aires, thanks to a scholarship granted by the Fernando Sor School of Music in Bogotá and the Buenos Aires School of Contemporary Music where she was a teacher (www.escuelademusica. org). Her professional artistic life began in Bogotá, but she has had a strong development in Buenos Aires, where she has lived for 15 years. Tatiana Castro Mejía was born in Colombia. In 2004, she earned a scholarship to study with Ernesto Jodos and Rodrigo Domínguez. She played in Mair, Tekeye, Bogotaires and Proyecto de Música Contemporánea. She released Ciclos, her first album. She co-directs a music and dance collective improvisation project with dancer Aleema Curri. She leads a quintet that plays the music of Eric Dolphy. Piano &amp; Guitar (w/ Gonzalo Muruaga) (Buenos Aires, 2016): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vm0m2depjc" target="_blank">youtube.com/tcm1</a>January 2019, Voice &amp; piano duo (Improv): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0xKs5QrIus" target="_blank">youtube.com/tcm2</a>March 8, 2020, Piano solo (Sound intervention to a poem):&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF8iUbvFutw" target="_blank">youtube.com/tcm3</a> Evan Palmer (they/he) is an improviser, bassist, oboist, English hornist, composer and educator based in Boston, Massachusetts. He specializes in music in the Black American tradition, particularly improvised music. Evan is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, where he receiveded a Bachelor of Music in Bass Performance, studying with John Lockwood, Billy Kilson, Bruno Räberg and many more. He has performed and recorded with many artists including Francisco Mela, Phil Grenadier, Jim Robitaille, Leo Blanco, Shinya Lin, Mark Walker, and John Dalton. Evan's band performs their own improvisations and compositions as well as music by Andrew Hill, Eric Dolphy, and other great composers. Evan is currently a private lesson instructor for the Hopkinton Music Association, Note-Worthy Experiences and Karen Amlaw Music. John Dalton is a graduate of the U of Mass Dartmouth where he received a diverse musical education, especially in his studies with Chris Poudrier and Jim Robitaille, developeing fluency in a variety of styles as both an improvising musician and composer. He is also a published scholar in journals such as The Peer Review. John has performed with Jim Robitaille, Jing Wang, Dino Govoni, Amanda Monaco, Barry Altschul, Ricky Ford, Jerome Harris and others. John’s modular ensemble “Spheres of Influence” performs original compositions, standards, as well as arrangements of well-known repertoire. &nbsp; &nbsp;

This Music Series First “Club” Jazz date! At The Jungle Music Club, Union Sq., Somerville

The Jungle Community Music Club, Behind the Independent Restaurant, free parking, 21+, No cover, (donation welcome), bar, kitchen https://www.facebook.com/events/896221558861799? Contact: Alex Lemski, <a href="mailto:alexlemski@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexlemski@gmail.com</a>, 617/800-7255 &nbsp; This Music Series: An Appetite for adventure continues…Presenting: The Founders Quintet: Isao, guitar Martin Gohary, keyboard Eric Van Dam, saxophones Evan Palmer, bass John Dalton, drums &nbsp; A way to extend your weekend, liven up any blue-Monday. &nbsp; Discover a (funky) club scene (in a more lively Union Sq.). &nbsp; And the next generation musicians making waves.&nbsp; &nbsp; They are years beyond 21, in age and music maturity, growing, creating! &nbsp; Expect no-holds-bar improvisations from, through and about the freedoms of Jazz and New Music! &nbsp; It’s a formal, marketed entry into the Somerville community—individually, some in the group have played in Union Sq, the Lilypad, out-of-town—with the TM series expanding beyond Cambridge. &nbsp; Join the scene! &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

The Jungle

This Music Series, An Appetite for Adventure continues: Karlson, bass, Graham, trumpet, Neuburg, drums

This Music Series, An Appetite for Adventure continues: Brittany Karlson, bass, Forbes Graham, trumpet, Nick Neuburg, drums, 10:30pm start. &nbsp; Dudes: it starts at 10:30PM, come and Friday "party" with great music into the weekend! A growing creative musician deserving and being more and more in the spotlight, Brittany leads a Boston group of Jazz improvisers to bring her choice music and leadership to the forefront displaying her unique vocabulary of creativity! &nbsp; Bassist (&amp; vocalist) Brittany Karlson is an adventurous musician with roots in jazz, American old time and bluegrass, and other improvised music. She has become a bassist in demand from especially the Free Jazz and New Music (aka “other” improvised music), not only in Boston but beyond into other New England opportunities. She has performed across the USA, Canada, and Europe in a variety of ensemble settings, including improvised trio Letter Castle and American old-time/bluegrass/Swedish string band The Goodbye Girls. Karlson performs original songs under the moniker Karl, having released debut album “Feast Day” on Lungbasket Recordings and will release upcoming album “And the Green Grass Grows all Around” in 2020. She also has a solo project involving a comedic sound puppet show from behind the bass. As a visual artist, she makes finger puppets as well as collaborates with composer Steven Long to create collage work under the name Vanitas.&nbsp; Karlson is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher and teaches private lessons in Jamaica Plain, Boston. She received her Bachelor’s of Science degree in music from Berklee College of Music in 2015 in Performance on the double bass &nbsp; Forbes Graham: more than Boston favorite, an internationally recognized improviser and conceptualist! “There are hidden secrets in the horn and a host of musical linguists uncovering new languages…FORBES GRAHAM doesn’t ignore it. He embraces the blue note and turns it “magenta haze.” The Boston-area improviser sputters and attacks the trumpet with shark-attack notes before letting out a haunting whistled horn like a meditative Don Cherry, or a gruffled stutter like a duck being strangled.&nbsp;Essences…” (Miles Beyond: The New Sounds of Trumpet, NPR, August 2010) Forbes Graham&nbsp;is a composer, musician, sound artist, and visual artist whose work explores themes of simultaneity, perceptibility, transformation and collage. His work "Encounters I" for trumpet, electronics, and voices premiered at Roulette in 2019. He performed with Michael Pisaro at (the) co-incidence festival in 2017 and has appeared at other music festivals including High Zero, Vision, and The Thing InThe Spring. He was commissioned to write a piece for the Festival of New Trumpet, and has created work for the avant-rock ensemble Normal Love.&nbsp; Graham is the creator and producer of "Beyond/Apex", a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to showcasing contemporary and experimental music. To date, this show has featured the works of over 100 composers and creatives, ranging from emerging artists such as Cecilia López and Claire Rousay to more established artists like George Lewis. &nbsp; Nick Neuburg is is a drummer/percussionist, pianist and composer originally from the greater Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Nick began music studies at an early age and quickly became an in demand musician among the local community of Jazz musicians by his teens, performing often with Pianists Mike Gerber and Antonio Adolfo and Multi-Instrumentalist and jazz great Ira Sullivan.&nbsp; After graduating high school, Nick relocated to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with the legendary drummers Rakalam Bob Moses and Billy Hart and studied composition and improvisation with pianist Anthony Coleman and Guitarist Joe Morris. Upon graduating the Conservatory in the spring of 2014 Nick remained in the greater Boston area until the summer of 2018, during which time he both remained active in the creative music scene as a performer and became busy working and teaching. Over those years, Nick was a part of the bands Aykroyd, Letter Castle, Particulars, Ryan Power, Los Greys, Every Kim Parcell, Listening Woman and Creative Healing, among others.&nbsp; Nick has been teaching private music lessons on both Drums and Piano consistently since 2015 and is excited to continue teaching in NY! As an educator, Nick strives to help students develop the fundamental skills and vocabulary as a musician that will allow them to play the music they most enjoy, making the learning and growing process as much fun as possible along the way. He aims to pass down the knowledge received to him by his many great teachers to the best of his abilities. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

A new, co-operative Jazz 4tet convened by bassist Kit Demos w/ special guest cornetist Stephen Haynes.

The 2nd convening, the music is deeply grounded in the relational, with a strong and engaging collective voice. Expect spontaneous offerings of groove and melody throughout.  This Music Series: An Appetite for Adventure continues…   Kit Demos / bass - Stephen Haynes / cornets, flugelhorn, leader (coming up from Hartford, Ct.) Pandelis Karayorgis / piano, keyboards  Eric Rosenthal / drums and percussion   If Stephen were living here you’d know of him better because he’d be performing often enough, that important! Fact is, he’s gigging in NY and environs, besides teaching, respectfully enough that it’s time to perform NOW for us – been just before the Pandemic anyway—time to know why he’s a master and creator in demand!   And a New England / Boston collaboration: Initiated by a key and other metro-area musicians, to create a unique creative evening.    And if not totally familiar with OUR musicians, now’s the chance to get to know our scene! Bringing in the New Year with such New Music!   Kit Demos Chrys 'Kit” Demos bass, DIY analog microtonal synthesizer, Boston-based, with extensive collaborations across the music spectrum. "constantly researches the possibilities of electronics and new territories for the acoustic bass. All of that research opens doors to rethinking music in the moment. The results of his research are so musically organic that they give the impression they are inevitable, integral of the moment." - S. Vandermark Stephen Haynes is an improviser, arts organizer and recording artist.  His practice ranges from small groups to large orchestras with a focus on working directly with composers in the development of new music. His work is featured on Pillars, Tyshawn Sorey’s groundbreaking work for octet released on Firehouse 12 Records. He is also a founding member of Adam Rudolph’s East Coast version of Go: Organic Orchestra. Haynes records for New Atlantis Records, most recently releasing Pomegranate, a quintet with Joe Morris, Ben Stapp, William Parker and Warren Smith. His pocket brass band, Knuckleball, features three cornets, tuba and drums with Taylor Ho Bynum, Herb Robertson, Ben Stapp and Eric Rosenthal. Expect a new recording release by this ensemble during 2021. Haynes’ primary focus – since 2013 – has been the cornet. He performs on Schilke XA1 Shepherds Crook and Eb Soprano cornets as well as the 1040 FL flugelhorn and X4L Bb trumpet. Across all of his instruments, he relies upon a set of custom-designed Schilke mouthpieces. Over the past 40 years, he has worked with a range of vanguard composers including Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor, George Russell, Butch Morris, Rhys Chatham, LaMonte Young and Earle Brown. This Music (TM) Series is a Boston musician’s initiative to recognize the creativity of many who haven’t been given the stage as leaders, often younger than the Jazz scene veterans; those with acknowledgment who can create a new project and musical ideas; and the unsung “gems” who aren’t in the public’ eye and deserve to be. The emphasis is on the freer forms, the adventurous (to help find a “home”).   Pandelis Karayorgis Born in Athens, Greece in 1962, moved to Boston in 1985. Prior to that, studied piano and performed in various jazz groups in Athens while pursuing a degree in Economics. Earned BM and MM degrees in music from Boston's New England Conservatory while studying with Paul Bley, Jimmy Giuffre, George Russell, Dave Holland and Joe Maneri (composition In the last thirty years mostly led or co-led numerous groups in performances at festivals and clubs in Europe and the United States and Canada. Recordings appear on labels such as Hat Art, HatOLOGY, Clean Feed, Not Two, Leo Records, Nuscope, Boxholder, Okkadisk, Cadence, Accurate, Leo Lab, Ayler and more recently on <a href="http://driffrecords.com/">Driff Records</a>, an artist-run label co-founded by Pandelis Karayorgis and Jorrit Dijkstra. Some of the most extensive recording/performing collaborations have been with Nate McBride, Curt Newton, Ken Vandermark, Mat Maneri, Guillermo Gregorio, Jorrit Dijkstra, Jeb Bishop, Luther Gray, Jef Charland, Randy Peterson and Dave Rempis. Notable projects include <a href="https://karayorgis.com/Pages/Projects/Chicago_Quintet.html">The Pandelis Karayorgis Quintet</a>, <a href="https://karayorgis.com/Pages/Projects/The_Whammies.html">The Whammies</a>, <a href="https://karayorgis.com/Pages/Projects/trio.html">The Pandelis Karayorgis Trio</a> (whose first trio CD "Heart And Sack" was featured on National Public Radio's program Fresh Air),<a href="https://karayorgis.com/Pages/Projects/mi3.html"> the mi3</a>, <a href="https://karayorgis.com/Pages/Projects/ConstructionParty.html">Construction Party</a>, <a href="https://karayorgis.com/Pages/Projects/System_Of_5.html">System of 5</a>, the quartet <a href="https://karayorgis.com/Pages/Projects/Matchbox.html">Matchbox</a>, the large group <a href="https://karayorgis.com/Pages/CDPages/Bathysphere.html">Bathysphere</a> and more recently, the quintet Cutout, the Pools and Cliff trios and the Double trio CliffPools.   Eric Rosenthal The former pupil of Ed Blackwell provides examined and performed a lot more than American jazz drumming; he in addition has delved into Western world African traditional and South Indian traditional percussion. Rosenthal provides performed and improvised with Anthony Braxton, Mat Maneri, Pandelis Karayorgis, Mario Pavone, as well as the Either/Orchestra. He provides performed around THE UNITED STATES and European countries, and made an appearance in Greece on the Patras Jazz Celebration, at Montreal’s North Ocean Jazz festival, also at Finland’s Pori Celebration. Besides making his very own improvised music recordings, he also shows up on CDs using the Hypnotic Clambake as well as the Zairean soukous music group Freestyle.The later ’90s found Rosenthal busy within the group Naftule’s Wish. The music group provides two produces on John Zorn’s Tzadik label, Seek out the Golden Dreydl and Smash, Clap!

An Appetite for Adventure continues…A cool Jazz cello & instrument combination, expect a lot from Glynis

This Music Series Presents:   Not familiar with the Quartet of Musicians? You owe it to your musical self and curiosity to find out.  Glynis Lomon,  cello, aquasonic, voice, Dave Peck (PEK): clarinets, flutes, double-reeds, Eric Woods,  analog synthesis, Jared Seabrook,  drums   Lomon, not your ordinary cello player, seasoned with years of playing, deserving the lead and attention And the rest are not unfamiliar with performing creative improv Jazz, yu just need to catch up… Best reason to hear music on a weekday especially if your weekend is empty. Groove just before Christmas/Xmas! This Music (TM) Series is a Boston musician’s initiative to recognize the creativity of many who haven’t been given the stage as leaders, often younger than the Jazz scene veterans; those with acknowledgment who can create a new project and musical ideas; and the unsung “gems” who aren’t in the public’ eye and deserve to be. The emphasis is on the freer forms, the adventurous (to help find a “home”).   Glynis Lomon:   Cellist Glynis Lomon went to Bennington College to continue her classical cello studies in 1973 where she met and began performing with musician/composer Bill Dixon. The music of Dixon's ensemble combined the exploration of the frontier of sound that she loved with rich rhythms, emotional expression, and the art and science of improvisation. Glynis has been privileged to play with Bill Dixon, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?as_q=Arthur+Brooks">Arthur Brooks</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?as_q=Jimmy+Lyons">Jimmy Lyons</a>, Cecil Taylor, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?as_q=Butch+Morris">Butch Morris</a>, Syd Smart, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?as_q=William+Parker">William Parker</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?as_q=Greta+Buck">Greta Buck</a>, Dennis Warren, Lowell Davidson, and many others. Recently she has been playing with pianist Eric Zinman in collaborations with Mario Rechtern, Sabir Mateen, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?as_q=Blaise+Siwula">Blaise Siwula</a>, Laurence Cook and others   Dave Peck (PEK):   The one-of-a-kind multi-instrumentalist, Boston Free Jazz/Improv icon, Evil Clown, Leap of Faith leader, recently in performance in the TM series, otherwise known for his live streaming from his Waltham studio and countless CD releases, who adds tons of creative variability and intrigue to Glynis’ unique cello playing!   Eric Woods The Boston-based Expanse, inspired by the concepts of space and restraint, configured as a trio in a livestreamed session where Evil Clown stalwart David Peck on clarinets, saxophones, fog horns &amp; percussion is joined by Eric Woods on analog synth &amp; percussion, and Michael Knoblach, who focuses on exotic percussion instruments, for a unique journey in electroacoustic improv Jared Seabrook Jared Seabrook teaches percussion for the Encore Music Program. Jared studied with Bob Gullotti for 10 years. He is a professional musician with performances various Jazz Festivals around the world. He is a composer with music featured on MTV and MTV2. He has a Vic Firth endorsement. He has been teaching lessons for over 15 years including music camps, conservatories, and school systems including music therapy as well. The New York Times has described his playing as "vicious", but he's a pretty nice guy. His brother: Brandon Seabrook writes all the music for Seabrook Powerplant. His brother, Jared Seabrook is on drums and Tom Blancarte plays bass. The influence of fleet-fingered Guitar Gods was part of Seabrook’s make-up from the beginning.

Title:  Phenomenal New Music, Improv and a trio of ideas, Master pianist/composer, Anthony Coleman

This Music Series: An Appetite for Adventure continues…   Not familiar with the trio of Musicians? You owe it to your musical self and curiosity to find out. Best reason to hear music on a weekday especially if your weekend is empty! Anthony Coleman, piano, composer, NY/Boston (NEC) Yoona Kim, Ajaeng (traditional Korean string instrument) Greg Kelley, trumpet, electronics.   An original you can’t find anywhere, except right in your backyard performing soon. And led by an unsurpassed maestro of compositions, improvisations and playing so alluring! A Rare public performance in Boston by Mr. Coleman though very much in demand playing from New York to international destinations. One of the true geniuses of New Music pianists and composer’s—and from the improv angle—a weekday experience you can’t afford to miss!   Anthony and Yoona recently in multi-performances in New York, she a former member of Coleman’s NEC’s notable Survivor’s Breakfast.   This Music/TM Series: This Music (TM) Series is a Boston musician’s initiative to recognize the creativity of many who haven’t been given the stage as leaders, often younger than the Jazz scene veterans; those with acknowledgement who can create a new project and musical ideas; and the unsung “gems” who aren’t in the public’ eye and deserve to be. The emphasis is on the freer forms, the adventurous (to help find a “home”).   Anthony Coleman:  “Anthony Coleman is a prolific composer and pianist who has recorded numerous CDs under his own name, and has played on more than 150. His compositions have been commissioned and performed throughout the world. In the 1980’s, he was an important participant in what became known as the Downtown Scene, along with Glenn Branca, Elliott Sharp, Marc Ribot, and John Zorn, which broke down musical barriers, stretched genre definitions, and introduced Radical Jewish Culture as a compositional and improvisatory element”. Steve Coleman, Arts Fuse (boston), 2018: “Part of what sets Anthony Coleman's (b 1955) music apart from that of his contemporaries is the intensely focused intellectual force with which he pushes against the sybaritic outward-moving impulse and compresses multiple vocabularies around a core poetic. Though compressed, the vocabularies do not merge or blend, they fray at the edges where the play of opposing forces is most intense, and languages contaminate and confuse each other”. New World Records. MORE below… Yoona Kim is a Boston and South Korea based Ajaeng performer, Composer, and Improvisor who creates music based upon traditional aesthetics inherent in Korean <a href="http://music.her/">music. Her</a> work is focused on the relationship between Korean music, time, and absolute truth through sound. She is the Artistic Director of Moderngagok which is a contemporary music group in South Korea. She has performed throughout India, Vietnam, North America and Europe. She studied Musicology and Ajaeng performance at Seoul National University in South Korea. Recently, she has completed a master's degree in Contemporary Improvisation the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.    Greg Kelly: Trumpeter Greg Kelley within an improviser whose function, both in single contexts and along with his primary group nmperign, generally features calm explorations from the extended technique of his device. Frequently, his playing noises so alien that it is hard to inform he’s playing a trumpet in any way. After their studies at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Kelley transferred to Boston, where he produced his documenting debut with nmperign in 1998. Nmperign’s second Compact disc implemented in 1999, and in 2000, Kelley started releasing some recordings for single trumpet, including Trumpet and Clear Gestures. Since 2000, he provides performed with Masashi Harada, Anthony Braxton and Adam Coleman. In 2001, Boxholder Information released The Ilya Tree, a quartet disk that highlighted Kelley playing extroverted free of charge jazz using the fiery saxophonist Paul Flaherty. Also in 2001, he performed with an record by nmperign and a duo record with digital musician Jason Lescalleet. His 2002 produces included a single record entitled EASILY Never Match You ON THIS Life, I WANT TO Feel THE SHORTAGE, a trio disk with Flaherty and Chris Corsano, and some albums with both nmperign and fellow trumpeter Axel Dörner. Throughout 2002, Kelley continuing to tour being a solo musician and with nmperign.   Anthony Coleman (born August 30, 1955) is an avant-garde jazz pianist. During the 1980s and 1990s he worked with John Zorn on Cobra, Kristallnacht, The Big Gundown, Archery, and Spillane and helped push modern Jewish music into the 21st century. From the Sarajevo Jazz Festival to the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland, Anthony Coleman’s musical odyssey has taken him through many cultures and led him to wear many hats as composer, improvising keyboardist, and teacher. Coleman joined the NEC faculty in 2006, returning to a school where he himself studied in the 1970s, during the birth of NEC’s Contemporary Improvisation program (then called Third Stream). Received a M.M., at Yale. At the age of thirteen, Coleman started studying piano with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaki_Byard">Jaki Byard</a>. At the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Conservatory_of_Music">New England Conservatory of Music</a> he studied with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Russell_(composer)">George Russell</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Martino">Donald Martino</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Peyton">Malcolm Peyton</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Coleman#cite_note-Hyla-2">[2]</a> Coleman has also toured and recorded with John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Marc Ribot, Shelley Hirsch, Roy Nathanson, and many others. Coleman has been awarded numerous grants worldwide from New York to numerous European countries. Coleman's collaborators over the years have included guitarist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Sharp">Elliott Sharp</a>, trumpeter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Douglas_(trumpeter)">Dave Douglas</a>, accordion player <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Klucevsek">Guy Klucevsek</a>, composer David Shea, former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart">Captain Beefheart</a> bandmember <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Lucas">Gary Lucas</a>, classical and klezmer clarinetist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Krakauer_(musician)">David Krakauer</a>, guitarist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Ribot">Marc Ribot</a>, bassist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Cohen">Greg Cohen</a>, drummer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Baron">Joey Baron</a> and saxophonist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Nathanson">Roy Nathanson</a>. Coleman has recorded many CDs under his own name, and he has played on more than 100 CDs. Recent recordings areThe End of Summer (Tzadik), which features his NEC Ensemble Survivors Breakfast, Shmutsige Magnaten (Tzadik), Pushy Blueness (Tzadik) and Lapidation (New World), both recordings of his chamber music, and Freakish: Anthony Coleman Plays Jelly Roll Morton (Tzadik, 2009). Plus Damaged by Sunlight (2010) was issued on DVD by the French label La Huit. And You, a compilation of his large chamber ensembles and solo piano recording from 2008 to 2013. His projects include the piano trio Sephardic Tinge, which has released three discs: “Sephardic Tinge,” “Morenica,” and “Our Beautiful Garden Is Open” (all Tzadik). And His Selfhaters Orchestra has issued two CDs: “Selfhaters” and “The Abysmal Richness of the Infinite Proximity of the Same” (both Tzadik).

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From the New Music Series, Another adventurous journey into improvisation with a young Boston trumpeter Kelly Bray, yet no novice.

Contact: Alex Lemski, <a href="mailto:alexlemski@gmail.com">alexlemski@gmail.com</a>, 617/800-7255 at The Lilypad, Cambridge   Kelly Bray is beyond an up-and-coming creative trumpeter from Boston, she’s a new young leader in improvised music and Free-Jazz and called by many others to be a part of their explorations She pushes the envelope of Jazz, and actually more clearly, merges seamlessly, the Free with New Music.    And the lineup is a who’s who of young musicians from Boston, who are experimentalists, enthusiasts, and ready to impact the music you and I wonder about, seek, and meant to be felt…   Kelly Bray, trumpet Brittany Karlson, bass Jacob Hiser, piano Marie Carroll, Koto John Dalton, drums   Kelly Bray is beyond an up-and-coming creative trumpeter from Boston, she’s a new young leader in improvised music and Free-Jazz and called by many others to be a part of their explorations.  Kelly, a composer, improvisor, and educator based in Boston, her work explores the intersections of many styles and genres pulling inspiration from avant garde, free jazz, noise, and electro-acoustic music. She has performed in many venues across the Northeast, performing with musicians such as Joe Morris, Brandon Lopez, Dan O'Brien, and most recently appeared in the free jazz-noise group, Art Heist, which features fellow members saxophonist James McCain, bassist Caleb Duval, and drummer James Paul Nadien. A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, Kelly has studied composition and improvisation with Anthony Coleman and Joe Morris, as well as classical trumpet with Steve Emery and jazz trumpet with John McNeil. Kelly also holds a duel Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance and Music Education from the University of Massachusetts Lowell   <a href="https://kellybraymusic.com/">https://kellybraymusic.com/</a>   <a href="https://www.lilypadinman.com/home/2021/10/1/driff-fest-2021-cutout-kelly-bray-trio-cliffpools-porchbone">https://www.lilypadinman.com/home/2021/10/1/driff-fest-2021-cutout-kelly-bray-trio-cliffpools-porchbone</a>   Ms. Bray in a Quartet at the Lilypad with trumpeter Forbes Graham <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vag1mw5ddA0&amp;t=860s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vag1mw5ddA0&amp;t=860s</a>   In addition to numerous professional performances with wedding bands, pit orchestras, and jazz combos, Kelly has also recorded and performed as a member of the DIY band Nervous., whose debut album released in 2019 amassed over 80,000 streams on Spotify. This Music/TM Series: This Music (TM) Series is a Boston musician’s initiative to recognize the creativity of many who haven’t been given the stage as leaders, often younger than the Jazz scene veterans; those with acknowledgement who can create a new project and musical ideas; and the unsung “gems” who aren’t in the public’ eye and deserve to be. The emphasis is on the freer forms, the adventurous (to help find a “home”).   Brittany Karlson, bass Brittany, no novice though perhaps unknown to some listeners, she is beyond an up-and-coming creative bassist from Boston. She’s a new young leader in improvised music and Free-Jazz and called by many others to be a part of their explorations. The improv of Brittany Karlson defies easy mainstream labeling because it includes influences from the pure forms of avantgarde; yet part of Jazz's modern expansion. She also is a Puppeteer, vocalist and performs with folk musicians to influence her outlook . She is a member of The Goodbye Girls, a quartet that explores traditional bluegrass and Swedish traditional music. A bassist with roots in jazz, folk, and experimental music. Karlson works in freely improvised settings, ranging from solo bass to duos with bassist Ian Kovac to collaborations with musicians like Sam Lisabeth, Jesse Collins, Nick Neuberg, Matt Delligatti, and Jeb Bishop. As a leader and composer, Brittany combines folk-like melodies and improvising impulses in her freely lyrical song project Karl Jacob Hiser is a versatile pianist and violinist who performs and studies a variety of musical traditions. Born and raised in southern Missouri, he grew up playing bluegrass, blues, and classical music, eventually discovering jazz as a teenager. He attended Missouri State University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Jazz Studies. In 2014, he moved to Boston to attend New England Conservatory's Contemporary Improvisation program, completing his master's in 2016. While there, he studied with Ran Blake, Bruce Brubaker, Joe Morris, and Frank Carlberg, and performed in ensembles and concerts coached/directed by John Zorn, Jason Moran, Tanya Kalmonovitch, Anthony Coleman, and Simon Carrington.    marie carroll is an american composer-improviser, electroacoustic musician, cellist, and koto player. her work is influenced by natural phenomena and explores themes of liminality and transience. she also enjoys using analog synthesizers and effects units. in 2019, marie composed a live score for solo cello and electronics for a production of Sophocles’ Electra, which she performed on tour in Boston, Berlin, London, and Istanbul. the production earned a five-star review from London Pub Theaters, which described the score as “incredibly effective.” in 2020, marie co-founded a <a href="https://necnovafellowsmixtapes.bandcamp.com/">student record label</a> as part of New England Conservatory’s <a href="https://www.novafellows.org/">NOVA Fellowship</a> and established NEC’s first electroacoustic festival, <a href="https://www.novafellows.org/electroacoustic-festival">Plugged In</a>. in 2021, marie participated in Longy’s <a href="https://longy.edu/study/longys-divergent-studio/">Divergent Studio</a> and International Contemporary Ensemble’s program <a href="https://www.iceorg.org/ensemble-evolution">Ensemble Evolution</a>. . John Dalton is a Boston based musician, composer, and educator. As a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, he received a diverse musical education, especially in his studies with Chris Poudrier and Jim Robitaille. while there, he developed fluency in a variety of styles as both an improvising musician and composer. As a performer, John has been featured in a variety of settings, and both a sideman and leader. He has performed or shared the bill with artists such as Jim Robitaille, Jing Wang, Dino Govoni, Amanda Monaco, Barry Altschul, Ricky Ford, Jerome Harris, Stefano Battaglia, Kaya Meller, Kamil Piotrowicz, Anastassiya Petrova, and Royal Hartigan.  John also leads the group Spheres of influence, which is a modular ensemble that performs original compositions, standards, as well as arrangements of well known repertoire. The group size is flexible, but it is most often operates as a trio, quartet, or quintet. Music instructor at Bosse school of Music and Morningside Music Studio Jon Garelick, Boston Globe

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Free things to do

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Discover kid-friendly fun in Boston, Massachusetts, and surrounding areas! Enjoy hands-on exhibits at the Boston Children’s Museum, explore the New England Aquarium, and visit the Franklin Park Zoo. Find parks, playgrounds, and seasonal events perfect for families across Massachusetts.

Top 20 kid-friendly things to do in Boston, MA

Kid-friendly things to do in Boston

Kid-friendly events

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Where to eat and drink in Boston? Joyraft has Boston’s newest bars, restaurants and specials. Drinks and pre fixe dinner menus. Cambridge & Somerville too.