Plenty of conga on Tony Moffeit’s upcoming CD, Outlaw Blues Revolution, which will be out in about a month or so. Twelve “outlaw blues” items with Tony Moffeit vocals and conga drum. On many of the numbers, Rick Terlep lays down multiple guitar tracks. This record will be released by DigiVintage Records. Stay tuned!
Note: all photos in the movie sequence by Gary Colnar
Michael Pierre Vlatkovich has his own web site now. Stay tuned for up-coming events and news here…
Connie Crothers was born in Palo Alto, California on May 2, 1941. When she was nine years old, she began piano lessons. She also began composing. She performed frequently in concerts and recitals, sometimes performing her compositions. At the University of California in Berkeley she majored in music with an emphasis on composition. She moved to New York City in 1962 and began studying with Lennie Tristano. In 1972 he began presenting her in performances for invited audiences in his home. In 1973 he presented her in solo concert at Carnegie Recital Hall. He produced two other solo concerts in Carnegie Recital Hall, in 1977 and 1978. The Lennie Tristano Jazz Foundation produced a solo concert in Carnegie Recital Hall in 1979. In 1974, she recorded “Perception” for the SteepleChase label, SCS-1002, solo and and trio with drummer Roger Mancuso and bassist Joe Solomon. Gary Giddens, in a feature review in the Village Voice, wrote,“Her mastery of the piano is not to be gainsaid. It is her own enigmatic personality that gives this disc its special, haunting character. It clearly heralds the arrival of a pianist of stature.”
Cal lives with his wife in Santa Fe and plays jazz drums and shoots photos in the surrounding area. Cal uses the art of improvisation learned from more than 35 years of playing jazz when creating his views from inside the music. Each digital image evolves according to the energy and feelings present at the moment–the way a musician would develop a solo. His goal is to deliver the essence and intensity of a live musical performance in visual terms. Cal’s dynamic sense of drumming, rhythm, and knowledge of song forms play into finding the right shot at the right time. He is a drummer who doesn’t stop making music when he picks up the camera.
Mark Weber was accompanied by California trombonist Michael Vlatkovich.
This was classic Beat. The poets of the evening showed the influences of the beat movement, but Weber’s combination of jazz and poetry was indeed classic. Of course, we were in a well-lit art gallery, sober, and under a “no smoking” rule of law. That was a little different.
Nevertheless, take a peek at these video’s and imagine yourself in North Beach somewhere…maybe listening to all this in a somewhat altered state of mind… or maybe just sipping coffee at the Cafe Trieste…Mark Weber hosts his own jazz show on KUNM, and has a collection of photographs of jazz artists that is truly amazing. ( check it out here…) He also publishes Zerx Records and Press which is now partly available in the Metropolis shop here….
Thanks to Duke City Fix for the videos and info.
14 Euro inclusive shipment worldwide for this pre-release of Daniel Blinkhorn’s surround-sound DVD
The title of the work refers to adaptive radiation, a term indicating the rapid evolution of a single ancestral organism into numerous other organisms that are each adaptively specialized to occupy particular environmental conditions…
A duality exists in the piece at the intersection of the figurative, where transitory images of sonic miscellany coalesce, and the literal, where the sound transformations function as distilled narrative, combining the physical and gestural characteristics of performance into a series of primal soundscapes, all of which depict the adaptation from one ecological niche to another…
Through transformations applied to recordings of physical gestures generating fret squeaks on the classical guitar, I have sought to create a work that, on the one hand captures the torque click of the machine head, the buzz of wound strings on brass frets, droplets of sweat on the tips of fingers and the squeal and chirp of friction, whilst simultaneously occupying a larger framework encompassing ecological diversity; from the single sound to a rapid divergence of highly specialised sonic environments, as in descent with modification…
This piece also exists as an audiovisual work in surround sound…
Director: Tim Perkis | Studio: PoikusFilm | Producer: PoikusFilm | Genre: music documentary | Run time: 72 min | Disc: dvd | Release date: March 8 2007 | (c) 2007 Tim Perkis
14 Euro incl. world-wide shipment
NOISY PEOPLE: Improvising a Musical Life - A Film by Tim Perkis ( DVD)
Featuring: George Cremaschi, Tom Djll, Greg Goodman, Phillip Greenlief, Cheryl Leonard, Dan Plonsey, Gino Robair, Damon Smith; also Kenneth Atchley, Laetitia Sonami.
Noisy People is a new feature length video documentary, presenting portraits of eight sound artists and musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tim Perkis says about his film: “At first I thought I was simply stepping in to do a job I wished someone else had done, documenting a little-known musical scene with an interesting story. But it soon became clear that the film also touched upon a more basic question: what is the nature of a creative life, and how can one live it?”
Moe! Staiano/Moe!kestra! May, 25 2007. The Lab. MOE!KESTA! 10th Anniversary Show. 2948 16th Street @ Capp Street, San Francisco, California.
Moe! Staiano’s Moe!kestra! will celebrate 10 years of orchestrated cacophony with performances of Piece No.1: Death Of A Piano and the new composition, Piece No.9: When Terrie Had Six, based off of conducted improvisational notated performances from 2006 and music from the Ex. A before-show discussion/Q&A with Moe! Staiano will talk about the history and nature of Moe!kestra!. Presented by KFJC. Sponsered by 21 Grand.
The show will also celebrate a new CD release of the Moe!kestra! with “Two Rooms of Uranium in 83 Markers“, an album of two performances that features Ches Smith, Marika Hughes, Carla Kihlstedt, George Cremaschi, John Shiurba, Scott Rosenberg, Myles Boisen among countless other musicians. Copies, along with the two other Moe!kestra! releases as well as T-Shirts, will be available for purchase.
Musicians for this show will include: Alan Anzalone - Clarinet, Chris Broderick - Clarinet, Alicia Byer - Clarinet, Michael Cooke - Clarinet, Michael J. Dale - Clarinet, Phillip Greenlief - Clarinet, Michael Zelner - Clarinet, Aaron Novik - Bass Clarinet, Dan Plonsey - Bass Clarinet, Scott Rosenberg - Bass Clarinet, Craig Demel - Violin, Angela Hsu - Violin, Dina Maccabee - Violin, Hillary Overberg - Violin, Emily Packard - Violin, Jonathan Segel - Violin, Tara Flandreau - Viola, Charith Premawardhana - Viola, Theresa Wong - Cello, George Cremaschi - Contrabass, Damon Smith - Electric Contrabass, Marianne McDonald - Harp, Kristian Aspelin - Guitar, Michael de la Cuesta - Guitar, Scott Evans - Guitar, Jay Korber - Guitar, Ava Mendoza - Guitar, Pat Moran - Guitar, Bill Wolter - Guitar, Alex Yeung - Guitar, Vicky Grossi - Bass, David B. C. Leikam - Bass, Allen Whitman - Bass, Thomas Dimuzio - Electronics, Travis Johns - Electronics, Norman Teale - Electronics, Jon Brumit - Drums, John Hanes - Drums, Jacob Felix Heule - Drums, Sarah Lockhart - Drums, Sheila Bosco - Drums, Thomas Scandura - Drums, Nathan Hubbard - Percussion, Suki O’Kane - Percussion, Kevin Wiseman - Percussion, Michael Cooke - Saxophone, Phillip Greenlief - Saxophone, Henry Kuntz - Saxophone, Tim Perkis - Saxophone, Jon Raskin - Saxophone, Rent Romus - Saxophone, Jen Baker - Trombone, Loren Means - Trombone, Liam Staskawicz - Trombone, Matt Davignon - Drum machine, Robert Silverman - Theremin.
Hope to see you there! Pass this along and bring eye and ear protection!
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