Month: April 2015

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Featured Artist – Taylor Ho Bynum

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Taylor Ho Bynum cornet, composition

Taylor Ho Bynum is a composer, cornet player, bandleader and interdisciplinary collaborator. Critics have called him “a singular and thrilling artist” (All About Jazz), “a major force on the outward-bound side of the jazz continuum” (The Boston Globe) and “a provocateur in the guise of a consensus builder” (The New York Times). Bynum currently leads his Sextet and 7-tette, and works with many collective ensembles including a duo with drummer Tomas Fujiwara, the improv trio Book of Three, the UK/US collaborative Convergence Quartet, the dance/music interdisciplinary ensemble Quartet Collective, and the trans-idiomatic little big band Positive Catastrophe.…

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Featured Artist – Wolter Wierbos

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Wolter Wierbos trombone

Wolter Wierbos is considered one of the world’s leading trombone players. He has played throughout Europe, Canada, USA and Asia. Wierbos has many awards to his name, including the Podiumprijs for Jazz and Improvised music and the most important Dutch jazz award, the VPRO Boy Edgar Prize.
Like many Dutch brass players Wierbos started out in a ‘fanfare’ (brass band), switching from trumpet to trombone when he was 17. “It looked good, and the trombones walk in front….”…

Doek @ zaal 100 April 26 – Ken Aldcroft, Scott Thomson, Kevin Shea

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Sunday 26 March
20:00 – free entry!

Ken Aldcroft – guitar
Scott Thomson – trombone
John Dikeman – saxophone
Kevin Shea – drums

We’re celebrating Koningsnacht with some amazing musicians from the New World. I’m sure they’ll wear orange though.

Ken Aldcroft and Scott Thomson have been performing together since 2005. In addition, they have worked together extensively as co-founders of the Association of Improvising Musicians Toronto (AIMToronto), a musicians’ collective that hosted many exceptional visiting musicians, including Evan Parker, William Parker, Eddie Prévost, Joe McPhee, and Urs Leimgruber, always in collaboration with Toronto musicians.…

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Featured Artist – Brandon Seabrook

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Brandon Seabrook banjo

Brandon Seabrook is the guitar and banjo-shredding frontman of the raucous avant-thrash trio, Seabrook Power Plant. Mixing tweaked out hardcore with art rock improvisations where tech-metallic squelching converges with punk-jazz, his band’s two self-titled albums, Seabrook Power Plant I (2009) and Seabrook Power Plant II (2011), were released on Brooklyn’s Loyal Label. The Village Voice named him “NYC’s Best Guitarist of 2012” and he has received national and international recognition in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Fret Board Journal and UK music journal The Wire.…

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Featured Artist – Mary Oliver

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Mary Oliver violin, viola

Mary Oliver, violin, viola, hardanger fiddle, explores virtuosity in both scored and improvised music. Oliver (b. La Jolla, California) studied at San Francisco State University (Bachelor of Music), Mills College (Master of Fine Arts), and the University of California, San Diego, where she received a Ph.D for research in the theory and practice of improvised music.
As a soloist, Oliver has premiered works by, among others, Richard Barrett, John Cage, Chaya Czernowin, Brian Ferneyhough, Joëlle Léandre Liza Lim, George E.…