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SUMMARY:James Falzone
DESCRIPTION:James Falzone (reeds\, piano) \nJames Falzone has dedicated a large part of his work\, especially since 2011\, to solo playing and the development of a long-form work he calls Sighs Too Deep For Words. His solo work is a synthesis of the improvised and the composed and often incorporates multiple clarinets (Bb\, Eb\, prepared)\, penny whistles\, ritual and singing bowls/bells\, shruti box\, and other ambient sound makers. He has toured with his solo project extensively\, often in conjunction with workshops and masterclasses on improvisation at universities\, colleges\, and music schools. \nFalzone is a clarinetist\, composer\, and improviser whose work in the jazz and creative music scenes has won him international acclaim. A veteran contemporary music lecturer and clinician\, as well as an award-winning composer who has been commissioned by chamber ensembles\, dance companies\, choirs\, and symphony orchestras around the globe\, Falzone leads his own ensembles (Allos Musica and The Renga Ensemble)\, and has released a series of critically-acclaimed recordings on Allos Documents\, the label he founded in 2000. \nFalzone performs throughout North America and Europe\, appears regularly on Downbeat Magazine’s Critics’ and Readers’ Polls\, and was nominated as the 2011 Clarinetist of the Year by the Jazz Journalist Association. He has been profiled in The New York Times\, The Seattle Times\, The Chicago Tribune\, New Music Box\, and Point of Departure\, among many other publications. A respected educator and scholar\, Falzone is Associate Dean of Cornish College of the Arts\, Seattle University.
URL:https://hartfordjazzsociety.com/event/james-falzone/
LOCATION:Wistariahurst Museum\, 238 Cabot Street\, Holyoke\, MA
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SUMMARY:Ned Rothenberg
DESCRIPTION:Ned Rothenberg (saxophone\, clarinet\, shakuhachi flute) \n“Rothenberg pushes sonic and spatial barriers… as he explores combinations of vacillating intervals and knotty melodic kernels\, and balances evolving patterns with ripe arpeggios and colorful harmonics.” – Fred Bouchard\, DownBeat \n“Rothenberg reconciles an unapologetically cerebral approach with accessibility and emotional expression. No mean feat\, indeed.” – Peter Margasak\, Chicago Reader \nHailed as “America’s most intimate composer and improviser” (All Music Guide)\, multi-instrumentalist Ned Rothenberg has evolved a singular and deeply personal language on an array of woodwinds – primarily alto saxophone\, clarinet\, bass clarinet\, and shakuhachi flute – over the course of four and a half decades of investigatory musicianship. On Looms & Legends\, his first solo recording since 2012’s clarinet-focused World of Odd Harmonics (Tzadik)\, Rothenberg once again reveals himself to be a captivating storyteller and an unparalleled sonic architect. \nTo be released on September 5\, 2025 via Pyroclastic Records\, Looms & Legends hints in its title at the fundamental elements that make Rothenberg’s unaccompanied excursions so compelling: its deft\, multi-hued weaving and the spellbinding eloquence of its unfolding narratives. “I think of those elements as the X and Y axes of my approach\,” Rothenberg explains. “In my improvisations\, there are the more melodic pieces that have a definite sense of starting at a certain place and taking you along a storyline. Then there are the ‘loom’ pieces which present the listener a rich and atypical aural environment in which to weave their own subjective narrative.” \nRothenberg’s travels have taken him across five continents\, he has studied deeply the diverse traditions of African and Asian music\, and has communicated his discoveries to students through his Global Perspectives course at The New School. He has so imbibed this never-ending research that it resists the lure of pastiche\, instead emerging as something uniquely his own\, an embrace of the idea of “future primitivism.” \nAs he explains\, “I like to imagine my music as the indigenous sounds of a country that hasn’t been discovered yet. I love the idea that there’s some weird culture out there whose traditions are built on circular breathing through reed instruments\, and it sounds like what I’ve been doing in New York since the early ‘80s.” \nWhile he stops short of offering Looms & Legends as an outright political statement\, Rothenberg does allow that it is an oasis of concentration and immersion at a moment when our culture is oriented to short attention spans and instant gratification. “I feel like musicians who are doing work of depth need to push back against the TikTok culture\,” he says. “In many ways an album like this goes against the grain of our current culture\, where music has to grab you in 30 seconds. I can unapologetically say that’s never what I’ve been about.” \nComposer and performer Ned Rothenberg has been internationally acclaimed for both his solo and ensemble music\, presented for the past 40 years on five continents. He performs primarily on alto saxophone\, clarinet\, bass clarinet\, and the shakuhachi. Rothenberg’s solo work utilizes an expanded palette of sonic language\, creating a kind of personal idiom all its own. In an ensemble setting\, he leads the quartet Crossings 4\, with Sylvie Courvoisier\, Mary Halvorson and Tomas Fujiwara\, as well as his longstanding trio Sync\, with Jerome Harris (guitars) and Samir Chatterjee (tabla). He has collaborated around the world with fellow improvisers including Evan Parker\, Marc Ribot\, Sainkho Namchylak\, Masahiko Sato\, Samm Bennett\, Kazu Uchihashi\, Paul Dresher and John Zorn. Notable recordings include Lockdown\, with Courvoisier and Julian Sartorius on Clean Feed; Quintet for Clarinet and Strings with the Mivos Quartet\, World of Odd Harmonics\, Ryu Nashi (new music for shakuhachi) and Inner Diaspora\, all on John Zorn’s Tzadik label; and Live at Roulette with Evan Parker\, The Fell Clutch\, and Are You Be on Rothenberg’s own Animul label.
URL:https://hartfordjazzsociety.com/event/ned-rothenberg/
LOCATION:Wistariahurst Museum\, 238 Cabot Street\, Holyoke\, MA
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