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SUMMARY:Anders Nilsson’s Hesa Gun
DESCRIPTION:Anders Nilsson (guitar)\, Sam Kulik (trombone)\, David Ambrosio (bass)\, Vinnie Sperrazza (drums) \n“Swedish-born and New York-based experimental guitarist Anders Nilsson produces music that is at once bracingly direct and utterly unclassifiable.” – Matt Miller \nAs an electric\, acoustic\, and 11-string alto guitarist\, he has performed at festivals and concerts throughout Europe and North America. His solo guitar music is featured on the albums Night Guitar (2012) and Äventyr (2022). His own band Hesa Gun features his own compositions together with Sam Kulik – trombone\, David Ambrosio- bass\, Vinnie Sperazza – drums. He plays on over 40 albums and has performed and/or recorded with many artists such as Mohsen Namjoo\, Gordon Beeferman\, Jason Kao Hwang\, Kalabalik\, Paquito D’Rivera\, Elliott Sharp\, Fay Victor\, and Angelblood. Nilsson’s work as a composer has produced 100+ compositions ranging from brief to epic solo works to large experimental ensemble works\, many of which have been released on several acclaimed albums. He has also written music for string quartet\, short films\, butoh dance performances and theatre. \nAmerican musician Sam Kulik was born in western Massachusetts\, but moved to Ohio in 2000 to study at Oberlin College. Upon moving to New York City in 2004\, he quickly established himself among the city’s improvisational music scene\, volunteering at John Zorn’s venue The Stone\, and collaborating with experimental rock bands such as Skeletons and Parts & Labor. Primarily playing trombone\, Kulik has also been proficient at a variety of other instruments\, including tuba\, bass\, and electric guitar\, and has played in a variety of musical projects ranging from folk to indie rock to classical to free jazz. Kulik’s 2012 album\, Escape from Society\, was inspired by the “song poem” phenomenon\, and demonstrated his prowess as an offbeat songwriter. Kulik has guested on several recordings by N.Y.C. improv prankster duo Talibam!\, and was co-credited on their 2011 album Discover AtlantASS\, as well as Double Automatism\, their 2015 collaboration with Japanese Fluxus-associated composer Yasunao Tone. \nFor the past 30 years\, David Ambrosio has been one of New York City’s finest freelance musicians and educators. His current working projects as a leader are CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: Blue Note Records in the Progressive ‘60s\, featuring Grammy nominated saxophonist Donny McCaslin and drumming legend Victor Lewis; and the David Ambrosio Trio\, featuring saxophonist Loren Stillman. In addition to his own ensembles\, he is the co-leader of the David Ambrosio/Russ Meissner Sextet\, 40Twenty\, and Grupo Los Santos\, as well as being a part of many other groups including George Schuller’s Circle Wide\, the Matt Renzi Trio\, Eri Yamamoto Trio\, and Jazz at Lincoln Center’s BMI/New York Jazz Orchestra led by Ted Nash and Andy Farber. He has performed with such jazz greats as Kenny Werner\, Joe Lovano\, Terry Gibbs\, Buddy DeFranco\, George Garzone\, Joseph Jarmon\, and Ralph Alessi. David has also frequently toured in Central and South East Asia on behalf of the US State Department as a performer and clinician. Currently he is on the faculty at Hunter College and the New York Jazz Workshop in NYC. \nVinnie Sperrazza is a Brooklyn-based jazz drummer. Born in 1979 in Utica\, New York\, music and drumming is a family affair for Sperrazza. His father plays and taught drums in Central New York\, and his mother sang at church and did live sound for his father’s bands. He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree at William Paterson University in 2002 and moved to Brooklyn later that year. From 2004 until 2013\, Sperrazza was focused on teaching drumset and jazz ensembles\, privately and at local music schools. Meanwhile\, he continued his musical studies in harmony\, counterpoint\, and composition with Paul Caputo. Sperrazza made a few noted recordings at this time\, including John McNeil’s Hush Point and 40twenty with trombonist Jacob Garchik. By 2014\, when Apocryphal\, his first album of original compositions was released\, Sperrazza was moving away from teaching to focus on performing. He has made a mark on the New York jazz community with his swinging\, enthusiastic playing and his commitment to original projects. In 2017\, he premiered the Mark Morris Dance Group’s Pepperland in Liverpool\, England\, with a score by pianist and composer Ethan Iverson\, and has continued to tour with the company. He is a member of the Hank Roberts Sextet and Hank Roberts Trio\, tours and records with the groups Landline\, the Choir Invisible\, Curtis-Garabedian-Sperrazza\, Hearing Things\, Vinnie Sperrazza-Jacob Sacks-Masa Kamaguchi PLAY\, and trioTrio\, works with bandleaders/composers Mike McGinnis and Michael Formanek\, writes music\, leads his own bands Apocryphal and Small Cities\, organizes improvising groups\, and continues his musical studies.
URL:https://hartfordjazzsociety.com/event/anders-nilssons-hesa-gun/
LOCATION:Holyoke Media\, 1 Court Plaza\, Holyoke\, MA
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SUMMARY:sinonó
DESCRIPTION:isabel crespo pardo (voice)\, Lester St. Louis (cello)\, Henry Fraser (bass) \n“It’s an astonishing blend of the lyric and the austere\, with time stretched like taffy\, […] utterly devastating in its meticulously sculpted intensity”— Peter Magarsak for The Wire Magazine \n“A kind of expressionist fado\, middle-of-the-night music\, comfortable in the deep surrounding darkness\, but also an “offering” that bends towards an oncoming light without betraying that it really is coming”— Piotr Orlov for Dada Strain \nExplosive and wistful\, sinonó draws on Latin American folk and free improvisation to create a space of crackling aliveness. Described as “middle-of-the-night music” (Dada Strain)\, the trio features vocalist and composer isabel crespo pardo\, cellist Lester St. Louis\, and bassist Henry Fraser. Together\, they perform crespo’s “poemsongs” – pieces built around metaphor and improvisation that shift in performance\, but always remain tied to poetry and breath. sinonó has performed at venues such as Roulette Intermedium\, The DiMenna Center\, and Lincoln Center Atrium\, and their debut album la espalda y su punto radiante (Subtext Recordings) released in Spring 2024. They will record their sophomore album this Fall at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NY). \nla espalda y su punto radiante is a collection of poem-songs spun out of solitude. Performed by sinonó\, Crespo’s compositions live in familiar yet surprising environments\, crackling with aliveness. The trio is pulled into the trying\, harboring a faith in interconnectivity\, impulse and imperfection. A patient listen\, this music enlivens unknowing in all its devastating urgency and unfettered curiosity. \nisabel crespo pardo (they/them) is a NYC-based latinx vocalist\, improviser-composer\, and interdisciplinary artist. Recent evening length works include Mighty Angel…come down clothed in rainbow-head (2024)\, an experimental play co-created and performed with Anna Abondolo. This performance piece exhibits the tension between our hopeful and despondent tendencies via voice\, plucked strings\, fixed media\, sculpture\, and haunting monologues. In November 2022\, crespo premiered 6.\, a six-week interdisciplinary installation piece performed by crespo and five close collaborators\, making use of screen printing\, sculpture and sound to activate contemplation of community and improvisation.  In June 2022\, they premiered drip\, drip\, a co-created site-specific piece with edi kwon in the catacombs of the Green-Wood Cemetery.  Inspired by this historic space and sharing in each other’s grief and light\, the duo crafted a ritual of transformation through improvisation\, movement\, poetry\, and the use of found objects. In May 2022\, they premiered desbordándome\, a large-scale embroidered graphic score composed for sinonó exploring themes of change\, interconnectedness\, and failure\, as well as the expressive and sonic potential of words.
URL:https://hartfordjazzsociety.com/event/sinono/
LOCATION:Holyoke Media\, 1 Court Plaza\, Holyoke\, MA
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SUMMARY:Elliott Sharp & Janene Higgins: Entanglement Suite
DESCRIPTION:Elliott Sharp (guitars)\, Janene Higgins (live video) \nElliott Sharp and Janene Higgins will present Entanglement Suite\, a structure for improvisation using video and sound. In their work together\, the images provide a visual counterpoint to the music. Foreground and background are continuously shifting as both sound and visuals emerge from fixed elements and then expand with improvised extrapolations. The projections may solidify the abstract but may also elevate that which is obvious to another level of meaning\, never literal\, never explaining\, but creating an immediate visceral response. \nSharp will also read from his latest book\, Feedback: Translations From The IrRational. Feedback is a wide-ranging meditation on music\, sound\, artificial intelligence\, consciousness\, contemporary culture and politics\, and the life of the touring musician. Author Elliott Sharp is considered one of the central figures in NYC’s Downtown Scene and is a composer\, producer\, multi-instrumentalist\, visual artist\, and educator. Starting from a background in the sciences\, Sharp found his passion for music as a teen\, and it has never abated. His philosophy is informed not just by music and its creation but by continuing studies in physics and genetics and a visceral interest in our modern world and its joys and horrors. In Feedback\, Sharp engages in speculative thought about how consciousness might have arisen and what the future holds for humanity with the advent of an Artificial Intelligence that is certainly artificial but might not exactly be intelligent. The “Improviser’s Mind” is discussed in the context of post-quantum physics\, probability\, socio-acoustics\, and Butoh dance. Sharp loves to digress into unpredictable areas but ties it all together in an overarching narrative that is both personal and conceptual. \nAs a composer\, Sharp’s strategies encompass fractal geometry\, chaos theory\, algorithmic approaches\, genetic metaphors\, and new techniques for graphic notation to yield work catalyzing a synesthetic approach to music as well as functioning as retinal art. A multi-instrumentalist\, Sharp will perform on guitars and electronics. \nA graphic designer by profession\, Janene Higgins uses original footage\, hand-painted textures\, and digital processing in her projection design which she may then manipulate live\, using various software operations. \nSharp and Higgins have created a number of operas with the visuals providing set and setting as well as commentary. The operas include Binibon (2009)\, Port Bou (2014)\, Filiseti Mekidesi (2018)\, and Die Grösste Fuge (2021). In addition\, their Entanglement Suite was premiered in Naples\, Italy in September 2023 by the Ensemble Dissonanzen. \nJANENE HIGGINS is a video artist and graphic designer based in New York City. Her work spans several genres\, from video performance in the experimental music scene to commercial videos\, to the design of CD packages for such record labels as Sony\, BMG\, PolyGram\, and a wide variety of independents. Her collaborators include Ikue Mori\, Mari Kimura\, Alan Licht\, Nurit Tilles\, Okkyung Lee\, Aki Onda\, and Zeena Parkins. In addition to video performance\, she has directed several short experimental videos\, often with sound design by notable avant-garde artists including Elliott Sharp\, Parkins\, Christian Marclay and John Duncan. Her work has been performed and exhibited at The New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center; Documenta in Kassel\, Germany; The Kitchen\, NYC; Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon; City of Women festival\, Slovenia; The Chelsea Art Museum\, NYC; HiTeca Festival in Porto\, Portugal; Art Institute of Chicago; Experimenta Festival in Buenos Aires; The Hamburg Short Film Festival; and at The Impakt Festival in The Netherlands. \nELLIOTT SHARP is a composer\, producer\, and multi-instrumentalist who leads the projects Orchestra Carbon\, SysOrk\, Tectonics and Terraplane. His compositional strategies have encompassed the use of fractal geometry\, chaos theory\, algorithms\, genetic metaphors\, and new techniques for graphic notation to yield work that catalyzes a synesthetic approach to musicmaking as well as functioning as retinal art. In 2015\, Sharp was awarded both the Berlin Prize and the Jahrespreis from der Deutscher Schallplatten Kritiks. In 2014 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fellowship from the Center for Transformative Media. He has been featured in the Darmstadt and Huddersfield festivals\, New Music Stockholm\, Au Printemps-Paris\, Hessischer Rundfunk Klangbiennale\, and the Venice Biennale. His book IrRational Music\, a mix of memoir\, cultural discussion\, and music theory was published in 2019. He is the subject of the documentary Doing The Don’t and has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered. Sharp’s composition Storm of the Eye\, composed for violinist Hilary Hahn\, appeared on her Grammy-winning album In 27 Pieces. His opera Filiseti Mekidesi premiered at the RuhrTriennale in 2018 and his Walter Benjamin opera Port Bou premiered in NYC in 2014 at Issue Project Room and in Europe at Berlin Konzerthaus in 2015. His sound installations include Foliage\, Fluvial\, Chromatine\, and Tag. Sharp’s collaborators have included Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; pianist Cecil Taylor; Ensemble Modern; pop singer Debbie Harry; blues legends Hubert Sumlin and Pops Staples; Arditti\, JACK\, and Kronos quartets; jazz greats Jack Dejohnette and Sonny Sharrock; media artists Christian Marclay and Pierre Huyghe; Radio-Sinfonie Frankfurt; and Bachir Attar\, leader of the Master Musicians Of Jajouka.
URL:https://hartfordjazzsociety.com/event/elliott-sharp-janene-higgins-entanglement-suite/
LOCATION:Holyoke Media\, 1 Court Plaza\, Holyoke\, MA
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