OPENING WEEKEND OF
The 4th Annual Festival Of New Trumpet Music - September 15-October 15
“The Festival of New Trumpet Music has become a contender among New York's jazz-concert series"--Ben Ratliff, The New York Times
“The Festival of New Trumpet Music, a/k/a FONT Music, has evolved into a summer institution"--Nate Chinen, The Village Voice
“ ... feeling inspired by the flat-out excellent lineup at this year's Festival of New Trumpet Music"--Time Out New York
September 15, 8-12 PM
Eric Biondo & Beyondo-Small & Medium, Ben Neill & Mutantrumpet-XIX, Scott Forrey & Vector Trio
In Collaboration With The Williamsburg Jazz Festival
The Heineken Stage @ Rose
345 Grand Street
Brooklyn, NY
tel 718 599 0069 or click on www.wjazzfestival.com
Tickets are $10.00
September 16, 8:30 PM
Dave Douglas and Roy Campbell - A Living Tribute To Don Cherry
Featuring a performance of Cherry's “Symphony For Improvisers"
Merkin Concert Hall
129 W. 67th Street
call 212 501 3330 for tickets or click on www.kaufman-center.org
Tickets are $30 in advance and $35 day of show
Roy Campbell and Dave Douglas perform original music and interpretations of Don Cherry's pieces with their own quartets. Then both ensembles unite to play Cherry's seminal piece, “Symphony for Improvisers," featuring bassist Henry Grimes who played on the original recording forty years ago. Other important improvisers featured in this celebration of Don Cherry's 70th birthday include bassist William Parker, drummers Andrew Cyrille and Hamid Drake and saxophonists Mixashawn and JD Allen.
September 17
First Day of The Yamaha Seminar Days-FREE masterclasses (3-5 PM) and $10 concerts (6:00 PM) every Sunday
at The Yamaha Artist Services Ctr
located at 689 5th Ave
Masterclass: David Krauss, Co-Principal Trumpet, Metropolitan Opera
Concert: Music for Solo Trumpet, and Trumpet Ensemble I
Performers: David Krauss, Gareth Flowers, Liam Day, Micah Killion Works by: Terry Riley, Sofia Gubaidulina, Alban Berg, Gareth Flowers, Jonathan Harvey, Paul Rutti
September 17
Jesse Selengut and Sabir Mateen (8 PM), Ambient Assault featuring Maurice Brown (9:30 PM)
Tonic
107 Norfolk St., between Delancey & Rivington
call 212 358 7501 or click on www.tonicnyc.com
In collaboration with FONT Music, The Williamsburg Jazz Festival presents two prominent artists on the Williamsburg Scene
The Williamsburg Jazz Festival is in its fourth season and runs from September 10th through the 17th. www.wjazzfestival.com
For a complete listing of FONT Music events - see www.fontmusic.org:
FONT Music is now a non-profit entity in collaboration with the American Music Center and receives generous support from NYSCA, Greenwall foundation and private donors.
For more information about FONT Music and its curators please visit www.fontmusic.org and the following websites:
Dave Douglas: www.davedouglas.com
Roy Campbell: www.roycampbellmusic.com
Jon Nelson: www.bluebisonmusic.com
To schedule an interview with the curators and to receive a press kit on The Festival of New Trumpet Music 2006, please contact Jason Byrne at Red Cat Publicity, tel 347 578 7601, email [email protected]
For more information contact Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity.
