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Chris Jonas

Vilnius Mama Jazz Festival 2022

by John Sharpe
June 6, 2022

Vilnius Mama Jazz Festival National Drama Theater Lithuania May 27-29, 2022 Introduction It's a little known fact that Lithuania has more jazz festivals per capita than any other country. Prominent among them is the Mama Jazz Festival, held annually amid the baroque beauty of the capital Vilnius. And it says something ...

Trevor Anderies Quintet at Fresh Santa Fe

by Dave Wayne
October 31, 2016

Trevor Anderies Quintet Fresh Santa Fe New Music Series Santa Fe, NM September 3, 2016 To be perfectly honest, most of the bands that come to Santa Fe, NM are playing fill-in gigs between dates in jny: Albuquerque (or jny: Phoenix) and jny: Denver. And that's okay because it just ...

Kodama Trio: Kodama Trio

by Dave Wayne
March 31, 2016

Funny how groups come together. The Kodama Trio, resident in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is comprised of three individuals from completely different backgrounds and completely different parts of the country. Pianist Robert Muller, originally from Portland, OR, has spent time in New York City and Copenhagen. A former student of Andrew Hill at Portland State University, ...

Tri-Centric Orchestra Commissioning Series at Roulette

by Kurt Gottschalk
October 7, 2013

The Tri-Centric Orchestra Roulette Tri-Centric Orchestra Commissioning Series Brooklyn, NY Sept. 24-25, 2013 Addressing the audience at Roulette on Sept. 24, halfway through the first of two nights of the Tri-Centric Presenting Series, trumpeter and foundation executive director Taylor Ho Bynum acknowledged the influence of Artistic Director and spiritual godfather ...

Anthony Braxton: Sax Quintet (New York) 1998

by John Sharpe
June 25, 2013

Saxophone agglomerations are not without precedent in reedman/composer Anthony Braxton's copious playbook. Indeed, his “Composition 37" for four saxophones on New York, Fall 1974 (Arista, 1975) could be said to have launched the genre, bringing together as it did three of the founder members of the pioneering World Saxophone Quartet two years before their eventual formation. ...

October 5th thru 8th, the Tri-Centric Foundation presents a 4-day festival "Energies, Ideas, Intuitions: The Tri-Centric Music of Anthony Braxton" at Roulette's new venue

September 30, 2011

This is the most comprehensive portrait of Anthony Braxton ever presented in the United States, with Braxton himself performing or conducting every night, leading a total of 60+ musicians. There will be world and U.S. premieres every evening. Prior to the event, we have released a FREE special sampler CD of Braxton's works, spanning over 3 ...

The Sun Spits Cherries

By Chris Jonas

Label: Hopscotch Records
Released: 2000

Chris Jonas: The Sun Spits Cherries

by Glenn Astarita
February 1, 2000

If you are a serious, hard working musician with a keen ear for composition and possess some technical gifts you should reap the benefits of maturation, rapid growth and the ability to expand your musical and intellectual horizons! That and performing with modern jazz luminaries such as Cecil Taylor, William Parker and Anthony Braxton will most ...