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NEC Presents Third Stream Headwaters Thursday, February 13 At NEC’s Jordan Hall
NEC’s Charles Peltz Conducts Program Including World Premiere Performances of Gunther Schuller’s From Here to There commissioned by NEC and Charles Mingus’ Half-Mast Inhibition in its original orchestration Join Charles Peltz, Director of New England Conservatory’s Wind Ensemble activities, as he conducts Third Stream Headwaters, a program in which he traces the history of NEC's unique ...
Tarun Balani: Sacred World
by Dave Wayne
Jazz fans of a certain age were most likely introduced to the world of Indian music via the recordings of John McLaughlin who, with the group Shakti, introduced American listeners to the dazzling virtuosity of musicians such as violinist L. Shankar, and percussionist Zakir Hussain. Shakti's music extended the compositional style that characterized his previous group, ...
NEC Presents A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall Tuesday, February 18 At NEC’s Jordan Hall
Original Works and Recompositions Offering a Kaleidoscopic Perspective on Protest Music and Social Change Throughout History NEC Faculty Eden MacAdam-Somer, Anthony Coleman Tanya Kalmanovitch plus student pieces include Soldiers Joy which explores the dual reality of soldiers lives in the field and when they come home; a reflection on the Persian Gulf War; a piece inspired ...
Matt Wilson Quartet + John Medeski: Gathering Call
by Carlo Wolff
Drummer Matt Wilson is certainly mercurial. Not only can he be found playing in all manner and format, working with everyone from Myra Melford to John Zorn to Elvis Costello, he regularly leads two quartets: Arts & Crafts, and this one, featuring roiling windman Jeff Lederer, cornetist Kirk Knuffke} and bassist Chris Lightcap. Augmented here by ...
David Buchbinder: Walk to the Sea
by Dave Wayne
Now that the exploration of the relationships between different ethnic musics and modern-day improvised music has reached the first of- hopefully-many crescendos, forward-looking artists such as the Canadian trumpeter David Buchbinder and pianist Hilario Duran have been looking at the many intersections of disparate-seeming ethnic musics through the same lens. Never mind the fact that a ...
Internationally-Acclaimed Improvisers Debut Quartet With Two Violas Sunday, February 2 At NEC's Jordan Hall
Following performances in New York, New England Conservatory faculty member Tanya Kalmanovitch debuts her new two-viola quartet—featuring fellow violist Mat Maneri, an NEC student, Welsh pianist Huw Warren and Austrian bassist Peter Herbert—in concert on Sunday, February 2 at NEC’s Jordan Hall, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston. The concert is free and open to the public. For ...
Wadada Leo Smith: I'm A Dreamer
by John Sharpe
As dreamers go trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith lies at the more serious end of the spectrum. Not for him dreams that fade with the daylight, as evidenced by the realization of his epic Civil Rights inspired Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform, 2012). Smith actually composed the first piece of what developed into a 21 piece magnum opus ...
Project THEM: Project THEM
by Dave Wayne
Vibraphonist Mark Sherman has been knocking around for a while, and though he's a seasoned professional who's won several Downbeat polls it seems that he's one of those artists that's perpetually seen as a newcomer. It's telling that his Downbeat wins were in the “Rising Star" category, though he's been active on the New York jazz ...
Dan Willis and Velvet Gentlemen: The Satie Project II
by Dave Wayne
The music of Eric Satie may well be some of the most malleable and adaptable works ever composed. This could be partly due to the fact that Satie himself stood well outside of the musical mainstream of his time, thus his compositions are comparatively unencumbered by the stylistic baggage of his era. Satie was avant-garde before ...
Matt Wilson Quartet: Gathering Call
by Glenn Astarita
Other than leading his Arts & Crafts and Quartet ensembles, drummer Matt Wilson may be among the most recorded jazz session drummers of recent times. With guest pianist John Medeski, the ensemble delves into a set consisting of Wilson originals and a mixed bag of pop and jazz tunes, penned by diverse artists such as Beyonce,' ...
