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Jazz Singer Undaunted by House Fire
By Suzanne Cloud, Executive Director of Jazz Bridge When Jazz Bridge, a nonprofit public charity that aids Philly area jazz and blues musicians, got the call on January 3rd from Sun Ra trumpeter Michael Ray that a local singer and her two children, Ian and Asia, had totally been burned out of their rented house on ...
Jazz Bridge Presents Phyllis Chapell and Siora at the Cheltenham Art Center on April 6th
Appearing at the Cheltenham Art Center, 439 Ashbourne Rd, Cheltenham, PA on April 6, 2011 will be singer Phyllis Chapell with her trio featuring pianist Dave Posmontier, bassist Chico Huff, and drummer Paul Jost. Phyllis Chapell performs a unique mix of originals, folk, jazz and international music, including songs in up to 12 languages from the ...
Larry Carlton: Plays The Sound of Philadelphia
by John Kelman
Regardless of context, guitarist Larry Carlton has built a reputation as one of the tastiest guitarists around, whether he's supporting singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell, jazz/pop hybrid Steely Dan or soulful jazz/funksters The Crusaders. His own records, while always accessible--at times, crossing the line into smooth jazz territory--demonstrate a distinctive blend of sweet and gritty tone, bluesy soulfulness, ...
Larry Carlton Revisits Sounds of Philadelphia
by John Patten
Soulful sounds may have started in Motown or Memphis, but for many, it's the sounds of Philadelphia that captured their hearts. That's certainly the case for Larry Carlton, who released a collection of the biggest hits penned by Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff on his 335 Records label, in February, 2011. Many of ...
Interview | Steve Lehman
On Friday, March 11, Ars Nova Workshop’s three-day Composer Portrait: Fieldwork series begins. Following interviews with drummer Tyshawn Sorey and pianist Vijay Iyer earlier this week, today we share a conversation with saxophonist Steve Lehman. Lehman’s 2009 recording Travail, Transformation, and Flow was praised for creating a dialogue between spectral harmony and jazz—the daring work rightfully ...
Interview | Vijay Iyer
On Saturday, March 12, for the second night of Ars Nova Workshop’s Composer Portrait: Fieldwork, pianist Vijay Iyer, drummer Tyshawn Sorey, and saxophonist Steve Lehman will play in trio. The following night, pieces composed by Iyer and Lehman will be performed with the JACK Quartet. As Pitchfork wrote in a review of Iyer’s 2010 release, Solo, ...
Interview | Tyshawn Sorey
This Friday night, March 11, Ars Nova Workshop begins its three-day Composer Portrait: Fieldwork series with a performance of Fieldwork drummer Tyshawn Sorey’s composition, “For Kathy Change.” Inspired by Kathy Change, an American performance artist and political activist who killed herself in an act of self-immolation on the University of Pennsylvania campus in 1996, Sorey’s ensemble ...
Christian McBride Uses Music to Honor Civil Rights Heroes
Bassist Christian McBride, one of Philadelphia's finest musical sons, used his original compositions to celebrate the ancestors, praise the wisdom of the elders, acknowledge the contributions of the middle-aged and encourage the hope and promise of youth during Saturday night's performance of “The Movement, Revisited." J.D. Steele served as musical director for the Philadelphia premiere of ...
Composer Portrait | Fieldwork
On March 11-13, Ars Nova Workshop is pleased to present Composer Portrait: Fieldwork. These three nights of live music will provide an intimate glimpse at the collective and individual work of three widely celebrated and critically acclaimed composer-performers: pianist Vijay Iyer, saxophonist Steve Lehman, and drummer Tyshawn Sorey. “A jazz power trio for the new century” ...
Interview | Nate Wooley
On March 5, Ars Nova Workshop presents a performance at Vox Populi by trumpeter Nate Wooley, violinist and electronicist C. Spencer Yeh, cellist Okkyung Lee, and percussionist Paul Lytton. With expansive avant-garde affiliations – noise, jazz, free improv, downtown – Wooley assembled this quartet “to see if a collision of forward thinking practitioners of each of ...
