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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 ...
Jazz Bridge Presents Percussionist Craig McIver at the Mt. Airy Presbyterian Church on March 10th
Percussionist Craig McIver will be appearing at the Mt. Airy Presbyterian Church, 13 E. Mt. Pleasant Ave, Philadelphia, PA, on Thursday March 10th with his band featuring pianist Aaron Graves, bassist Mike Boone, and John Swana on EVI. One show: 7:30-9PM. Tickets: $10/$5 for students. No advance sales. Free Refreshments! For info: 215-517-8337 Hailed by JazzTimes, ...
Jazz Bridge Presents Sumi Tonooka at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Media (PA) on March 16
For the last piano concert of this season, Jazz Bridge presents award-winning jazz artist Sumi Tonooka in a rare piano concert in the Philadelphia area at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 145 W. Rose Tree Road in Media, PA, on March 16, 2011. With her will be bassist Mike Boone and drummer Alan Nelson. Initiation, her most ...
All Star Tribute / Benefit for Odean Pope March 21st at Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts
Odean Pope Saxophone Choir; Sonia Sanchez; Ravi Coltrane; Kenny Barron; Pat Martino Trio; Gerald Veasley; Warren Oree & The Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble; Reggie Workman; Jamalaadeen Tacuma; Walter Blanding; Duane Eubanks; Willie Williams; Warren Smith; Tony Williams; Bobby Zankel; Justin Faulkner; Carlos Abadie; Monnette Sudler; Bootsie Barnes; George Burton and the Philadelphia Youth Jazz Ensemble. Philadelphia, PA ...
Christian McBride on the Making of the Movement, Revisited
Christian McBride had never even written a single set of lyrics when he was tasked to compose a suite for a gospel choir in 1998. So rather than entrust himself with the words, he turned to four of the most momentous speakers of the 20th century: Civil Rights icons Rosa Parks, Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X and ...
