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Quintet



Loren Stillman (alto + soprano saxophones)

Todd Neufeld (guitar)

Cory Smythe (piano + keyboard)

Thomas Morgan (bass)

Tyshawn Sorey (drums)



Sorey's book of quintet music, originally comprised of 41 compositions for quartet (guitar, saxophone, bass, drums) written from 2002-2005, explores many facets of contemporary creative improvised music. This is a music that possesses a chamber ensemble-like interplay, as well as moments of density and melodicism. Since 2003, there were a number of great musicians who participated in this quartet, such as pianists Carl Maguire and Russ Lossing, saxophonist Pete Robbins, and bassists Carlo De Rosa and Matt Brewer.



In July 2005, the group expanded into a quintet format. From this period until January 2007, the group then experimented with many possible ways of performing the music by expanding the instrumentation of the ensemble (up to nine musicians). In August 2009, the group returned to the quintet format, and many of the compositions were performed at the Stone during a two-night period. This is the second performance of this new edition of the quintet, and it will feature Sorey's longtime collaborator in the ensemble(s), saxophonist Loren Stillman.



Tyshawn Sorey (b. Newark, N.J., 1980) is an active composer, performer, educator, and scholar who works across an extensive range of musical idioms. As a percussionist, trombonist, and pianist, Tyshawn has performed and/or recorded nationally and internationally with his own ensembles and with those led by Muhal Richard Abrams, Steve Coleman, Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, Michele Rosewoman, Anthony Braxton, Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith, Dave Douglas, and Billy Bang, among many others. Sorey's work has been favorably reviewed in Traps, The Village Voice, The Wire, The New York Times, Modern Drummer, JazzTimes, The Star-Ledger, and Downbeat Magazine, and on WKCR-FM. Tyshawn has also appeared in Downbeat Magazine's Annual Critics' Poll since 2007. His article in Arcana 4 (John Zorn, ed.), "Meaning in Music", examines his approach to both composition and improvisation. Sorey received his B.M. (2004) in Jazz Studies and Performance from William Paterson University where he studied under John Riley, James Williams, and Kevin Norton, while concurrently studying composition with Anton Vishio and John Link, in addition to working in various settings under Peter Jarvis, director of the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble. Sorey has also conducted and participated in various lectures and master classes on improvisation, composition, contemporary drumming, ensemble playing, and critical theory at the International Realtime Music Symposium in Norway, Hochschule für Musik Köln, School of Improvisational Music, Musikhochschule Nürnberg, Berklee College of Music, Birmingham Conservatory of Music in England, and Cité de la Musique in Paris. He has received commissions from Van Lier Fellowship and Roulette Intermedium, most recently for a multi-chapter work in progress entitled "Wu-Wei," recently premiered in its' entirety at The Stone in New York City, where he served as curator, in August 2009. Tyshawn is currently a private instructor in composition and improvisation for the School of Improvisational Music.

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New Quartet



Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet + various brass instruments)

Aaron Stewart (woodwinds)

John Escreet (piano)

Tyshawn Sorey (trombone + drums)



Since its' immediate inception on November 19, 2009 at the AACM Concert Series in NYC, Sorey has begun preparing a new work for this quartet entitled Acts (to be premiered in October at the Jazz Gallery in NYC). This is the quartet's second appearance in New York, and they will be performing brand new compositions by Sorey, as well as material from Acts.



Tyshawn Sorey (b. Newark, N.J., 1980) is an active composer, performer, educator, and scholar who works across an extensive range of musical idioms. As a percussionist, trombonist, and pianist, Tyshawn has performed and/or recorded nationally and internationally with his own ensembles and with those led by Muhal Richard Abrams, Steve Coleman, Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, Michele Rosewoman, Anthony Braxton, Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith, Dave Douglas, and Billy Bang, among many others. Sorey's work has been favorably reviewed in Traps, The Village Voice, The Wire, The New York Times, Modern Drummer, JazzTimes, The Star-Ledger, and Downbeat Magazine, and on WKCR-FM. Tyshawn has also appeared in Downbeat Magazine's Annual Critics' Poll since 2007. His article in Arcana 4 (John Zorn, ed.), "Meaning in Music", examines his approach to both composition and improvisation. Sorey received his B.M. (2004) in Jazz Studies and Performance from William Paterson University where he studied under John Riley, James Williams, and Kevin Norton, while concurrently studying composition with Anton Vishio and John Link, in addition to working in various settings under Peter Jarvis, director of the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble. Sorey has also conducted and participated in various lectures and master classes on improvisation, composition, contemporary drumming, ensemble playing, and critical theory at the International Realtime Music Symposium in Norway, Hochschule für Musik Köln, School of Improvisational Music, Musikhochschule Nürnberg, Berklee College of Music, Birmingham Conservatory of Music in England, and Cité de la Musique in Paris. He has received commissions from Van Lier Fellowship and Roulette Intermedium, most recently for a multi-chapter work in progress entitled "Wu-Wei," recently premiered in its' entirety at The Stone in New York City, where he served as curator, in August 2009. Tyshawn is currently a private instructor in composition and improvisation for the School of Improvisational Music.

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KOAN + 2



Ben Gerstein (trombone)

Todd Neufeld (guitar)

Thomas Morgan (bass)

Christopher Tordini (bass)

Tyshawn Sorey (drums)



Sorey's latest release, Koan (482 Music), features longtime friends/collaborators Todd Neufeld and Thomas Morgan. During the previous months, Sorey has prepared yet another suite of music for this expanded edition of KOAN featuring two of Sorey's closest collaborators to date, Ben Gerstein (trombone) and Christopher Tordini (bass).



Tyshawn Sorey (b. Newark, N.J., 1980) is an active composer, performer, educator, and scholar who works across an extensive range of musical idioms. As a percussionist, trombonist, and pianist, Tyshawn has performed and/or recorded nationally and internationally with his own ensembles and with those led by Muhal Richard Abrams, Steve Coleman, Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, Michele Rosewoman, Anthony Braxton, Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith, Dave Douglas, and Billy Bang, among many others. Sorey's work has been favorably reviewed in Traps, The Village Voice, The Wire, The New York Times, Modern Drummer, JazzTimes, The Star-Ledger, and Downbeat Magazine, and on WKCR-FM. Tyshawn has also appeared in Downbeat Magazine's Annual Critics' Poll since 2007. His article in Arcana 4 (John Zorn, ed.), "Meaning in Music", examines his approach to both composition and improvisation. Sorey received his B.M. (2004) in Jazz Studies and Performance from William Paterson University where he studied under John Riley, James Williams, and Kevin Norton, while concurrently studying composition with Anton Vishio and John Link, in addition to working in various settings under Peter Jarvis, director of the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble. Sorey has also conducted and participated in various lectures and master classes on improvisation, composition, contemporary drumming, ensemble playing, and critical theory at the International Realtime Music Symposium in Norway, Hochschule für Musik Köln, School of Improvisational Music, Musikhochschule Nürnberg, Berklee College of Music, Birmingham Conservatory of Music in England, and Cité de la Musique in Paris. He has received commissions from Van Lier Fellowship and Roulette Intermedium, most recently for a multi-chapter work in progress entitled "Wu-Wei," recently premiered in its' entirety at The Stone in New York City, where he served as curator, in August 2009. Tyshawn is currently a private instructor in composition and improvisation for the School of Improvisational Music.

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"Ivo's virtuosity and individual sound - tremendously lyrical - has created a world within the Avant-Garde that is all his own, unlike of anybody else."
-Gary Giddins, author, critic - The New York Times, Village Voice, The Sun



"Perelman belongs to a lineage of aesthetically ambitious humanists like Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane and Henry Threadgill."
-James C.Hall, author, New College Director, University of Alabama



"...an entire new school of jazz..., unique genius..."
-Gunther Schuller, composer, conductor, jazz historian



Perelman learned to play guitar, cello, clarinet, trombone, and piano while young, and concentrated on tenor sax from age 19. He attended the Berklee College of Music for one semester and then dropped out, moving to Los Angeles in 1986. Perelman released his first album in 1989, which featured Peter Erskine, John Patitucci, Airto Moreira, Elaine Elias, and Flora Purim as guests. After the release of his first album he moved to New York City. Perelman has released many critically-acclaimed Abums since then for a number of different labels.



"Not since David Darling and Hank Roberts has there been a more exciting jazz prospect on the cello....it leaves Levin very much the man to watch."
-Penguin Guide to Jazz



"Cellist Daniel Levin is a major new voice on his instrument and in improvised music."
- Ed Hazell, The Boston Phoenix



"Daniel Levin est aujourd'hui une figure majeure du violoncello."
- Franck Bergerot, Jazz Magazine



Daniel Levin began playing the cello at age six. After a childhood spent immersed in the classical cello tradition, he started to follow his own musical direction as an improviser and composer after his first experience improvising with a dancer at the age of 19. He has performed and/or recorded with Billy Bang, Borah Bergman, Tim Berne, Anthony Braxton, Rob Brown, Whit Dickey, Mark Dresser, Tony Malaby, Joe Morris, Joe McPhee, William Parker, Warren Smith, Ken Vandermark, and many others. Daniel has recorded as a sideman for Clean Feed, EMANEM, Not Two, and RogueART, and Meta Records. His records as a leader are on Riti Records, Hat Hut, and Clean Feed.




Andrew Cyrille was born in Brooklyn, NY. As well as studying privately, he attended the Juilliard and Hartnett schools of music. He has performed with Jazz artists ranging from Coleman Hawkins, Illinois Jacquet and Mary Lou Williams to Kenny Dorham, Muhal Richard Abrams, Horace Tapscott, John Carter,Mal Waldron and David Murray. In 1964 he formed and association with pianist Cecil Taylor that would last for 11 years. He played drums for many notable dancer-choreogrphers from the mid to late 1960's. Within the past several years, he has been collaborating and working with musicians such as saxophonist, Archie Shepp, trombonist, Roswell Rudd, trumpeter, Dave Douglas, bassists, Henry Grimes and William Parker, pianists Dave Burrell and Marilyn Crispell, and vibraphonist, Karl Berger.

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"Ivo's virtuosity and individual sound - tremendously lyrical - has created a world within the Avant-Garde that is all his own, unlike of anybody else."
-Gary Giddins, author, critic - The New York Times, Village Voice, The Sun



"Perelman belongs to a lineage of aesthetically ambitious humanists like Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane and Henry Threadgill."
-James C.Hall, author, New College Director, University of Alabama



"...an entire new school of jazz..., unique genius..."
-Gunther Schuller, composer, conductor, jazz historian



Perelman learned to play guitar, cello, clarinet, trombone, and piano while young, and concentrated on tenor sax from age 19. He attended the Berklee College of Music for one semester and then dropped out, moving to Los Angeles in 1986. Perelman released his first album in 1989, which featured Peter Erskine, John Patitucci, Airto Moreira, Elaine Elias, and Flora Purim as guests. After the release of his first album he moved to New York City. Perelman has released many critically-acclaimed Abums since then for a number of different labels.



"Not since David Darling and Hank Roberts has there been a more exciting jazz prospect on the cello....it leaves Levin very much the man to watch."
-Penguin Guide to Jazz



"Cellist Daniel Levin is a major new voice on his instrument and in improvised music."
- Ed Hazell, The Boston Phoenix



"Daniel Levin est aujourd'hui une figure majeure du violoncello."
- Franck Bergerot, Jazz Magazine



Daniel Levin began playing the cello at age six. After a childhood spent immersed in the classical cello tradition, he started to follow his own musical direction as an improviser and composer after his first experience improvising with a dancer at the age of 19. He has performed and/or recorded with Billy Bang, Borah Bergman, Tim Berne, Anthony Braxton, Rob Brown, Whit Dickey, Mark Dresser, Tony Malaby, Joe Morris, Joe McPhee, William Parker, Warren Smith, Ken Vandermark, and many others. Daniel has recorded as a sideman for Clean Feed, EMANEM, Not Two, and RogueART, and Meta Records. His records as a leader are on Riti Records, Hat Hut, and Clean Feed.




Andrew Cyrille was born in Brooklyn, NY. As well as studying privately, he attended the Juilliard and Hartnett schools of music. He has performed with Jazz artists ranging from Coleman Hawkins, Illinois Jacquet and Mary Lou Williams to Kenny Dorham, Muhal Richard Abrams, Horace Tapscott, John Carter,Mal Waldron and David Murray. In 1964 he formed and association with pianist Cecil Taylor that would last for 11 years. He played drums for many notable dancer-choreogrphers from the mid to late 1960's. Within the past several years, he has been collaborating and working with musicians such as saxophonist, Archie Shepp, trombonist, Roswell Rudd, trumpeter, Dave Douglas, bassists, Henry Grimes and William Parker, pianists Dave Burrell and Marilyn Crispell, and vibraphonist, Karl Berger.

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"Ivo's virtuosity and individual sound - tremendously lyrical - has created a world within the Avant-Garde that is all his own, unlike of anybody else."
-Gary Giddins, author, critic - The New York Times, Village Voice, The Sun



"Perelman belongs to a lineage of aesthetically ambitious humanists like Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane and Henry Threadgill."
-James C.Hall, author, New College Director, University of Alabama



"...an entire new school of jazz..., unique genius..."
-Gunther Schuller, composer, conductor, jazz historian



Perelman learned to play guitar, cello, clarinet, trombone, and piano while young, and concentrated on tenor sax from age 19. He attended the Berklee College of Music for one semester and then dropped out, moving to Los Angeles in 1986. Perelman released his first album in 1989, which featured Peter Erskine, John Patitucci, Airto Moreira, Elaine Elias, and Flora Purim as guests. After the release of his first album he moved to New York City. Perelman has released many critically-acclaimed Abums since then for a number of different labels.



"Not since David Darling and Hank Roberts has there been a more exciting jazz prospect on the cello....it leaves Levin very much the man to watch."
-Penguin Guide to Jazz



"Cellist Daniel Levin is a major new voice on his instrument and in improvised music."
- Ed Hazell, The Boston Phoenix



"Daniel Levin est aujourd'hui une figure majeure du violoncello."
- Franck Bergerot, Jazz Magazine



Daniel Levin began playing the cello at age six. After a childhood spent immersed in the classical cello tradition, he started to follow his own musical direction as an improviser and composer after his first experience improvising with a dancer at the age of 19. He has performed and/or recorded with Billy Bang, Borah Bergman, Tim Berne, Anthony Braxton, Rob Brown, Whit Dickey, Mark Dresser, Tony Malaby, Joe Morris, Joe McPhee, William Parker, Warren Smith, Ken Vandermark, and many others. Daniel has recorded as a sideman for Clean Feed, EMANEM, Not Two, and RogueART, and Meta Records. His records as a leader are on Riti Records, Hat Hut, and Clean Feed.




Andrew Cyrille was born in Brooklyn, NY. As well as studying privately, he attended the Juilliard and Hartnett schools of music. He has performed with Jazz artists ranging from Coleman Hawkins, Illinois Jacquet and Mary Lou Williams to Kenny Dorham, Muhal Richard Abrams, Horace Tapscott, John Carter,Mal Waldron and David Murray. In 1964 he formed and association with pianist Cecil Taylor that would last for 11 years. He played drums for many notable dancer-choreogrphers from the mid to late 1960's. Within the past several years, he has been collaborating and working with musicians such as saxophonist, Archie Shepp, trombonist, Roswell Rudd, trumpeter, Dave Douglas, bassists, Henry Grimes and William Parker, pianists Dave Burrell and Marilyn Crispell, and vibraphonist, Karl Berger.

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Darius Jones Quartet

Matt Mitchell: Piano

Trevor Dunn: Bass

Ches Smith: Drums

Darius Jones: Alto Sax and Composition



Darius Jones is a Brooklyn-based alto saxophonist, composer, and producer. He joined the New York music community in 2005 after living and studying in Richmond, Va. Jones graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a Bachelors in Jazz Studies in 2003 and received a Master's Degree in Jazz Performance/Composition from New York University in 2008. He received an Advanced Certificate in New Music Education at New York University while also teaching New Music Improvisation there for a year as an adjunct professor.



In 2008, Darius received the Van Lier Fellowship awarded by Roulette. The fellowship awarded him a cash prize and concluded with a concert in April 2009 where Jones presented his chamber ensemble, the Elizabeth-Caroline Unit, a project dedicated to new works for voice. Darius was signed to AUM Fidelity records in Feb. of 2009, with his first album as a leader, Man'ish Boy (A Raw and Beautiful Thing), released on Oct. 13. The record features his trio with Bob Moses and Cooper-Moore and reflects on his time growing up in the south as a child.



Darius comes from a diverse musical background that lead to his unique and soulful approach to music. He has composed and performed in electro-acoustic music, chamber ensembles, contemporary and avant-garde jazz groups, modern dance performances, and multi-media events. In Richmond, he formed a multi-media and performance art group called the Klimt Experience. The group combined modern dance, visual art, poetry, animation, and music into a live performance. The Klimt Experience was featured on the front page of Richmond's Style Weekly's Night and Day section in 2002. Darius was also interviewed by Richmond.com about the project in 2002. Darius has also been featured on the BBC's Jazz on 3 and Jason Crane's Jazz Sessions on All About Jazz.



Darius enjoys playing with a steady group of artists and improvisers including the Cooper-Moore Trio, Mike Pride's From Bacteria to Boys, Nioka Workman's House Arrest Band, William Hooker's Bliss Quartet, Trevor Dunn's Proof Readers, Lewis Barnes' Hampton Roads, Mara Rosenbloom Quartet, and Period. Darius has collaborated with Andrew D'angelo, Esther Lamneck, William Parker, Jim Black, Charlie Looker, Dafna Naphtali, Sam Hilmer, Weasal Walters, Angelica Sanchez, Nate Wooley, S.E.M Ensemble, Lisle Ellis, Rob Brown, Ben Gerstein, Taylor Ho Bynum, Warren Smith, Alex Waterman, Sara Schoenbeck, Fay Victor, Bob Moses, Bern Nix, Sarah Dyson, et al. In 2006, Darius produced a record for Korean jazz vocalist Sunny Kim titled Android Ascension, which was released on YDS Music in Korea in 2008. He also produced a record, Sugar, for country-folk artist Mary Bragg in 2008. Darius' music has recently taken him around the US and to Europe, the Netherlands, and Canada. Performances include the Vision Festival, Just Music Festival, Rumor Festival, Sons D'hiver Festival, Saalfelden Jazz Festival, FONT Festival, New Languages Festival, JVC Festival, Terrastock Festival, etc. Darius co-leads a band with Travis LaPlante, Andrew Smiley, and Jason Nazary called Little Women, which toured nationally in 2008 to promote the release of their first record, Teeth, on Sockets and Gilgongo Records. Little Women is a project that explores the extremes of sound by using extended techniques and acoustic manipulation.

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Two Sets

Darius Jones Trio

Adam Lane: Bass

Jason Nazary: Drums

Darius Jones: Alto Sax and Composition



Darius Jones Quartet

David Bryant: Piano

Trevor Dunn: Bass

Ches Smith: Drums

Darius Jones: Alto Sax and Composition



Darius Jones is a Brooklyn-based alto saxophonist, composer, and producer. He joined the New York music community in 2005 after living and studying in Richmond, Va. Jones graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a Bachelors in Jazz Studies in 2003 and received a Master's Degree in Jazz Performance/Composition from New York University in 2008. He received an Advanced Certificate in New Music Education at New York University while also teaching New Music Improvisation there for a year as an adjunct professor.



In 2008, Darius received the Van Lier Fellowship awarded by Roulette. The fellowship awarded him a cash prize and concluded with a concert in April 2009 where Jones presented his chamber ensemble, the Elizabeth-Caroline Unit, a project dedicated to new works for voice. Darius was signed to AUM Fidelity records in Feb. of 2009, with his first album as a leader, Man'ish Boy (A Raw and Beautiful Thing), released on Oct. 13. The record features his trio with Bob Moses and Cooper-Moore and reflects on his time growing up in the south as a child.



Darius comes from a diverse musical background that lead to his unique and soulful approach to music. He has composed and performed in electro-acoustic music, chamber ensembles, contemporary and avant-garde jazz groups, modern dance performances, and multi-media events. In Richmond, he formed a multi-media and performance art group called the Klimt Experience. The group combined modern dance, visual art, poetry, animation, and music into a live performance. The Klimt Experience was featured on the front page of Richmond's Style Weekly's Night and Day section in 2002. Darius was also interviewed by Richmond.com about the project in 2002. Darius has also been featured on the BBC's Jazz on 3 and Jason Crane's Jazz Sessions on All About Jazz.



Darius enjoys playing with a steady group of artists and improvisers including the Cooper-Moore Trio, Mike Pride's From Bacteria to Boys, Nioka Workman's House Arrest Band, William Hooker's Bliss Quartet, Trevor Dunn's Proof Readers, Lewis Barnes' Hampton Roads, Mara Rosenbloom Quartet, and Period. Darius has collaborated with Andrew D'angelo, Esther Lamneck, William Parker, Jim Black, Charlie Looker, Dafna Naphtali, Sam Hilmer, Weasal Walters, Angelica Sanchez, Nate Wooley, S.E.M Ensemble, Lisle Ellis, Rob Brown, Ben Gerstein, Taylor Ho Bynum, Warren Smith, Alex Waterman, Sara Schoenbeck, Fay Victor, Bob Moses, Bern Nix, Sarah Dyson, et al. In 2006, Darius produced a record for Korean jazz vocalist Sunny Kim titled Android Ascension, which was released on YDS Music in Korea in 2008. He also produced a record, Sugar, for country-folk artist Mary Bragg in 2008. Darius' music has recently taken him around the US and to Europe, the Netherlands, and Canada. Performances include the Vision Festival, Just Music Festival, Rumor Festival, Sons D'hiver Festival, Saalfelden Jazz Festival, FONT Festival, New Languages Festival, JVC Festival, Terrastock Festival, etc. Darius co-leads a band with Travis LaPlante, Andrew Smiley, and Jason Nazary called Little Women, which toured nationally in 2008 to promote the release of their first record, Teeth, on Sockets and Gilgongo Records. Little Women is a project that explores the extremes of sound by using extended techniques and acoustic manipulation.

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Darius Jones Trio

Adam Lane: Bass

Jason Nazary: Drums

Darius Jones: Alto Sax and Composition



Darius Jones is a Brooklyn-based alto saxophonist, composer, and producer. He joined the New York music community in 2005 after living and studying in Richmond, Va. Jones graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a Bachelors in Jazz Studies in 2003 and received a Master's Degree in Jazz Performance/Composition from New York University in 2008. He received an Advanced Certificate in New Music Education at New York University while also teaching New Music Improvisation there for a year as an adjunct professor.



In 2008, Darius received the Van Lier Fellowship awarded by Roulette. The fellowship awarded him a cash prize and concluded with a concert in April 2009 where Jones presented his chamber ensemble, the Elizabeth-Caroline Unit, a project dedicated to new works for voice. Darius was signed to AUM Fidelity records in Feb. of 2009, with his first album as a leader, Man'ish Boy (A Raw and Beautiful Thing), released on Oct. 13. The record features his trio with Bob Moses and Cooper-Moore and reflects on his time growing up in the south as a child.



Darius comes from a diverse musical background that lead to his unique and soulful approach to music. He has composed and performed in electro-acoustic music, chamber ensembles, contemporary and avant-garde jazz groups, modern dance performances, and multi-media events. In Richmond, he formed a multi-media and performance art group called the Klimt Experience. The group combined modern dance, visual art, poetry, animation, and music into a live performance. The Klimt Experience was featured on the front page of Richmond's Style Weekly's Night and Day section in 2002. Darius was also interviewed by Richmond.com about the project in 2002. Darius has also been featured on the BBC's Jazz on 3 and Jason Crane's Jazz Sessions on All About Jazz.



Darius enjoys playing with a steady group of artists and improvisers including the Cooper-Moore Trio, Mike Pride's From Bacteria to Boys, Nioka Workman's House Arrest Band, William Hooker's Bliss Quartet, Trevor Dunn's Proof Readers, Lewis Barnes' Hampton Roads, Mara Rosenbloom Quartet, and Period. Darius has collaborated with Andrew D'angelo, Esther Lamneck, William Parker, Jim Black, Charlie Looker, Dafna Naphtali, Sam Hilmer, Weasal Walters, Angelica Sanchez, Nate Wooley, S.E.M Ensemble, Lisle Ellis, Rob Brown, Ben Gerstein, Taylor Ho Bynum, Warren Smith, Alex Waterman, Sara Schoenbeck, Fay Victor, Bob Moses, Bern Nix, Sarah Dyson, et al. In 2006, Darius produced a record for Korean jazz vocalist Sunny Kim titled Android Ascension, which was released on YDS Music in Korea in 2008. He also produced a record, Sugar, for country-folk artist Mary Bragg in 2008. Darius' music has recently taken him around the US and to Europe, the Netherlands, and Canada. Performances include the Vision Festival, Just Music Festival, Rumor Festival, Sons D'hiver Festival, Saalfelden Jazz Festival, FONT Festival, New Languages Festival, JVC Festival, Terrastock Festival, etc. Darius co-leads a band with Travis LaPlante, Andrew Smiley, and Jason Nazary called Little Women, which toured nationally in 2008 to promote the release of their first record, Teeth, on Sockets and Gilgongo Records. Little Women is a project that explores the extremes of sound by using extended techniques and acoustic manipulation.

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VORTEX (Satoshi Takeishi & Shoko Nagai)

Shoko Nagai ( piano, accordion, electronics)
Satoshi Takeishi ( percussion, electronics)

Experimental Piano/Percs duo Vortex has been incorporating composition, free improvisation, electronics, found objects and visual elements into performances to create a unique path into the world of contemporary music. Their performances are based on stories and they create sound textures almost visible to the listener.

In this performance, Vortex will perform new compositions where illusion is sustained by multiple shifting elements.

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Shoko Nagi's "Glimpse of city"


Shoko Nagai (organ, piano, electronics)

Ned Rothenberg (clarinet, bass clarinet)

Sarah Bernstein (violin)

Satoshi Takeishi (percussion, electronics)


* Glimps of city is new work by composer, pianist Shoko Nagai. This work is based on her experiences, reaction and observations in a urban society.



Born in Nagoya, Japan, composer and pianist Shoko Nagai has been evolving as a professional musician for twelve years. After graduating from Berklee College of Music in 1999 she moved to New York City and quickly established herself in the downtown jazz scene performing with such renowned artists as John Zorn, Rasheid Ali, Butch Morris,Tom Rainy, Coung Vu, Ikue Mori, Roy Champbell, Satoshi Takeishi, Trevor Dunn, Sam Newsome, Greg Tardy, Daniel Carter to name a few. The Shoko Nagai Quintet which features some of New York's best musicians has performed extensively at the BlueNote, Knitting factory, Tonic, Location One,Vision Festival as well as at other top New York clubs and concert.


Nagai released her first CD Two Levels Crossing in 2000, second CD VORTEX in 2003, third CD Vsoon in 2003 which sky productions records. Nagai has performed in Norway (Natt Jazz Festival 1998), in Germany (Moers Jazz Festival 2006), Japan, Switzerland and Israel. Her most recent project is "Vortex" which is a free improvisation duo with piano and electronics. In 2004, she received a grant from Philadelphia Music Project 2004 Grant for JazzJaunts, a project in which seven jazz artists will compose and premiere compositions that incorporate musical traditions from their cultural roots. And formed a new project" Ephemeral" with Ned Rothenberg (Shakuhachi, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet), Jennifer Choi (Violin), John Lindberg (A. Bass), Stomu Takeishi (E. Bass), Satoshi Takeishi (Japanese percussion, electronics).



http://www.myspace.com/shokonagai

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Mary Halvorson Trio

Mary Halvorson- guitar
John Hebert- bass
Ches Smith- drums

Mary Halvorson has been active in New York since 2002, following jazz studies at Wesleyan University and the New School. In addition to her own band, The Mary Halvorson Trio, she co-leads a chamber music duo with violist Jessica Pavone and the avant-rock band, People, with drummer Kevin Shea.

A veteran of the ensembles of esteemed saxophonist/composer Anthony Braxton, she has also performed with groups led by Tim Berne, Taylor Ho Bynum, Trevor Dunn, Tomas Fujiwara, Curtis Hasselbring, Tony Malaby, Myra Melford, Nicole Mitchell, Jason Moran, Marc Ribot, Matana Roberts, Elliott Sharp, John Tchicai and Matthew Welch among many others.

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Mary Halvorson Quintet

Kirk Knuffke- trumpet
Tim Berne- alto saxophone
Mary Halvorson- guitar
John Hebert- bass
Ches Smith- drums

Mary Halvorson has been active in New York since 2002, following jazz studies at Wesleyan University and the New School. In addition to her own band, The Mary Halvorson Trio, she co-leads a chamber music duo with violist Jessica Pavone and the avant-rock band, People, with drummer Kevin Shea.

A veteran of the ensembles of esteemed saxophonist/composer Anthony Braxton, she has also performed with groups led by Tim Berne, Taylor Ho Bynum, Trevor Dunn, Tomas Fujiwara, Curtis Hasselbring, Tony Malaby, Myra Melford, Nicole Mitchell, Jason Moran, Marc Ribot, Matana Roberts, Elliott Sharp, John Tchicai and Matthew Welch among many others.

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Mary Halvorson Quintet

Kirk Knuffke- trumpet
Tim Berne- alto saxophone
Mary Halvorson- guitar
John Hebert- bass
Tomas Fujiwara- drums

Mary Halvorson has been active in New York since 2002, following jazz studies at Wesleyan University and the New School. In addition to her own band, The Mary Halvorson Trio, she co-leads a chamber music duo with violist Jessica Pavone and the avant-rock band, People, with drummer Kevin Shea.

A veteran of the ensembles of esteemed saxophonist/composer Anthony Braxton, she has also performed with groups led by Tim Berne, Taylor Ho Bynum, Trevor Dunn, Tomas Fujiwara, Curtis Hasselbring, Tony Malaby, Myra Melford, Nicole Mitchell, Jason Moran, Marc Ribot, Matana Roberts, Elliott Sharp, John Tchicai and Matthew Welch among many others.

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Other kinds of music might entertain you, cheer you up or pump the blood, but his (Rothenberg's) clarifies the mind and throws your soul wide open".
Manfred Pabst, Neue Züricher Zeitung

Ned Rothenberg and the Mivos String Quartet celebrate the release of Rothenberg's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings originally commissioned by Roulette through NYSCA and out now on John Zorn's Tzadik Composer's series. In addition Ned Rothenberg will perform 2 selections from Ryu Nashi, new music for shakuhachi from Tzadik's New Japan series. He will be joined here by Ralph Samuelson, shakuhachi. The Mivos Quintet is Olivia de Prato and Joshua Modney, violins, Victor Lowrie, viola and Isabel Castelvi, cello.

Composer/Performer Ned Rothenberg has been internationally acclaimed for both his solo and ensemble music, presented for the past 30 years in North and South America, Europe and Asia. He performs primarily on the alto saxophone, clarinet , bass clarinet, and the shakuhachi - an endblown Japanese bamboo flute. He leads the trio Sync, with Jerome Harris, guitars and Samir Chatterjee, tabla. Recent recordings include Sync's Harbinger, Intervals, a double-cd of solo work, Live at Roulette with Evan Parker and Are You Be and The Fell Clutch on Rothenberg's Animul label. Chamber music releases include Inner Diaspora and Ghost Stories, on Tzadik and Power Lines on New World. Other collaborators have included Sainkho Namchylak, Paul Dresher, John Zorn, Marc Ribot and Yuji Takahashi.

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San Diego 4:00 pmPDT

Admission Free.

NYC: 35 W. 4th Street, 6th Floor, New York NY, 10012. Music Technology Program, Steinhardt School, New York University. 7:00pmEDT
SAN DIEGO: Calit2, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0436. Center for Research and Computing in the Arts (CRCA). Directions: http://atkinsonhall.calit2.net/directions/ 4:00pmEDT

An unprecedented concert of new jazz works with renowned composers and performers for the telematic music medium. Telematic music is real-time performance via the internet by musicians in different geographic locations. Performers will be located in New York and San Diego, playing together as one trans-continental ensemble in real-time and "real-space". There will be local audiences as well as a world-wide webcast. The music explores elements of jazz fused with artistic properties of telematic technology including multiplicity, heterophony, swing, polyphony, synchronicity, and nodality. The transparent densities and intensities are manifested to create this new music reality of telematic jazz.

Composers - Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway, Oliver Lake, Sarah Weaver
San Diego Performers - Hafez Modirzadeh, saxophone, Michael Dessen, trombone, Alex Cline, percussion, Mark Dresser, contrabass
New York Performers - Amir ElSaffar, trumpet, Oliver Lake, saxophone, Min Xiao-Fen, pipa, Gerry Hemingway, percussion, Sarah Weaver, conductor
Coordinators - Mark Dresser and Sarah Weaver

Co-Presented by Roulette Intermedia, Inc.

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SKELETONS usual quintet is expanded here for two nights of new compositions, arrangements and ideas. A rare opportunity to hear the band explore the outer limits of their work - with a huge band of players from the wide spectrum of New York's underground music scene.

SKELETONS are an American entertainment unit who live in New York City. They have released recordings on the Tomlab, Ghostly, and Shinkoyo labels.

"Last year's underrated Money found the Silent Barners delving into dramatic, Afro-punked Gastr del Sol-like sweeps-a thread continued during the band's recent shows with the horn-abetted Skeletons Big Band. Oddly, the effect is similar to how Hall Overton's big band arrangements forThelonious Monk brought the pianist's bent-note melodies into focus, straightening Mehlan's into something simultaneously dense but with even more voices." - Village Voice

"If there is beauty in music - and I'm talkin' unconditionally transcending beauty, not just some superficial pretty surface - then Skeletons are right at the heart of it." - (((unartig)))

http://skeletons.tv

SKELETON$ BIG BAND plays "NUMBERS" from Skeletons, Inc. on Vimeo.

Full Description:

SKELETONS usual quintet is expanded here for two nights of new compositions, arrangements and ideas. A rare opportunity to hear the band explore the outer limits of their work - with a huge band of players from the wide spectrum of New York's underground music scene.

SKELETONS are an American entertainment unit who live in New York City. They have released recordings on the Tomlab, Ghostly, and Shinkoyo labels.

"Last year's underrated Money found the Silent Barners delving into dramatic, Afro-punked Gastr del Sol-like sweeps-a thread continued during the band's recent shows with the horn-abetted Skeletons Big Band. Oddly, the effect is similar to how Hall Overton's big band arrangements forThelonious Monk brought the pianist's bent-note melodies into focus, straightening Mehlan's into something simultaneously dense but with even more voices." - Village Voice

"If there is beauty in music - and I'm talkin' unconditionally transcending beauty, not just some superficial pretty surface - then Skeletons are right at the heart of it." - (((unartig)))

http://skeletons.tv

SKELETON$ BIG BAND plays "NUMBERS" from Skeletons, Inc. on Vimeo.