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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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Daniel Levin (cello), Nate Wooley (trumpet), Matt Moran (vibes), Peter Bitenc (bass)

Daniel Levin began playing the cello at age six. He has performed and/or
recorded with Billy Bang, Borah Bergman, Tim Berne, Anthony Braxton,
Rob Brown, Whit Dickey, Mark Dresser, 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. His records as a leader are on Riti Records, Hat Hut, and Clean Feed. Daniel is the recipient of a 2010 Jerome Foundation award.

“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

“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

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The music we are playing tonight places the cello in the lyrical front and center. It unabashedly embraces the traditional voice and timbre of the cello as found in Brahms and Schubert, while including jazz-informed articulation and phrasing, as well as a variety of extended techniques. What makes this group special for me, more than the unusual instrumentation of cello, trumpet, vibes, and bass, is the individuality and ingenuity of Nate Wooley, Matt Moran, and Peter Bitenc. They are exceptional musicians and I am very fortunate to have their support in realizing this music.

*Levin has a sound that ranges from subtle and understated to
aggressive; with admirable technique as a performer and a compositional
concept that blends structure with freewheeling exploration, he deserves
to have his name added to the short list of cellists who are making a
mark in improvisational music.*
--John Kelman, All About Jazz Magazine

Daniel Levin was born in 1974 in Burlington, Vermont. He began playing
the cello at age six. He has performed and/or recorded with Billy Bang,
Borah Bergman, Tim Berne, Anthony Braxton, Rob Brown, Whit Dickey, Mark
Dresser, Joe Morris, Joe McPhee, William Parker, Warren Smith, and
others. Daniel has recorded as a sideman for Clean Feed, EMANEM, Not Two, and RogueART, and as a leader, for Riti Records, HatHut, and Clean Feed.

"He's gotten an incredibly personal trumpet and voice vocabulary together in recent years, including a range of deliciously abstract and quiet sounds that put him in a pretty elite category of innovative acoustic instrumentalists. ....expect to really FEEL something when he plays, something new, serious, sublime, para-human, perplexing, something EMINENTLY MINDFUL".- Philadelphia Ambient Consortium.

Nate Wooley (b. 1974) grew up in Clatskanie, Oregon, a finnish-american fishing and timber town. He has spent most of his musical life whole-heartedly embracing the space between complete absorption in sound and relative absence of the same. Nate's trumpet playing is considered an organic mixture of new music, free jazz, and noise improvisation traditions. In the context of trumpet improvisation, he has worked diligently to keep one musical foot firmly planted outside of the recognized lineage.

Matt Moran "is the most astonishingly progressive vibraphone player to come along since the Hoggard/Naughton generation of the '70s... Whether playing angular runs at lightning speed or laying out Webern-esque chords with the intense scrutiny of a chess master, Moran blazes any number of new trails for his instrument." (Steve Smith, Jazzcorner.com). <http://jazzcorner.com/> Moran plays regularly with the Claudia Quintet and the Daniel Levin Quartet, and leads the brass band Slavic Soul Party! and the recording project Sideshow, which interprets the songs of Charles Ives.

Peter Bitenc grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he was gigging in local clubs not long after taking up the bass at age 15. Peter attended the New England Conservatory of Music where he studied with Steve Lacy, Cecil McBee, and Jerry Bergonzi and graduated with a degree in Jazz Studies in 2004. Peter moved to New York City in 2005 where is currently active in the Jazz, Rock and Bluegrass scenes. Peter has played on various albums such as Casey Dienel's "Wind Up Canary" and Heather & the Barbarians' "Tell Me Tonight." He is also a member of the Daniel Levin Quartet, Holus Bolus and Cat Show Snapshots.

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Nicole Zaray - The Day I Found Love A One-Women* Opera by Nicole Zaray - Music produced and written by Nicole Zaray. Pianist Ian Kane on synthesizers/keyboards. Visions of NYC by photographer Eva Mueller Nicole scats about the blurry bobbing lights of the city while jam master jay and princess leia shriek backwards, that stride piano plays, and she does contact improvisation with images of midtown. You'll dance too, let your soul out, and laugh with the person next to you. Or at least spill wine on them. It's foundsound, trancy triphop and good old fashioned bar-room jazz rolled into one. But the loopiest time is had by all when she raps and sings outrageous bites of growing up in NYC. This is a weird and catchy one-women* opera with beats just under the mainstream radar and a sad but true take on urban independence as well as left-right brain theories. *there's more than one of her. you'll see. Nicole Zaray is a performer and composer who has also made several films. Known for philo-farcical-feminist storylines set to catchy, junkyard psy-fi trip-hop, Zaray's musical performance work - which she writes, produces and scores - includes "The Prettiest Thing" and "Where is She?" both of which ran at PS 122 and Dixon Place and "Bread and Circus 3099" , which ran at The LaMama Annex. Her films include "Joe's Day," starring Debbie Harry, documentary on artist Mimi Gross -- "Mimi's World", & the documentary, "Work, Life and the Unknowable". As a performer and vocalist her collaborations include "The Sticky Fingers of Time" by Hilary Brougher/Good Machine, which was seen at Venice International, Toronto International, and in over forty other cities worldwide. She was featured in "Under the Knife" by Theodora Skipitares, "Momento Mori" by Karen Finley, "Polly's Panic Attack" by Sebastian Stuart, and "Thurma" by Jack Shamblin. She was the featured vocalist on Moby's CDs "Feeling So Real" and "Next is the E" (Mute/Elektra). Nicole also teaches performance workshops at "Centro em Movimento" in Lisboa, Portugal. Daniel Levin - Cellist Daniel Levin brings his quartet to Location One, performing works from his upcoming Hat Hut release. Levin, "a major new voice on his instrument and in improvised music" (Ed Hazell) leads the group, with Nate Wooley (trumpet), Matt Moran (vibes), and Joe Morris (bass). Daniel Levin was born in 1974 and studied classical music intensively throughout high school, going on to the Mannes College of Music and the New England Conservatory. A chance experience improvising with a dancer at the New Arts Festival in Fort Meyers, Florida in the summer of 1993 inspired him to alter his view of himself as a musician. He now works as a composer and improviser, creating his own music as an interpretation of his experience of the world around him. He has worked with many major improvisers and composers in the creative music world. His recorded work includes Enter the Continent (Masashi Harada Condanction Ensemble) on EMANEM, and, as a leader, Don't Go it Alone (Daniel Levin Quartet) on Riti Records.