Construction on the Roulette’s new concert hall is underway! We’re currently in the process of installing a new (soundproof) ceiling, HVAC, bathrooms, and lobby walls.
Although we’ve begun construction, we still need to raise funds in order to finish construction and open up the new hall! To find out more about how you can help, visit www.roulette.org/newroulette/donations
Roulette’s Fall 2010 Season is officially over! Thanks to everyone who made it to our Benefit concerts on the 6th & 7th – and thanks so much to the wonderful artists who donated their time and talents! We’ll be posting pictures and video from the events as soon as possible.
Autodidact Lenny Pickett began his career playing saxophone and clarinet in bars and on the street. He toured through the 70’s with the legendary r&b group Tower Of Power and worked in the 80’s as a saxophonist and an arranger for David Bowie, The Talking Heads and Laurie Anderson, among others. He is currently musical director for NBC’s Saturday Night Live. He has composed music for experimental dance and theater, including collaborations with choreographers Steven Petronio, Charles Moulton, Bebe Miller, Yoshiko Chuma, and the opera “Welfare”, with filmmaker Fred Wiseman and poet David Slavitt. He also contributed compositions for Alan Ginsberg’s recording “The Lion For Real” and William Burroughs’ “Dead City Radio”. His concert music has been performed by the Kronos Quartet, the New Century Saxophone Quartet, the New York Composers Orchestra, and others. A recording of his music, “Lenny Pickett with the Borneo Horns”, was described by Downbeat magazine as “a brilliantly creative use of acoustic instruments.” He is also currently teaching in the Jazz Studies program at New York University.
ANDY LASTER will be hosting tonights Musician’s Show on WKCR 89.9 FM in NYC. On Friday, December 3rd at Roulette, Andy Laster’s Yiash will perform arrangements of early 20th-Century Egyptian pop by Jewish composers Zaki Murad and Dawud Husni, among others, and Laster’s chamber jazz compositions utilizing the group’s unusual instrumentation and rhizomic approach to improvisation. (Andy Laster – alto and baritone saxophone, clarinet, Curtis Hasselbring – trombone, Erik Friedlander – cello, Kermit Driscoll – bass).
Roulette is pleased to announce that after 7 wonderful years at our temporary 20 Greene Street location in Soho – we’ve finally found ourselves a permanent home! Located in the heart of Downtown Brooklyn, Roulette’s new home is a 7,000 sq ft Art Deco concert hall with a capacity of upwards of 600 people split over 2 floors (a 2,000 sq ft wraparound balcony!). Accessible by the 2,3,4,5,C,G,D,M,N,R,B,Q Trains and the LIRR, the new Roulette will be bigger, badder, and more cutting edge than ever.
* State of the Art Audio / Video and Theatrical Lighting system *
* Capacity of over 600 *
* 7,000 sq ft *
* Ground Floor & Wrap-around Balcony Seating *
* Sound Art Gallery / Entry Lobby *
* Fewer Sound Restrictions *
* Expanded Children’s Program *
* Community Programs *
* Custom Floor for Dance *
* Green Room *
* More Concerts *
* More Music *
We’re very very excited about our new space and what this can provide for the New York and international new music community. We hope to begin presenting music in our new home Spring 2011.
BUT…. (of course there’s a catch….)
We need your help. You are our community – the artists and the audiences who’ve come to Roulette for the last 32 years because they love the music we present. You have built Roulette into New York City’s leading center for contemporary music.
Your donations will be essential in bringing to life this new space and ensuring our future stability as a cutting edge voice in contemporary music.
Your contribution will not only help us build this space; it will give us the encouragement that only our community can give us, and will demonstrate to foundations, public agencies, corporate and private donors that our community cares about Roulette and its future.
Please visit our fund raising site : www.roulette.org/newroulette to find out more about how you can help.
MUMBO JUMBO OUT NOW ON EINSTEIN RECORDS!
Originally released as a double length LP on Rift Records in 1986, this seminal recording of downtown legends Jim Staley, Fred Frith, John Zorn, Ikue Mori, Bill Frisell, Shelly Hirsch, Elliot Sharp, Wayne Horvitz, and Samm Bennet is finally available in its entirety on this digitally remastered double-disc edition. Jim Staley & Co. conjure up “…prime…NYC art damage, all trios, with Staley’s expressive trombone as the common denominator”, (Bill Tilland, Option Magazine). The result of a philosophy that wishes to extend the development of intuition from the matter of spontaneous musical decisions to the initial choice of the musicians themselves, Mumbo Jumbo explores the nature of improvisation.
SCATTERED THOUGHTS is the new double disc release by Roulette’s Einstein Records. Split on 2 CDs, the album documents two live shows at Roulette: one with Roulette founder and trombonist Jim Staley and bassist William Parker, the other with Jim Staley and percussionist Joey Baron.
SCATTERED THOUGHTS got a wonderful review from ALL ABOUT JAZZ
Purchase SCATTERED THOUGHTS at the Roulette Online Store
Noa Guy and Thomas Buckner will appear on WKCR tonight to talk about Guy’s new work: Drops of Consciousness Part III and its premiere at Roulette on June 1st.
Tune in to 89.9 FM or listen on the web at http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/wkcr/
