Music: Past
Roulette’s Concert Series for New + Adventurous Music, launched in 1978, presents a wide range of experimental music including avant-jazz, new music, opera, world music, and electronic. This eclectic series features the work of well-known innovators in contemporary music, but a large percentage of the Series is devoted to emerging artists and composers.
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble Featuring Kate McGarry and Theo Bleckmann
Monday, December 10, 2012. 8:00 pm
A big band for a new eclectic world, John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble celebrates the release of their new record "Songs I Like Alot"
[ROULETTE KIDS] Wade Barnes’ Unit Structures –Bill Ware, Director
Saturday, December 8, 2012. 1:00 pm
Unit Structures breaks down the fundamental elements of Jazz improvisation for an interactive audience experience that will deepen the Jazz […]
John King’s Kosmos
Friday, December 7, 2012. 8:00 pm
Guitarist and violist John King is a composer of beautiful and fascinating string quartets. Tonight features the world premiere of Kosmos for […]
[INTERPRETATIONS] Steve Swell & Omar Tamez / Douglas R. Ewart Inventions Ensemble
Thursday, December 6, 2012. 8:00 pm
Steve Swell and Omar Tamez pay homage to Tamez’s father Nicandro Tamez, a prolific yet unsung Mexican composer in the avant garde tradition, […]
Joëlle Léandre “Hommage a John”
Wednesday, December 5, 2012. 8:00 pm
French double bass player, improviser and composer, Joëlle Léandre presents an evening dedicated to John Cage's - including work specifically […]
Alfredo Marin “Death is Progressive” (Jerome Commission)
Monday, December 3, 2012. 8:00 pm
Musician/Sound Artist Alfredo Marin presents the world premiere of Death is Progressive, composed for eight loudspeakers and one subwoofer it […]
Henry Threadgill + ZOOID: “Dimples”
Saturday, November 24, 2012. 8:00 pm
Two nights of Henry Threadgill’s ground breaking group ZOOID, hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most thrillingly elusive composers […]
Henry Threadgill + ZOOID: “Dimples”
Friday, November 23, 2012. 8:00 pm
Two nights of Henry Threadgill’s ground breaking group ZOOID, hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most thrillingly elusive composers […]
[Ear Heart Presents] Flexible Music and Cadillac Moon Ensemble: Stasis v. Motion
Tuesday, November 20, 2012. 8:00 pm
Ear Heart Music presents two vigorously talented quartets of uncommon instrumentation to juxtapose factors of stasis and motion in music.
ICElab Premieres Tyshawn Sorey and Carlos Iturralde
Sunday, November 18, 2012. 8:00 pm
Widely considered one of the most talented and influential experimental jazz musicians of his generation, Tyshawn Sorey is a composer whose […]