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.
Marilyn Crispell & David Rothenberg
Saturday, December 11, 2004. 8:30 pm
Clarinetist and alchemist of natural sounds Rothenberg teams up with Crispell, one of the greatest of all contemporary improvising pianists whom […]
Leroy Jenkins & Mary Griffin
Friday, December 10, 2004. 8:30 pm
The first act of Coincidents, a multi-media opera with music by Jenkins and libretto and video by Griffin concerning African American and Welsh […]
Dave Burrell String Trio
Thursday, December 9, 2004. 8:00 pm
Dave Burrell String Trio is Dave Burrell, piano; Okkyung Lee, cello; Mat Maneri, violin.
Vortex
Wednesday, December 8, 2004. 8:30 pm
Leaf-inspired by the art work of Kodo Okuta. The duo-plus video-featuring laptop audio/percussionist Satoshi Takeishi and pianist Shoko Nagai. […]
Borah Bergman & Jim Staley
Tuesday, December 7, 2004. 8:30 pm
Pianist Bergman is a kinetic mixture of Bud Powell, Thelonius Monk, and Charles Ives and one of the most ambidextrous pianists in circulation. […]
Chris Brown
Sunday, December 5, 2004. 8:30 pm
The composer performs two recent pieces for piano and interactive computer processing: Retrospectacles and Shuffle. These works investigate […]
Laura Andel
Saturday, December 4, 2004. 8:30 pm
In::tension:. (Roulette commission premiere)-percussive, intimate, visceral, ritual and electrically charged, this music explores tension point […]
Andrew Drury: Breathe
Friday, December 3, 2004. 8:30 pm
Breathe is drummer/composer Drury’s new trio with celebrated pianist Myra Melford and alto saxophonist Briggan Krauss (Sex Mob) charged […]
Ursel Schlicht & Ex Tempore
Thursday, December 2, 2004. 8:30 pm
Duos inside and out of the piano with bassist Reuben Radding followed by the sextet Ex Tempore that incorporates musical languages ranging from […]
“Blue” Gene Tyranny
Wednesday, December 1, 2004. 8:30 pm
The composer/pianist in one of his rare solo performance playing new pieces and work from his Lovely Music CD Take Your Time. “Tyranny has […]