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.

Semantics / Jazz Passengers

Friday, January 27, 1989. 8:00 pm
New Rock / New Jazz… Semantics is Samm Bennett, drums and percussion; Ned Rothenberg, reeds: Elliott Sharp, guitars. Jazz Passengers is […]

Tom Cora / Terry Jenoure & Brandon Ross

Thursday, January 26, 1989. 8:00 pm
Solo Cello Improvisations by Tom Cora / New Jazz with violinist/vocalist Terry Jenoure and Brandon Ross, guitar. Tom Cora (1953 – 1998) was an […]

Yasunao Tone / History of Unheard Music

Wednesday, January 25, 1989. 8:00 pm
Fluxus Electronics & Postmodern Electronic Band in a double bill. Notes from Mutant Sounds review of History of Unheard Music’s 1987 […]

Diedre Murray w/ Fred Hopkins & Richard Thomas

Sunday, November 27, 1988. 8:00 pm
Cellist Murray, equally versed in jazz and classical forms as well as an awarded composer of musical-theater works, in duos with contrabassist […]

Horst Rickels

Saturday, November 26, 1988. 8:00 pm
From The Netherlands, the elegant instrument builder, acoustic, architectural, and installation experimenter, and sonic magician. Horst […]

David Rosenbloom

Saturday, November 19, 1988. 8:00 pm
Composer/guitarist presents new ensemble works conjured from epic dreams and seductive software.

Lesli Dalaba / Edge of Night

Friday, November 18, 1988. 8:00 pm
“Edge of Night” is Lesli Dalaba’s trumpet, Jim Katzin on violin, Wayne Horvitz on keys, and C.K. Noyes on drums.

Graham Haynes & Bruno de Almeida

Thursday, November 17, 1988. 8:00 pm
The son of drummer Roy Haynes, Graham Haynes grew up around jazz musicians; his Hollis, Queens, neighborhood was also home to Roy Eldridge, Milt […]

Mitch Corber

Sunday, November 13, 1988. 8:00 pm
Mitch Corber is a New York City neo-Beat poet, an eccentric performance artist, and no wave videographer known for his rapid whimsically comical […]

Jill Burton

Saturday, November 12, 1988. 8:00 pm
Extended vocalist/composer/holistic/sound/movement/energy/performance artist JILL BURTON was a professional ballerina, modern dancer, dance […]