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.
FourOneOne at Roulette: Alexis Lombre & Georgia Anne Muldrow
Friday, April 18, 2025. 8:00 pm
Pianist/vocalist/composer concludes her FourOneOne residency with a soulful, spirit-led evening with soon-to-be-announced special guests.
Nicole Mitchell Quartet: JAD – Life to the Fullest
Thursday, April 17, 2025. 8:00 pm
Compositions exploring a personal and lyrical side of flutist/composer Nicole Mitchell’s music, in tribute to her Godmother, Jean Ann Durades.
Wayne Horvitz: Collective Music Ensemble / Electric Circus
Wednesday, April 16, 2025. 8:00 pm
Composer and pianist leads two of his large ensembles incorporating Butch Morris's structural improvisation technique known as "conduction®."
claire rousay + more eaze: no floor
Sunday, April 13, 2025. 8:00 pm
Two boundary-pushing artists perform their new collaborative album of pastoral and melancholy collage music.
Hamza Akram Qawwal & Brothers: Sufi Songs of Pakistan (RBA)
Friday, April 11, 2025. 8:00 pm
Pakistani ensemble return with riveting interpretations of qawwali, the ecstatic improvisational Sufi vocal tradition.
Interpretations: Anthony Davis, Earl Howard, Gerry Hemingway, Kyle Motl
Thursday, April 10, 2025. 8:00 pm
Davis and Howard lead a dynamic quartet through compositions and improvisations, reactivating their decades-long history of collaboration.
Stephan Crump: Slow Water
Wednesday, April 9, 2025. 8:00 pm
Memphis-bred, Brooklyn-based composer/bassist presents his new album about redefining how we live with water in an era of rapid change.
David Leon: Solo
Tuesday, April 8, 2025. 8:00 pm
Roulette 2024-2025 Resident presents new solo music for saxophone and modular synthesizers.
Marshall Allen & the New Dawn
Saturday, April 5, 2025. 8:00 pm
Legendary member (and band leader) of The Sun Ra Arkestra debuts live material from his first solo album, New Dawn.
Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan and Shakir Khan: Indian Masters (RBA)
Friday, April 4, 2025. 8:00 pm
World-renowned sitarist pushes boundaries and preserves tradition in a special performance with his son.