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CREATIVE MUSIC SERIES - NOVEMBER 2008
EVERY THURSDAY @ THE LUGGAGE STORE
Thursday, Nov 6 2008 8:00 PM
8pm: Jacob Lindsay - clarinets, Kristian Aspelin - guitar & Jerome Bryerton - percussion
9pm: Simon Rose - saxophone(UK) Jerome Bryerton - percussion(CHI) Damon Smith - double bass (SF)
Simon Rose is best known in the field of free improvisation as leader
of the trio ‘badland’ together with Simon Fell on double bass and Steve
Noble on drums. He has also performed solo over the course of the last
five years. Influences are broad and as well as European and American
ideas relating to free improvisation (from those such as Derek Bailey,
Evan Parker, Peter Brotzmann, Han Bennink) he is also interested in
musical ideas on particularly wind and especially reed instruments as
used historically throughout the world and particularly in Asia.
As well as a saxophonist Simon is a very experienced teacher and has
taught music and drama in different settings both full and part time.
Much of his teaching work has been with young people who have special
educational needs. He is currently doing an MA (Professional Practice)
concerned with performance and education.
Jerome Bryerton is an experimental percussionist and visual artist from
Chicago. He has recorded, toured or played with many of today's most
notable free improvisers: John Butcher, Wolfgang Fuchs, Peter Van
Bergen, Cecil Taylor, William Winant, Alan Silva, Torsten Muller, Frank
Gratkowski, Henry Kaiser and Vinny Golia. Jerome's goal is to use his
percussive materials to mirror practices of modern art, philosophy and
post-modern theory. The idea being—to develop and express the
improvisational elements that life itself presents.
Damon Smith's live and recorded efforts focus on continuing and
expanding the possibilities of the double bass and "instant
composition." His instrumental study focuses on classical technique and
etudes, while using jazz as reference for pizzicato tone. Damon
performs as a soloist and in every imaginable grouping all the way to
large orchestra.
Thursday, Nov 13 2008 8:00 PM
8pm Ross Hammond w/Darren Johnston-trumpet, and Devin Hoff-bass
9pm No Sugar: George Cremaschi (bass/electronics) & Liz Allbee (trumpet/electronics)
Ross has shared billing with Pharoah Sanders, John Tchcai, Ken
Vandermark, Peter Brotzman, Pothole, Kenny Werner and Charlie Hunter.
He is a frequent collaborator with tabla player/percussionist Alex
Jenkins, free jazz hornman Tony Passarell, "Grad-student" rockers The
Inversions, Sacramento saxophone legend Steve Gundhi, Bay Area drummer
Sameer Gupta and David Boyce of the Broun Fellinis.
Originally from Ontario, Canada, composer and trumpeter Darren Johnston
moved to San Francisco, CA in 1997, where he has been living ever
since. As a performer, Johnston has performed, and/or recorded with
such innovative musicians and composers as guitarist Fred Frith,
clarinetist Don Byron, bassist Marcus Shelby, bassist Herbie Lewis, the
ROVA Saxophone Quartet, clarinetist Ben Goldberg, and others. He was
recently listed last June by Downbeat Magazine as one of �25
Trumpeters of the Future.�
Johnston has received commissions to write for dance, most notably for
the San Francisco based companies Robert Moses�s Kin, and Amy
Seiwert's im'ij-re, but primarily he writes for his own various
projects and those of others in which he participates, including two
works in progress for the Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra.
Devin Hoff works the double bass, the bass guitar, and writes songs. He
grew up in Colorado, where he did not learn to fish, hunt, ski, or
camp, and he did not go to college. Since the early 1990�s he has
been living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
He is a member of The Nels Cline Singers, Good For Cows, Plays Monk,
and the Devin Hoff Platform. In addition, he regularly works with other
great musicians, such as Carla Bozulich, Ben Goldberg, Odessa Chen,
John Dieterich, Jewlia Eisenberg, Howard Wiley, Steven Bernstein, Carla
Kihlstedt, Tony Malaby, Julian Lage, Ron Miles, Mary Halvorson, Jessica
Pavone, and many others.
Devin has played on hundreds of recordings and thousands of shows
throughout the world. In his spare time he collects (and reads)
anarchist books, threatens to become a writer, and volunteers with
worthy independent organizations such as the Prisoners Literature
Project, the Kate Sharpley Library, and AK Press. He is not now, nor
has he ever been, a retired hockey player.
Liz Allbee is a voracious musician whose work spans many genres,
including new music, improvisation, electronic composition, Asian folk
and pop, noise, minimalist, free jazz and experimental rock. She has
played with a wide array of musicians, including Anthony Braxton,
Wadada Leo Smith, Cecil Taylor, Hans Grusel, Birgit Uhler, Alberto
Braida, Fabrizio Spera, Gino Robair, Yugen Noh Theater, SFSound, and
with members of Caroliner, Sun City Girls, and Rova. She lives in
Oakland, CA.
George Cremaschi was born in New York City to Argentinian immigrant
parents. Cremaschi’s diverse influences include: study-ing jazz at
the Jazzmobile, in Harlem, compostion at the Grennwich House Music
School, in Greenwich Village; and Brazilian samba at Cuando, in the
Lower East Side. Recent years have seen many performances and
collaborations with such renowned musicians as: Marshall Allen, Vinney
Golia, Eugene Chadbourne, Louis Moholo, Miya Masaoka, Glenn Spearman,
Babatunde Olatunji, and Nicolas Collins.
Thursday, Nov 20 2008 8:00 PM
Music by the Eyeful with two parallel episodes of live projection and music:
image to sound synthesis from Peter Nyboer and
sound to image synthesis ("Resonant Migration") from Andy Strain and Kevin Shea Adams
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