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Time: 5:00pm Venue: St. Albans Congregational Church 17217 Linden Blvd. Jamaica, NY 11434 (718) 657-8282
Musicians: Antoinette Montague, vocals Isaac ben Ayalla, piano Michael Max-Flemming, bass Payton Crossley, drums Ed Jackson, sax Rasheed Richard Howard, trumpet & fluglehorn Information: Jazz Vespers presentation and the advance release of her NEW CD "Behind the Smile" Artist Website: http://www.antoinettemontague.com
Time: 5:00pm Venue: St. Albans Congregational Church 17217 Linden Blvd. Jamaica, NY 11434 (718) 657-8282
Musicians: Antoinette Montague, vocals Isaac ben Ayalla, piano Michael Max-Flemming, bass Payton Crossley, drums Ed Jackson, sax Rasheed Richard Howard, trumpet & fluglehorn Information: Jazz Vespers presentation and the advance release of her NEW CD "Behind the Smile" Artist Website: http://www.antoinettemontague.com
Submitted By: Antoinette Montague
Nov 10 - Doug Acosta & The Mike Berkowitz Orchestra
Time: 8:30 PM Venue: Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall 57th Street and Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10019 212-247-7800
Musicians: Esperanza Spalding, Vocals and Bass Terri Lyne Carrington, Drums Leonardo Genovese, Piano Information: If “esperanza” is the Spanish word for hope, then bassist, vocalist and composer Esperanza Spalding could not have been given a more fitting name at birth. Blessed with uncanny instrumental chops, a multi-lingual voice that is part angel and part siren, and a natural beauty that borders on the hypnotic, the 23-year-old prodigy-turned-pro might well be the hope for the future of jazz and instrumental music. “She is an irresistible performer,” says The Seattle Times. “She sings and plays bass at the same time and does a sort of interpretive dance as she plays…Her analysis of what’s going on in jazz today is perceptive.”
Time: 8:00 pm Venue: Guggenheim Bilbao Museum Bilbao Musicians: Eric Ross- theremin, guitar, keyboards Mary Ross- video Information: Eric and Mary Ross at Guggenheim-Bilbao, Spain
Composer ERIC ROSS , with video artist Mary Ross (USA), present a special World Premiere concert performance at the new Guggenheim-Bilbao Museum, Spain, on November 12, 2009. Eric Ross performs on guitar, piano, synthesizer and is a Master of the Theremin, one of the first electronic instruments. Eric’s compositions are a combination of written and improvised music and include elements of jazz, classic, serial, and avant garde. Mary’s videotapes and photographs, which are projected in performance, are organized, arranged and edited to his music. In an hour-long performance, The Rosses will premiere their most recent work, the Boulevard d’Reconstructie (Op.54). Eric Ross also performs in Germany at the Bauhaus Theater in Dessau, the Residence Palace in Wurzburg, (both UNESCO World Heritage sites) , at the Casada Musica in Portugal, and featured artist at the Ostrava Festival of Sound in the Czech Republic.
Eric Ross Fall Concert Schedule (more dates-TBA)
Sept. 30 Dessau, Germany. Bauhaus Theater UNESCO
Oct. 1 Freiberg, Germany. Tivoli Garden
Oct.3 Wurzburg, Germany. Residenz Palace UNESCO
Nov. 5 Ostrava, Czech Republic. Festival of Sound
Nov.12 Bilbao, Spain. Guggenheim-Bilbao Museum- World Premiere Concert
Nov.13 Oporto, Portugal - Casada Musica
ERIC ROSS "has excited audiences with his fiery virtuosity and innovative work" - Washington Post. He's presented concerts of his original works at Lincoln Center, NYC; Kennedy Center, Newport, North Sea, Berlin and Montreux Jazz Festivals, Brussels, Copenhagen, Prague, Paris and New Music Festivals among others worldwide. He performs on guitar, keyboards and is a Master of the Theremin, one of the earliest electronic instruments. For over twenty years he's led his ensemble that's featured jazz giants, John Abercrombie, Larry Coryell,Andrew Cyrille, Oliver Lake, Leroy Jenkins, New Music Virtuosos Youseff Yancy, Lydia Kavina, Robert Dick, and others. The New York Times calls his music "a unique blend of classical, jazz, serial and avant-garde."
Eric Ross began playing the Theremin in 1975, and has performed on radio, film and TV. He's written an Overture for 14 Theremins playing simultaneously, and gave the world premiere of Percy Grainger's Free Music No.1 in New York City in 1997. Since 1976, with his wife, Mary Ross, he's presented multimedia performances with video, music, dance, film and computer art. He's also played with blues legends Champion Jack Dupree,Lonnie Brooks, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. In 2007, he was guest artist on the No.1 Best-Selling CD album in Japan, Aqi Fzono's"Cosmology". Eric Ross was a friend of theremin virtuoso ,Clara Rockmore, and electronics pioneer, Robert Moog. In 1991, he met and played for the inventor of the instrument, Professor Lev Termen. He's drawn inspiration from them to continue developing the Theremin as a voice in his own compositions.
MARY ROSS is a fine art photographer and visual artist. In 1976, she began using video and computers to produce still images on film. As one of the first fine art photographers to do so, her images provide some of the earliest examples of how photography, video and computer technology converged in the 1970's, emerged in the 1980's, andeventually evolved into digital photography.
Since then Her video and computer generated still photographs and video art have been featured in hundreds of multimedia performances she's produced in collaboration with composer/performer Eric Ross, various musicians and dancers. She has exhibited extensively at galleries and museums in the United States, Europe, Israel and Japan. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the Kunsthaus, Zurich; International Polaroid Collection; Herbert Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University; King's Library, Copenhagen, Bibliothèque Nationale; Paris and the Lincoln Center Library Dance Collection in New York City.
Time: 8 pm Venue: University of Baltimore Student Center 21 W. Mt. Royal Ave. Baltimore, MD 21201 410-837-4053
Musicians: James Weidman Piano Information: A valued and talented pianist, James Weidman has been a sideman and accompanist in many settings over the past 20 years, from Abbey Lincoln and Steve Coleman to Kevin Mahogany and Joe Lovano. He has also proven to be an increasingly significant bandleader and composer. His most recent CD, Three Worlds, is arguably his finest recording to date. Venue Website: http://www.andiemusiklive.com/EvntDtl1.cfm?&E1CNTR=3749&YR=2009&MN=11&DY=13&T=144451 Artist Website: http://www.jamesweidman.com/
