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JUNE 13, 2008: KIDD JORDAN on NPR ++
Master saxophonist/teacher/very special Human Being, Kidd Jordan, was featured on All Things Considered/NPR this past Wednesday. Take 8m and 20s of your time and LISTEN to this (truly & for real, props to Neda Ulaby and NPR production for getting the beauty power essence of Kidd across, undiluted):
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91384626
And also READ this very fine piece written by key bredren Steve Dollar, and published as the lead Arts+ feature in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Sun:
http://www.nysun.com/arts/kidd-stays-in-the-picture/79617/
And furthermore, this also very fine feature/interview with Kidd written by Marc Medwin, first published in the NY print edition of All About Jazz in June was just posted online:
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=29642
Then finally, Kidd IS Soul; here is a mighty palm of it:
http://www.aumfidelity.com/aum038.html
Treat yourself if you haven’t already done so; if you have, then fix up a loved one.
MAY 2008 (Part 1):
Sun-filled mid-Spring Greetings to You All!
Once again has been some time since last dispatch; have been busy as ever cultivating magnificent beauty through sound. This is the first of two MAY 08 Updates. A mightily wonderful & urgent alert for Northern California dwellers is the first item; all tune in all good:
> William Parker Quartet in California MAY 17-20 !!! >>>
( > William Parker live interview on KZSU: Friday Morning, May 16th >>> )
> Roy Nathanson’s Subway Moon at Cooper Union/NYC MAY 21 >>>
> Rob Brown Ensemble at The Stone/NYC MAY 25 >>>
> AUM Fidelity March Releases: ROB BROWN & ROY CAMPBELL >>>
> AUM Fidelity Releases coming in June: BILL DIXON & ERI YAMAMOTO >>>
> New High Two Release: SHOT X SHOT >>>
> William Parker Quartet in California MAY 17-20 !!! >>>
One of the greatest bands currently performing; they have engendered joy and awe in audiences around the world whenever they perform. The history of jazz, inside out, is within their unified breath and at their collective fingertips. An opportunity to bear witness ought never be let to slide!
William Parker Quartet / ‘California Return’ - May 2008
William Parker: bass
Hamid Drake: drums
Rob Brown: alto saxophone
Lewis Barnes: trumpet
Sat - May 17: Potters Valley (near Ukiah), CA - PENOFIN JAZZ FESTIVAL
WPQ performs at 5:30pm / for further info if you don’t know the score here, call: 707-462-3023
MON - MAY 19: SANTA CRUZ, CA - KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER
2 sets: 7:00pm & 8:30pm
further info: http://www.kuumbwajazz.org/concerts
TUES - MAY 20: San Francisco, CA - YOSHI's JAZZ CLUB / SF
* please note! One Set Only at 8:00pm! Let us pack this place tonight!! Tell all your friends!!!
further info: http://sf.yoshis.com/sf/calendar
"These four create palpable magic from the bubbling cauldron of empathic
ensemble playing and daring solo work backed by masterful technical skill.”
- ALL ABOUT JAZZ
'4-Stars' : "Riveting, nimble and innately listenable, the quartet never falters."
- DOWNBEAT
“.. irresistible and nourishing .. this is extroverted, vibrant front porch music of the highest order.”
- SIGNAL TO NOISE
"A group that will easily go down in the history books as revered as Miles Davis’ second quintet or John Coltrane’s classic quartet."
- ONE FINAL NOTE
The new Quartet album, Petit Oiseau, will be released on AUM Fidelity in October 2008.
ALSO on the trip .. I’m happily flying out for the journey as well this time, so look me up. I ought be fairly easy to find, be selling CDs before and after gigs.
( > William Parker live interview on KZSU: Friday Morning, May 16th >>> )
Advancing the SF Bay performances, but of interest to all:
Live Interview with William Parker by JazzTimes and DownBeat writer & radio programmer Forrest Dylan Bryant:
Friday May 16 at 8:00am Pacific Time on KZSU 90.1FM --- listen via stream:
http://kzsulive.stanford.edu/
> Roy Nathanson’s Subway Moon at Cooper Union/NYC MAY 21 >>>
You may remember we made the wonderful and utterly unique Sotto Voce album with Roy Nathanson a few short years back. His inspired and well lit passion to fuse poetry, stories, song and music continues with Subway Moon, using the same Sotto Voce band, expanded... Free admission to this rare one-time-only mult-media performance. The premiere performance of this piece took place this year at the Banlieues Bleues festival in France. Following is the press release for this rare presentation:
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 6:00 p.m.
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
The Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
Admission is free
The New York Transit Museum in cooperation with The Cooper Union for the
Advancement of Science and Art presents Subway Moon, the last in a four-part
series celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority.
Subway Moon is a collection of stories inspired by the subway and told
through music, image and words by Roy Nathanson and "The Jazz Passengers”,
in collaboration with a group of high school students from New York’s
Institute for Collaborative Education and visiting students from the suburbs
of Paris. Premiered in Banlieues Bleues, in the course of its 25th jazz
festival in Seine-Saint-Denis, the piece tells of a magical underground
place where people from a variety of different age groups, backgrounds, and
sensibilities can think and reflect.
Subway Moon is also a multi-media exploration into the underground
sensibilities found in the subway. Through music, poems and images, Roy
Nathanson and the Jazz Passengers - with video by Andrew Gurian, transport
the listener through a contemporary world of realistic political paranoia,
rare moments of reverie, envy, lust and all the other good stuff we
experience in the subway.
There are three subway cars on Subway Moon. The Jazz Passengers on the
“Professional” car tell their story in nine poems. The music covers a wide
range of styles explored by Nathanson and The Passengers throughout their
unique 20 year collaboration. The songs range from Free Jazz to Tango, to
eccentric compositions and Hard Bop. The musicians, including Curtis
Fowlkes, Tim Kiah, Bill Ware, Sam Bardfeld, Nathanson, beat-boxer Napolean
Maddox, and Laurent Bardainne have grown with age and the dialogue between
them has the intimacy of neighbors who have traveled on the same subway car
for years. In the “High School Car” I.C.E students tell New York high
school stories from a very different perspective. The French students,
slightly younger, have yet a different story to tell. Subway Moon is a ride
through language, expectation, sound and consciousness – the kind we take
every day in New York.
> Rob Brown Ensemble at The Stone/NYC MAY 25 >>>
Celebrating the new AUM Fidelity release: Crown Trunk Root Funk
http://www.aumfidelity.com/aum044.html
This is only the second time the group has performed live; the first at the 2006 Vision Festival inspired the studio creation of the awesome Crown Trunk Root Funk.
Yes, see you there!
Rob Brown Ensemble
Rob Brown - alto saxophone
Craig Taborn - piano
Gerald Cleaver - drums
Todd Nicholson – bass *
* the very fine young bassist Todd Nicholson subs here for William Parker who will be in Europe.
@ The Stone / Sunday, May 25th – 10:00pm set
nw corner of avenue C and 2nd street
> AUM Fidelity March Releases: ROB BROWN & ROY CAMPBELL >>>
The first pair of the incredibly rich AUM 2008 series hit in March; many of you are already on this — for those who have hesitated so far, please no longer! Some early reviews are now posted up on the site:
Rob Brown Ensemble / Crown Trunk Root Funk (AUM044)
http://www.aumfidelity.com/aum044.html
Roy Campbell Ensemble / Akhenaten Suite (AUM045)
http://www.aumfidelity.com/aum045.html
> AUM Fidelity Releases coming in June: BILL DIXON & ERI YAMAMOTO >>>
And the next mighty pair will be released on June 24, though they will be available for mail order sale direct from AUM in May, following my return from California. Have a sneak peak look at details (no sound samples yet, but by the next update):
Bill Dixon / 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur (AUM046)
http://www.aumfidelity.com/aum046.html
Eri Yamamoto / Duologue (AUM048)
http://www.aumfidelity.com/aum048.html
> New High Two Release: Shot x Shot >>>
I finally had a chance to hear this fine young quartet of Philadelphians live at The Stone not too long ago. Very good energy and focus and compositions; with the freshness! Among my favorite pieces that night was their piece ‘Triple Double’ which conveniently has an mp3 excerpt available here:
Shot x Shot / Let Nature Square (HT019)
http://www.aumfidelity.com/hightwo.htm
And it has been officially released and is on sale now!
RIGHT! That’s all for now----more goodness coming in MAY 08 Update (PART 2)!
Yes Yes, Yours in Music,
Steven Joerg
AUM Fidelity
http://www.aumfidelity.com
MARCH 2008:
Greetings folks in fine radio land:
A few weeks ago AUM Fidelity sent to you and your station our two brand new and beautiful albums:
ROB BROWN Ensemble / Crown Trunk Root Funk (AUM044)
(w/ Craig Taborn, William Parker, Gerald Cleaver)
ROY CAMPBELL Ensemble / Akhenaten Suite (AUM045)
(w/ Billy Bang, Bryan Carrott, Hilliard Greene, Zen Matsuura)
Some of you have already added these jewels to rotation and are playing them = excellent and cheers!
For the rest of you, please make haste and pay mind/ears/action = yes and cheers!
PLEASE NOTE: From this point forward, AUM Fidelity shall be handing our radio promo reigns over to the very smart and eminently thorough Scott Menhinick @ Improvised Communications:
Scott Menhinick
Improvised Communications
Keep radio transmissions essential!
Yours in music,
Steven Joerg
AUM Fidelity
Coming from AUM Fidelity in JUNE:
BILL DIXON / 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur (AUM046)
master Bill Dixon’s first large scale orchestral work to be released since 1967;
specially commissioned by and recorded live at Vision Festival XII in June 2007.
ERI YAMAMOTO / Duologue (AUM048)
exceedingly gifted pianist/composer Eri Yamamoto in a series of duos with Hamid Drake, William Parker, Daniel Carter, Federico Ughi
FEBRUARY 2008:
Kind Greetings One and All,
Here now with the best kind of Update news: the first two of the ‘to be prolific’ AUM Fidelity 2008 release schedule are now available for direct mail order from the website. The AUM standard of excellence continues unabated. This pair is not officially released to stores until March 11 -- one month lead time for you of the AUM Fidelity Community e-list. Plus, further news on more fine releases now available contained herein as well. Read on, visit the site and order away!
>>> Two new AUM Fidelity releases! >>>
>>> A note on CDs that are soon to go out of print! >>>
>>> Hail to fans of Shrimp Boat: Japanese reissues available here now! >>>
>>> And finally, a very fine new High Two release! >>>
>>> Two new AUM Fidelity releases! >>>
ROB BROWN Ensemble / Crown Trunk Root Funk CD (AUM044)
Rob Brown: alto saxophone
Craig Taborn: piano, electronics
William Parker: bass
Gerald Cleaver: drums
Rob Brown is an awesome alto saxophonist, a mercurial improviser who is perpetually inventive, and AUM Fidelity has recorded him many times over the years as a foundation member of the groups of William Parker. In this time, Brown has revealed himself to be a composer and group leader of distinct gifts; this is our first release with Mr. Brown as leader. A principal focus of Crown Trunk Root Funk is deep grooves, often dark and ominous, with brightness provided by Brown’s beautifully indelible melodies and the highly exploratory work of this extraordinary band. Parker provides the root bass, and drummer Gerald Cleaver brings his supremely sensitive musicality and Detroit-bred funk. Pianist and fellow Detroit native Craig Taborn is likewise endlessly inventive within this tremendously rewarding sonic ecosystem.
ROY CAMPBELL Ensemble / Akhenaten Suite CD (AUM045)
Roy Campbell: trumpet, flugelhorn, recorder, arghul
Billy Bang: violin
Bryan Carrott: vibraharp
Hilliard Greene: bass
Zen Matsuura: drums
Roy Campbell is a jazz trumpeter and composer of the first order, one who encompasses the tradition even as he pushes the music forward. A founding member of the luminous collective Other Dimensions In Music, as well as Marc Ribot’s recent Spiritual Unity project, his last album as a nominal leader, 2001’s ‘Ethnic Stew and Brew’ (w/ William Parker and Hamid Drake) topped countless year-end top 10 lists. Here Campbell turns his hand to an extended work inspired by Amenhotep IV, Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt. Akhenaten Suite, specially commissioned for and recorded live at the 2007 Vision Festival, is a splendid passage to a fabled dimension. It’s realized by musicians – including Billy Bang on violin – who have an intimate affiliation with Campbell’s vibrant brass stylings and wonderfully open, expansive compositions. This project is supported by the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, and is released in cooperation with Arts for Art, Inc.
Further info, sound streams, order both of these titles:
http://www.aumfidelity.com
>>> A note on CDs that are soon to go out of print! >>>
Believe it or not, the original intent on launching AUM Fidelity was to keep every release in print for as long as we were walking this earth. The financial reality of this – no surprise; even less so of late – proves that intent to be impossible. But, we shall always let you know henceforth when particular titles are soon to go out of print, which is the case for two of the extraordinary AUM catalog titles right now. We had to retrieve the very last available copies of these two titles from some of our European distributors; the slight increase in our price is to help offset this return shipping cost. If you do not yet own, do order these gorgeous packages now.. really.
OTHER DIMENSIONS IN MUSIC / Now! CD (AUM006)
down to the last dozen copies of this stone classic..
http://www.aumfidelity.com/aum006.html
WILLIAM PARKER & THE LITTLE HUEY CREATIVE MUSIC ORCHESTRA / Mayor Of Punkville 2xCD (AUM015/16)
we’ve got the last 40 of this awesome set on hand as I type this..
http://www.aumfidelity.com/aum015.html
>>> Hail to fans of Shrimp Boat: Japanese reissues available here now! >>>
Following our release of the Something Grand box set and the first-time on CD issue of Speckly, AUM and the group licensed the balance of their long-out-of-print catalog to Bomba Records in Japan. We recently purchased a small batch of these limited pressings in order to make them available to you at ‘domestic’ pricing. Four (or five) albums of further joy and wonder. Cavale and Duende are incomparable pop albums that have provided me with great sustenance over lo, the many years ago when and since they were my favorite operative band. What a time! I urge you to take the Shrimp Boat plunge there first if you have yet to do so. Some Biscuit + Daylight Savings and Volume One are for you the converted among ye. Wonderful wonderful!
Further info, to order:
http://www.aumfidelity.com/shrimpboatreissues.htm
>>> And finally, a very fine new High Two release! >>>
We’ve finally gotten this new High Two release up on the website and if it has escaped your notice so far, that can no longer be said:
HIS NAME IS ALIVE / SWEET EARTH FLOWER: A Tribute To Marion Brown CD (HT014)
The very eclectic musical mind of Warn Defever (HNIA) gathered together members of the Nomo and Antibalas afrobeat crews to create this intoxicating tribute/interpolation of the compositions and spirit of the avant-garde jazz great Marion Brown.
Further info, mp3, order at:
http://www.aumfidelity.com/hightwo.htm
OK! Cheers and forward with compassion and fortitude,
Steven Joerg
AUM Fidelity
JANUARY 2008:
Kind Greetings All,
As always, we hope this finds you well here one week into 2008 and may blessings reign this year for all of us. I do believe they will shower strong this Thursday-Friday-Saturday during the Vision Collaboration Festival @ Symphony Space, featuring the first NYC performance of William Parker’s Raining On The Moon since the release of their exquisite Corn Meal Dance album, Roy Campbell’s Akhenaten Ensemble who will be releasing their album on AUM Fidelity/Arts For Art this coming March, and a whole lot more dance+music+visual arts performances: a mini-Vision Fest as it were to start the year off with goodness greatness. Full details below, along with further rather heartening news...
> VISION COLLABORATION FESTIVAL in NYC this weekend!!! >>>
> WILLIAM PARKER QUARTET in Brattleboro, VT >>>
> NEW AUM Fidelity RELEASES in March >>>
> FURTHER UPCOMING from AUM Fidelity >>>
> VISION COLLABORATION FESTIVAL in NYC this weekend!!! >>>
January 10 – 11 – 12 (Thu – Fri – Sat), 2008
Symphony Space / Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater
2537 Broadway at 95th St
$20 in advance* / $25 at the door / $15 students and seniors
* click here to purchase tickets in advance:
http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=411
Thursday, January 10, 2008
7:30 Vibrational Modes
Katie Martin dance / Jake Meginsky percussion
8:00 By Night - No Stillness
Miriam Parker dance / Hamid Drake frame drum
Katy Martin & Jo Wood Brown visual artists
8:30 Lights by fragments of Light gathering
Patricia Nicholson dance / William Parker bass / Bill Mazza video drawing
9:00 William Parker’s Raining on the Moon Sextet
William Parker bass / Rob Brown sax / Lewis Barnes trumpet
Leena Conquest vocals / Eri Yamamoto piano / Hamid Drake drums
Friday, January 11, 2008
7:30 Constellation Higher Octave
K.J. Holmes dance / Roy Campbell trumpet
8:00 Asimina Chremos dance / Mavrothi Kontanis oud
8:30 Jumaane Taylor tap dance / J.D. Allen sax
9:00 Roy Campbell’s Akhenaten Ensemble
Roy Campbell trumpet / Billy Bang violin / Bryan Carrott vibraharp
Hill Greene bass / Zen Matsuura drums
Saturday, January 12, 2008
7:30 Yessified
Sally Silvers dance / Bruce Andrews language
Miya Masaoka koto / Jim Staley trombone
8:00 Mix-Up
Dance: Jumaane Taylor, Asimina Chremos, Miriam Parker
K.J. Holmes, Patricia Nicholson
Music: Jason Kao Hwang violin, Todd Nicholson bass
9:00 Charles Gayle Trio
Charles Gayle sax / Shanir Blumenkranz bass / Ryan Sawyer drums
Further Info: http://www.visionfestival.org Tel. 212.696.6681
> WILLIAM PARKER QUARTET in Brattleboro, VT >>>
The magnificent group graces the good folks up northeast-aways!
[further: we recently mixed this group’s brand new studio set and it shall be released later this year!]
Saturday, January 12, 8:00pm
William Parker / Rob Brown / Lewis Barnes / Hamid Drake
Vermont Jazz Center
72 Cotton Mill Hill, Studio 222
Brattleboro, VT
more info & advance tickets:
(802) 254 9088
http://www.vtjazz.org/
> NEW AUM Fidelity RELEASES in March >>>
AUM Fidelity will launch a truly strong-as-ever release schedule this year with a pair of tremendous ensemble works in March; stay tuned for further emails, as they will likely be available direct from AUM sooner ..
ROB BROWN ENSEMBLE / Crown Trunk Root Funk CD (AUM044)
Brother Rob Brown’s first album as a leader on AUM Fidelity! A full set of gripping new groove-oriented compositions featuring his stunning alto sax improvising prowess in union with Craig Taborn: piano, electronics / William Parker: bass / Gerald Cleaver: drums
ROY CAMPBELL ENSEMBLE / Akhenaten Suite CD (AUM045)
Roy Campbell: trumpet, composition / Billy Bang: violin / Bryan Carrott: vibraharp / Hilliard Greene: bass / Zen Matsuura: drums
Yes! Master Roy Campbell returns on record with an ensemble of long-time compatriots who beautifully illuminate a suite of compositions deriving inspiration from ancient Egypt. This is the first in a 3-album series of works specially commissioned by and released in conjunction with Arts for Art, Inc. Recorded live at Vision Festival XII in 2007.
> FURTHER UPCOMING from AUM Fidelity >>>
Oh lord yes ... 2008! A further genuine bounty of new releases are forthcoming this year ... the 3-album series produced and released with Arts for Art, Inc. shall continue with: BILL DIXON Orchestra / 17 Musicians In Search of A Sound and WILLIAM PARKER Orchestra / Double Sunrise Over Neptune. We will be recording a pair of albums with the great and original young pianist ERI YAMAMOTO, whose gifts many of you have heard on Corn Meal Dance. DAVID S. WARE will record his brand new group which also features the great JOE MORRIS(!) and JOE MORRIS himself is planning a new Quartet set. The new studio set from WILLIAM PARKER QUARTET was recently mixed and shall be scheduled soon.. plus, there might actually be more.. Yes, many blessings; many gifts to present; we thank you in advance for your continued support.
Very best wishes to you all; forward with fortitude,
Steven Joerg / AUM Fidelity
http://www.aumfidelity.com
DECEMBER 2007:
Greetings One and All,
All of our journeys continue forward, minute by minute. Hope this finds your own in good stead with solid and clarity. Here at AUM inna Brooklyn is good. Change happening here in NYC more quickly than ever before as it relates to the day to day living. And it ain’t stop. GO >>>
News herein:
>>> William Parker/Raining On The Moon – Corn Meal Dance (AUM043) >>>
>>> Vision Club Series / December 2007 (for NYC Metro residents) >>>
>>> William Parker/Raining On The Moon – Corn Meal Dance (AUM043) >>>
The final AUM Fidelity release of 2007 is a motherlode of song as manifest by one of the finest jazz groups currently breathing knowledge into the air around us. Features one of my favorite songs of all time (being the title track) which shall continue to bring tears of wonder that the essence of life itself was so captured on tape. Don’t hesitate to partake.
Link to listen further and purchase direct:
http://www.aumfidelity.com/aum043.html
BOSTON GLOBE ’So good they did it again’
"The music is both fascinating and spiritually lifting; everybody works in tandem, and yet things fly off the shelf when Parker's tight folk-jazz melodies evolve into all-out free exchanges. The poem-form stories burn images in the mind. Unexpected beauty and tenderness arrive in an ode to the poet June Jordan, performed as a voice-piano duet. It sends shivers." - Steve Greenlee
THE SUNDAY TIMES (London) "****" + A Record Of The Year
“In suggesting an alternate past, where Nina Simone jammed with John Coltrane, Parker finds another future.” - Stewart Lee
JAZZWISE (UK) "****"
".. the songs are predominately blues-based and the themes move with an elliptical, subtle beauty, sometimes making very few chords go a long way." - Kevin Le Gendre
UNDER THE RADAR
"Corn Meal Dance, as well as cooking up nine sonic journeys of liberating musical breadth, also offers brain food in poetically epic portions." - Corey Frye
DOWNBEAT
"This sounds like the work of a well-integrated group, with Yamamoto's supple voicings [on piano] providing a lush bed over which Conquest inhabits Parker's lyrics with dramatic delivery. The horns react and accent until unleashed in the solo sections--Brown's bracing alto well tempered by Barnes' more subdued and solemn trumpet. Parker and Drake are unparalleled as a rhythm section, and their intuitive adaptability offers the bassist the ability to pull the strings on the group with understated force." - Shaun Brady
THE WIRE
“This is essentially ‘The William Parker Songbook', with eight of the nine tracks featuring words and music by Parker, performed by his vocalist of choice, Leena Conquest. Her vocal style is soulful without being self-conscious, while Parker inspires the ensemble from within, recognizing that now isn't the time nor the place for extended bass solos. The high point of the album is the title track with its ecstatic pick-me-up harmonies acting as a catalyst for a solo of magisterial grandeur from alto saxophonist Rob Brown. Pianist Eri Yamamoto lays down fulsome hymnal harmonies on "Prayer", and Parker's allusive wordplays repay repeated attention. Another perspective on the great man's work.” - Philip Clark
ROCHESTER CITY NEWSPAPER
“Corn Meal Dance is a thrilling ride that hugs the precipices between flaming grooves, zero-gravity free jazz, and gospel-tinged social consciousness.” - Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
‘Pharoah S. Wail (Indiana)’ - AMAZON.COM customer review
“With Leena Conquest singing and Eri Yamamoto on piano, this augmented William Parker Quartet becomes universal elevation of consciousness turned into sound and song. Where Raining on the Moon (another favorite of mine, with 1 song that haunts me) had Leena on most songs, Corn Meal Dance has her on every track. There are times she'll sing/say a phrase and it hits me like The Truth. A Law. Something that just IS, or should be. Eri is a beautiful player. She completely understands and completes this side of William. There's nothing here I dislike but “Tutsi Orphans” and “Soledad” melt me. This band is love, compassion and hope as sound. If you can get through this album a few times without shedding any tears, you're either a stronger or weaker person than me. I'm not sure which. The world needs this music. William's melodies work perfectly with his poems/lyrics. This is my favorite WP Quartet-related album yet. He is tapped in. This album is magical. I feel blessed just to know it. Thank you Leena, Eri, Rob, Lewis, Hamid and the portal through which this all flows, William.”
Link to listen to Corn Meal Dance further and purchase direct:
http://www.aumfidelity.com/aum043.html
>>> Vision Club Series / December 2007 (for NYC metro residents) >>>
Here forwarding news of some fine, fine live happenings this month. Yes indeed.
all happening @ Living Theater - 21 Clinton Street (btwn. Houston and Stanton)
Friday, December 7, 2007
Fred Anderson and William Parker
10:30pm $15
Fred Anderson tenor sax + William Parker bass
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Sabir Mateen OMNI-FOUR
10:30pm $10
Sabir Mateen: reeds & flute + Matt Lavelle: trumpet, flugelhorn, bass clarinet
Warren Smith: drums, percussion + Hilliard Greene: bass
Friday, December 14, 2007
Lewis Barnes SONIC SHADES
10:30pm $10
Lewis Barnes: trumpet + Rob Brown: alto sax
+ Todd Nicholson: bass + Cooper-Moore: percussion
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Jason Kao Hwang EDGE
10:30pm $10
Jason Kao Hwang: composer, violin
with special guest Steve Swell: trombone
+ Andrew Drury: drums + Ken Filiano: bass
and then on Sunday, December 16, 2007
Special Celebratory evening @ Nativity Church
44 2nd Avenue – between 1st and 2nd Streets, F train to 2nd Avenue
William Parker Christmas Concert
Universal Tonality: part V
4:00pm 15$ contribution
William Parker: composer / shakuhachi – David Budbill: spoken word – Patricia Nicholson: dance – Lois Eby: paintings and drawings – Jean Cook: violin – Jessica Pavone: viola – Shiau-Shu Yu: cello – Leena Conquest: vocals – Daniel Carter clarinet, flute, tenor sax – Eri Yamamoto: keyboards – the Introscopic Ensemble with David Moss: bass – Shayna Dulberger: bass – Gunter Gruner: percussion
OK; RIGHT-LEFT LOW-DOWN UPFUL,
Steven/AUM
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2007:
Lawd! it has been a time since last update posted here---been busy moving and summer and getting married and continuing the mission. So, here is a whole lot of good news beyond the magnificent events that caused the delay in posting this.
:::CONTENTS:::
>> DANIEL CARTER in CHICAGO end of September
>> BILLY BANG BENEFIT September 30 / NYC
>> WILLIAM PARKER TRIO w. ERI YAMAMOTO + HAMID DRAKE / EURO TOUR in OCTOBER
>> ROY NATHANSON SOTTO VOCE LIVE! in NYC OCTOBER 8 + EURO TOUR in OCTOBER
>> TEST play live once again in NYC OCTOBER 19 (+ more at Living Theatre)
>> DAVID S. WARE w/ JOE MORRIS, WILLIAM PARKER, WARREN SMITH in EUROPE NOVEMBER
>> WILLIAM PARKER / Raining On The Moon Corn Meal Dance (AUM043)
>> 2007 AUM Fidelity Releases Update (Press)
>> FORTHCOMING AUM Fidelity RELEASES
>> CaseQuarter UPDATE
>> High Two NEW RELEASES
>> DANIEL CARTER in CHICAGO end of September
Daniel Carter brings his wonderful tone and spirit to the city of my birth for, to the best of my knowledge, the first time since we’ve been working together which is to say in over a decade. City of the Big Shoulders dwellers, DO make every effort to hear DC sing through his horns.
SATURDAY 9/29 (9:00pm; $15)
The Empty Bottle
1035 N Western Avenue
773-276-3600 (p)
The Empty Bottle & The Wire present 'Adventures in Modern Music' festival featuring:
Deerhunter
DANIEL CARTER with Michael Reed and Ben Vida
No Age
Jim Becker & Sin Ropas with the films of Brent Green
from the Empty Bottle website: “Free jazz musician DANIEL CARTER will be making his Empty Bottle debut. Perhaps not as well know as some of his New York-based contemporaries, his contributions over the past thirty-odd years are no less significant. He has worked with many of the greatest musicians of his generation, challenging convention and contesting musical boundaries all the while. His spirited adventurousness will be well-matched here, as CARTER performs live with two top-tier local talents, percussionist MICHAEL REED and multi-instrumentalist BEN VIDA.”
And FRIDAY 9/28 (9:00pm; $10 suggested donation)
elastic sound and vision gallery
2830 north milwaukee avenue, upstairs
www.elasticrevolution.com
DANIEL CARTER with the end of the world band (abe gibson-drums, jesse thomas- e gtar)
www.myspace.com/theendoftheworldband
+
giallorenzo/stein/daisy -trio- piano/bass clarinet/drums
+
names: mayjabeen-violin, brian klein-electronics
www.myspace.com/names888
>> BILLY BANG BENEFIT September 30 / NYC
Forwarding this crucial info to you; truly an extraordinary triple-bill and supremely worthy cause of helping master Billy Bang in a time of need.
Friends of Bang present
A Benefit for Billy Bang
3 Phenomenal Bands:
Other Dimensions in Music, Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter, William Parker, Charles Downs
Aftermath Band: Ted Daniel, Andrew Bemkey, Todd Nicholson, Newman Taylor-Baker
Commitment : Jason Kao Hwang, Sabir Mateen, Henry Warner, William Parker, Zen Matsuura
Sunday, September 30 7 pm Admission: $25
at Ariane and Alain Kirili's Loft
17 White Street
btwn. Avenue of the Americas and West Broadway
New York, NY
“On August 7, violinist Billy Bang received a much needed hip replacement surgery at Englewood Hospital in Englewood, NJ (thanks to the Jazz Foundation of America for making the procedure possible). Billy is recovering nicely, but he has not been able to work at all for the past few months. He needs to continue to rest and recover for at least another three to four weeks. In an effort to assist him in meeting all of his expenses, his friends have organized a benefit which will include performances by some of the best musicians living in New York.
The benefit will be taking place at the home of sculptor and avantJazz enthusiast Alain Kirili and his wife photographer Ariane Lopez-Huici. Alain Kirili has a history of collaborating with musicians of the avantjazz scene. In fact a Bang solo CD, "Commandment" was recorded during a live performance in Kirili's loft in March of 1997.
Please come by to check out what will no doubt be an amazing night of music, all for the worthy cause of keeping Billy Bang in the black!”
>> WILLIAM PARKER TRIO w. ERI YAMAMOTO + HAMID DRAKE / EURO TOUR in OCTOBER
Aye! This very fine trio, featured on the album ‘Luc’s Lantern,’ are embarking on their first tour shortly. One night in Rotterdam followed by a series of shows in Italy. Hamid Drake’s power and finesse, and Eri Yamamoto’s superb pianistic skills and profound feel for the music are both also fully featured on the brand new William Parker/Raining On The Moon album ‘Corn Meal Dance’ (read more on this beauty below).
William Parker: bass/compostions Eri Yamamoto: piano Hamid Drake: drums
10/5(Fri.) Lantaren Venster - Rotterdam, Holland
10/6(Sat.)Max Music Show-Arezzo, Italy
10/7(Sun.) Gheoatrè- Milano, Italy
10/8(Mon.) Caruso Jazz Cafè- Firenze, Italy
10/9(Tue.) Caruso Jazz Cafè- Firenze, Italy
10/10(Wed.) Panic Jazz Club - Marostica(VI), Italy
>> ROY NATHANSON SOTTO VOCE LIVE! in NYC OCTOBER 8 + EURO TOUR in OCTOBER
Sotto Voce, the album:
What a wonder, what a timeless, what an album — again, it must be stated! A rare NYC appearance of this great band with special guests, appropriately at the Bowery Poetry Club.
Monday, October 8th 8:00pm $12
Roy Nathanson’s Sotto Voce band, also tonight featuring
the poetry of Ross Gay, Jeff Friedman and Judith Volmer
The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery @ Bleecker
F train to Second Ave | 6 train to Bleecker | 212-614-0505
“Roy Nathanson’s band Sotto Voce is an ongoing project that All About Jazz describes as “a wicked combination of instrumental and vocal counterpoint, rich vocal harmonies, passionate free-jazz instrumental cadenzas and collective improvisation” and calls their 2006 release “the year’s most unusual and intriguing album”.
The band features the trombone of Curtis Fowlkes, the bass playing and vocals of Tim Kiah, Sam Bardfeld’s violin, Napolean Maddox on human beat-box and Roy Nathanson on sax. Nathanson combines the music with spoken word text, using the vocals as a bridge to a kind of full language music.
For this performance, three great poets will read and perform with the band :
Jeff Friedman is the author of 4 books of poems: Black Threads, Taking Down the Angel, Scattering the Ashes and The Record Breaking Heat Wave. Home Planet News says “No one writes better poems about blue collar work than Friedman”. Ross Gay is the author of the collection Against Which (CavanKerry Press, 2006). His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Atlanta Review and Harvard Review. Judith Vollmer has written 4 books of poetry, is the co-editor of 5AM magazine and won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The poets will read and collaborate with Sotto Voce in an evening that will celebrate narcissism, food, family and dysfunction.”
AND THEN THE CORE QUINTET heads overseas for a handful of hits...
ROY NATHANSON'S SOTTO VOCE in Europe:
October 11, Porgy & Bess, Vienna/Austria
October 13, Pavilion Multifunctional, Sibiu/Romania
October 15, Alter Schlachthof, Wels/Austria
>> TEST play live once again in NYC OCTOBER 19 (+ more at Living Theatre)
In an all-the-more-rare appearance, TEST: Sabir Mateen, Daniel Carter, Tom Bruno and Matt Heyner
will be rocking
OCTOBER 19th [Fri.] at 11pm $10
The Living Theatre
21 Clinton Street, Manhattan (F train to Delancey or 1st Ave)
Let us give thanks and be deh!
More on TEST
>> DAVID S. WARE w/ JOE MORRIS, WILLIAM PARKER, WARREN SMITH in EUROPE NOVEMBER
This past July, David S. Ware premiered a new group here in NY at Iridium which included Joe Morris on guitar. It was really something else to behold/behear these two masters on stage together; it gave me great joy and desire for future full-on new rhythmic (section) manifestation. You’ll get to hear in Rome and Vienna first! Wish I could be there for all of these sets! Ancient to the future NOW.
November 7
David S Ware solo
at Spheres
Zurich (CH)
www.taktlos.com
November 9
David S Ware
with William Parker and Warren Smith
Gutersloh (G)
www.jazzingutersloh.com
November 11
David S Ware
with Joe Morris, William Parker and Warren Smith
Roma Jazz Festival
Salla Petrassi
Auditorium Parquo della Musica
www.romajazzfestival.it
November 12
David S Ware
with Joe Morris, William Parker and Warren Smith
Porgy and Bess
Vienna (A)
www.porgy.at
>> WILLIAM PARKER / Raining On The Moon Corn Meal Dance (AUM043)
= RAINING ON THE MOON =
WILLIAM PARKER * ROB BROWN * LEWIS BARNES * HAMID DRAKE * ERI YAMAMOTO * LEENA CONQUEST
YES, AUM is deeply honored to present this impeccable new WP group work, and also, releasing this album is how we are celebrating our 10th Anniversary of giving it up for the people! Word: it is an intense/beauty-full/intense again exposition of William Parker’s song-craft manifest by a jazz band nonpareil. The title track is one of my favorite songs ever, and kept me up till late in the night weeping tears of wonder the night that it was recorded, and again for many nights henceforth, along with ‘Tutsi Orphans’, ‘Doctor Yesterday’, ‘Soledad’... jesus man, it just doesn’t stop giving and propelling one forward to action on behalf of the main love.
Full details and order now here
>> 2007 AUM Fidelity Releases Update (Press)
A further heads up, so as you know what you might well want to turn yourself on to (if you haven’t already):
>>> DAVID S. WARE QUARTET / Renunciation (AUM042)
"This live set from 2006 displays Ware at his most concentrated and impassioned, with that closely attuned threesome of pianist Matthew Shipp, bassist William Parker and drummer Guillermo E. Brown. Shipp is magnificent: sombre, hypnotic hooks, washes of Tayor-ish runs under the sax tumult (enmeshed with Brown's percussion hustle and Parker's darting basslines), guitar-like twangs and hard-punched chords. Some of the music flows like molten metal; some proceeds in explosive outbursts and dead stops; a little is soulful and slow." - John Fordham/ THE GUARDIAN (UK)
"..if you wanted to analyse the appeal of Ware's playing further it could be said that his tone has a sense of the roaring anguish yet stark nobility that underscores the human condition at its most naked. There is indeed something unadorned and artifice-free about this music. Not so much in the sense of sonic minimalism but the rawness of emotion and the strength of character of the players. .. As for his longstanding band members, they are superb in their accompaniment, bringing the required rhythmic and harmonic attention to detail to the table." - Kevin Le Gendre/ JAZZWISE (UK)
"This taut set is as structurally refined as an architectural plan. Every note feels flawlessly placed, but the music urgently retains its wonder and majesty." - Philip Clark/ THE WIRE
Full details, many more reviews, listen, and order now here
>>> WILLIAM PARKER & HAMID DRAKE / Summer Snow (AUM041)
"It seems almost preposterous that it's taken this long for another [duo] recording to appear, but for men so busy and with an album as good as this one, the delay is certainly forgivable." - Adam Strohm/ DUSTED
"This latest installment of the Parker-Drake double act finds our two heroes in typically compelling form. .. Although both are supremely gifted virtuosi, capable of expressing themselves as expansively as possible, they are also skilled in the art of restraint, measure, balance. In fact at several junctures in this session, the music really comes to life precisely because it breathes rather than stifles under a barrage of notes, as might be the case were two less experienced and less emotionally intelligent players in the frame. .. The grand achievement of Parker and Drake is that they combine the breadth of sounds of a large group with the chemistry and conversational intimacy of a small group, leveling the playing field between two distinct strands of jazz band history." - Kevin Le Grande/ JAZZWISE (UK)
“The album takes a shadowy detour half-way through, beginning with “Sifting the Dust.” Scintillating metal harmonics and resonating echoes from water bowls, gongs and chimes pervade this haunting musical landscape all the way through “Traces of the Beloved.” Summer Snow incorporates jazz improvisation into myriad ethnic traditions in a satisfyingly organic way. Blending cultures and aesthetics, this is global music in the truest sense, equal parts uncharted future and primordial past." - Troy Collins/ ALL ABOUT JAZZ
Full details, many more reviews, listen, and order now here
>>> HAMID DRAKE & WILLIAM PARKER / First Communion + Piercing The Veil (AUM039/40)
"Widely regarded as the exemplar free-jazz rhythm section, the duo first transformed itself into a rhythm-and-ritual orchestra on 2001's Piercing the Veil, recorded in 2000 and now reissued as a double CD with a live set, First Communion, recorded two days earlier. And that's where they really began distancing themselves from the legendary tandems of the past. Although the pair's bass-and-traps duets are among the most intense and creative in the long illustrious history of jazz rhythm sections, it's Parker and Drake's uncanny conversational alchemy on the "alternative instruments" that puts them in a world of their own. Those tracks have the feel of sacred ceremonies, ranging from quietly contemplative to ferociously ecstatic. Superbly realistic and undoctored sound recording makes the listener an intimate audience member for the live performance, with distinct separation of instruments set slightly back and to the sides of the soundstage." - Derk Richardson/ THE ABSOLUTE SOUND
"If there's a groove that bassist WILLIAM PARKER and drummer HAMID DRAKE can't make their own, I haven't heard it, and they're equally masterful in the free fall of meterless total improvisation." - Bill Meyer/ CHICAGO READER
"This is no moonlighting rhythm section, but two philosopher-dancers plumbing the varieties of rhythmic experience together. ..The meeting lives up to its promise and more, as Parker and Drake chase each other like two inseparable kids through the innermost catacombs of musical creativity." - Lawrence Cosentino/ SIGNAL TO NOISE
Full details, many more reviews, listen, and order now here
>> FORTHCOMING AUM Fidelity RELEASES:
2008 promises the busiest/year AUM release schedule yet, starting with, in conjunction with Arts For Art, a trio of exemplary (and then some) recordings of performances at the 12th Annual Vision Festival this past summer, all World Premieres of specially commissioned works: 1: Roy Campbell’s Ahkenaten Suite featuring: Roy Campbell trumpet / Billy Bang violin / Bryan Carrott vibraharp / Hilliard Greene bass / Zen Matsuura drums 2: William Parker – “Double Sunrise Over Neptune” 16-piece orchestra with string section parts to twist your head into the groove, dual drums, and classically trained master singer from India 3: Bill Dixon with the Sound Vision Orchestra master Dixon’s first fully realized (recorded & to be released) large-scale work in an eternity. And furthermore will be new Rob Brown Quartet session featuring Craig Taborn, William Parker, Gerald Cleaver and the most compelling (wickedly so...) group of compositions we’ve yet heard from this secret weapon of sound revolution. And that will take us through June 2008.
>> CaseQuarter UPDATE
>>> THE SPIRITUALAIRES / Singing Songs of Praise (CASE103)
"I think we’ve all spent some time in our own private Hurtsboro? Even as a charismatic agnostic, this gets an “Amen” from me. Gospel, like its savior, works in mysterious ways…and genres. It can draw strength from suppressed sexuality via soul, it can get earthy in a country vein (like a miner baptised in a coal mine). Or, as the Spiritualaires do, it can dig deep inside via the blues. If you are in pain, something about a profound bass vocal gives you a rock to build from, fill that out with some sweet harmonies but don’t rush things. Let the notes and the pain linger, just a bit. Add in slow clap, it help with the weariness. Not too fast, now. Guitarist Curtis Harris testifies in tight spots here as well, delivers his own slow-mo Mali style fretting…you could plug him in next to Tinariwen and not miss a beat. Radio fans do not miss tracks #3 and #8, clips from the Spiritualaires Radio Program! “If that car run good and look bad…bring it on in…he’ll make it look good.” Sounds like a modern-day miracle worker to me! KFJC should do all our underwriting in Spiritualaires style. “Some Folk Say” brings in a falsetto voice, and a peppier beat, and almost tastes like a hootenanny. While I may reserve judgement regarding the big If in the sky, I’m fine worshipping the pride and joy of Hurtsboro." - Thurston Hunger/ KFJC Radio
Full details, many more reviews, listen, and order now here
>>> REVEREND CHARLIE JACKSON CLIPS on YouTube
This pair of TV clips from Rev. Jackson’s visit to Ireland in the 80s were up on YouTube, then taken down, now certainly up again and if you’ve never seen them or it has been a while, well then.. witness the singular charms of Rev. Charlie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFUhglYDSMs&NR=1
>>> ISIAIAH OWENS on MySpace
Sylvia Parker generated this MySpace page for CaseQuarter recording artist Brother Isaiah Owens; further to the three full song streams from his debut album are a flash-photo montage that is heartwarming: http://myspace.com/brotherisaiahowens
>>> REV. UTAH SMITH BOOK+CD PROJECT
OK --- Kevin Nutt and Steven Joerg swear to GOD! that this is coming out in 2008. Sooner than later in 2008. For real, we SWEAR TO GOD!
>> High Two NEW RELEASES
Our dear friend Daniel Piotrowski in Philadelphia, action-man of High Two recordings, has three new releases he’d like you to know about as well. Some more fine releases forthcoming, including His Name is Alive/s tribute to the music of Marion Brown, Sweet Earth Flower (more on that momentarily).
Details/listen and order now here: http://www.aumfidelity.com/hightwo.htm
Once Again ~ Thank You All for Being, Paying Mind, and Supporting the Music (attending events and buying some of these exquisite productions),
Steven Joerg
AUM Fidelity
FEBRUARY 2007 - WHAT A TIME!
¡ AUM Fidelity UPDATE: February 2007 !
...MORE BEAUTY! ...NEW RELEASES! ...TOUR DATES!
Kind Greetings AUM Fidelity Friends and Family,
Much of this dispatch was to have been posted earlier and my only claim for its delay calls forth from the multi-hued whirlwind that 2007 has been since the 1st. It is very good and of utmost-ever importance to witness, create, and disseminate (“now that you know what you know, what will you do will you do?”), though it is only in those most graceful of moments that we can do all three at once.
All entries below are short and to the point, with links for FURTHER.
Thank you for being and for reading,
Steven Joerg / AUM Fidelity
Essence:
> TOM ABBS & M.P. LANDIS!
Tom Abbs gave a kidney to his friend Michael Landis in December. All of you by now at least ought know that Tom is 1/3 of TRIPTYCH MYTH and that Michael’s artwork graced ‘The Beautiful’ album. They are both beautiful people. It was real good to see them in post-serious-surgery great spirits a few weekends ago. Please do read everything posted about their new, rare and wonderful collaboration.
FURTHER: http://mplandiskidney.com
AND if you'd like to contribute to their kidney fund through AUM Fidelity, click here: MPLandisTMSeries.html
> WILLIAM PARKER & HAMID DRAKE / First Communion + Piercing The Veil 2xCD!
Piercing The Veil was originally issued in early 2001 to great acclaim. It has been out of print for far too long; so for its re-introduction, an upping of the ante was in order. On the Saturday night prior to the Monday studio session, AUM hosted a live performance here in our Brooklyn HQ and we made another highest fidelity multi-track recording. It was a magical night, fully shared by the packed and rapt audience of some 80 strong. This First Communion is now presented on CD in its entire 88 minutes of deeply fervent glory. For those AUM long-faithful who already own the original edition of Piercing The Veil, this mega-expanded 2xCD set is available for $14- until its official release date this Tuesday, when price goes up to AUM 2xCD standard of $18-. I did intend to send notice of this 2-week live now direct special to you list-members sooner, but hey — here’s to 48 hours! Check or money orders post-marked by Tuesday, February 13 will totally be honored as well.
FURTHER: http://www.aumfidelity.com/aum039.html
> REMEMBERING REVEREND CHARLIE JACKSON!
The Beloved Reverend Charlie Jackson passed from this mortal coil on February 13 one year ago. In memory of this, we’ll be posting a wondrous cassette recording of Rev. Charlie rocking “What A Time!” live at Rose Of Sharon on Tuesday morning. It will be stream-able until Mardi Gras ends.
FURTHER: http://www.aumfidelity.com/RCJblessings.htm
> WILLIAM PARKER QUARTET in IOWA/TEXAS/CHICAGO!
APRIL 2007
WILLIAM PARKER • ROB BROWN • LEWIS BARNES • HAMID DRAKE
3 : Grinnell, IA / Grinnell College Chapel
4 : Chicago, IL / Empty Bottle
6 : Houston, TX /
7 : Austin, TX /
More news on these live dates soon; this is just a quick heads up!
> RECENT Palm Of Soul PRAISE in THE PRESS!
In case you haven’t yet bought KIDD JORDAN / Palm of Soul, here are a few new and very briefly excerpted exhortations to do so...
”A masterpiece of meditation and multi-ethnic synthesis” - Andy Hamilton, Double Bassist (UK)
“2006 Top 10 Picks” - All About Jazz.com
“With steely determination and emotional resolve, Jordan, Parker and Drake have created a timeless album of understated, dark beauty.”
- Troy Collins’ Lucky 13 Best New Releases of 2006, All About Jazz.com
“A perfectly formed, utterly communicative and wise set that repays many repetitions.” - Brian Morton, Jazz Review (UK)
“Four Stars: Six improvisations that sweeten ecstatic jazz’s lawless energy with meditative moods. The horn snakes between shimmering gongs and prismatic pulses, and Jordan finds life in the midst of death.” - Stewart Lee, The Sunday Times (London) Records of The Year
FURTHER: http://www.aumfidelity.com/aum038.html
> FORTHCOMING AUM Fidelity + CaseQuarter RELEASES!
ALL COMING THIS SPRING...
DAVID S. WARE QUARTET / Renunciation CD
This magnificent group’s last U.S. performance took place at Vision Festival XI on Father’s Day 2006.
It was captured and mixed in highest AUM Fidelity and will be released in April.
WILLIAM PARKER & HAMID DRAKE / volume 2: Summer Snow CD
Hot on the tail of the release of First Communion + Piercing The Veil, their brand new studio recordings.
Calm blue heat. Oh, OH yes.
THE SPIRITUALAIRES / Singing Songs Of Praise CD
The CaseQuarter label finally returns to release action in 2007! This is the first of the jewels.
> VISION DANCE MUSIC SERIES AT SYMPHONY SPACE, NYC!
A FORWARD from ARTS FOR ART:
Vision Dance Music Series
DrummingDance & SoundingStrings
Wednesday, February 21 through Saturday, February 24, 2007
at Peter Norton Symphony Space – Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre
Featuring
Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Dave Burrell/Daniel Carter/Joe Morris/
Guillermo E. Brown/Miriam Parker/Carmen de Lavallade/Todd Nicholson/
Steve Swell/Treva Offutt/Jean-Baptiste Bocle/Yoshiko Chuma/
Patricia Nicholson/Ben Gerstein/Peter Zummo/Wendy Osserman/
Charis Haines/Justin Terenullo/Rosi Hertlien/Chris McIntyre
FURTHER: http://www.visionfestival.org
> RECENT AUM Fidelity RECORDING SESSIONS!
We’ve all got work to do or sleep to catch up on right now. Thank you for reading this far; having done so has been and shall be worth it many times over. In late December, the WILLIAM PARKER QUARTET recorded a new album and in early January the WILLIAM PARKER SEXTET (Quartet + Eri Yamamoto/piano and Leena Conquest/singing!) recorded their first album. Following the aforementioned mighty Spring, all ears to the Autumn 2007 jump and sway! By God Yes!!
<<< AUM Fidelity ~ Giving voice to the silence since 1997 >>>
“We all have two lives — the one we learn with and the life we live after that.”
- Bernard Malamud
OCTOBER 2006 - Fruit of patience still sweeter true; stopping is not an option.
And yes it has been a long time since the last big-UPdate from AUM Fidelity. The ‘silence’ is however not indicative of activity lack; rather was due to a debilitating combination of new protocols on our ISP’s part and old computer operating systems on AUM’s part. We’ve rectified the latter and further hope that this and future AUM Updates will indeed reach all. Yes, yes we do, because all here is—always has been and will be—most usually good and always important news.
Alright then! AUM Fidelity Full UPDATE! October 2006:
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> Roy Nathanson / Sotto Voce European Tour!
Yes! this wonderful band is doing a solid string of shows in the G.A.S. plus Serbia and Croatia; make every effort to attend if you are in the nigh and nigh!
Roy Nathanson - saxophones, vocals
Curtis Fowlkes - trombone, vocals
Tim Kiah - bass, vocals
Napoleon Maddox - human beat box, vocals
Jesse Mills - violin, vocals
October 25, Kulturni Centar, Indjija/Serbia
October 26, Sabac/Serbia
October 27, Auditorium Radio Svizzera, Lugano/Switzerland
October 28, Sud des Alpes, Geneva/Switzerland
October 29, Reitschule, Bern/Switzerland
October 30, Das Haus, Ludwigshafen/Germany
October 31, Alte Gerberei, St. Johann i.T/Austria
November 2, Tunnel, Vienna/Austria
November 3, Student Centre, Zagreb/Croatia
November 5, Quasimodo, Berlin/Germany
> William Parker & Hamid Drake ++ in Europe Now!
Again, if you’re anyhere within a hour or more of these peformances, do it! Following are all the details I’ve been provided; no slights no how!
October 22: Mira/Italy - William Parker & Hamid Drake Duo
October 23, 24, 25: Firenze/Italy - WP, HD & 2 Italian musicians
October 26: Roma/Italy - WP, HD & 2 Italian musicians
October 27: jazzonze+ Festival Lausanne/Italy - William Parker Quartet
October 29: Azores Jazz Festival, Sao Miguel/Portugal – WP, HD, Daniel Carter and Patricia Nicholson Parker
October 30: Gent/Belguim - William Parker & Hamid Drake Duo
November 1: Vienna/Austria - Blue Tomato Duo: William Parker & Marco Eneidi
November 2nd: FMP Festival, Berlin/Germany – Trio: WP, HD & Sainkho Namchola
> AUM Fidelity 2006 Releases recapitulation: Whoa and Great Grace!
AUM Fidelity released a triptych of tremendous albums in Gregorian calendar year 2006 and thankfully it still isn’t just ourselves espousing their voluminous merits alone in the wilderness. AUM really does produce album works of uncommon potency beauty full human essence expression never more important than now, today, tomorrow, evermore. So now we’re reminding you about these beauties as this year is rapidly making its way to close; for brevity’s sake but a few recent press quotes on each album are included here; many more on each album are posted in their respective elsewhere space on the site.
WILLIAM PARKER / Long Hidden: The Olmec Series (AUM036) CD
In which master WP manifest an album comprised of both rapturous solo pieces for bass (arco + pizzicato) and dosn’ngoni, and decidedly new dance music (both literal and mythological) with The Olmec Group. Gorgeous 6-panel digipak with extensive liner notes by William Parker.
Four different reviews by four different humans were written for and are posted at ALL ABOUT JAZZ.com.
A new record for one publication! I love this website—being the best of all Jazz websites, ever.
Here’s the link to access all four reviews.
ROY NATHANSON / Sotto Voce (AUM037) CD
Roy Nathanson returned to the world of recorded music (first time since year 2000) with this joyous, moving, hilarious, inventive, innovative, gripping highest culmination of all of his many gifts as alto saxophonist, composer, lyricist, band-leader along with the many MANY gifts of this remarkable band of the same name. What a Quintet!!! This album happened in the way it did because I went to Brooklyn bar/performance space Barbès one fateful Sunday night to check fe see band member Napoleon Maddox. Bearing virgin witness to this band had me stomping my feet, slapping my knee, laughing, nigh weeping; fully inspired. Damn, let’s do this on record! Multi-tracked all live in one room (5 players of instruments; 5 singers!) and then mixed to perfection. Along with engineer and fellow producer Hugo Dywer, we did it! We damn sure did it!
from CODA: "Saxophonist Roy Nathanson's Sotto Voce is an unexpected delight, an avant-populist celebration of the multiplicity of the human voice, in which funky modern jazz meets Jewish raconteurship meets gospel spirituality meets pop earthiness meets hip-hop beatboxing. It's an outstanding album, a hard-grooving, serious/funny exploration of the surrealism of everyday life, and Nathanson deals with potentially heavy topics-war, death, old age-with exemplary honesty, soul, and humour. - Nate Dorward
from JAZZTIMES: "The records dazzles from start to finish .. Sotto Voce blends bebop, funk, free improv, poetry and hip-hop, and the result is bizarre and irresistible." - Steve Greenlee
KIDD JORDAN + HAMID DRAKE + WILLIAM PARKER / Palm of Soul (AUM038) CD
The most recently released of AUM’s 2006 triptych — offered up this summer past — nine months after it was recorded on September 23, 2005 which as it happened was also the 80th anniversary of John Coltrane’s birth. Perfect though not planned that way. Long-time dream I had of getting these three masters together to record a Godhead album of fully improvised music manifest. I was very happy to hear post-Katrina that Kidd’s son Marlon WAS eventually airlifted and found safe a week post impact and that Kidd himself said, “yeah, let’s do it!” when I was able to get him on the phone. We did it.
from ALL ABOUT JAZZ.com: "With steely determination and emotional resolve in the face of great tragedy, Jordan, Parker and Drake have created a timeless album of understated, dark beauty. Palm of Soul is spiritually revelatory free jazz, hauntingly beautiful and emotionally resonant." - Troy Collins
from BAGATELLEN: "Palm Of Soul answers prayers and upends expectations." - Derek Taylor
from THE ABSOLUTE SOUND (high-end audiophile periodical): Music: 4/4 Stars Sonics: 4/4 Stars – Derk Richardson
> Forthcoming from AUM Fidelity and CaseQuarter in early 2007!
It has been said and as a matter of fact I’ve said it myself in moments of high-lit glory of the moment, that the strength of a recording label should be judged on its latest releases. Well then, see just above. And here have a glimpse at the soon come..
WILLIAM PARKER & HAMID DRAKE / Volume 1 TOTAL: First Communion + Piercing The Veil (AUM039/40) 2xCD
The long promised reissue of 'Piercing The Veil' will be exploded into a 2xCD set incorporating 'First Communion', their jaw-dropping first ever live performance as a Duo, having been recorded live to mult-track right here at AUM HQ in 2000. Matter of fact, the Saturday night before the Monday in the studio which resulted in ‘Piercing The Veil’. Sweet Jesus Thank You! Any one of the 80 people who squeezed in that night can attest: My GOD COSMOS it was massive. to be released in February are you ready?
WILLIAM PARKER & HAMID DRAKE / Volume 2: title to be determined (AUM041) CD
AND THEN FOLLOWING IN SHORT ORDER: Brand new studio recordings by this mighty majestic duo. I’m still digesting these recordings myself. Jesus (again) would do another 40 days and nights in the desert if he heard this... to be released in April, Yes.
DAVID S. WARE QUARTET / final title to be determined (AUM042) CD
Amazing recording of this godhead Quartet's last U.S. Performance which took place at Vision Festival XI in June 2006. Three stunning new pieces and one uniquely touching rendition of ‘Mikuro’s Blues’ from the Ware songbook. Shining throughout; mad top(est) notch.
THE SPIRITUALAIRES / Singing Songs Of Praise (CASE103) CD
The CaseQuarter label returns to action in 2007! The Spiritualaires of Hurtsboro, AL are one of the very last of the traditional gospel quartets whose origin dates from the Golden Age of the late 40s/early 50s. These are contemporary recordings my brothers and sisters. AND – oh whoa YEAH. So indescribably great! to hear Sam Relf sing the country and western! More on this soon, just know it IS coming as promised and as soon as..
ELDER UTAH SMITH / I Got Two Wings: Incidents and Anecdotes of The Two-Winged Preacher and Electric Guitar Evangelist!
(CASE104) BOOK+CD
..I tell you what, I’m gonna leave it there. It is happening and will be manifest in first half 2007. The Book on this legendary human figure with a CD containing all of his released (and unreleased...) recordings. MAJOR!
> Digital Downloads: AUM Fidelity and CaseQuarter(!)
Like it says on the home page, AUM Fidelity produces premier album works, and we’re not going to stop doing so until it becomes impossible to both contininue to do so AND eat and pay the rent. OK? Alright then. Tactile experience can never be replaced. You can’t make your fingers bleed while typing a keypad like you can trying to play William Parker’s bass (the highest action, ever). I know what I’m trying to say here even if I can’t get it out to you in articulate and moving form.
The attempt to do so notwithstanding, the entire AUM Fidelity (and CaseQuarter) catalog is presently available for digital download on eMusic, iTunes, and MTV’s new download service URGE.
I remember cassingles, OK?
Used to be on time; still aiming to beyond time.
“Calling duppy conquerer!”
Oh Yeah! BUY THE CDs from AUM Fidelity; get the whole not just the temporary quarter.
When the magnetic poles reverse and all hard drives are erased, your boombox will still be rocking.
The whole goes right back to .. there’s more good news...!!!
> New David S. Ware Quartet CD - ‘BalladWare’ - available here!
‘BalladWare’ is a "lost session" studio set recorded in 1999 with David, William, Matthew and Guillermo E. Brown exploring the balladic essence of three Ware originals (Dao Feel, Godspelized, Sentient Compassion) and four standards (Yesterdays, Autumn Leaves, Tenderly, Angel Eyes). Sweet oh so and unique (album-length-wise) excursion in the DSWQ oeuvre. Produced by Steven Joerg, SO: please buy it here if you intend to as AUM was paid in CDs for the effort/vision put forth toward its initial creation (& in its commercial manifestation being a Thirsty Ear label release in the end).
> Vision Club Series Fall 2006!
Arts for Art has already launched their Fall 2006 Club series but it needs be highlight mentioned herein once again as it is a tremendous lineup of performances. If you live in the NYC Metro area or are passing through town in the next month or so, make it out!
Every Saturday night through December 1 -- 2 sets a night -- only $10 per set. ....Click and check full details
> Further exhortation of the moment / now, the BAD news.. !
Tower Records has gone done down for evermore. Just so you know—this is the biggest blow in retail U.S. music sales since I got all up in this thing 17 years ago now. This news was a major blow to independent labels. FIRST now though: big hugs and love to Larry Isaacson (Jazz buyer at NYC 4th and Broadway for YEARS LONG as I can remember) and Matt Lavelle (Jazz buyer at NYC Lincoln Center area for the last year plus) for holding the fort to the fore down here in the Jazz City.
SECOND now though: AUM got stiffed bad on the Tower go-down. Call it 4 months rent worth and you’ll be correct. I’ll state it straight now and without shame that there has never been a better time than right now to lay $13 per down on AUM Fidelity album(s) direct from source right here from this site right now.
Fruit of patience still sweeter true ;
stopping is not an option.
Peace and blessings,
Steven Joerg
AUM Fidelity
Brooklyn, NYC
JULY/AUGUST 2006 - We're all here together - many more crowded than others - on this ship called Earth.
The
final release in AUM's 2006 triad of sonic invention is KIDD JORDAN's Palm Of Soul.
detail
from a painting by Jason Dean Arnold; featured on Palm of Soul
cover - click for more info.
APRIL/MAY 2006 - Two New AUM Fidelity Albums/Release Shows + WILLIAM PARKER Quartet West Coast Tour!
ROY
NATHANSON's SOTTO
VOCE ALBUM Release Celebration at JOE’S
PUB
Wed April 26... 9:30PM.. $15.00
JOE’S PUB: 425 Lafayette Street
Tickets available at The Public Theater box office or
through Telecharge: www.telecharge.com or 212.239.6200
WILLIAM
PARKER's LONG HIDDEN ALBUM Release Celebration at CLEMENTE
SOTO VELEZ
Sunday May 7... 3:00PM...
$10.00, $7.00 student
kids 14 & under get in free (families encouraged!!!)
The Olmec Project record release with Omar Payano, Gabriel Nunez,
Isaiah Parker, Dave Sewelson, Todd Nicholson
Location: L.E.S. Gallery of Clemente Soto Velez - 107 Suffolk Street
@ Rivington
Tickets available at the door.
WILLIAM
PARKER QUARTET - WEST COAST U.S. - MAY 2006!
William Parker~Hamid Drake~Rob Brown~Lewis Barnes in the West
SAT
MAY 20 - UKIAH, CA - PENOFIN JAZZ FESTIVAL
SUN MAY 21 - PORTLAND, OR - FEZ BALLROOM
WED MAY 24 - OAKLAND, CA - YOSHI'S
THU MAY 25 - SANTA CRUZ, CA - KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER
FEBRUARY 16, 2006 - Reverend Charlie Jackson, Rest in Peace
It
is with great sadness that we here at CaseQuarter Records must convey
the news that Bishop Charlie Jackson of Baker, Louisiana has passed
away. Bishop Jackson, known to many blues, gospel and music lovers in
the wider world as the Reverend Charlie Jackson, died in his sleep at
a local Baker, Louisiana nursing home early Monday morning Febuary 13th.
Reverend Jackson had been confined to the 24 hour care facility since
the spring of 2005 after suffering the latest in a series of lifelong
strokes. His wife, Laura Davis Jackson, said that Reverend Jackson had
been unable to recognize anyone since his admittance and his health
had steadily declined. For anyone reading this, Reverend Jackson's music
needs no introduction or reminders. Along with Elder Utah Smith, Jackson
was one of few of the widespread guitar slinging gospel preachers to
actually record commercial records and it is such a treasure, especially
now, that we have his unique testaments. I still savor the moment when
I first heard Chris Smith's and Lynn Abbott's cassette of Reverend Jackson's
music. It's a cliche but nonetheless too true: it literally changed
my life. Not suprisingly, Reverend Jackson in person was even more impressive
than his music. On the occasions that I visited him I was overwhelmed
with his perpetual warm heartedness and enthusisam. It was such a delight
to be with him and his wife Laura.
There are many poignant and moving moments in Reverend Jackson's music
but the one I've been returning to these past couple of days is "The
Testimony of Reverend Charlie Jackson." "When I couldn't speak
nothing, I let the guitar do it," he says in the song. And then
he plays the old hymn "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" on
his guitar:
What a Friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear.
What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer.
O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.
-Kevin Nutt
CaseQuarter Records
FEBRUARY 11, 2006 - HEY HEY!
February already hey! 2006 has been very very good so far; finding parking spaces (two even sometimes when all I need is one), dazzling sunrises, snow crystals in infinite gorgeous variety this past weekend. Even though I stepped into six inches of watery cold slush this morning with my right foot, dazzled near blinded by the advancing sun, I did not curse. In late March, WILLIAM PARKER's Long Hidden: The Olmec Series (AUM036) shall be released (to be available direct from here sooner and cover art below). In May, ROY NATHANSON's brand new Sotto Voce project (AUM037) shall be released. His first new album since the 2000 release of the widely acclaimed The Fire at Keaton's Bar & Grille, this is a pop record recorded like a jazz record; stories and songs and song is the essence of life itself and the jazz therein is at the joyously high level expected. Yes. Also in May, the WILLIAM PARKER QUARTET will be flying to the West Coast U.S.A. for a tour - sho! Stay tuned. And then in June, the KIDD JORDAN / WILLIAM PARKER / HAMID DRAKE Project (AUM038) shall be released. God-send/sent. And before that, a pair of fine new High Two releases (by Adam Arcuragi and Shot X Shot) shall be made available. ... more news again soon.
JANUARY 2006 - HAPPY NEW YEAR and MAY MORE PEACE AND BEAUTY BE REVEALED THIS TIME!
Ah yes - YES - we've got a lot cooking here in these first shining days of the New Year; all of which shall result in a Spring of true beauty new releases from AUM Fidelity.
Right now, know that William Parker curated the month of January at NYC creative music venue, The Stone. Check the full lineup and pay special attention to the last week of the month. Whoa!
And,
here is the cover art for the first of the three true beauty New Releases
coming from AUM Fidelity this Spring:
LATE SEPTEMBER, 2005 - LAST WEEK OF THE MONTH --- NYC performances NOT TO BE MISSED!
SATURDAY
SEPT 24
> KIDD JORDAN & WILLIAM PARKER & HAMID DRAKE @ Barbès
/ Brooklyn !
A mighty meeting of three masters. Tenor saxophonist Kidd Jordan from
New Orleans, percussionist Hamid Drake from Chicago and our own William
Parker on bass and (more). This very special performance is fortuitously
happening at this intimate space due to the fact that we are flying
Kidd and Hamid in for a recording session in Brooklyn this week. Do
not miss this rare opportunity!
> Saturday, SEPTEMBER 24:
> ONE PERFORMANCE 7:00pm SHARP / $10- (all money direct to the artists)
376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave.) Park Slope, Brooklyn 718.965.9177
http://www.barbesbrooklyn.com
MONDAY
SEPT 26
> WILLIAM PARKER QUARTET @ Blue Note (note inexpensive admission)
!
(w/ HAMID DRAKE, ROB BROWN, LEWIS BARNES)
NOTE: we NEED to pack this night FULL UP, OK? So DO make it out for
this and tell all of your friends to come on down as well...
Indeed - an exclusive one-night appearance at the legendary NYC Jazz
Club to celebrate the new album Sound Unity,
and life in general.
> Monday, SEPTEMBER 26: two sets 8:00pm /10:30pm
> SPECIAL Admission Price: $10- seated / $5- at the bar.
Blue Note Jazz Club
131 W. 3rd St
New York, NY 10012
212-475-8592
http://www.bluenote.net/newyork/schedule/moreinfo.cgi?id=3313
ALSO
looking FORWARD TO FIRST MONDAY OF OCTOBER >>>
MONDAY OCT 3
> TRIPTYCH MYTH @ Tonic !
> Monday, October 3: 8:00pm / $10-
http://www.tonicnyc.com/
Celebrating the October 4th release of their impeccable new album, The
Beautiful on AUM Fidelity.
AUGUST 29 , 2005 - Much Great News!
We
are incredibly proud to announce the existence of this impeccable new
album from the extraordinary trio TRIPTYCH
MYTH: COOPER-MOORE, TOM ABBS, CHAD TAYLOR. It will be officially
released in OCTOBER, but is exclusively available to you all here now.
Breaking new barriers inside and out is what is requisite; TRIPTYCH
MYTH are here to do just that. + LIVE DATES COMING: TRIPTYCH MYTH
will likely be flying to Detroit for some performances in late September,
and will DEFINITELY be celebrating the release of this album live on
NOVEMBER 4 at The Stone here in NYC. + AND There will be an opportunity
to purchase the original artwork created for The
Beautiful; check the site again and stay tuned for further
details. >>> WILLIAM PARKER
QUARTET @ The Blue Note / NYC ! Indeed - an exclusive appearance
at the legendary NYC Jazz Club to celebrate the new album Sound
Unity, and life in general. Monday, SEPTEMBER 26: two sets
8:00pm /10:00pm. SPECIAL Admission Price: $10- seated / $5- at the bar.
SO LET US PACK THE PLACE! >>> KIDD JORDAN / WILLIAM
PARKER / HAMID DRAKE @ Barbès / Brooklyn ! A mighty meeting
of three masters. Tenor saxophonist Kidd Jordan from New Orleans, percussionist
Hamid Drake from Chicago and our own William Parker on bass and (more).
This very special performance is fortuitously happening at this very
intimate space due to the fact that we are flying Kidd and Hamid in
for the recording session (see below!) Do not miss this rare opportunity!
Saturday, SEPTEMBER 24: 7:00pm / $10- http://www.barbesbrooklyn.com >>> UPCOMING PROJECTS -- September beauty & wonder
! Oh man! We have been wanting to make this trio album for a long time
now, and finally the cosmos came in snychrony: the KIDD JORDAN /
WILLIAM PARKER / HAMID DRAKE trio album will be recorded at our
favorite Systems Two Studio here in Brooklyn in late September. Ears
wide and await! >>> Also, that same week two days prior,
we'll be bringing WILLIAM PARKER & HAMID DRAKE in to Systems
Two to record the followup to their stunning Piercing
The Veil album. I will be levitating this week from first-hand
sonic creation bliss! Both of these sure-to-be-amazing new albums to
be released sometime in 2006. OH, and on a related note, the very last
few copies of the original dipipak pressing of Piercing
The Veil are available only here now. >>> Vision
Festival / Peace Book ! This very fine book, encapsulating the
Vision Festival ethos in print, was self-published on the recent occasion
of the 10th Annual VF. A perfect companion to the recently released
VISION Volume 3 CD+DVD set, and available alone and in specially-priced
combo with the CD+DVD. Check it!
JULY 4, 2005 - a required listening Song Stream!
In honor of the occasion and dedicated to our Commander-in-Thief, the right wrong Dubya, I've posted a RealAudio stream from the genius first album by FALSTAFF, a rather concise declaration of the general state of affairs: The Cunts (the word of British English parlance, and still of course in common usage, given the general state of affairs).
JUNE 29, 2005 - a brief Vision Festival X recap...
YES!
Yes, Vision Festival X was rather
incredible. Mein Gott! Highlights for me were Sam Rivers & Roscoe
Mitchell (Reggie Workman on the third tonal center and Mr. Aklaff allowing
the pulse to be), but Sam & Roscoe together manifesting the inner
tones and triggering endorphin centers anew in the midst of the whole
of it; the Eloping With The Sun Trio (William Parker/Joe Morris/Hamid
Drake) performing together for the first time since they recorded the album of the same name. Sweet Jesus let's
move to heaven right here on Earth. The Quartet of Dickey/Campbell/Brown/Morris
were playing Jazz like it was meant to be played - i.e.: you've never
heard anything like this before and it was swinging mad wide orbits
with deepest roots. Finally, for me, Little Huey's performance was the
big new cake with sweetest frosting no sugar honey just --- featuring
additional this time out was Leena Conquest singing (and dancing), WP's
son Isaiah and some of his friends on extra percussions, plus JUICE
on the tenor guest spot ---WHOA! Brass just shining shining shining
new sun creation. I hope this one will become an AUM album.... ok, back
to work, and it has been humid as hell on Earth this past week. Forward
to weather relief and more goodness.
Wow, what a week that was!
MAY 6, 2005 - Latest News...
Hello hello busy as ever where does the time go? Into the creation of the music and the forward dissemination thereof! OK: BIG NEWS is that AUM Fidelity recently signed a new group to the label: TRIPTYCH MYTH is a stunning new outfit which progresses the language of Jazz. Composed of intrument builder/musical genius Cooper-Moore, recent NYC transplant (from Chicago) drummer Chad Taylor, and perpetually busy/gifted bassist Tom Abbs. Truth is we've already recorded their new album - last month, a day after my birthday! Dang 'ol whoa! It turned OUT. Got all that further work to do to make it into an AUM Fidelity album: due for release in September 2005. FURTHER, the good folks at the Vision Festival finished production on the 3rd compilation of tracks recorded at the Vision Festival; it is entitled 'Vision Volume 3' (imagine that!) and will be available here imminently --- CD + DVD set, and the DVD portion is well beyond image-wise to the DVD which came which 'Vision Volume 2'. And finally, YES, the fine High Two label will also soon be unleashing another pair of relesaes inna realm of 'avant rock' OK, stay tuned to the home page... - SJ, HUH, maybe I need to turn this page into my blog. Wait a minute, this whole site is my blog. Oh, OK
MARCH 16, 2005 - IMMINENT New Releases from AUM Fidelity
Have been busy working on the building, hence no word prior to NOW. Coming momentarily from AUM Fidelity is the first-time-on-CD issue of SHRIMP BOAT's brilliant and long-out-of-print debut LP Speckly. Lovingly transferred and re-mastered from the original master tapes; is enough to make all ages 8 - 80 get up off their tired bones and dance. The perfect dessert to Something Grand. Further, the brand new recordings of WILLIAM PARKER QUARTET, album entitled Sound Unity, will be available from here in April and to the WORLD-AT-LARGE in late May. More even yet, but plenty for now, yes!- SJ.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2005 - 50 Miles of Elbow Room presents a special MATINEE gig celebrating the Cooper-Moore box set...
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Sunday,
February 13 --- 3:00pm-6:00pm (doors at ~2:45pm)
* William Parker solo * Cooper-Moore solo * Cooper-Moore + William Parker duo All 3 sets for a $6 admission fee, all of which goes to C-M+WP Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, LES Gallery (ground floor) 107 Suffolk Street, Manhattan F, J, M, Z to Delancey / Essex The Cooper-Moore box will be available at the show for the discounted in-person price of $30. a glimpse of the box + further info |
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First Weekend of NOVEMBER, 2004 - ISAIAH OWENS' New York City Debut:
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CaseQuarter,
50 Miles of Elbow Room and Antipodes present <FIRST WEEKEND of NOVEMBER 2004> FRIDAY,
NOV. 5 - 7:30pm $5
admission. and,
if you'll be attending the WFMU Record Fair |
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JUNE 17, 2004 - one of the greatest bands of all time tours Canada for the first time:
WILLIAM PARKER QUARTET Summer 2004 Canadian Festival Tour !
William
Parker / Hamid Drake / Rob Brown / Lewis Barnes
SAT
JUNE 26 - MONTREAL - La Sala Rossa
((Roy Campbell/William Parker/Hamid Drake: Pyramid Trio))
SUN JUNE 27 - MONTREAL - La Sala Rossa
MON JUNE 28 - OTTAWA Jazz Fest
WED JUNE 30 - CALGARY Jazz Fest
THU JULY 1 - EDMONTON Jazz Fest
FRI JULY 2 - VANCOUVER Jazz Fest
SAT
JULY 3 - VANCOUVER Jazz Fest:
((William Parker + Hamid Drake Duo))
William Parker Quartet O'Neal's Porch - listen to / read on
JUNE 7, 2004 - here you go with some truth about The Gipper (published the week that he died, when so many were tripping over themselves in adulation of his service as President of the U.S.A.):
Thirteen
lucky years (six more than the existence of AUM Fidelity itself) of nutritious
and v e r y slow gestation:
CLICK HERE TO
REVEAL
In song and the understanding that song reveals the essence of life itself,
Steven Joerg / AUM Fidelity