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Clean Feed NYC FestivalSep. 20 -23, 2007Admission: $15-$20 (varies by day) Cornelia Street Café 29 Cornelia Street (between West 4th and Bleecker Streets) 212-989-9319 corneliastreetcafe.com  After the success of the first edition of the Clean Feed Fest in Brooklyn, last year, an expanded fest heads back to NY for a second run. Like before, the program reunites some of the best performers around, jazzmen with a vision of the future combined with a strong sense of tradition and history. Only two criteria were used for the present choices: the superior quality of the musicians and the diversity of the projects. This is the best you can hear right now in New York or anywhere. From September 20th to 23rd, the Cornelia Street Cafe will be the place to meet the new jazz trends, and you'll certainly feel the spirit that drives Lisbonners to these sounds full of soul and energy. See the schedule below: Clean Feed NYC Fest II - Day OneSep. 20, 20078:30 pm Patrick Brennan's Present Personic A couple of months after the release of "muhheankuntuk", the new opus of his 29 year old project sonic openings under pressure, patrick brennan debuts another ensemble in the Clean Feed Fest: a trio with bassist Lisle Ellis and guitarist Bern Nix. No drums on sight, but a conceptually similar vision of what the saxophonist calls "metagroove", describing this as "a dense intersection of divergent trajectories and split-second close interaction". Both musicians have had previous colaborations with Brennan: Ellis recorded with him the 1998 duo CD, "Saunters, Walks and Ambles", and Nix was present in the 1983 album "Molten Opposites". They're top figures of present day creative jazz, Lisle Ellis with a CV that puts him in the companionship of the likes of Paul Plimley, Joe McPhee, Cecil Taylor, Marilyn Crispell and Dave Douglas, among many others, and Bern Nix coming from Ornette Coleman's Prime Time Band and a trajectory made with John Zorn, Jemeel Moondoc, James Chance, Jayne Cortez and Kip Hanrahan. 9:30 pm Alípio C Neto Quartet Born in Pernambuco, Brazil, saxophonist Alípio C. Neto moved to Portugal to study for a doctorate in literature. But as he continued his work on poetics (Chinese poetry included) and philology he maintain a special attention to music. Legendary multi-instrumentalist and composer Hermeto Pascoal was one of his teachers, and like him, Neto isn't an orthodox player. The mentor and soul of several bands, like IMI Kollektief, Wishful Thinking and DIGGIN', Neto has played or still plays regularly with top musicians of the international scene such, as Alex Maguire and Mark Sanders of Britain, Carlos "Zíngaro" of Portugal, Torbjorn Zetterberg and Joakim Rolandson of Sweden, and Americans Scott Fields, Adam Lane, and Herb Robertson. --- Clean Feed NYC Fest II - Day TwoSep. 21, 20079 pm - Russ Lossing Metal Rat Crossing a lonely path where we already found Paul Bley but few others, Russ Lossing clearly prefers nuance to power, even if he does have the drive. With violinist / violist Mat Maneri and bassist Sean Conly replacing Mark Dresser (what a responsibility!), like in the album "Metal Rat" we´re not going to listen to some "chamber jazz" or "third stream", but jazz with an extra dimension, well supported in the modern and contemporary piano tradition as much as in the jazz piano history. With classical background and an interest for all things avant garde, Lossing combines in his music, like no other pianist and bandleader, both mainstream and open forms. It's a marvel to see and hear him deconstructing his favourite Monk tunes, playing the inside of the piano directly with his fingers. Maneri is the best choice possible for the front melodic voice of this trio. Adapting serialist techniques to jazz, and using instruments like a baritone violin, an electric six-strings violin or a five-strings viola, here is another very distinctive musician, with a personal style and new ideas rooted in the tradition. 10 pm - Ravish Momin's Trio Tarana  Trio Tarana is (L to R): Brandon Terzic, Ravish Momin, and Sam Bardfeld 11 pm - Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra Nate Wooley, Taylor Ho Bynum, trumpets; Avram Fefer, Michael Attias, David Bindman, reeds; Reut Regev, Tim Vaughn, trombones; Adam Lane, bass; Igal Foni, drums Adam Lane is doing some magic. The bassist, composer and arranger is taking the big band format in jazz some steps beyond, and truth is there's not much happening nowadays in this field. Even the best examples of good orchestral work follow the same old patterns, without adding anything really new to what was done before. The Full Throttle Orchestra is an exception. Lane has Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus as references for his work, but not to reproduce their ideas and solutions, as many others simply do. For him, the large ensemble music of the two masters are seeds for a different crop in what concerns creativity, giving a future to a music genre that almost can't move with the weight of its past. That's his magic and its not a common feature. The fact that we can find some ingredients of classical contemporary music and of rock in the pieces he composes and conducts aren't sufficient explanations for the difference – that's only for flavour, fulfilling the nature of jazz to include in its corpus all the sounds crossing its way. --- Clean Feed NYC Fest II - Day ThreeSep. 22, 20079 pm - Gerry Hemingway Quartet Over the years since the quartet's inception ten years ago, the brass chair has had many visitors engage in the interpretive challenges and wide improvisational pallette of Gerry Hemingway's music. The primary trombonist has been Ray Anderson and primary trumpeter has been Herb Robertson, however on Clean Feed's upcoming festival at Cornelia St. the quartet will enjoy the well seasoned contributions of trumpeter Ron Horton (who has appeared on Clean Feed's trio releases of Will Holshouser). He will be joined by saxophonist Ellery Eskelin and bassist Mark Helias, both of whom have had long tenures with the quartet and other ongoing projects of Gerry Hemingway. The quartet will mostly present music from the latest Clean Feed release "The Whimbler". These compositions are what it's composer calls "integrative", meaning that the improvised elements of music bear a constant relationship to the compositions Hemingway has written. "I want the listener to feel as if they have experienced an individual musical world in each work presented; where spontaneous invention develops within the frames of the notated composition, offering a coherence akin to a short story" states Hemingway. 10 pm - Free Range Rat Free Range Rat has been scurrying beneath the New York underground music scene for the past 10 years. As a follow up to last year's critically acclaimed release of Nut Club, this elastic free-blowing quartet will join its fellow label constituents to celebrate the label's 2nd Annual Clean Feed Jazz Festival. With Eric Hipp on tenor sax; John Carlson on trumpets, Shawn McGloin on bass, and George Schuller on drums and bells, Free Range Rat plays "cosmosonic jazz" paying homage to those rich traditions of improvisational music including conceptual nods to Sun Ra, James Blood Ulmer, Bob Marley, Ornette Coleman, Parliament Funkadelic as well as new works from members of the band. 11 pm - Michaël Attias Quintet: Twines of Colesion Michaël Attias, alto & baritone saxophone;Tony Malaby, tenor & soprano saxophone; Russ Lossing, piano; John Hebert, bass; Nasheet Waits drums With Tony Malaby, Russ Lossing, John Hebert and special guest Nasheet Waits, the new Michaël Attias Quintet brings together five musicians who've evolved, over the years and in a wide variety of situations, a powerful and original approach to intertwining rhythm, color, line and sound. Twines of Colesion sings the song of a very special and risky sort of molecular paradise. Here is a band you can't miss… --- Clean Feed NYC Fest II - Day FourSep. 23, 2007Admission: $15 8:30 pm - Ethan Winogrand Quartet Who would've predicted that the drummer of the punk band Joe Cool, one of the regular groups playing at the legendary CBGB's at the end of the Seventies along with Talking Heads, Television and The Ramones, would become a big name in the progressive jazz scene? And who could guess in those times that Ethan Winogrand would firm his name under the Elvin Jones drumming lineage? But that's true, and we heard it in "Tangled Tango", a Clean Feed release. With guitarrist Ross Bonadonna (in fact, a multi-instrumentalist, also playing bass and a number of reed instruments) he has a long-running and very fruitful colaboration, but the Ethan Winogrand Quartet sound only established itself definitely with the add of Steven Bernstein, master of the slide trumpet, Tzadik habitué, leader of Sex Mob and the Millennial Territory Orchestra, former member of Lounge Lizards and one third of Spanish Fly. The bassist in this concert will be Thomson Kneeland, a musician equally at ease in swing, free jazz, 20th century chamber music and Balkan folk. 9:30 pm - Rob Brown Trio After a free jazz investment for many years, now something entirely different. Avant-garde? Composer / improviser Rob Brown says it's an irrelevant categorization nowadays. Instead of the conventional sax-bass-drums combo of post-bop and free jazz, here is an alternative combination of alto saxophone with a cello (Daniel Levin) and Japanese taiko percussion (Satoshi Takeishi), for a quieter, more open, exotic and abstract music performance than the ones usually labelled as jazz. Abstract, we said? Not always: they can use folk melodies from very far away (listen to "Tibetan Folk Song", in their "Sounds" album), and the traditional format of a ballad, even if not played with the most remarcable fidelity. But the "new thing" convictions of Mr. Brown are still there, a reflection of his cumplicity with the likes of William Parker, Matthew Shipp, Joe Morris and Whit Dickey, present day heirs of the music born in the Sixties and Seventies. Against a musical logic runned by the "short attention spans" of urban life, Rob Brown needs time to construct his ideas in a solo, and doing so he's convincing enough to invite us to join him in the jump. |
