Newvelle Records is Proud to Present Andy Zimmerman's "Half Light"

NEW VELLE RECORDS

Andy Zimmerman's Half Light is the second record of our Third Season.   Andy teamed up with an all star group of musicians to present this music featuring Dave Douglas on Trumpet, Kevin Hays on Piano and Matt Penman on Bass.  We think Andy is a unique voice and we can't wait to see what the world thinks of this one.

Video shot by Isaac Gillespie and edited by Ben Chace

Half Light

"The songs on this record sound like nothing else I’ve heard. Most of these songs are Andy’s compositions, sketches that he lets the band tease apart and put back together. The unique voice isn’t always a prodigy or a technical wizard or an uncanny ear. Because no matter how fast you learn, you’ll never know it all. It’s not how quick you can master something that matters; it’s do you have something to say? Learning how to read when you’re two years old is not an indicator of whether or not you’ll someday write a great novel. It’s how you live and who you are that makes you a creator. It’s about a perspective and a desire to share it."

--excerpted from the liner notes by Elan Mehler

Andy Zimmerman, Dave Douglas, Matt Penman and Kevin Hays    ©Jordan Kleinman

photo by Jordan Kleinman

"If I’m beginning to sound like a broken record with my praise for the by-subscription releases from Newvelle Records, blame the people responsible for these LPs, which consistently rise to the top in terms of music and sound." 

--Guy Lemcoe, The Audio Beat

Season Three:

Steve Cardenas is releasing a record dedicated to greats Charlie Haden and Paul Motian. Recording, with a quartet built of long-time collaborators of both titans Loren Stillman on sax, Thomas Morgan on bass and Matt Wilson on drums, all Charlie and Paul tunes, a couple of which have never been recorded. (February 2018)

The Chicagoan composer and saxophonist Andrew Zimmerman (previously featured on our first release, Frank Kimbrough’s “Meantime”) has put together a drumless quartet featuring pianist Kevin Hays (recording here on the same 9 foot Fazioli that Jack DeJohnette used), the bassist Matt Penman and the great Dave Douglas on trumpet. (April 2018)

Lionel Loueke is releasing his first ever album of standards featuring extraordinary accomplices Reuben Rogers on bass and Eric Harland on drums. (June 2018)

Skúli Sverrisson and Bill Frisell are releasing their first collaboration. All original music from Skúlli, much of it written for Bill. If you are familiar with Skúlli and Bill's music, you'll know what you're getting into, a record of uncommon depth and beauty. (August 2018)

Incredible Cuban drummer Francisco Mela (McCoy Tyner, Joe Lovano, John Scofield) is releasing an album of all original material with his working band featuring Kris Davis, Gerald Cannon and Hery Paz. (October 2018)

Boston based trumpeter Jason Palmer put together a band of his long time New York collaborators for a session of originals and original takes on standards with pianist Leo Genovese (previously featured on his own record on Newvelle), bassist Joe Martin and drummer Kendrick Scott. (December 2018)

All of our cover and interior photographs for Season three come fare by Maciej Markowicz.  Original text by Ingrid Astier,  Our Recording Engineer on all six records is the incomparable multi-Grammy winning Marc Urselli.  Mastering engineer is the brilliant Alex Deturk .  Jim Hoppin and Sarah Enid Hagey shot lovely video for us at these sessions.  All video editing is by the award-winning Ben Chace.  Anna Yatskevich shoots all our studio photos.

Video shot by Isaac Gillespie and edited by Ben Chace

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal / New addition to the program: Christine and The Queens

Exclusive presale for newsletter subscribers: Monday, April 23, noon, to Wednesday, April 25, 10 p.m.

Christine and The Queens

November 6 • Place Bell

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Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin

May 4 • L'Astral

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Bokanté 

May 16 • Centre Phi

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Max Richter

October 9 • Théâtre Maisonneuve,

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The Brooks

May 29 • L'Astral

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Edward Simon (with Afinidad & Imani Winds) - Sorrows & Triumphs (SUNNYSIDE RECORDS April 20, 2018)

Pianist-Composer Edward Simon Presents the Album Sorrows and Triumphs,

Featuring Afinidad, his Quartet with Alto Saxophonist David Binney,

Bassist Scott Colley and Drummer Brian Blade 

The richly textured Sorrows and Triumphs - to be released April 20, 2018, via Sunnyside Records - is also colored by very special guests: vocalist Gretchen Parlato, guitarist Adam Rogers

and chamber quintet Imani Winds

"One of the strongest pianists of his generation, with intuitive empathy and drum-like ingenuity, Simon solos compositionally with passionate elegance." - DownBeat

Pianist Edward Simon - a native of Venezuela who has made a name for himself over decades in America as a jazz pianist, bandleader and composer-arranger, along with being a Guggenheim Fellow and member of the hit SFJAZZ Collective - presents his latest album, Sorrows and Triumphs, via Sunnyside Records on April 20, 2018. The recording showcases his virtuoso quartet Afinidad, featuring alto saxophonist David Binney, bassist Scott Colley and drummer Brian Blade; the album's color-rich arrangements also include special guests: vocalist Gretchen Parlato, guitarist Adam Rogers and the chamber quintet Imani Winds, along with percussionists Rogerio Boccato and Luis Quintero. The album's material blends two bodies of music commissioned by Chamber Music of America's New Jazz Works program: the suites "Sorrows and Triumphs" and "House of Numbers," their individual movements re-sequenced to form a holistic listening experience that brims with a lyricism both intimate and majestic. This release follows Simon's Latin American Songbook, with the four-and-a-half-star DownBeat review for that 2016 album praising its "grand and sophisticated" sound. Latin American Songbook also won Simon an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Album. JazzTimes has said: "Simon is less talked about than many other important jazz pianists from the Caribbean and South America, but he may be the most complete creative artist among them."

The three tracks on Sorrows and Triumphs drawn from the original title suite - "Equanimity," "Rebirth" and "Triumphs" - feature Afinidad with Parlato, Rogers and Baccato, the compositions inspired by Simon's studies of Buddhism over two decades. Afinidad first performed the "Sorrows and Triumphs" suite in 2009 at Walton Performing Arts Center in Arkansas and later at New York's Jazz Standard, with performances broadcast on NPR's Jazz Set. "The music isn't narrative in any way," Simon explains. "But it was inspired intuitively by the effects Buddhist practice has had on me, the perspective and the little bits of enlightenment that come every day. I wrote my own words for 'Triumphs,' but Gretchen has also studied Buddhism, so when I asked her to contribute lyrics to 'Rebirth,' she knew exactly how to convey the message. Gretchen is such a special singer, who has the gift making the most of small details to expressive effect. She knows that just a whisper can have a big impact. As for the compositions, I wanted them to bring joy to the listener, to be direct and accessible, with singable melodies."

The album's tracks taken from the suite "House of Numbers" - "Uninvited Thoughts," "Triangle," "Chant" and "Venezuela Unida" - feature Afinidad with Quintero and award-winning classical group Imani Winds. The ballad highlight "Chant" also includes words and vocals by Parlato. Simon's compositions explore the cross-cultural resonance of numerology, as well as the musical possibilities that arise when jazz and classical artists combine. The music draws on traditions from Europe, Africa, North America and South America, blending composed structures with sections for improvisation; the numbers 3, 4, 5 and 7 - and their cultural and musical implications - form the basis of the suite's four pieces. The composer explains: "The number 3, for instance, can suggest triple meters, such as 3/4, 6/4 or 6/8, which in turn can suggest certain grooves, particularly in the music of South America. It can also point to the use of triads and three-bar phrases. Above all, the number 3 points to the even distribution of forces into three equal parts, which suggests balance - an ideal in nature and life." Afinidad and Imani Winds unveiled House of Numbers in 2016 at California's University of the Pacific.

Simon Rowe, executive director of Roots, Jazz & American Music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, attended the premiere of "House of Numbers," saying afterward that the blend of the five Imani Winds with Simon's jazz quartet was "mesmerizing," as the "writing juxtaposed the lyrical and often dense textures of the quintet with the ever-changing, percolating rhythmic drive of Afinidad." Reviewing Afinidad's music-making, All About Jazz described the band's sound as "wonderful, accessible and deep." Simon remarks on his bandmates: "Their musicality, openness, and breadth give me the greatest freedom as a composer. I write with the sound and sensibilities of Dave, Scott and Brian in mind, and I depend on our instant empathy and almost wordless communication in the studio. It is our artistic bond of trust, built over many years, that underpins and encourages my exploration in these pieces." Simon and Binney co-founded Afinidad in 2000, with the kindred-spirit rhythm section of Colley and Blade there from the start. The quartet has previously released the albums Afinidad (Red Records, 2001) and Océanos (Criss Cross, 2007).

Simon and Binney share a 25-year affinity, their musical visions as simpatico as their personalities. "Dave is eclectic, open to all sorts of influences, and has the ability to put them together into something personal, as a player and as a composer," Simon remarks. "We have both composed for Afinidad over the years, even though this album is mine as a composer. But David's sharp ear for aesthetic beauty makes him a great sounding board in the studio - in addition to being a featured player, he has real producing chops. He co-produced the track 'Triumphs' with me, adding electronics." For his part, Binney says: "I've always enjoyed Ed's sensitive musicality. His musical concept sums up the way I hear things, and because of his Latin American roots, his rhythmic sense is very strong, which complements the way I play. Sometimes I play with more abandon, and he locks things in. And his compositions have such thought behind them." About Colley and Blade, who are leaders in their own right, Simon adds: "Musicians who are composers interpret other people's music in a more informed way, so Scott and Brian have the sensibility to articulate my music with sensitivity to space, to quality of sound, to textural nuance."

Guitarist Adam Rogers has been part of the extended Afinidad family for years. "He's such a strong improver," Simon explains, "and his versatility as a player, whether on electric or acoustic, adds a lot to what we can do texturally." About the extra percussion of Boccato and Quintero, Simon adds: "Groove has always been a vital aspect of music for me, and with a lot of this music influenced by classical minimalism - especially Steve Reich - the extra percussion helps articulate the groove. And in 'Venezuela Unida,' Luis plays the culo'e puya, a long, narrow drum, played in sets of three, associated with Afro-Venezuelan music. This composition is dedicated to my homeland. Venezuela has undergone tremendous socio-economic and political changes during the past decade. It pains me to see the strong divisions that have emerged as a result and the great difficulty people are going through. I wish for my fellow Venezuelans to elevate themselves beyond differences in views and hope they manage to find peace, understanding and unity once again."

Edward Simon

Edward Simon - who first came to the U.S. in 1981 at age 12, then settled permanently stateside after attending the Performing Arts School in Philadelphia - grew up in a musical family in the oil-refinery town of Punta Cardón, Venezuela. His father planted a musical seed with young Edward and his siblings, the kids raised on the strains of their dad playing guitar and singing boleros with his drinking buddies. Chucho Valdés was Simon's first big influence on piano, then he got the jazz bug watching a VHS tape of Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz playing at the White House - with "the freedom of jazz" forever instilled in him as an ideal. After graduating from the Performing Arts School at age 15, Simon received a music scholarship from the University of the Arts where he studied classical music. Later, he transferred to the Manhattan School of Music where he studied jazz piano. During his stint as a young jazzer in New York City, Simon was inspired by the innovative Nuyorican jazz of Jerry Gonzalez & the Fort Apache Band, eventually playing with the group.

As a young striver, Simon took the piano chair in Bobby Watson's band Horizon (1989-94), later moving to the Terence Blanchard Group (1994-2002). Simon made his debut album as a leader in 1994 with Beauty Within (Audioquest). The same year, he placed third in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, with the albums Edward Simon (Kokopelli, 1995) and La Bikina (Mythology, 1998) to follow. Simon co-founded the quartet Afinidad with David Binney, releasing the discs Afinidad (Red Records, 2001) and Océanos (Criss Cross, 2007) with the rhythm duo of Scott Colley and Brian Blade. Simon and Binney also released the duo album Fiestas de Agosto (Red Records, 2008). In 2010, Simon was named a Guggenheim Fellow, and he became a member of the SFJAZZ Collective, which comprises what The New York Times called "eight of today's most in-demand" performer-composers.

Following his leader discs The Process (Criss Cross, 2003) and Simplicitas (Criss Cross, 2005), Simon recorded several albums featuring his All-Star Trio with Blade and bassist John Patitucci; complementing the studio discs Unicity (CamJazz, 2006) and Poesía (CamJazz, 2009), the group's most recent release is the 2013 Sunnyside album Trio Live, recorded at New York's Jazz Standard. The New York Times praised Simon's "warm touch" as a pianist, while Jazz Journal International singled out his "deep emotional statements" as a composer. With the folk-accented compositions of his album Venezuelan Suite (Sunnyside, 2014), Simon garnered some of the most glowing reviews of his career, including a rating of four-and-a-half out of five stars from DownBeat. With Venezuelan Suite, the pianist blended the tuneful, buoyant sounds of his native country with the harmonically sophisticated, forward-looking manner of jazz. The compositions - written on a grant from Chamber Music America - featured star saxophonist Mark Turner alongside virtuosos of the Venezuelan folk tradition. All About Jazz marveled over the album: "Venezuelan Suite is pianist Edward Simon's love letter to his homeland, but that's not all it is; it's the perfect confluence of Venezuelan ideals, jazz language and chamber-esque sophistication. In short, it's a masterpiece."

Latin American Songbook (Sunnyside, 2016) saw Simon create artful piano-trio arrangements of such classics as Astor Piazzolla's "Libertango" and Antônio Carlos Jobim's "Chega de Saudade," as well as the Cuban ballad "En La Orilla Del Mundo" (On the Edge of the World). NPR's All Things Considered said: "This recording works because an expert musician applies himself so sincerely to songs that were formative for him. Simon puts his head and heart into Latin American Songbook, and the album gives Latin standards a rightful and joyful place at the center of instrumental jazz." In fall 2017, Simon, Colley and Blade released their first album as a cooperative trio, the eponymous Steel House.

1. "Incessant Desires"

2. "Uninvited Thoughts"

3. "Equanimity"

4. "Triangle"

5. "Chant"

6. "Venezuela Unida"

7. "Triumphs"

8. "Rebirth"

Produced and composed by Edward Simon

"Triumphs" co-produced by Edward Simon & David Binney

Lyrics for "Chant" and "Rebirth" by Gretchen Parlato

Edward Simon, piano

David Binney, alto saxophone

Scott Colley, double-bass

Brian Blade, drums

Gretchen Parlato, vocals

Adam Rogers, guitars

Imani Winds:

Valerie Coleman, flute

Toyin Spellman-Diaz, oboe

Monica Ellis, bassoon

Mark Dover, clarinet

Jeff Scott, French horn

Rogerio Baccato, percussion (3, 7)

Luis Quintero, percussion (2, 4, 6)

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Stephi Zimmermann Trio - The Same, But Different (UNIT RECORDS 2018)

Sensibilität, Klarheit und eine gewisse Melancholie dies zeichnet die musikalische Welt von Stephi Zimmermann aus. Geleitet von einer Vorliebe für traditionelle Formen und Starke Melodien, verbindet die Pianistin in ihrer Musik die Sprache der Jazztradition mit Elementen der Romantik und versieht diese Mischung ab und an mit einer Prise Humor.

So stehen auf diesem Debütalbum beispielsweise eine Eigenkomposition in der Tradition Lennie Tritanos, ein Arrangement des Standars. In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning und eine Bearbeitung eines Stücks aus Robert Schumanns Waldszenen gleichberechtigt nebeneinander.

Sinn für Ästhetik und Liebe zum Detail bilden Ilya Alabuzhev und der brasilianische Schlagzeuger Luis de Oliveira sind zwei sowohl innovative als auch sensible Mitmusiker, die durch ihre jeweilige Individualität sowie das Gespür für den passeden Moment einen einzigartigen Bandsound entstehen lassen.

1. Haunted spot 7:35

2. Weird little thing 7:15

3. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning 8:15

4. Clara's waltz 5:20

5. Klagelied 5:15

6. The Same, But Different 5:15

7. Timanfaya 8:22

Stephanie Zimmermann, piano

Luis Andre Carneiro de Oliveira, drums

Ilya Alabuzhev, double bass

May 2: NEC presents world premiere of Anthony Coleman's 'Streams'

New England Conservatory presents the world premiere of

Streams by faculty member and CI alum Anthony Coleman

Wednesday, May 2 at NEC’s Jordan Hall

Coleman, who often skipped high school to ride on Duke Ellington’s tour bus, cites Ellington’s strong influence on his approach to creating music

Streams commissioned for NEC’s 150th anniversary

As part of the landmark celebration of its 150th anniversary, New England Conservatory (NEC) commissioned Contemporary Improvisation (CI) Department faculty member, Composition Department alumnus, and maverick composer Anthony Coleman to create a new work showcasing the school’s CI Department. Streams – a boundary-blurring musical celebration of diversity and the individuality that creates it – will receive its world premiere on Wednesday, May 2, 7:30 p.m. at NEC’s Jordan Hall, 290 Huntington Ave., Boston. Admission is free. For information call 617-585-1122 or visit https://necmusic.edu/event/7246.

Coleman, who graduated from NEC in 1977 and has taught there since 2006, cites Duke Ellington’s influence in creating this piece and indeed in creating all of his music.  While a high school student in Brooklyn, Coleman skipped classes to ride on Ellington’s tour bus, soaking up Ellington’s genius.  That seminal experience has influenced Coleman’s art ever since, and Streams incorporates these early lessons.  Like Ellington, Coleman has written music for the individual players – Ellington famously spoke of writing for trumpet player Rex Stewart’s “seven good notes” and, similarly, Coleman promises, “I’m going to take each student and find their seven good notes,” referencing Ellington – while creating overarching musical unity and blurring the lines between composer and performer, composition and improvisation.

In Streams, Coleman draws from the tools, events, and issues of the world around him in unique and effective ways. The use of predictive text on cell phones as an improvisational device is just one example. The movement Pinye (Yiddish for "froth") focuses on the Parkland massacre's anti-Semitic overtones. Other movements include one based on student improvisations; one composed in honor of  recently deceased NEC faculty member, former dean and provost, and Hindustani music scholar and performer Peter Row; one composed for the CI department's rock ensemble that explores automatism, or the digital reprogramming of sensibility; one inspired by Coleman's encounter with the 1980s "haunted" landscapes of Eastern Europe; a movement exploring "open forms" concepts introduced by composers Christian Wolff and Cornelius Cardew, a composed piano solo movement drawing on Coleman's own improvisational piano techniques, and a final movement in memory of NEC alum Cecil Taylor, who died on April 5.

“One of Anthony’s great gifts is his ability to bring people together, blur boundaries and create cohesive music from each musician’s individual strengths and with people who have very diverse ways of playing,” says Contemporary Improvisation department co-chair Hankus Netsky. “Streams features at least six different ensembles – from Coleman’s CI Ensemble, Survivors Breakfast, to NEC’s CI Chamber Ensemble, Jewish Music Ensemble, Contemporary Rock ensemble, The Ted Reichman Ensemble and carefully selected duos and trios. In today’s world, this creation of musical diversity through a democratic and collaborative process should be celebrated.”

Collaborations with the CI department’s faculty, students, and programming become the musical vehicles for a groundbreaking work that is at once unique and personal, going beyond genre to achieve an overarching unity of compositional approaches.

Anthony Coleman

Pianist/composer Anthony Coleman has been one of the key figures of New York music for nearly four decades. His work bridges the gap between composition and improvisation, Uptown and Downtown, and spans a wide range of genres and practices including free improvisation, jazz, Jewish music (of various types), and contemporary chamber music.

At the dawn of the 1980s, after earning a bachelor’s degree from New England Conservatory and a master’s degree in composition from the Yale University School of Music, Coleman immersed himself in New York City’s forward-thinking circle of genre-confounding composers and improvisers that would come to be known as the Downtown Scene. The first two records Coleman played on, Glenn Branca’s Lesson No. 1 and John Zorn’s Archery, are classics of a then-emerging avant garde.

Balancing a powerful sense of structural logic and expressionistic color, Coleman has had a prolific career as a composer. His works have been commissioned by the Concert Artist Guild, the Jerome Foundation, the Ruhrtriennale, the Festival Banlieues Blues, and the Bang on a Can All-Stars, among others. He has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer and more.

He has presented his own work at the Sarajevo Jazz Festival (Bosnia), North Sea Jazz Festival (Holland), Saalfelden Festival (Austria), and the Krakow and Vienna Jewish Culture Festivals. Ensembles led by Coleman have recorded extensively for Tzadik and include the trio Sephardic Tinge and Selfhaters Orchestra. He has also toured and recorded with John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Marc Ribot, Shelley Hirsch, Roy Nathanson, and many others.

Coleman has recorded 15 CDs under his own name, and has played on more than 150. His most recent recordings are You (New World) and The End of Summer (Tzadik). His Damaged by Sunlight (2010) was issued on DVD by the French label La Huit.

He has been a member of the faculty of New England Conservatory since 2006 and has also taught at Bennington College, the Bard MFA program, and the Mannes College of Music.

About New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Improvisation Program

Founded in 1972 by musical visionaries Gunther Schuller and Ran Blake, New England Conservatory's Contemporary Improvisation  (CI) program is “one of the most versatile in all of music education” (JazzEd). CI trains composers, performers, and improvisers to broaden their musical palettes and develop unique voices. It is unparalleled in its structured approach to ear training and its emphasis on singing, memorization, harmonic sophistication, aesthetic integrity, and stylistic openness. Under Blake's inspired guidance for its first thirty-three years, the program grew considerably and has expanded its offerings under current co-chairs Hankus Netsky and Eden MacAdam-Somer. Alumni include Don Byron, John Medeski, Jacqueline Schwab, Aoife O'Donovan and Sarah Jarosz; faculty include Carla Kihlstedt, Blake, Dominique Eade, and Anthony Coleman. “A thriving hub of musical exploration,” (Jeremy Goodwin, Boston Globe), the program currently has more than 50 undergrad and graduate students from 14 countries.

About New England Conservatory

Celebrating its 150th anniversary, New England Conservatory (NEC) is recognized internationally as a leader among music schools, educating and training musicians of all ages from around the world. With music students representing more than 40 countries, NEC cultivates a diverse, dynamic community for students, providing them with performance opportunities and high-caliber training by 225 internationally-esteemed artist-teachers and scholars. NEC pushes the boundaries of making and teaching music through college-level musical training in classical, jazz and Contemporary Improvisation. It offers unique interdisciplinary programs such as Entrepreneurial Musicianship and Community Performances & Partnerships that empower students to create their own musical opportunities. As part of NEC's mission to make lifelong music education available to everyone, the Preparatory School and School of Continuing Education delivers training and performance opportunities for children, pre-college students and adults.

Founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1867 by Eben Tourjée, NEC created a new model of conservatory that combined the best of European tradition with American innovation. NEC is at the center of Boston’s rich cultural history and musical life offering concerts performed in NEC’s renowned venue Jordan Hall. Alumni go on to fill orchestra chairs, concert hall stages, jazz clubs, recording studios and arts management positions worldwide.

Program for Streams by Anthony Coleman

Alap for Peter Row
            Hankus Netsky, oboe
            Eden MacAdam-Somer, viola
            Anthony Coleman, piano

Pinye
            Jewish Music Ensemble (directed by Hankus Netsky)
            Elise Leavy, voice
            Caroline Kuhn, voice
            Julia Cohen, voice/uke
            Matthew Shifrin, voice/accordion
            Sophie Wang, fiddle
            Daniel Cetlin, violin
            Daniel Hirsch, trumpet
            Daniel Ackermann, tenor sax
            Jon Dewitt, banjo/guitar
            Alexandra Greenwald, melodica
            Utsav Lal, piano
            Grace Ward, bass
            Bulut Gulen, trombone
            Chenchu Rong, marimba
            Peiying Li, drums

To Tell, Amputationally
Survivors Breakfast (directed by Anthony Coleman)
Isaiah Johnson, Barrett Ham - bass clarinets
Daniel Bitran, clarinet
Gabriel Garcia, alto sax
Luke Fieweger, bassoon
Rubin Hohlbein, trumpet
Alexander Whiting, mandolin
Magdalena Abrego, guitar
Cole Blouin, guitar
Steven Long, piano
Ross Wightman, bass
Taichiro Ei, drums

For C.C. and C.W.
            Ted Reichman Ensemble (directed by Ted Reichman)
            Will Kubas, voice
            Sara Pajunen, violin
            Gabriel Garcia, alto sax
            Jake Zaslav, trumpet
            Matthew Okun, guitar
            Sunniva Brynnel, accordion
            Thomas Davis, piano/keyboard
            Monic Chen, piano/keyboard
            Taichiro Ei, vibraphone

Guggul
            Steven Long, piano

Duo
            DoYeon Kim, gayageum
            Anthony Coleman, piano

Duo
            Rubin Hohlbein, trumpet
            Gabriel Garcia, alto sax

Pretty Pressure
            Sam Jone, voice
            Hope Wilk, harp
            Cole Blouin, guitar
 Ross Wightman, bass
            Robert Murphy,electronics
            Taichiro Ei, percussion
          
Trio
            Priya Carlberg, voice
            Melissa Weikart, voice
            Jeffrey Cox, trumpet

Trio
            Tanya Kalmanovitch, viola
            Ted Reichman, accordion
            Anthony Coleman, piano

Cross Currents 1982
            CI Chamber Music Ensemble (directed by Eden MacAdam-Somer)
Ana Lopez, voice
Stuart Ryerse, recorder
Emma Gies, violin/voice
Eden MacAdam-Somer, viola
Jon Dewitt, guitar
Muqi Li, guzheng
Adam Tuch, piano
Taichiro Ei, drums

Semiocapital
            Contemporary Rock Ensemble (directed by Lautaro Mantilla)
            Billy Yang, alto sax
            Thomas Abbott, guitar
            Chiwei Lo, keyboard
            Melissa Weikart, piano/ voice
            Magdalena Abrego, guitar
            Matthew Okun, bass
            Taichiro Ei, drums

April 5, 2018
            Unchu Pyon, Eden MacAdam-Somer, voice
            Alexandra Greenwald, melodica
            Daniel Bitran, Dan O'Brien, clarinet
            Isaiah Johnson, bass clarinet
            Hankus Netsky, oboe
            Rubin Hohlbein, trumpet
            Matthew Shifrin, Sunniva Brynnel, accordion
            DoYeon Kim, gayageum
            Gabriel Garcia, Billy Yang, alto sax
            Daniel Ackerman, tenor sax
            Alec Whiting, mandolin
            Magdalena Abrego, Cole Blouin, guitar
            Matthew Okun, electric bass
            Steven Long, harmonium
            Anthony Coleman, piano
            Taichiro Ei, drums

            Eden MacAdam-Somer – conductor

https://necmusic.edu/contemporary-improvisation

Anne Paceo - Fables of Shwedagon (LABORIE JAZZ 2018)

For several years, Anne has shared with us her wish and her desire to meet in foreign lands.

Burma, currently Myanmar, is one of those directions that have attracted and trained her in this passion for exchange.

After several stays in Burma, the reception in residence of Anne Paceo, by Denis Lebas and the Festival “Jazz sous les Pommiers” in Coutances, allowed the realization of "Fables of Shwedagon" during the 2017 Festival... an exceptional fable.

This recording, produced by Denis Lebas will be Anne Paceo's 5th album on Laborie Jazz Label.

1. Yin padey thar

2. Every night has a morning

3. Le soleil, la lune, et l’étoile du soir

4. Myanmar folk song

5. Hla thuzar

6. Yamona

7. Fables of shwedagon

Hein Tint : Hsaing Waing

Kyaw Soe : Maung Zaing

Htun Oo : Hne, Flute

Kyie Myint : Chauk Lone Pat

Ye Minh Thu : Si Wa

Christophe Panzani : Saxophones

Pierre Perchaud : Guitar

Leonardo Montana : Piano

Joan Eche-Puig : Double bass

Anne Paceo : Drums

Executive Producer : Denis Lebas for Jazz Sous les Pommiers

Under Exclusive Licence to Label Laborie Jazz

Recorded live & Mixed by Boris Darley

Mastered by Pierre Vandewaeter at Studio Lakanal

Photos by Mayco Naing

Landscapes pictures by Anne Paceo

Artwork / design by Jérôme Witz

Booking : Pascal Pilorget - www.g-steps.com

Public relation : Simon Veyssière - www.accent-presse.com

Worldwide digital distribution by IDOL

Distribution by SOCADISC