Concert: jazz
8:30 – 11:30
Donation: $10
rob chalfen presents
-NODE
-MONIKA HEIDEMANN SEPTET
MONIKA HEIDEMANN SEPTET
James Carson - keys/piano
Patrick Hay - guitar
Brad Kemp - Bass
Croix Gallipaut - Drums
Amelia Hollander – Viola
Monika Heidemann - Voice
BIOS:
ANGELICA SANCHEZ
Pianist/Composer Angelica Sanchez was born in Phoenix,
Arizona. From 1990-1994 she studied piano and composition
at Arizona State University. Sanchez moved to New York in
1995. In June 2000 Angelica was invited to teach
improvisation and composition at the Banff Centre for the
Arts (Canada). Sanchez leads her own quartet featuring Tony
Malaby, Drew Gress, and Tom Rainey. Since moving to New
York Sanchez has played with: Susie Ibarra, Joe Lovano, Tim
Berne, Mark Dresser, Matt Manieri, Joe Manieri, Drew Gress,
Ed Schuller, Judy Silvano, Chris Speed, Dave Ballou, Jim
Black, Reggie Nicholson, George Schuller, Jeff Williams,
Daniel Carter, Mike Sarin, Tony Moreno, Scott Maclemore,
Ben Monder and many more.
Angelica’s first record as a leader featuring her quartet
will be released on OmniTone records in 2003.
Sanchez’s piano playing is marked by its fluidity. She
plays with tremendous ease and emotional involvement. It’s
a refreshing thought that the male-dominated jazz world
does have some bright female members with nowhere to go but
up.
—The Boston Tech/Jeremy Baskin
Sanchez is involved with free jazz that has structure, if
that isn’t too much of a contradiction; it has a loose,
cantankerous energy, but it’s given shape by some smart
writing.
—The New York Times
She’s brought a big imagination with her from the
Southwest, and the open-ended approach of her pianistics
accounts
for the sprawling terrain around which she grew up.
—Macnie
There’s something literally unique about her piano lingo.
It’s defined by an attempt to throw a lasso around a
massive
piece of keyboard history. And when it’s at its most
eloquent, you’ll be impressed.
—The Village Voice (more)
Her style encompasses the harmonic delicacy of a Herbie
Hancock with the occasional flashes of the percussive
attack of
a Cecil Taylor. The 28-year-old Arizona native is
definitely one to watch.
—Steve Feeney, Portland Press Herald
RUSS GERSHON
Russ Gershon founded the ten-piece Either/Orchestra in 1985, and has led the
band through over 1000 performances in 34 states and 7 countries, along with
8 CDs, 5 Boston Music Awards and many critics awards. The E/O’s current
album, Afro-Cubism, reached the top ten on college radio last fall. Russ
created and manages the independent Accurate Records label, issuing over 100
titles since 1990, including the debuts of Medeski Martin & Wood, Morphine
and the Jazz Mandolin Project. As a freelancer, Russ has played or recorded
with acts as diverse as Cab Calloway, the Four Tops and Throwing Muses. He
is currently pursuing a masters in music composition at Tufts.
MONIKA HEIDEMANN SEPTET
The Monika Heidemann sextet is a wild conglomeration of music and musicians.
Their sound is in many ways an autobiographical. You take a girl and
raise her to Brahms and Sinatra, that is, until the ‘80’s new wave takes
over, …but then she falls in love with the music of Sun Ra in college and
flees her original wildlife biology major to pursue a degree in jazz voice
–at New England Conservatory she meets other free-thinking/like-minded
musicians, that all want to play something new. This new fresh sound is the
Monika Heidemann sextet and they’ve been playing around Boston for a year
now. The band lays down heavy chords, deep, danceable grooves,
synthesizers, spacey improvisations, and long beautiful melodies.
Heidemann’s eclectic band combines a jazz rhythm section (Shourin Sen, bass;
Croix Galipault, drums), a rock guitarist Patrick Hay), and then throws in a
Juno synthesizer (James Carson) and an effects processed viola (Amelia
Hollander). This eclectic group lays down rhythms, grooves, and wild
improvisations in the midst of tightly crafted tunes that will have you
going home singing. Heidemann’s voice is emotionally charged and her
improvisations fly freely beyond the boundaries of notes and rhythm, and
into the unknown, utilizing extended vocal improvisational techniques. (She
can also be seen with the NEC Jazz Composer’s Orchestra and Raqib Hassan’s
Interdimentional Science Research Orchestra) The sextet’s many strange
sounds are not unknown to the Subconscious Cafe in the Zeitgeist Gallery
(Inman Square) where they will be playing this Saturday Night.
Opening:
Node:
from Latin nodus knot; akin to Middle Irish naidm bond.
1: an entangling complication (as in a drama)
2 a: a point at which subsidiary parts originate or center
b : a point at which a curve intersects itself in such a manner
that the branches have different tangents
3: free improv ensemble— no genres, no rules
Will Buchanan - drums (Fishlung Trio, BopAnts)
Ken Field - alto sax, flute (Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Revolutionary Snake Ensemble)
Steve MacLean - guitar/kora, electronics(C Cutler,R Rudd, Dr.Nerve)
Dan Soltzberg - bass, looping (ghost 7, Oranje)
Jed Speare - laptop, concréte sounds (Mobius Artists Group)
Jonathan Wobesky - trumpet. percussion (Reverend Glasseye)