Tonic is back sort of, just got this email (note that ELECTRIC KULINTANG played with Thurston a year or so ago)...
We wish our Tonic family and friends a great holiday season and we will miss
seeing you all on New Year's Eve. Please come out to hear the great music at
the following events.
BLURRING Boundaries series at Abrons Arts Center curated by Tonic
Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street (F train to East Broadway or Delancey)
FOR TICKET information go to:
www.tonicnyc.com
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Friday December 14th
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* ELECTRIC KULINTANG with Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez
8pm, $12
Filipina-American Composer/Percussionist Susie Ibarra is best known for her
individual artistry on percussion and genre-defying music. Cuban born
drummer/percussionist and composer Roberto Rodriguez brings groundbreaking new
music through his original musical voice. Electric Kulintang performs new
music as well as pieces from their cd, Dialects, on Plastic Records. Special
guest guitarist Oz Noy joins them tonight.
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Friday January 4th
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* Sylvie Courvoisier and Mark Feldman duo & Rashied Ali Quintet
Starting at 8pm, $15
* SYLVIE COURVOISIER and MARK FELDMAN
Since 1996, Courvoisier (piano) and Fledman (violin) have been performing
regulary in the US and Canada and toured widely in Europe (played in Festivals
such as Willisau, Saalfelden, Mulhouse, Partheney, Shaffhouse, Muenster,
Bath , Vancouver, Bordeaux...).
They perform the music of John Zorn, Masada Book II (Book of Angels), from
their new CD "Malphas" on Tzadik Records plus some of their own exciting
improvisations & compositions.
« ...That her music is as aesthetically beautiful as it is strange and
mysterious is only further testament to her prowess as a composer…" Thom
Jurek, All Music Guide
* RASHIED ALI QUINTET
Rashied Ali- drums; Josh Evans- trumpet; Lawrence Clark- tenor saxophone; Greg
Murphy- piano; Joris Teepe- bass.
Rashied Ali is a progenitor and leading exponent of multidirectional
rhythms/polytonal percussion. A student of Philly Joe Jones and an admirer of
Art Blakey, Ali developed the style known as "free jazz" drumming
"Although rightfully revered as one of the fathers of avant-garde drumming for
his role in John Coltrane’s last band, Rashied Ali grew up in Philadelphia
during the heyday of hard bop, so it should come as no surprise to find him at
the helm of a group that reflects the influence of Art Blakey and the Jazz
Messengers and the Max Roach-Clifford Brown Quintet, as much as that of the
freer music that flowed from the font of Coltrane." -Russ Musto
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Saturday January 5th
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* DAVE DOUGLAS BLUE NILE: THE MUSIC OF RANDY WESTON
8pm, $15
Dave Douglas - trumpet, Donny McCaslin - sax, flute, Luis Bonilla - trombone,
Marcus Rojas - tuba, Geoff Keezer - keyboards and Nasheet Waits - drums
A special New York premiere, not to be missed!
Fun and exciting new arrangements by the American Master Randy Weston. A
fascinating look into the world of this classic/eclectic composer, Douglas'
arrangements offer a new focus on the tunes, highlight some of the strong
grooves and open up great spaces for a band of today's most powerful
improvisers.
Randy Weston has had a considerable career in jazz as a pianist, composer, and
bandleader. He emerged in the mid-1950s, being voted New Star Pianist in Down
Beat magazine's International Critics' Poll of 1955, the year after his
recording debut as a leader, with the album Cole Porter In a Modern Mood. His
piano style owes much to Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk but it is highly
distinctive in its qualities: percussive, highly rhythmic, capable of
producing a wide variety of moods.
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