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| Matt Shipp & Michael Bisio - Saturday 19 January 8pm |
OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages
URL: Outpost186.com
Wednesday
2 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
David Doms
Thursday
3 January @ Outpost, 8pm by donation
Markus Nechay presents The
Whimsy!
in
memoriam David Cutler
Friday 4 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
"First
Fridays avec Le Prestige":
Le
Prestige
Chris
Forkey - bass / John Glenshaw - drums / Kit Buckley - tenor sax / Scott
Getchell - trumpet / Jeff Platz - guitar
Hard-hitting,
chill-out, groove music. Searching for the perfect lounge.
Saturday 5 January @
OUTPOST 186, 8PM, $5/10
Chagall
Performance Art Collaborative Presents
Fantasia on Breathing and Electronics-inspired music
With
special musical guests Carol Rowntree Jones, Tsuyoshi Honjo and Paul Jacobs
This show starts at 8pm but come earlier for workshops in
writing and Soundpainting at 6:30. Carol Rowntree Jones comes from England to
share her poems and images of breathing projected sprinkled with Soundpainting
interludes. Also, Dennis Shafer, Paul Jacobs and Tsuyoshi Honjo will
share works for soprano saxophone by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Luciano Berio.
Carol Rowntree Jones – poetry /
Tsuyoshi Honjo – soprano saxophone / Paul Jacobs – piano
ChagallPAC:
Diana Norma – poetry / Dennis Shafer – saxophone
Tuesday 8 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
The Olson Pingrey Quartet
Randy
Pingrey - trombone, compositions
Kathy
Olson - bari sax, compositions
Mark
Zaleski - bass
Austin
McMahon - drums
The Olson Pingrey
Quartet (aka the OPQ) started as a tribute to the subtle and strangely
subversive modernism of the Gerry Mulligan/Bob Brookmeyer quartet. We’ve since
found something interesting by continuing that tradition. You’ll find our
music to be lighthearted, but never frivolous as well as rigorous, but never
academic. We combine the harmonic freedom of free jazz with the melodic
vocabulary of hard bop and the quirky individualism of early swing. The
unique timbre of the bari sax and trombone plus the lack of any chordal
instrument really sets us apart from the average modern jazz group.
At this particular
performance we'll be premiering some new compositions and arrangements.
You can check out recordings and
learn more about the group here:
Thursday 10 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Laurence Cook & Luther Gray Percussion Duo
Laurence Cook & Luther Gray – drums
& percussion
Friday 11 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Jeff Platz & New Industrial
Policy
John
McLellan – drums / Kit Demos – bass Scott Getchell – trumpets Andy Volker –
saxes / Jeff Platz - guitar
Saturday 12 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Dr T
presents
Visual Music
Live
featuring
Dr
T – live video mixing with:
New Language
Collaborative
Eric Zinman – piano / Glynis Loman – cello, aquasonic, voice / Syd Smart - drums
http://www.youtube.com/Tobenfeld
Sunday 13 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
mobius quartet + Ross Wallace Chait &
Myles Emmons
mobius quartet
James Coleman – theremin
/ Derek Hoffend - electronics
Tom Plsek – trombone /
Jed Speare - laptop
Ross Wallace Chait & Myles Emmons (Oberlin)
Ross
Wallace Chait - percussion/guitar/loops/objects
Myles
Emmons - double-bass/electronics
Ross Chait + Myles Emmons are a composing and
improvising duo of avant-garde music out of Oberlin Ohio. Working with
found objects, electronics and their respective primary instruments (percussion
and double bass), the duo attempts to toe the ever-evolving line between
atmosphere and abstraction, venturing from stark terrains often cultivated in
silence, to wild outbursts of sonic extremities. Having performed with
the likes of Tim Feeney + Vic Rawlings, The EAR Duo and C. Spencer Yeh with
releases current and upcoming on ILSE Records and Welcome to the 21st Century,
the duo continues to explore via free improvisation, graphic score
interpretation and formal composition, how their musical growth will pan out.
"clean dispersed
chamber/duo/kitchen/cutlery music[...]a clean cover, clean music, clean body,
sponged & quiet[...]gets on with it, no fuss" - pyongyang plastics
New full-length release: http://welcometothe21st.bandcamp.com/album/single-play-2
Here is a link to our premier release on ILSE:
A video of our performance opening for C. Spencer Yeh:
Monday 14 January @ Outpost
[Private event]
Thursday 17 January
@ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's
Club
Charlie
Kohlhase & Matt Langley – saxophones / Jeff Galindo – trombone / Jef
Charland - bass / Curt Newton - drums
Friday 18 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Bryant – keyboards / Tom Hall -
tenor saxophone
Jacob William – bass / Eric Rosenthal - drums
Jacob William – bass / Eric Rosenthal - drums
Saturday 19 January @ Outpost, 8pm $20 or b/o
Matthew Shipp
& Michael Bisio
Matthew Shipp –
piano / Michael Bisio - bass
"American pianist Matthew Shipp's trio recently played the London jazz
festival, presenting this unique and singleminded artist's most
inviting balance of fearless improv with compelling themes and grooves.
This duo session with that ensemble's bassist, Michael Bisio, exhibits
much the same character and power. Shipp hits a keyboard with fearsome
steeliness, but if his playing has a percussive punch that belongs in
the tradition of Thelonious Monk and Cecil Taylor, he has their
emotional and spiritual breadth, too. The title track is a hard-struck,
enigmatic melody, prodded at and danced around by Bisio, that becomes a
purposeful walk, a lighter contemplation, and then a flood of sound
before the bassist's tumbling solo. The Queen's Ballad shows how well
Shipp maintains the integrity of a song while finding ever-changing new
melodies in it, and hitting chords that fizz with compatible
dissonances. Uptempo pieces such as Swing Laser (on which Bisio scampers
at twice Shipp's tempo) and the joyous, stamping Holographic Rag
demonstrate how inventively this pair turn swing tunes into full-on,
free-improv tussles. Bisio's rich bowed chords establish a prayer-like
atmosphere on the awed and rolling Supernova. There's a dense,
abstract-improv dreamscape for Shipp's brittle harmonies and
prepared-piano effects on the closing Decay. It's free-jazz, but full of
melody, and every sound counts." John Fordham, Guardian UK 13 Dec. 2012
Tuesday 22 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Alan Chase / Steve Lantner Duo
Alan Chase – alto sax / Steve Lantner -
piano
Thursday 24 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Elan Asch
Friday 25 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10, $5 student ID
Brett Walberg Group
Brett Walberg - saxophone/woodwinds
Jeremy quick - guitar
Matt Mahoney - bass
Jungho Kang - drums
Brett Walberg Group is a
forward thinking and lucid ensemble that has been together since 2007. This
revamp of the BWG, including Jeremy Quick, Matt Mahoney, and Jungho Kang, is
attractively spontaneous in their approaches towards the music. Brett Walberg
has been striking out as a band leader and composer since 2004, and now runs
bands in Quad Cities, IA/IL and in Boston, as well as, sessions in NYC and DC.
Walberg will be releasing his newest record, "Progression" early
Spring of 2013.
@brettwalberg
Saturday 26 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Jacob William 'Para' Quintet
with special guest
JON DAMIAN - guitar
Forbes Graham - trumpet / Jim Hobbs - alto sax / Jacob William - bass / Laurence Cook - drums
Monday 28 January
Karen Webb dance workshop
