Creative Differences keeps provided amazing chances to see creative and improvised music in Baltimore. Sunday at Windup Space is your next chance to check it out. Support what they’re doing!!!
ADAM RUDOLPH & JOSEPH BOWIE – DUO
& LAFAYETTE GILCHRIST – SOLO
@ The WindUp Space, 12 W.North Ave,Baltimore MD
SUNDAY JULY 24 @ 8PM (doors at 7.30p)
$15 AT THE DOOR.
tel 410 244 8855 www.thewindupspace.com
ADAM RUDOLPH – percussion, handdrums, thumb piano, voice
JOSEPH BOWIE – trombone,percussion,electronics
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LAFAYETTE GILCHRIST – piano solo
Creative Differences presents a rare meeting of two masters of jazz and multicultural music forms. This is no limp fusion project..its the real deal and should not be missed! Lafayette Gilchrist will open the evening with a set of piano improvisations.
Adam Rudolph and Joseph Bowie first performed together with Yusef Lateef at Lincoln Center in 2000. Since then they have collaborated in numerous projects, including a trio with Omar Sosa and most recently, in Rudolph’s Moving Pictures Ensemble. Their music is grounded in the American improvisational tradition while embracing languages, instrumentation, and cosmologies of Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the African Diaspora. Decades of performance and research into these music cultures have given them the tools to create unique improvisations.
“A project of haunting power and beauty. Captivating and profoundly beautiful.” – Philadelphia Daily News
ADAM RUDOLPH – Born in 1955, hand drummer, composer and improviser Adam Rudolph has been hailed as “a pioneer in world music” by the New York Times. Currently he composes for his group Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures Organic Orchestra, a 15 – 50 piece ensemble for which he has developed an original music notation and conducting system. He has performed at festivals and concerts throughout the world and has recorded with Jon Hassel, L. Shankar, Muhal Richard Abrams, Fred Anderson, Hassan Hakmoun, Sam Rivers, Pharaoh Sanders and Wadada Leo Smith among others. He has released over a dozen recordings on his own Meta Records label.
JOSEPH BOWIE – Born in St. Louis in 1953, trombonist and percussionist Joseph Bowie is the younger brother of saxophonist Byron and trumpeter Lester Bowie. He was a member of the hugely influential St. Louis-based Black Artists Group, and performed and recorded with all its principals: Oliver Lake, Julius Hemphill, Baikida Carroll and Charles ‘Bobo’ Shaw.He formed his famed jazz/funk band Defunkt in the late 1970s, served as musical director for vocalist Fontella Bass, and continues to make genre-bending music with David Murray, Jean-Paul Bourelly, and the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble. Bowie has lived in Holland since 2003.
Our friends at the High Zero Foundation are at it again, presenting experimental and improvised music at this year’s Artscape Festival. For the past five years they’ve presented music under the title Exotic Hipnotic in the University of Baltimore Student Center (5th floor). The concept is the same this year but the name has changed to Worlds In Collusion. It is, in my opinion, one of THE things to check out at Artscape, and it doesn’t hurt that the Student Center is air conditioned. So get out of the heat and check out something a little different. Full lineup:
Friday July 15:
2pm K. S. Resmi • Indian Carnatic Singing
3pm Alex Strama • Theatrical Apocalyptic Rock
4pm Effervescent Collective • Experimental dance & music
5pm Ear Monsters • Free Jazz by Elementary Schoolers
6pm N. Scott Robinson • World Percussion
7pm The Westsiders (Baltimore Marching Band) • Exalted Baltimore spirit
8pm Sam Garrett • Modern Classical compositions
9pm Andy Hayleck and Dan Conrad • Hypnotic light performance with experimental music
Saturday July 16:
12pm Holy Ghost Party • Chillingly weird pop music
1pm Rum Raisin • Cathartic noise music
2pm Spaceships and Insects (Liz Downing and Nathan Bell) • Cosmic Banjos & Songs
3pm HEARTON (Dan Bren and Friends) • Unpredictable improvised madness
4pm Neil Feather • Visionary invented instruments
5pm Peabody Early Music Ensemble • Music from Ancient Times to the Renaissance
6pm Geist • Japanese Heavy Metal
7pm Samuel Burt Ensemble • Contemporary Compositions for Reeds, Strings, and Electronics
8pm Soumya Chakraverty • Gorgeous Indian Classical Music
Sunday July 17:
12pm Parallel Octave • Experimental Greek chorus sings unusual texts
1pm Jesse Heffler & Allen Mozek • Spoken Word / Experimental Performance
2pm Whoarfrost • Explosive experimental rock
3pm Composer Will Redman • Avant-garde classical music featuring improvisation
4pm Ahmed Borhani • Persian Classical Music
5pm Horselords • Hypnotic rock influenced by North African music
6pm Jimmy Joe Roche • Live electronic music
7pm Wrhatnala USA Gamelan Ensemble • Traditional Balinese music
Another great show coming to Baltimore at our favorite venue The Windup Space on Wednesday April 27. This one is extra exciting for me because Party Pack! is a trio I am a part of with Dustin Carlson-guitar, and Nathan Ellman-Bell-drums. We don’t get to play very often since Dustin lives in NY, but he’ll be performing with Will McEvoy’s Mutasm so Party Pack! gets in on the fun as well.
Will writes amazing music, and his semi-large ensemble is made up of some of my favorite NY (and not NY) based musicians. The group is Will McEvoy-bass; Nathaniel Morgan-alto; Patrick Breiner-tenor; Brad Henkl-trumpet; Dustin Carlson-guitar; Cody Brown-drums. If you missed them last time they were in town, I highly recommend checking them out at this show. You can hear some clips on this website, but they don’t quite compare to the live show. You want to see this.
Party Pack! is a trio of Dustin Carlson-guitar; Adam Hopkins-bass; and Nathan Ellman-Bell-drums. We are pretty much a rock band…but there is a lot of improvisation and really open sections, so you can call it whatever you want. It is always a party, though…we promise. I’ve attached a video of PP opening for the Oxes last year, which was filmed at our first public performance. Lineup for the night is roughly:
9:30pm–Nathan Bell
10:30pm–Mutasm
11:30pm–Party Pack!
Wednesday April 27, Windup Space, 12 W North Ave, Baltimore MD
The Ullmann/Swell 4 featuring Barry Altschul & Hill Greene have been together since 2004 and continue to tour the U.S., Canada and Europe. Entering their eighth season together, their cohesiveness, imagination and compositions have become the standard for what original music should be. The fearlessness and dedication of these musicians, mining the rich treasure trove of sounds and rhythms take them and their audiences to ever-expanding worlds.
Gebhard Ullmann
Gebhard Ullmann has more that 20 CDs as a leader and sideman to his credit, including “Tá lam,” which was nominated for best jazz CD of the year by the German Record Critics’ Award. He received several awards for his work including the Julius Hemphill Composition Award (1999), the Deutsche Phono-Akademie Award (1983), one of the first SWF (German radio station) jazz awards (1987), and several awards from the city of Berlin (1990s). He has toured throughout Europe, as well as Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Southeast Asia, Canada and Mexico. Ullmann has been a recording artist on the Soul Note label since 1993 and divides his time between his homes in New York and Berlin.
Steve Swell
Steve has been a leading voice on the trombone in the New York music scene, playing with numerous outstanding artists such as Tim Berne, Elliot Sharp, Butch Morris and William Parker. Swell also leads several projects of his own such as his Unified Theory Of Sound, Slammin’ the Infinite, as well as a new project called Fire Into Music with Jemeel Moondoc, William Parker and Hamid Drake. His CD “Suite For Players, Listeners and Other Dreamers” was ranked No. 2 in the 2004 Cadence Readers’ Poll. The Jazz Journalists Association nominated him for Trombonist of the Year in 2008. Steve was selected for the Trombone category in the 2010 Downbeat Critics’ Poll. Steve also teaches in the NYC public school system working with special education kids. Swell studied trombone in the mid-seventies with Roswell Rudd in New York City after attending Jersey City State Teacher’s College. He then moved into professional music life in NYC eventually joining Lionel Hampton’s Band in 1983 then Buddy Rich’s Band in 1984. Also during that time he performed with Jaki Byard and the Appollo Stompers, Makanda Ken McIntyre’s small ensemble, and Jemeel Moondoc’s Jus Grew Orchestra.
Hill Greene
Hill Greene has performed with Jimmy Scott, serving as his musical director and was concertmaster in Cecil Taylor’s group “Phtongos.” He has also worked with Gloria Lynne, Jacky Terrasson, The Inkspots, Rashied Ali, Leroy Jenkins, Jimmy Ponder, Eddie Gladden, Vanessa Rubin, Yoron Israel, Cindy Blackman, Electric Symphony, Charles Gayle, Jack Walrath, Don Pullen, Dave Douglas, Bobby Watson, Greg Osby, Kenny Barron, Joanne Brackeen, Carla Cook, Josh Roseman, John Hicks, Village Vanguard Orchestra, Oscar Brown Jr. and The Jazz Expressions.
Barry Altschul
Barry Altschul is widely regarded as one of the best percussionists in improvised music. In the early 1970s, Altschul was the drummer for Circle, whose members included Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Anthony Braxton. Altschul’s drumming with that band was stylistically all-encompassing, in his own words, “from ragtime to no time,” thanks to his background in traditional jazz styles, which gave him a solid grounding on which to build his free playing. Altschul was largely self-taught until 1960, when he began study with Charlie Persip. From 1964 until 1970, Altschul played regularly with pianist Paul Bley and their relationship continued intermittently through the 1970s and 80s. In 1972, under Holland’s leadership, Altschul recorded the classic album “Conference of the Birds” with Braxton and saxophonist Sam Rivers. Around this time, he also made records with Bley, bassist Alan Silva, and pianist Andrew Hill, among others. In the 1980s, Altschul made records of his own for Soul Note and continued his sideman work with such musicians as the Russian-born pianist Simon Nabotov and Kenny Drew. Altschul’s 1985 album “That’s Nice” shows him to be an exciting and good-humored bandleader in a rather modern-mainstream vein. www.creativedifferences.us
Another great show brought to you by Bernard Lyons of Creative Differences. I really love this band’s first record and I’m looking forward to checking it out live, Sunday 4/10 at The Windup Space, 8pm $10. Details from Creative Differences:
CANADA DAY
HARRIS EISENSTADT – drums, NATE WOOLEY – trumoet, MATT BAUDER – tenor sax, CHRIS DINGMAN – vibraphone, ELVIND OPSVIK – bass.
CANADA DAY blends “a mid-60s Blue Note vibe with elastic post-rock grooves and subtle West African influences” (Troy Collins/All About Jazz), and Eisenstadt emphasizes that they also explore areas of improvisation that are outside of jazz, such as Nate Wooley’s dense active non-pitched textures o…n trumpet.
PINK/BROWN
Xander Naylor-guitar, Max Jaffe-drum set, Johan Andersson-saxophones
This is a trio that embraces contradiction – composition/improvisation; cleanliness/dirtiness; tonality/atonality; anxiety/tranquility. Each member of the group contributes their own original compositions, and as composers, each member has their own idiosyncratic voice; however the meat of the performance lies in the free-flowing group improvisations which may in turn feed into the pieces or take them in entirely new directions altogether. Three personalities from Vermont, San Francisco, and Sweden combine to make the trio that is PinkBrown.
Creative Differences keeps provided amazing chances to see creative and improvised music in Baltimore. Sunday at Windup Space is your next chance to check it out. Support what they’re doing!!!
