Open Ears Music

Merry Christmas. No Open Ears show tonight.

Music by Justin & ?????

Set 1 – Hear in Now

Mazz Swift (violin), Tomeka Reid (cello), & Silvia Bolognesi (bass)

Set 2 – SoSaLa

Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (reeds), Brian Prunka (oud & guitar), Jeff Alert (electric trombone) & TBA

Various improvised duos, trios, and a quintet with Jeff Albert (trombone), Gerald Cleaver (drums), Benoit Delbecq (keys), John Hébert (bass), & Brad Walker (saxes).

Plunge is Mark McGrain, James Singleton, & Tom Fitzpatrick.

Bodhi3 is Jeff Zielinski, Rebecca Greene, and Mike Mito.

Brad Walker brings in trio versions of his redrawblak project.

Trio 1:

Brad Walker + Jesse Morrow + Brad Webb

Trio 2:

Brad Walker + Aurora Nealand + Paul Thibodeaux

Music & musicians from the film Liquid Land.

One of the reasons the Open Ears Music Series was founded was to provide a platform/meeting place/incubator for the improvising musicians of New Orleans. Over the years we have presented a number of Improv Mash Ups, in which a number of improvisers are invited to perform in various ad hoc groupings. These have been some of the more popular performances, and October 30 will feature a huge celebratory gathering of improvisers, who will play in a variety of previously unexplored groupings. Confirmed participants include: Helen Gillet, Justin Peake, Barry Stephenson, Mark McGrain, Dave Cappello, Chris Alford, Doug Garrison, Rick Trolsen, Rev Gooden, Brad Walker, Ray Moore, Jeff Albert, Marcello Benetti, Jesse Morrow,Justin Peake & Dan Oestreicher.

Ab Baars and Ig Henneman are among the leading representers of the jazz- and improvised music scene in the Netherlands. Their program contains improvisations based on compositions written by Baars and Henneman and completely improvised material.

The duo Baars-Henneman was born in Rome (IT) at the Festival “ControIndicazioni” in 1999. Ab Baars and Ig Henneman have participated in international festivals and played venues as a duo and with their own groups. The duo toured in The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, UK, Japan, Norway, Czech Republic, USA, Canada and Brasil. Ab Baars leads his own groups; the Ab Baars Trio and Quartet. For years now he is a member of the ICP Orchestra of Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink. Ig Henneman is a violaplayer and a composer. She leads her own groups in which she works with musicians from various areas of music, like radical free improvisation, jazz, contemporary music and punk. She is a member of the Canadian/Dutch Queen Mab Trio.

http://stichtingwig.com/abBaars/duoBaarsHenneman/duo%20Baars-Henneman.html