We were so pleased to have a packed house for our September 26 opening concert for our 25th season, with the esteemed Muhal Richard Abrams performing solo and with a stellar ensemble of innovative artists. Many photos here, from the performance and from the reception! You may see yourself in here somewhere!
Muhal Richard Abrams in New York Times, Time Out New York, & Village Voice!
Thursday’s Muhal Richard Abrams concert gets the trifecta: Time Out New York, New York Times, and Village Voice (twice!). Thanks Hank Shteamer, Steve Smith, Seth Colter Walls, & David Adler! Muhal Richard AbramsA week after his 83rd birthday, pianist and AACM grandee Muhal Richard Abrams will premiere his new extended work “Dialogue Social” as part […]
New York Times Review: Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble
by CORINNA da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM “Human Sounds, Painful or Haunting: The Ensemble Ekmeles at Roulette in Brooklyn” Within the contemporary-music scene of New York, the vocal ensemble Ekmeles inhabits its own neighborhood on the border between music and linguistics. The name of this ensemble, which is dedicated to music by living composers, refers to the Greek […]
New Video: Pheeroan akLaff Interview!
Percussionist and composer Pheeroan akLaff talks about his upcoming Interpretations performance on January 24, 2013!
Pics of Camilla Hoitenga and Taavi Kerikmäe rehearsing for Thursday’s concert!
For Thursday’s concert at Roulette, Camilla Hoitenga and Taavi Kerikmäe will present two new works by Estonian composers Tatjana Kozlova & Helena Tulve, & classic works by Niccolò Castiglioni & Herbert Brun, and Australian-based composer and improviser Erik Griswold presents the New York premiere of his prepared piano tour-de-force “Wallpaper Music.” Here are a couple photos of Taavi […]
NYC Jazz Record Review: Peter Evans and John Eckhardt
by Kurt Gottschalk The Interpretations series brought an inspired first time pairing to Roulette (Oct. 11th) in the form of trumpeter Peter Evans and visiting German bassist John Eckhardt, each playing short solo sets before an exploratory duet. Eckhardt opened with a surprisingly rich arco growl and slowly crawled up the neck, deftly moving between […]
Photos from September 20: David Behrman // Tim Brady
Signal To Noise Interview: Tim Brady
by Mike Chamberlain What do the sequencing of “Revolution #9” and “Good Night” on the Beatles’ White Album and the contrasting passages in the second movement of Charles Ives’ 4th Symphony have in common? They both inspired guitarist and composer Tim Brady to liberate himself from notions of genre. “The juxtaposition is so incredibly powerful,” […]
Bonnie Wright's photos from Robert Ashley's THE OLD MAN LIVES IN CONCRETE
Bonnie Wright of Henceforth Records shares some photos and thoughts on April’s 4-day run of Robert Ashley’s latest opera, THE OLD MAN LIVES IN CONCRETE! Click Here to see her full blog post!
Capital New York Review: Robert Ashley
by Seth Colter Walls “A Presentation of Work From Radical Composer Robert Ashley Shows An Oeuvre In Flux” Inimitable art has a way of inoculating itself from any critical approach that relies on analogy. Potentially evocative points of reference can seem halfway correct though also not quite right. When it comes to the radical American […]