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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 […]

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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 […]

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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,” […]

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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 […]

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by Nate Chinen “For a Big Birthday, Leading Three Groups A Night” Leo Smith 70th Birthday Celebration Wadada Leo Smith was a force in motion during the early stretch of his concert at Roulette in Brooklyn on Friday night. Stalking the stage, busily directing the output of his Golden Sextet, he gave off an air […]

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by K. Leander Williams “Wadada Leo Smith Throws Himself A Lively Birthday Party At Roulette” Last year during a pre-concert interview at the Library Of Congress in Washington D.C., composer-trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith got a laugh when he spoke about recruiting bassist John Lindberg. At the time, Smith was in the process of rebuilding his […]

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 by Martin Longley “Dave Douglas, Wadada Leo Smith & Taylor Ho Bynum” Leo Smith 70th Birthday Celebration How many birthday cakes can a trumpeter gobble? To celebrate his 70th year, the Interpretations Series presented two nights of new music from Wadada Leo Smith at Brooklyn’s recently transplanted Roulette. This meant three bands each night and […]