Monthly Archives: June 2009

Matana Roberts

Matana Roberts is a dynamic sax­o­phon­ist, com­poser and impro­viser, who tries to expose in her music the mys­ti­cal roots and spir­i­tual tra­di­tions of African Amer­i­can cre­ative expression. A Chicago native, she was for­tu­nate enough to be sur­rounded by elder musi­cians who showed her by dis­tinct exam­ple the impor­tance of lis­ten­ing to one’s per­sonal cre­ative voice [...]
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Hartford, CT, 07/16/09

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Harlem, NYC, NY, 06/27/09

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Wilmington, Delaware, 06/20/09

A bit about this show.…..
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Bloomfield, New Jersey, 06/19/09

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Making Love to the Dark Ages

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Ben Tyree

Gui­tarist and com­poser Ben Tyree began his musi­cal jour­ney in Wash­ing­ton, DC’s diverse and eclec­tic music scenes, play­ing in jazz, funk and rock bands from a very young age. His vision stems from stud­ies of clas­si­cal gui­tar, com­po­si­tion and jazz per­for­mance at Wash­ing­ton, D.C.’s pres­ti­gious Duke Elling­ton School of the Arts and later, Howard Uni­ver­sity.  [...]
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Avram Fefer

Avram Fefer has been per­form­ing and record­ing inter­na­tion­ally since 1990. After spend­ing the 1990’s as a soloist with a num­ber of dif­fer­ent groups, his first sev­eral record­ings as a leader were sin­gled out as among the Best of 2001 and Best of 2002 in pub­li­ca­tions such as Down­beat Mag­a­zine, Cadence mag­a­zine, the Vil­lage Voice, the [...]
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Mazz Swift

Mazz Swift, a native New Yorker, began play­ing the vio­lin at age 6. She stud­ied pri­vately for 9 years with Elis­a­beth Small, Shirley Givens and Tim­o­thy Baker. Mazz grad­u­ated from the High School of the Per­form­ing Arts, dur­ing which time she made her solo pub­lic per­for­mance debut on the stage of New York’s Alice Tully Hall, [...]
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William Martina

Since bas­ing him­self in New York, Will has per­formed with, and been changed by, great artists such as Dave Lieb­man, Josh Rose­man, MuthaWit, Kyp Mal­one, JT Lewis, Bran­don Ross, Jason Lind­ner, and many oth­ers inside both New York’s shini­est and grim­i­est venues. Over the years he has also per­formed and toured with numer­ous other bands [...]
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