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Bassist/Composer Alexis Cuadrado to premiére Jazz Miniatures for Double Quartet A Residency Commission from The Jazz Gallery

21 Thursday Jun 2012

Posted by Rob Young in Concerts, Festivals & Tours, Creative Music, Improvised Music, Jazz, Modern Jazz, Music, Music News, Press Release, What's New?

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Alexis Cuadrado, Antonia Nelson, Bassist, Ben Wendel, Bjur Records., Composer, Jason Rigby, Jody Redhage, Lois Martin, Red Cat Publicity, Sara Caswell, Satoshi Takeishi, The Jazz Gallery

Performances at the Jazz Gallery
Friday June 22nd and Saturday June 23rd, 2012
Located at 290 Hudson Street, NYC, Tel 212 242 1063, www.jazzgallery.org

Alexis Cuadrado © by Álvaro Felgueroso

Featuring: Ben Wendel (saxophones and bassoon), Jason Rigby (saxophones, flutes and clarinets), Satoshi Takeishi (drums and percussion), Sara Caswell (violin), Antonia Nelson (violin), Lois Martin (viola), Jody Redhage (cello) and Alexis Cuadrado (bass)

With his new work, Jazz Miniatures for Double Quartet, Alexis Cuadrado continues to define his compositional voice following his recent impressive works, A Lorca Soundscape and Noneto Ibérico. With this Jazz Gallery Residency Commission (performances on June 22nd & 23rd), Cuadrado takes a new musical step, this time with strings, exploring the intersection of jazz, flamenco and new chamber music. Continue reading →

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Ben Wendel -][- FRAME – [Sunnyside Records, 2012] –

13 Wednesday Jun 2012

Posted by Rob Young in Improvised Music, Jazz, Modern Jazz, New Music, What's New?

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Ben Wendel, FRAME

Ben Wendel -][- FRAME –Mp3– [Sunnyside Records, 2012] –

Iconoclastic composer Frank Zappa once wrote, “The most important thing in art is the frame… without this humble appliance, you can’t know where the art stops and the real world begins.”

With his second solo album, Frame, saxophonist, bassoonist and composer Ben Wendel presents a gallery show of nine new pieces that approach that “humble appliance” — the frame — from multi-faceted angles: a snapshot of a pair of French patrons of the arts (“Jean and Renata”); an exotic portrait in rhythm (“Backbou”); the harmonic reframing of a masterpiece (“Con Alma”). But ultimately what the album amounts to is a framing of the self — a self-portrait by an artist who’s come to define his own singular voice. Continue reading →

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