Atlantic Center for the Arts Master Artist In Residence Nicole Mitchell presented her Outreach concert at Timucua Arts on July 8th, 2019. With her were Doug Mathews and Anthony Cole, and for the finale, her Associates from ACA Residency # 174 for a newly minted piece: Border Parade.
Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso are the octogenarian/septuagenarian duo behind the forty-six years running Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, NY. Their second cm5 visit was in March. Their pace and output is dazzling, exemplifying the authentic lives that most people speak of having someday. A snapshot streams here.
The Civic Minded 5 are a volunteer creative music presenting group, fundraising and organizing concerts since the mid-1990s. Email thecmfive@gmail.com Concerts presented by the Civic Minded 5 in conjunction with the Timucua Arts Foundation Lukas Ligeti solo @ the Timucua white house Frank Gratkowski solo @ the Timucua white house Trio BraamDeJoodeVatcher @ the Timucua white house Larry Ochs …
Nicole Mitchell is both an innovator as composer and instrumentalist. She’s also a creative artist with organizational chops, as former chairwoman of Chicago’s (and now New York’s) esteemed, Jedi-like Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and, as of today- July 1st, the current William S. Dietrich II Endowed Chair in Jazz Studies at University Of Pittsburgh. Continue reading
There’s blurred revision in the auditory and image arc of Gosfield’s output. There’s the alternative fiction of the earthbound Machine Age and the low atmosphere skip of the Solid State Age merged with keyboard sampling…Her promotional photographs are silver gelatin analogs that slip out of and into the world via Dropbox, evoking a reorganization of the past much as the Kraftwerk iconography served Autobahn, Radioactivity, Trans Europe Express and Man Machine. Continue reading
Scribe/podcaster Kyle Eagle does his hat trick/third Nels Cline interview for today’s Orlando Weekly. Eagle has the requisite brio to suggest a name for this trio with Larry Ochs and Gerald Cleaver. Continue reading
Do a full vehicle wrap with our poster and get a pair of free concert tickets with a reserved table. And an on-mic shout out. Or post this on socials and get a back slap or shoulder squeeze from a cm5 member. For a limited time only; offer not available in Connecticut and California. Continue reading
Nels Cline is best known by his Clark Kent persona as the lead guitarist in Wilco. Cline is listed in Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists as there doesn’t seem to be any boundaries in which to explore and innovate. Post-Coltrane lineage reed player Larry Ochs is cofounder of the 41 year-old ROVA Saxophone Quartet – ground floor influencers in the language of that now-accepted ensemble formation. Detroit native and University Of Michigan faculty member Gerald Cleaver moved to the Lion’s Den of NYC’s jazz scene to carve out a reputation as a first call drummer. The improvisational nature of jazz is the basis of this trio, while not necessarily the nature of their protean sonic offerings. Continue reading
RZZZZZ! New Poster, Date, Venue: Billy Martin Solo Percussion plus Karl Berger And Friends. Download the poster. Continue reading
Medeski, Martin And Wood drummer Billy Martin is the new Executive Director of the Woodstock, N.Y.’s Creative Music Studio, the music education non-profit founded by Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso and Ornette Coleman in 1971. Karl, Ingrid and Billy come back to Orlando to teach and play during this February visit, joined by longtime Sam Rivers bassist Doug Mathews. Continue reading
