Continuing into April, the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY presents a monthly series, “Change of the Century – New Jazz for the 21st”, featuring some of the most exciting figures in contemporary music. Organized by local musician, writer and multimedia artist James Keepnews, “Change of the Century” intends to debunk any notion of jazz being an “old,” much less “dead” music. In this new century, artists spanning many generations continue to re-examine and re-invigorate jazz, continually weaving in new influences, formulating new challenges and establishing new standards. Any music that so thoroughly embraces the immediacy of improvisation is by definition a perpetually new music. Come hear the shock of new each month at “Change of the Century”....
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Continuing into April, the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY presents a monthly series, “Change of the Century – New Jazz for the 21st”, featuring some of the most exciting figures in contemporary music. Organized by local musician, writer and multimedia artist James Keepnews, “Change of the Century” intends to debunk any notion of jazz being an “old,” much less “dead” music. In this new century, artists spanning many generations continue to re-examine and re-invigorate jazz, continually weaving in new influences, formulating new challenges and establishing new standards. Any music that so thoroughly embraces the immediacy of improvisation is by definition a perpetually new music. Come hear the shock of new each month at “Change of the Century”.
On Friday, April 26, “Change of the Century” presents the wife-and-husband duo of saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and drummer Tom Rainey.The performance begins at 8 PM. Admission for each concert in the series is $15, and $10 for students and seniors. Tickets will be available at the door each concert evening only. A Facebook group for the concert series has been created and can be viewed at: www.facebook.com/groups/changeofthecentury. The Howland Cultural Center is located at 477 Main St in Beacon, NY and their telephone number is (845) 831-4988.
Details about the artists and their biographies follow below. For more questions about “Change of the Century,” contact James Keepnews at (212) 353-6971 or at [email protected].
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“German-born saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock has shifted her goalposts since her move to New York – from pensive melodiousness to tough, muscular free-jazz… Laubrock's expanding sound palette is apparent from the smeary tone-bends, pure sounds and Albert Ayleresque spookiness over bumpy brushwork…Rainey is delicately textural or joltingly propulsive as the circumstances shift.”
-- John Fordham, The Guardian
Two of the most dynamic instrumentalists in modern jazz, the wife-and-husband duo of tenor and soprano saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and drummer Tom Rainey sculpt real time, fearlessly adventurous and stunningly executed sonic structures.
“Some young jazz musicians find their style and move in lock, stock and barrel, making little refinements over the years but basically keeping their place. Ingrid Laubrock, a German saxophonist who started her career in London and has spent the last 15 years playing there, sounds happily unsettled. On tenor and soprano, she’s omnivorous and pointed, slouching and precise, humorous and austere…Ms. Laubrock encouraged its constant sense of renewal”
-- Ben Ratliff, The New York Times
Ingrid Laubrock: Originally from Germany, Ingrid Laubrock has been living in the UK since 1989 and is now residing in Brooklyn. She performed and recorded with: Anthony Braxton, Dave Douglas, Kenny Wheeler, Tim Berne, Mark Helias, Michael Formanek, Mary Halvorson, Tyshawn Sorey, Evan Parker, Steve Beresford, John Edwards, Veryan Weston, Luc Ex, Django Bates’ Human Chain, Evan Parker, The Continuum Ensemble and others. As part of the F-ire Collective, she won the BBC Jazz Award for Innovation in 2004,was nominated for the BBC Jazz Award for ‘Rising Star’ in 2005 and won a Fellowship in Jazz Composition by the Arts Foundation in 2006. She won the 2009 SWR German Radio Jazz Prize the and was one of the final nominees for the 2009 Westfalen Jazz Preis. In 2011 Ingrid was commissioned to compose, rehearse and record for the prestigious New-Jazz Meeting, an annual production by the SWR and an institution since its inception in 1966. Her chosen octet featured Drew Gress, Mary Halvorson, Tom Rainey, Ted Reichman, Liam Noble, Tom Arthurs, Ben Davis and herself, the music will be released on Intakt Records in 2012. Her current groups are Sleepthief, the new octet, the NY based quartet Anti-House and and the collaboration Paradoxical Frog with pianist Kris Davis and drummer Tyshawn Sorey. She is also part of the Tom Rainey Trio, Mary Halvorson’s Septet, Kris’ Davis Quintet, Catatumbo, Haste and Luc Ex’ Sol 6 and Sol 12.
“Put the name of Tom Rainey in that big file titled "Drummers Who Deserve as Much Acclaim as the Bandleaders They Play With." And in the case of Rainey, that's saying a lot.”
-- Dave Lynch, allmusic.com
Tom Rainey: Percussionist Tom Rainey was born in Los Angeles, California in 1957. Since moving to New York City in 1979 he has performed at festivals and clubs throughout North America and Europe with a wide range of artists, including John Abercrombie, Ray Anderson, Tim Berne, Jane Ira Bloom, Ted Curson, Marc Ducret, George Gruntz, David Torn, Mark Helias, Fred Hersch, Andy Laster, Joe Lovano, Carmen McRae, Mike Nock, Simon Nabatov, New and Used, Matthias Schubert, Tom Varner, WDR Big Band, Ken Werner and Denny Zeitlin. Tom Rainey received an National Endowment for the Arts grant to compose and perform a concert of music for percussion and drums featuring Dave Samuels and Arto Tuncboyaci. Rainey’s voluminous recording credits and the artistic caliber of the musicians he’s supported would easily place him on the A-list of drummers closely identified with the New York City modern creative jazz scene roughly from the late ’80s onward. Tom Rainey recorded his debut album as a leader, "Pool School" for Cleanfeed Records in May 2010. The CD also features Mary Halvorson on guitar and Ingrid Laubrock on saxophone. The trio’s follow-up CD "Camino Cielo Echo" was just released on Intakt Records.
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