Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson & the Transformational Music Ensemble at Vox Populi

Fire Museum Presents:

Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson & the Transformational Music Ensemble

Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson: trumpet

Transformational Music Ensemble:

Keir Neuringer: saxophone
Mike Watson: bass clarinet, piccolo
Ryan T. Frazier (Heru Shabaka-Ra): trumpet
Dan Blacksberg: trombone
Tara Middleton: violin
Veronica MJ: viola
Tom Kraines: cello
Matt Engle: bass
Julius Masri: drums


Sunday, April 19th 8:00 PM
Aux Performance Space at Vox Populi Gallery
319 N 11th Street, 3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA...

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Fire Museum Presents:

Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson & the Transformational Music Ensemble

Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson: trumpet

Transformational Music Ensemble:

Keir Neuringer: saxophone
Mike Watson: bass clarinet, piccolo
Ryan T. Frazier (Heru Shabaka-Ra): trumpet
Dan Blacksberg: trombone
Tara Middleton: violin
Veronica MJ: viola
Tom Kraines: cello
Matt Engle: bass
Julius Masri: drums


Sunday, April 19th 8:00 PM
Aux Performance Space at Vox Populi Gallery
319 N 11th Street, 3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA
$7-10 sliding scale


This performance will feature new compositions by Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson and Keir Neuringer performed by the Transformational Music Ensemble (TME).

Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson is a composer and trumpet player born in Oklahoma City who has lived in Biel, Switzerland since 1994. He is active as an educator, improviser, and composer for dance, film, installation and the concert stage. He studied with Iannis Xenakis and John Eaton at Indiana University and Gunther Schuller at Tanglewood, and was awarded the first John W. Work III Composition Fellowship. In 1974, Nelson moved to New York and worked in the field of Creative Music Education for the next two decades. He is opposed to placing his work in a specific category. For Nelson, Jazz music, classical music, African music, American folk music and Asian music are all part of his "musical heritage" and language as an artist. He shares Takemitsu's philosophy that "music is like a mountain and you take from it what you need." No category in the music as well as in the person.

Keir Neuringer is a composer and saxophonist based in Philadelphia since 2012. He first brought the Philadelphia musicians in TME together in May 2014 to perform the Ars Nova Workshop-commissioned William Parker composition Flower in a Stained Glass Window. The ensemble thus cut its teeth alongside our elder luminaries Parker, Dave Burrell, Marshall Allen, Odean Pope, Bobby Zankel, and Muhammad Ali. TME went on to perform in an expanded version of the work at Roulette in Brooklyn earlier this year, as part of Parker's 25-member Tone Motion Theater, where we met and played with Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson, as well as Cooper-Moore, Joe McPhee, Fay Victor, Larry Roland, Mazz Swift, Steve Swell, and many other inspirational figures.

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