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The East-West Collective at The Additon

Courtesy of YoshisSF | Posted on May 7, 2013

Where

The Additon
1330 Fillmore Street
San Francisco, CA
Map
(415) 655-5600

When

Tue, June 18, 2013
8pm

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About

The EAST-WEST COLLECTIVE will commence its première tour of North America on June 14 at the Vision Festival in New York. Sponsored in part by a generous grant from the French American Jazz Exchange, the Collective’s tour continues to Chicago, San Francisco Bay Area (for two concerts and a recording session), Seattle and Vancouver where it will end at the prestigious Vancouver Jazz Festival on June 23. Complete schedule at the end of this rap.

The artistic goal of The East-West Collective is to combine the contemporary sounds and forms of new jazz with the traditional sounds and sense of time and duration developed over centuries in Eastern music; all blended into a unique musical universe, rife with contemporary improvisational influences and forms. "East West Collective" completed (April 2012) a successful first meeting in France that included four well-received concerts. These first concerts and rehearsals in France were used to explore compositional affinities and improvisational tendencies, and for getting to know each other musically, since band members represent many diverse cultures and languages. The plan now: to solidly establish East-West music as it is conceived in this configuration, with tours in USA and Europe in 2013....

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