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Allora and Calzadilla

Wake Up
March 04 – April 15, 2007

 
 
Sun, Mar 4, 20074:00 pm

Opening Reception


Location: The Renaissance Society
Admission: free
 
With an artist talk from 5:00 ? 6:00pm in Cobb Hall room 307 directly below the gallery
 
Fri, Mar 16, 20078:00 pm

Concert

Dennis Gonzalez Yells At Eels

Location: Bond Chapel, The University of Chicago, 1025 East 58th Street
Admission: free
 
Dennis Gonzalez, trumpets, keyboards, and samples
Aaron Gonzalez, bass
Stefan Gonzalez, drums
Carl Smith, tenor saxophone

Dennis Gonzalez Yells At Eels is a jazz group led by the renowned Dallas trumpeter who has performed over the past 30 years with the masters of modern jazz: Cecil Taylor, Henry Grimes, Max Roach, Roy Hargrove, Malachi Favors, Frank Lowe, Charles Brackeen, and others too numerous to list. After recording a series of stunning, stellar dates for Silkheart Records in the 80s and 90s, he left the world of music for five long years. He returned to jazz in 1999 to form this group at the urging of his sons, Aaron, who plays bass in Yells At Eels, and Stefan, who drums for the trio. The group has played with special guests Oliver Lake, Douglas Ewart, Alvin Fielder, Assif Tsahar, Ernest Dawkins, Sabir Mateen and others. This tour, they are playing as Yells At Eels, and as Banda de Brujos, a group dedicated to Mariachi, Tejano, and Norte music. In their seven years of existence, they have played all over North America and Europe, and have released four CDs, all internationally acclaimed for their forward looking music. They are joined on this tour by special guest, Austin, Texas, saxophonist Carl Smith.

This concert will take place in the gallery. FREE
 
Fri, Apr 6, 20077:00 pm

Concert

The Van Buren String Quartet
Ensemble Noamnesia


Location: The Renaissance Society
Admission: free
 
A program of works by Christopher Adler, Carmel Raz and Gene Coleman

Christopher Adler is a composer, performer and improviser living in San Diego, California. His music draws upon over a decade of research into the traditional musics of Thailand and Laos and a background in mathematics. He is a foremost performer of traditional and new music for the khaen, a free-reed mouth organ from Laos and Northeast Thailand. As a pianist and conductor, he has performed with many of the West Coast?s finest improvisers. He also performs contemporary solo and ensemble repertoire and is pianist and composer-in-residence for the San Diego New Music resident ensemble NOISE. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of San Diego. His work may be heard on Tzadik, pfMENTUM, Nine Winds Records, Artship Recordings, Accretions, and WGBH?s Art of the States. This concert took place in the gallery.
 

   
   
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