JSngry Posted December 4, 2012 Report Posted December 4, 2012 Got an email from the Nameless Sound group in Houston today, and in a sidebar it said UPCOMING . . . Roscoe Mitchell Quartet Late March, 2013 date and venue TBA Anybody got any kind of lead info on this? If so, how solid of a deal is it? Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted December 4, 2012 Report Posted December 4, 2012 Just spoke with Roscoe a couple of days back. I'll check with him. Quote
LWayne Posted December 5, 2012 Report Posted December 5, 2012 Chuck; Need to convince Roscoe Mitchell to come to Pittsburgh too... LWayne Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted December 5, 2012 Report Posted December 5, 2012 Chuck; Need to convince Roscoe Mitchell to come to Pittsburgh too... LWayne I would say that is up to the "presenters" in your town. Quote
mjzee Posted December 5, 2012 Report Posted December 5, 2012 www.houstonpress.com will be your best bet - there aren't too many jazz clubs here, so it might be presented by some cultural institution (museum, library, etc). Quote
JSngry Posted December 5, 2012 Author Report Posted December 5, 2012 If it comes to pass, it will be presented by Nameless Sound: http://www.namelesssound.org/ They've been a round for a while and appear to have a great record, but I had not heard of them until they brought Henry Grimes & Marilyn Crispell in this past February (which, of course, I was unable to get down there to hear...). Like I said, though, their past record is pretty nice: http://www.namelesssound.org/events/past_events.html and I'm on their mailing list now. I just want to find out about Roscoe in plenty of time to plan. Don't want a repeat of February! Quote
clifford_thornton Posted December 5, 2012 Report Posted December 5, 2012 Right, assume it's through Dave and the folks at Nameless Sound. Quote
GregK Posted December 5, 2012 Report Posted December 5, 2012 So glad I saw him in Ann Arbor 5 years ago. Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted December 6, 2012 Report Posted December 6, 2012 So glad I saw him in Ann Arbor 5 years ago. Too bad we couldn't hook up for dinner. Quote
Uncle Skid Posted December 6, 2012 Report Posted December 6, 2012 So glad I saw him in Ann Arbor 5 years ago. Me, too. Sure doesn't seem like that long ago. Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted December 6, 2012 Report Posted December 6, 2012 So glad I saw him in Ann Arbor 5 years ago. Me, too. Sure doesn't seem like that long ago. But you made the surreal dinner and Buffalo Wild Wings. LOL Quote
Uncle Skid Posted December 6, 2012 Report Posted December 6, 2012 So glad I saw him in Ann Arbor 5 years ago. Me, too. Sure doesn't seem like that long ago. But you made the surreal dinner and Buffalo Wild Wings. LOL Yep! Quote
GregK Posted December 8, 2012 Report Posted December 8, 2012 So glad I saw him in Ann Arbor 5 years ago. Too bad we couldn't hook up for dinner. Yep. My obliviousness. Quote
JSngry Posted January 9, 2013 Author Report Posted January 9, 2013 Received today Roscoe Mitchell Quartet March 29, 2013 Eldorado Ballroom, 2310 Elgin, Houston Quote
JSngry Posted January 9, 2013 Author Report Posted January 9, 2013 Might turn out to be a great one. Quote
CraigP Posted January 10, 2013 Report Posted January 10, 2013 Also, they're bringing Trio 3 on 2/16! Quote
JSngry Posted January 16, 2013 Author Report Posted January 16, 2013 Details at last: Nameless Sound & Contemporary Arts Museum Houston present Roscoe Mitchell and Alvin Fielder Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 6:30pm Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 5216 Montrose [map] free concert Nameless Sound's Resounding Vision Award Gala Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 8pm The Historic Eldorado Ballroom, 2310 Elgin, Houston [map] featuring dinner, art auction, music, and special guests tickets start at $200 Nameless Sound and Project Row Houses present Roscoe Mitchell Quartet Friday, March 29, 2013 at 8pm The Historic Eldorado Ballroom, 2310 Elgin, Houston [map] $13 general / $10 with student i.d. / free, 18 and under Saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell (b. 1940, Chicago) is a key figure in the second wave of jazz avant-gardists who see themselves as composers just as much as improvisers. He is a founding member of Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and of its flagship group, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, which expanded the music beyond the ecstasies and expressionism of their “post-bop” and “free jazz” predecessors. In the new century, he’s been revered as one of the music’s most articulate elder statesmen, holding prestigious teaching posts at the University of Wisconsin and Mills College, and serving as a beacon for a new generation of creative musicians. Nameless Sound is pleased to welcome Professor Mitchell to Houston for a weeklong residency, during which he will lead a series of workshops and rehearsals, and participate in three public events. For a special duo concert co-presented with the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Mitchell reconnects with Alvin Fielder, the man behind the drum kit on his earliest sessions, including 1967's landmark Sound. The house drummer at the Eldorado Ballroom in the 1950s while he studied pharmacology at TSU, Fielder went on to perform with the likes of Sun Ra, Kidd Jordan, and other key figures of the jazz avant-garde. He is truly a living encyclopedia of modern drum techniques, and his visits to Houston in recent years have consistently been memorable affairs. Roscoe Mitchell is this year's recipient of Nameless Sound's Resounding Vision Award, presented to musicians whose efforts transcend aesthetics and resonate beyond the concert stage. We invite you to eat, drink, mix and mingle with Houston's most creative minds at the Resounding Vision Award Gala. All proceeds benefit Nameless Sound's Creative Music Education Program and Concert Series. Call us at 713-928-5653 for more information. Mitchell's Nameless Sound residency culminates in a performance by his longstanding Quartet featuring trumpeter Hugh Ragin, who was raised in Houston, played in the all-city orchestra, and studied at U of H before establishing himself as the trumpeter of choice for Mitchell and David Murray. "Even in the jazz avant-garde, Roscoe Mitchell qualifies as an iconoclast. He uses ideas from Western and non-Western classical music, as well as the jazz tradition, to write music that swings like mad or, deliberately, doesn't swing at all." New York Times "If you listen to nature, sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that." Roscoe Mitchell Quote
johnlitweiler Posted January 16, 2013 Report Posted January 16, 2013 first time i ever wanted to go to houston. is it still sinking into the gulf of mexico? Quote
JSngry Posted January 17, 2013 Author Report Posted January 17, 2013 Not so as to distract from a concert. Quote
kh1958 Posted January 17, 2013 Report Posted January 17, 2013 This sounds good; working myself up to willingly go to Houston is a bit of a hard sell though. Quote
JSngry Posted January 18, 2013 Author Report Posted January 18, 2013 Go to http://www.namelesssound.org/ You can click on the artist photo of each event and be directed to a concert-specific page which in turn gives you a link to order. Quote
mjzee Posted January 19, 2013 Report Posted January 19, 2013 That Cyrille, Lake and Workman gig also sounds interesting. Quote
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