Duke Jazz Series JAZZ AT THE LIBRARY Announces Fall Events At NYPL

JAZZ AT THE LIBRARY
Duke Jazz Series - Fall Programs

Drew Gress and 7 Black Butterflies

Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Performance of selections from the commissioned work,
"Rothkosonic-music from the paintings."

Bassist/composer Drew Gress performs extensively with artists on the cutting edge of contemporary improvised music. His latest recording as a leader, 7 Black Butterflies (Premonition Records), features nine of Gress' newest original compositions and was released in May 2005. This was the follow-up to 2001's Spin & Drift, which received widespread critical acclaim and also featured Gress' pedal-steel guitar playing. When Gress is not leading his own ensembles, he can be heard within those of Ralph Alessi, Tim Berne, Uri Caine, Gerald Cleaver, Ravi Coltrane, Marc Copland, Fred Hersch, John Hollenbeck, Tony Malaby, and Mat Maneri.

Program will be held in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, 111 Amsterdam Avenue @ 65th Street. The program is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.

Doors open at 7:00 p.m.

Admission is free and first come, first served.

For further information, please call (212) 870-1793 or visit www.nypl.org/lpaprograms
Funding for the series provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7:30 p.m.

A respected insider within both the hardcore bebop and Latin communities, trumpeter/composer Brian Lynch is as comfortable negotiating the complexities of clave with Afro-Caribbean pioneer Eddie Palmieri as swinging through advanced harmony with bebop maestro Phil Woods. He's worked in recent years with Buena Vista Social Club alumnus Barbarito Torres, dance remixer Joe Clausell, and the members of the influential Latin alternative group Yerba Buena. He arranges for Japanese pop star Mika Nakashima and producer Shinichi Osawa, has written string charts for Phil Woods, and has played with such pop luminaries as Maxwell, Prince, and Sheila E. A 1997 recording called Spheres of Influence [Sharp Nine], which earned a 4-1/2 star Downbeat review, was Lynch's first project to reflect the panoramic range of interests that influence his working life as a musician. Lynch has continued to advance the Spheres of Influence concept, gathering around him a repertory company of top-shelf Pan-American oriented musicians.

Peter Apfelbaum and New York Hieroglyphics
Friday, November 12, 2009 7:30 p.m.

Composer/multi-instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum started playing drums at the age of three, taking up piano and saxophone in elementary school and forming his first band at age 11. In 1977 - his senior year at Berkeley High - he formed the 17-piece Hieroglyphics Ensemble as a vehicle for composing and exploring non-traditional musical forms; the Hieroglyphics Ensemble went on to perform with artists like Don Cherry and the Grateful Dead. Apfelbaum put the Hieroglyphics Ensemble on hold during the mid-90s, forming a sextet comprising Hieroglyphics musicians and acoustic bassist John Shifflett. In 1998, Apfelbaum moved to Brooklyn, where he soon formed a New York version of his Sextet. This group grew in 2003 to become the 11-piece New York Hieroglyphics and recorded It is Written in 2004. In addition to the New York Hieroglyphics, Apfelbaum continues to perform regularly with Steven Bernstein, Trey Anastasio, Dafnis Prieto, Josh Roseman, and Kamikaze Ground Crew.

About the Duke Jazz Series

Beginning in the fall of 2008, the Duke Jazz Series will present eight free concerts by jazz ensembles recognized by Chamber Music America's "New Works" program, which is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Each live performance will be recorded in both video and audio formats and added to the Music Division's archive, as will a subsequently created oral history of key musicians, composers, and other influential figures related to each recorded live performance. In addition to discussing their careers and accomplishments, individual composers and musicians will also examine the commissioning process and the efforts involved in the collaborative creation and performance of the commissioned works, an area not often documented in oral history recordings. The Duke Jazz Series is part of the two-year Library for the Performing Arts project funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to present, document, and preserve jazz, contemporary dance, and theater performances and related oral histories.

For more information about Chamber Music America' "New Works" program, please visit http://www.chamber-music.org/programs/gr_jazz.html