JCAL Music Students

Dear Students: I’ve got too many files on my Youtube channel so I can’t upload lesson videos this week. I probably won’t post until after this Saturday. Sorry.

Guitar pedals from NYC Alternative Guitar Festival

photo: Scott Friedlander

Brandon Seabrook Trio, Joel Harrison/Cristian Amigo/Andrew Drury Trio, Trioka w/Tor Snyder @ INTAR Evening of Experimental Guitar

INTAR THEATER PRESENTS: INTAR EVENING OF EXPERIMENTAL GUITAR

10:00pm. BRANDON SEABROOK TRIO/ALLISON MILLER- drums/JOHNNY De BLASE – bass

9:00 pm. JOEL HARRISON/CRISTIAN AMIGO/ANDREW DRURY TRIO

8:00p, TRIOKA:TOR SNYDER/BILLY CUMMINGS/KEITH MACKSOUD
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Tuesday, May 21 @ 8:00PM. doors open @ 7:45pm

INTAR Theater. 500 W. 52nd Street, 4th Floor. 212. 695. 6134

http://www.intartheatre.org/music

$10 suggested donation. Seating is limited, so please arrive early.
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As one of four concerts in INTAR Theater’s Spring Music Series, INTAR EVENING OF EXPERIMENTAL GUITAR features some of NYC’s leading avant-guitarists in various musical settings. Brandon Seabrook (voted best guitarist 2012 by the Village Voice) brings his trio and his hard-edged guitar/banjo attack to the INTAR stage. NYC Alternative Guitar Festival founder/guitarist/composer Joel Harrison (Nels Cline, Norah Jones, Uri Caine, Dewey Redman), guitarist/composer Cristian Amigo (Elliot Sharp, Eve Beglarian, Wadada Leo Smith), and drummer/composer Andrew Drury (Jason Kao Hwang, Steve Swell Trio) team up for their first improvised collaboration in a bass-less trio that is sure to reimagine world/roots music. Guitarist Tor Snyder (Bob Moses, Kenwood Denard, John Medeski) brings his singular, from-another-planet sound that he channels through a Moog guitar. It will be a night of far-searching music and energy as the musicians look to both epitomize and transcend the nature of the guitar.

AMERICAN FESTIVAL OF MICROTONAL MUSIC presents MicroFEST NYC Spectrum³

AMERICAN FESTIVAL OF MICROTONAL MUSIC presents MicroFEST NYC Spectrum³

Electric guitar and bassoon microtonal blues duet anyone? Johnny Reinhard and I will be systematically micro-tearing it up @ Spectrum this Sunday. J busted out the conch shell at rehearsal today, so watch out. – Cristian

MicroFEST NYC Spectrum³
May 17th and 19th and 24th at 7 PM in NYC

Frasconi · Catler · Bukvich · Jelic · Reinhard · Thoegersen · Eaton · Leach Twining · La Plante · Schwimmer · Partch · Stravinsky · Solberg

Spectrum, located at 121 Ludlow Street. Admission is $20 / $12.

Sunday evening’s concert on May 19th at 7 PM features the premiere of Jon Catler’s CODES OF ASCENSION for electric just intonation guitar. Johnny Reinhard premieres TREES for bassoon and strings in 8th octave overtone tuning (128 notes). Double bassist Joshua Morris premieres INNER REFLECTIONS by Jurica Jelic of Croatia. Mary Jane Leach’s FEU DE JOIE for bassoon and a soundtrack of bassoons is played live by Reinhard, who also vocally intones A DREAM by Harry Partch to Anastasia Solberg’s viola; and composer/guitarist Cristian Amigo joins bassoonist Reinhard in BLUO.

Amigo Joins Conjure Collective

I’m honored to to have been asked to join, and to join, the Conjure Collective in their mission to create musical opportunities for others as well as themselves. I have not worked with most of these amazing musicians yet but have admired them from afar for a long, long time. This is awesome!

Conjure is a group of musicians working together to support, through collective action, the lives, work and creativity of jazz musicians by a variety of means.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Conjure-Collective/453300291397743?ref=ts&fref=ts

Members:
RAY BLUE www.rayblue.com
ANDREW DRURY www.andrewdrury.com
FRANK LACY
J.D. PARRAN
LEWIS PORTER
KEVIN RAY www.1e32K.com
HOWARD JOHNSON

Launch of Hell’s Kitchen Music Group (HKMG)

More music and theatre news. Sound Designer/composer Marios Aristopoulos and I have founded Hell’s Kitchen Music Group (HKMG) in order to provide a one stop shop for all your theatrical music composition and production needs. From concept through tech, we’ve got it covered. Check out our website and extensive credits; then give us a call. Peace.

Cristian Amigo @ INTAR FEST 2012

Reblogged from THE GOTHAM ROOTS ORCHESTRA:

Having a Joe Perry moment.