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 Past Events Before 2003
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Amir ElSaffar's Two Rivers Ensemble
Tuesday, March 29
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$12; students: $7
In 2007, jazz trumpeter Amir ElSaffar released Two Rivers, featuring a sextet of jazz (Rudresh Mahanthappa, Nasheet Waits, Carlo DeRosa) and traditional Iraqi musicians. The recording landed on many Top 10 of the year lists. "This is new turf," writes The Philadelphia Inquirer, "and it's likely to be a lot for either culture to digest. Yet the feeling and eloquence that emanate from this sextet make the experiment worthwhile." |
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Celestial Septet: Rova Sax Quartet + Nels Cline Singers
Thursday, February 24
Bowker Auditorium 8:00 pm
$12; students: $7
Since forming in 1977, the Berkley-based ROVA Saxophone Quartet has become an important leader of genre-bending music. The Nels Cline Singers are a ten-year-old, all-instrumental trio featuring (Wilco-lead) guitarist Nels Cline, Devin Hoff, bass and Scott Amendola, drums. Writes Derek Richardson, "The Celestial Septet sounds a cosmic death knell for fixed ideas about musical protocol and decorum, and a round trip through it leaves no horizon intact."
This is an Angel Ticket event |
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Randy Weston
Thursday, November 18
Bowker Auditorium 8:00 pm
$10; students: $5
After six decades as a professional musician, Randy Weston remains one of the world's foremost pianists and composers, a true innovator and visionary. "Weston has the biggest sound of any jazz pianist since Ellington and Monk," writes jazz critic Stanley Crouch. Pure synthesis of African elements with jazz technique. |
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Fred Frith
Thursday, October 28
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$10; students: $5
Guitarist and composer Fred Frith is an icon of avant-garde music. "A musical consciousness of rare intelligence backed with an omnipresent sense of humour," writes Libération. Co-founder of the British underground band Henry Cow (1968-78), Frith moved to New York and began associations with John Zorn, Brian Eno, Arditti Quartet, and The Residents. |
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Anthony Braxton & Taylor Ho Bynum
Wednesday, September 22
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$10; students: $5
The gifted trumpeter and composer Taylor Ho Bynum joins his mentor, and 10-year collaborator, saxophonist Anthony Braxton in a rare duet performance. |
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Parker and Drake
with Evan Parker: Three Lions of Contemporary Jazz
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$12 General Public; $7 Students
Parker and Drake invite the brilliant tenor and soprano saxophonist Evan Parker to join them. |
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William Parker and Hamid Drake With Special Guest Konrad "Conny" Bauer
Parker and Drake invite the reknown German trombonist Konrad "Conny" Bauer to perform in Amherst.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$12 General Public; $7 Students
Parker and Drake invite the reknown German trombonist Konrad "Conny" Bauer to perform in Amherst. Born in 1943, "Bauer has mastered the wide range of techniques available to the contemporary trombonist," writes John Corbett, "as well as the web of genres in which the instrument is imbricated, including march, parade, circus, early jazz, bop, free improvisation, new music, even other related traditions like alphorn and bugle call." |
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Tyshawn Sorey
Sorey plays drums, piano and trombone, and has recorded with Muhal Richard Abrams, Wadada Leo Smith, Dave Douglas, and Butch Morris, among many others.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$10 General Public; $5 Students
"The enigma that is Tyshawn Sorey: while most young drummers are walking in the footsteps of the elders," writes Mark F Turner, "sorey thrives on the outside, composing and performing free improvised music. |
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Yusef Lateef/Adam Rudolph Duo
A musical association that stretches back to 1988.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Bowker Auditorium 8:00 pm
$10 General Public, $5 Students
Their musical association stretches back to 1988, and includes 14 albums and concerts ranging from duos, to work with the Koln, Atlanta and Detroit Symphony Orchestras.
This is an Angel Ticket event |
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Evan Parker/Ned Rothenberg Duo
Two of the greatest reed players of our time.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$10, General Public; $5 students
"If genius is the sustained application of intelligence," writes Richard Cook, "then Evan Parker merits the epitaph." Born in Bristol, England in 1944, Parker has developed the possibilities of unpremeditated music more deeply than almost anyone. "Other kinds of music might entertain you, cheer you up or pump the blood," writes Manfred Pabst, "but Rothenberg's clarifies the mind and throws your soul wide open." |
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An Incendiary Evening of Improvised Music
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$12/$7
The legendary New Orleans saxophonist and educator Edward ‘Kidd" Jordan brings his Trio, featuring William Parker and Alvin Fielder, for an incendiary evening of improvised music |
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Doom Jazz
featuring Bobby Previte and Jamie Saft
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$10/$5
In one sense a piano trio, with Previte on drums and Saft doubling on piano and electric bass, this project borrows from heavy metal sensibilities. |
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Frank London & Hazonos
Thursday, April 17 2008
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$12 General, $7 Students
A member of the Klezmatics, trumpeter and composer Frank London is one of the most important musicians of the New Jewish Renaissance. His Hazonos project features the sparkling rhythm section of Anthony Coleman, David Chevan and Gerald Cleaver, and Chazzan Jacob Mendelson, whose soaring voice gives the music a unique spiritual quality.
This is an Angel Ticket event |
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Omar Sosa Afreecanos Quartet
Tuesday, April 1 2008
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$12 General, $7 Students
Omar Sosa offers a joyful mix of jazz and Afro-Caribbean music, combining his own Afro-Cuban tradition with an experimenter's attitude. |
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Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures
Thursday, February 28 2008
Bowker Auditorium 7:30 pm
$15; Five College Students $7; Youth 17 and under $7
Grounded in American improvisational tradition yet spectacularly embracing global languages, instrumentation and cosmologies this pioneer of world music brings his octet featuring Hamid Drake, Graham Haynes, Steve Gorn, Ned Rothenberg, Shanir Blumenkrantz, Kenny Wessel, Brahim Fribgane, and Rudolph.
This is an Angel Ticket event |
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Fred Anderson/Chad Taylor Duo
Wednesday, December 5 2007
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:15 pm
$10 General, $5 Students
Fred Anderson is a commanding tenor saxophonist, and a leader of Chicago's jazz community for over 30 years. Percussionist Chad Taylor formed the Chicago Underground Ensemble with Rob Mazurek and is part of Chicago's post-rock scene.
This is an Angel Ticket event |
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Dakshina Ensemble
featuring Rudresh Mahanthappa and Kadri Gopalnath
Sunday, November 18 2007
Bowker Auditorium 4:00 pm
$15 General, $7 Students
Co-presented with Asian Arts & Culture. Two masters of the alto saxophone-one a living legend of South Indian Carnatic music (Kadri Gopalnath), the other a fiercely innovative Indian American jazz musician (Rudresh Mahanthappa)-present The Dakshina Ensemble, a septet of Indian and world musicians on the cutting-edge of Indian/jazz fusion. Mahanthappa's most recent recordings, 'Codebook' and 'Raw Materials' were named two of the top jazz albums of 2006 by the Village Voice and Jazztimes. |
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Roswell Rudd/Mark Dresser Duo
Wednesday, October 17 2007
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:15 pm
$10 General, $5 Students
Best known as trombonist of choice for avant-garde luminaries like Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, and his own New York Art Quartet, Rudd's musical résumé also features a fascinating mix of Dixieland, straight ahead jazz and world music.
This is an Angel Ticket event |
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Warren Smith
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:15 pm
$10 General, $5 Students
Percussionist Warren Smith has led one of the richest, most varied careers in music and has a long list of credits in both the straight ahead and avant-garde jazz worlds. |
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Roscoe Mitchell Trio
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$12 general, $7 students
One of the top saxophonists to come out of Chicago in the mid-60's, Roscoe Mitchell is a strong and consistently adventurous improviser. He has recorded 87 albums and has written over 250 compositions ranging from classical to contemporary, from free jazz to ornate chamber music. An icon of avant-garde jaxx, Mitchell is a founding member of both the Art Ensemble Chicago, one of the most radical and influential jazz ensembles of the past 30 years, and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, the most successful musician-run collective in the country.
This is an Angel Ticket event |
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Michele Rosewoman and New Yor-Uba
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$12 general, $7 students
Pianist and composer Michele Rosewoman's music salutes the Orishas (deities) in a contemporary jazz setting using original compositions and modern arrangements of traditional Yoruban (Nigerian) and Arara (Dahomey) chants. The 10-member ensemble integrates brass, saxophones and a rhythm section, with master Cuban folkloric musicians. |
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Michael Gregory Trio
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$12 general, $7 students
Michael Gregory has successfully straddled the pop and improvised music worlds since the beginning of his career in the 1970s. A long-time resident of the Pioneer Valley, Gregory will perform a concert of improvised music that will be a revelation. Gregory will be joined by Pheeroan akLaff, drums, and Mark Helias, bass.
This is an Angel Ticket event |
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Joe McPhee
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$10 general, $5 students
Joe McPhee is a brilliant improvising musician who plays saxophones, trumpets, valve trombone, clarinet and piano.
This is an Angel Ticket event |
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Joe Morris & Daniel Levin Duo
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$10 general, $5 students
". . . the most exciting and original jazz plucker to emerge in the last decade." |
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Cecil Taylor
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Bowker Auditorium 8:00 pm
$10 general, $5 students
Along with John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, pianist Cecil Taylor is generally acknowledged to be one of the great musical innovators of the 1960s.
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Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$12 general, $7 students
Since its founding in 1979, Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble has been both critically and popularly acclaimed, as both musicians and educators. Led by saxophonist Ernest Dawkins, the group includes many members of the third generation of the famous Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
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Instant Composers Pool Orchestra
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$12 general, $7 students
As much as any group anywhere, the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra encompasses a full range of modern musics: Ellington and Monk, Kurt Weill and European dance band music of a lost age, lacy Webern - y chamber music, South African kwela, free improvisation, conducted improvisation, interactive games, counterpoint and simultaneity, catchy melodies, pastel harmonies, order and built - in chaos. Together since 1967, the 10-piece ICP is co-led by Misha Mengleberg (p) and Han Bennick (d) and features some of the best Dutch and European improvisers on the planet.
This is an Angel Ticket event |
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James "Blood" Ulmer's Odyssey Band
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$12 general, $7 students
James Blood Ulmer was once described by Village Voice music critic and Black Rock Coalition co-founder, Greg Tate, as: "the missing link between Jimi Hendrix and Wes Montgomery on one hand, between P-Funk and Mississippi Fred McDowell on the other." |
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The Oliver Lake/Mary Redhouse Duo
Solos & Duos Series
Thursday, December 8, 2005
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$10 general, $5 students
The Oliver Lake/Mary Redhouse Duo entwine the African-American and Native American experience through the multi-faceted talent of two master improvisers. The daughter of Diné (Navajo) cultural figure Rex Redhouse and his Filipino wife, Maria, Mary Redhouse's California upbringing was a mix of intertribal powwows and American pop.
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Billy Bang
Solos & Duos Series
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$10 general, $5 students
The violin is hardly the first instrument that comes to mind when you think about jazz, but that's never daunted Billy Bang, one of the instrument's most adventurous exponents. |
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Peter Brötzmann/Nasheet Waits Duo
Solos & Duos Series
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$10 general, $5 students
Peter Brötzmann's sound on tenor saxophone, clarinet and taragato is one of the most distinctive, life-affirming and joyous in all music. "The huge, screaming sound he makes is among the most exhilarating things in the music," writes Brian Morton, "and, while he has often been typecast as a kind of sonic terrorist, that does insufficient justice to his mastery of the entire reed family."
This is an Angel Ticket event |
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Susie Ibarra
Electric Kulintang
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
Over the last decade, drummer and composer Susie Ibarra has established herself as one of the premier percussionists of her generation. |
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In What Language?
A Song Cycle of Lives in Transit: Vijay Iyer/Mike Ladd
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall 8:00 pm
Improvisational in nature and hybrid to the core, "In What Language?" is a 21st-century song cycle combining music by pianist-composer Vijay Iyer with spoken text by poet/hip-hop artist (and Hampshire College graduate) Mike Ladd.
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William Parker/Hamid Drake Duo
Bass and Drum
Thursday, December 9, 2004
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$10; Students $5
"William Parker and Hamid Drake are the best rhythm section in jazz right now," says Alternative Press. |
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Joe & Mat Maneri Duo
Joe - alto & tenor sax, clarinet, piano / Mat - violin
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$10; Students $5
The father-and-son team's improvised chamber music, as radical as it is graceful, brings the yearning passions of jazz and blues together with lessons learned from Schoenberg, microtonalism, and a dozen world music traditions, to produce experimental jazz at its most warm-hearted and inviting. |
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Elliott Sharp
Guitar
Thursday, September 30, 2004
Bezanson Recital Hall 8:00 pm
$10; Students $5
In his continuing exploration of the limits of sound, Elliott Sharp presents The Velocity of Hue, a collection of pieces performed on enhanced acoustic guitar. |
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Bobby Previte
BUMP
Thursday, April 29, 2004
Bezanson Recital Hall 8pm
Students $7 / General $12
Percussionist Bobby Previte has remained one of the major figures in the city's music world, widely hailed for his electrifying drumming and his stunning, unclassifiable compositions. |
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Sun Ra Arkestra
under the direction of Marshall Allen
Thursday, March 25, 2004
Bezanson Recital Hall 8pm
$7 Students / $12 General
Composer, arranger, keyboard master and philosophical guru, Sun Ra became a source of breath-taking originality in the music we call jazz. |
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Joe Fonda
with From the Source
Thursday, February 26, 2004
Bezanson Recital Hall 8pm
Students $7 / General $12
Led by bassist Joe Fonda, From the Source is an interdisciplinary music-performance ensemble that blurs the boundaries between music, dance, and healing by engaging the unusual vocal apparitions of a body healer with the percussive rhythmic cadence of a tap dancer. |
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Rashied Ali & Sonny Fortune
Thursday, November 20, 2003
Bezanson Recital Hall 8pm
Students $5 / General $10
Sonny Fortune joins fellow Philadelphia native Rashied Ali for this second year of the Solos and Duos Concert Series. Fortune spent formative years working under the influence of Jazz greats like Mongo Santamaria, McCoy Tyner and Miles Davis. |
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Sunny Murray & Sabir Mateen
Thursday, October 9, 2003
Bezanson Recital Hall 8pm
$5 Students / $12 General
Known for revolutionizing the role of the trap drums in jazz, Sunny Murray's influence on the last thirty-five years of improvised music cannot be overestimated. |
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Milford Graves
Thursday, September 25, 2003
Bezanson Recital Hall 8pm
$5 Students / $ 10 General
Milford Graves began playing the drums when he was three years old. Among his very first album releases is a veritable percussive landmark: "Dialogue of the Drums", which was masterminded in 1974 in cahoots with Andrew Cyrille. |
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David Murray and the Gwo-Ka Masters
2003 Magic Triangle Jazz Series
Friday, April 11, 2003
Bezanson Recital Hall at 8pm
$12 General Public, $7 Five College Students with ID.
The Magic Triangle Jazz Series welcomes back the much lauded and highly acclaimed tenor saxophonist and bass clarinetist, David Murray. |
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Charles Tolliver and Music Inc.
Thursday, March 27 - Thursday, March 27, 2003
The Northampton Center for the Arts at 8 pm (across South St. from the Academy of Music).
Students $7, General Public $12
Thirteen years of sold out performances and rave reviews form attendees motivate us to again produce the Magic triangle Series in conjunction with WMUA. |
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Alan Silva's Celestrial Communications Orchestra
Wednesday, February 27 - Thursday, February 27, 2003
8 PM Helen Hills Hills Chapel, Elm St. Northampton
Students $6, General Public $9
Thirteen years of sold out performances and rave reviews from attendees motivate us to again produce the Magic Triangle Series in conjunction with WMUA. |
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Open Rehearsal with Alan Silva's Celestrial Communications Orchestra
Wednesday, February 26, 2003
Bezanson Recital Hall at 7pm
Admission is free and open to the public.
How does a free-improvising, 20-piece big band "rehearse"? Listen the band play, and hear Silva talk about his innovative techniques of organizing sound.
Part of the Magic Triangle Jazz Series. |
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Ran Blake
a collaboration with Augusta Savage Gallery
Wednesday, November 20, 2002
Concert Hall stage at 8pm
Tickets: $10; Five College students $5
"Ran Blake is so hip it hurts," writes Downbeat. "At 66, he is still a pianist who can make you laugh at his wry humor one second and wring a tear the next." Born in Springfield, MA in 1935, Blake has chaired the Department of Contemporary Improvisation at the New England Conservatory since 1973. Since the release of The Newest Sound Around (1961, Bluebird), Blake has recorded more than 30 albums as a leader for Soul Note, GM and hatOLOGY, among other labels |
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Andrew Cyrille
A collaboration with Augusta Savage Gallery
Friday, October 18, 2002
Concert Hall stage at 8pm
Tickets: $10; Five College students $5
The New York Times has called Andrew Cyrille "the consummate modern drummer." His sterling work has earned him a number of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Meet the Composer. In 1999, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for composition. |
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The Marks Brothers
a collaboration with Augusta Savage Gallery
Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Concert Hall stage at 8pm
Tickets: $10; Five College students $5
The Solos and Duos Series will begin with a duet performance by two of the most accomplished double-bass players working today. Mark Helias has been involved with innovative music making since beginning his career in the mid seventies. Mark Dresser, a virtuoso contrabass player, has performed and recorded with many of the luminaries of 'new' jazz composition and improvisation. |
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William Parker Ensemble
The Curtis Mayfield Project
Wednesday, April 3, 2002
Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College, at 8 pm
$9 for the general public; $6 for students
For the second year in a row, the Magic Triangle Jazz Series is proud to present William Parker, whom the Village Voice has called, "the most consistently brilliant free jazz bassist of all time." |
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Brew
Thursday, March 7, 2002
Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College, at 8 pm
$9 for the general public; $6 for students
Composed of koto-playing Miya Masaoka, Magic Triangle alums Reggie Workman on bass and Gerry Hemmingway on percussion, the trio utilizes a unique, Eastern-tinged sense of time and space to create an innovative breed of jazz. |
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Uri Caine Ensemble
Performing Bach's "Goldberg Variations"
Sunday, February 17, 2002
Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College, at 8 pm
$9 for the general public; $6 for students
The Magic Triangle Jazz Concert Series, produced by WMUA, 91.1FM and the Residential Arts Program of the Fine Arts Center at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is proud to announce its 13th season. The first concert features the Uri Caine Ensemble performing his interpretations of Bach's "Goldberg Variations". |
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