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Westbeth Community Room
155 Bank St
enter through courtyard
New York, NY

For this performance we are exploring iconic compositions by John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Bill Evans, Joe Henderson, and Charles Mingus. We will also play original pieces by Michael Moss inspired by ethnic music of the Middle East and India.

Michael Moss:
Reed player/composer Michael Moss has been actively involved in the music scene for many years leading his own musical groups: Bows Ensemble for Strings and Piano, ROOTS to SHOOTS, the Accidental Orchestra—a 22-piece renaissance jazz orchestra, Four Rivers, and Free Energy. Numerous grants include Meet the Composer, NYSCA, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and CREATE Council on the Arts. His record label, Fourth Stream Records, has produced multiple LPs, cassettes, and CDs including HELIX, Intervals, Free Play, Dream Time, In Between Gigs, Pyramid, Upstream, Cross Current, Live at ACIA. Performances and commissions are wide-ranging— Little Island, Bridge Street Theatre, Turks and Caicos Arts Foundation, Isthmus Jazz Festival, New York Loft Jazz Celebrations, New York Musicians Festival, Revelation Gallery, St John’s in the Village, Jazzmania, Studio Rivbea, Environ, Joe Lee Wilson’s Ladies Fort, Central Park Bandshell, Space For Innovative Development, Stockton State College, SUNY at Stony Brook, and Borough of Manhattan Community College. He curated and performed in Loft in the Sky Jazz Festivals and multiple Westbeth Music Festivals. Collaborations include work with electroacoustic composer James Dashow, choreographer Judith Moss, storyteller Regina Ress and playwright Domnica Radulescu. Michael Moss holds a Ph.D. in psychology.

“Moss’ astute penchant for melding the outside parameters of jazz with imaginative compositions and a wide-ranging improvisational platform delivers the knockout punch.” Glenn Astarita. All About Jazz.
BANDCAMP: https://michaelmoss.bandcamp.com

Alexis Marcelo :
Alexis Marcelo is a pianist with a deep love for music who creates a soulful New York City sound.. He believes in the power of music as a positive and uplifting force. Alexis is always looking to communicate those intimate parts of the soul through music. He instinctively delivers a sound representative of a wide range of influences.

Alexis has been blessed to receive an extensive musical education at the Harlem School of the Arts when he began studying with JD Parran (AACM). He went on to The University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he studied African-American Music/Jazz Piano Performance as well as composition with world-renowned saxophonist Dr. Yusef Lateef. Alexis has performed nationally and abroad at various festivals and prestigious venues, including the North Sea Jazz Festival, Etnafest in Italy and the Detroit Jazz Festival with Yusef Lateef, Mediawave Festival (Hungary-The Hub), Alice Tully Hall and more. Recently Alexis recorded his first album and is featured on recordings with Yusef Lateef, Adam Rudolph’s Go Orchestra & Moving Pictures, Mike Pride, Malcolm Mooney (Can), and with the Dance Clarinets in the release of Colorations-Explorations by Joe Daley. He performed Michael Moss’ Qabbala::Entanglement on synthesizer in the Accidental Orchestra as well as with Van Lier Fellow Anaïs Maviel in an electroacoustic large ensemble.

Alexis Marcelo is a very unique pianist who looks to provide a soulful experience.

Ken Filiano:
Ken Filiano is a bassist, composer, improviser, and teacher who performs around the world, fusing the rich traditions of the double bass with his own seemingly limitless imagination. A “creative virtuoso” (JazzValley), Ken has performed and recorded with a veritable who’s who in multiple genres, from Anthony Braxton to Pablo Ziegler. Ken leads two quartets, Quantum Entanglements and Baudolino’s Dilemma, and is co-leader of The Steve Adams/Ken Filiano Duo and other collective ensembles. He is also an integral member of groups led by Taylor Ho Bynum, Jason Kao Hwang, Fay Victor, Vinny Golia, Diane Moser, Karl Berger, and others, and was a key member of groups led by the late Roswell Rudd and Connie Crothers. Ken’s extensive discography includes the solo CD, “Subvenire”(Nine Winds) and Quantum Entanglements’ “Dreams From a Clown Car” (Clean Feed). He is a Guiding Artist and on the Board of Advisors for Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, NY.

“What is rare among today’s arco soloists is Filiano’s mixture of absolutely pitch-perfect intonation and precise bowing hand motion alongside an openness of phrasing that is beholden to very few of his predecessors. His staccato is furious, his legato weeps, and he is able to alternate within the space of a few measures.” (Charles Walker)

Michael Wimberly:
Michael Wimberly, percussionist, composer, educator and producer has performed, recorded and toured internationally with innovative artists Charles Gayle, William Parker, Henry Rollins, Steve Coleman’s 5 Elements, Parliament Funkadelic, D’Angelo, Blondie, Angie Stone, and many others. Michael performed the Lion King on Broadway, The Wiz at the Beacon Theatre featuring Stephanie Mills, and Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls” at the American Place Theatre. Sound design projects include; Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” for the
Classical Theatre of Harlem, St. Lucy’s Eyes for the Cherry Lane Theatre, and Shackled, Iced, and Chain for the National Black Theatre Company.
As a soloist, Michael’s been featured with Berlin’s Rundfunk Symphony, Vienna’s Tonkuntsler Symphony, Leipzig Symphony, International Regions Symphony Orchestra of Europe, Yakima Chamber Orchestra, Yakima, WA, and Sage City Symphony, Bennington, VT. As a composer Michael’s commissioned dance scores appear in the companies of Urban Bush Women, Joffrey Ballet, Alvin Ailey, Philadanco, Complexions, and Forces of Nature Dance Theatre. Film soundtracks include “Atlantic City Lights” for HBO, and “As An Act Of Protest” an independent feature. Michael has wo published percussion instruction books with Hudson Music Publishing entitled “Getting Started with Djembe”, and “Getting Started with Cajon”, and a new album “Afrofuturism” on Temple Mountain Records (TMR) distributed by Universal Music Group / Level Music. Michael is currently a member of the faculty of music at Bennington College in Bennington, VT since 2012.

Ismael Baiz:
Ismael Baiz is a touring and recording artist who resides in New York since 2009. Originally from Caracas, Venezuela, Ismael began his music studies at age 5. After a bitter-sweet breakup with the piano, his interest for percussion sparked while at the Prudencio Esaa music school. Soon enough he began receiving private drum lessons from different teachers who including exceptional classical percussionists Jose Mato, with whom he studied for 8 years. He began performing professionally at age 14. A short time later he toured his native Venezuela and, had the opportunity of touring internationally.

When Ismael came to New York he joined The Collective School of Music as a full-time student for 2 years. Following that, he attended the CCNY Jazz Performance Program. Studying with Ian Froman, Peter Retzlaff, Bob Quaranta, Kim Plainfield, Vince Cherico, Marko Djordjevic, Chris Coleman, Tim Ries, Dan Carillo, Vanderlei Pereira, and Mike Hollober amongst others helped him refine and develop his sound and vision in music.

Ismael currently performs nationally and internationally with Blondy, Yordano, Monte, Amine Hachem, Ali Bello, The Latino Experimental Project, just to name a few. Aside from this, he continues teaching and recording in his state of the art studio.

In 2009, Maelo Drums sprung from Ismael’s rigorous research and dedicated passion towards providing unique designer sounds for unique artists. To learn more about MAELO DRUMS visit: www.maelodrums.com

With a cultural melting-pot in his brain, Ismael is constantly composing original music and arrangements with The Latino Experimental Project, a musical experiment that mixes his Venezuelan roots, Afro-Latin and Caribbean styles with a contemporary and improvisational approach.

Andreas Brade:
German born drummer, educator and composer Andreas Brade has been a professional drummer for over 30 years. With an open mind he has found himself over the years in many different musical situations, “the good and the bad” and many lessons learned. Andreas has performed and recorded nationally and internationally with many different Jazz, African, Afro Caribbean, Gospel, Rock, R&B, and Improvisational Artists at venues and festivals such as the Montreal Jazz Fest, Kennedy Center, Boston Symphony Hall, NJPAC, the Blue Note, the Apollo Cafe and many more. These days, Andreas likes to maintain his passion for Jazz, and different genres of the world, mainly African and Afro Caribbean styles, while exploring his own voice. He is also drawn more towards electronica, art and Improvisational music.

Andreas has worked for over 20 years as an accompanist for modern dance for schools like the Martha Graham School, Mark Morris Dance Center, Paul Taylor, Alvin Ailey, Joffery Ballet.

As a composer Andreas has worked for Cornfield Dance for 15 years creating sound scores and sound scapes, using his own samples and manipulating them with electronic effects. His works have been played/performed at venues and festivals such as 92nd Street “Y”, Bryant Park Summer Stage, the Battery Park Dance Festival, the British Museum at Yale, Baryshnikov Arts Center and the University of Georgia.

Andreas holds a diploma from Berklee College of Music and a Masters of Modern American Music in Performance from Longy School of Bard College, and endorses VicFirth and Zildjian Cymbals.
https://westbeth.org/artist-page/andreas-brade/