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SUMMARY:First Friday Music Double Feature Elder Bro and Bob Malenky
DESCRIPTION:CLICK TO ENLARGE IMAGE \nFriday April 3\, 2026 at 7pm \nFree \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nElder Bro: Presents a spiritual themed evening of roots music and improvisation complimenting the season of greatest myths ever told! Marc Jacoby: guitar and vox\, Michael Moss:assorted horns\, Jeff Eldredge:keys\, accordion\, trumpet\, Andreas Brade:percussion\, John Menegon:bass\, Magic Eric:percussion …and guests\nwww.marcthemusicman.com\n@marcthemusicman Instagram \nBob Malenky: Folk and Roots music\, from American\, English\, Irish\, and Yiddish\nsong traditions. Bob has learned from and played with\, toured and recorded\nwith blues masters Muddy Waters\, Brownie McGee and Sonny Terry. \nFIRST FRIDAYS is a monthly event of free live music featuring Westbeth musicians and their guests\, organized by WestbethMusicWorks\, and Westbeth Performing Arts Committee and sponsored by Westbeth Artists Residents Council.
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SUMMARY:First Friday MusicMichael Moss with Roots to Shoots
DESCRIPTION:Photo of Michael Moss by Scott Friedlander \nFriday Sept 5\, 2025 at 7pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank Street\n(enter through courtyard)\nNew York\, NY 10014 \nROOTS to SHOOTS:\nWarren Smith\, Alexis Marcelo\, Adam Lane\, Jackson Krall \nMichael Moss/ROOTS to SHOOTS is a stellar band playing music from the classic bag of modern jazz composers ranging from Eric Dolphy to John Coltrane\, Bill Evans to Duke Ellington\, and original compositions by Michael Moss. Moss (tenor and soprano sax\, bass clarinet\, flute) will be joined by his old buddy Jackson Krall\, Cecil Taylor’s long-time drummer\, jazz icon Warren Smith on vibes\, amazing bassist Adam Lane\, and fantastic keyboard player Alexis Marcelo who will be breaking in Westbeth’s new Baldwin 9 foot concert grand piano! \n“…powerful\, amazing\, unique\, genuinely creative music”\nRon J. Pelletier\, Jazz from Gallery 41\, Berkeley\, CA \nMICHAEL MOSS\nReed 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. \nMoss composes music reminiscent of different cultures in order to deeply explore cultural traditions without appropriating those cultures\, learning Persian scales of Iran and Iraq\, musical scales of Turkey\, Armenia\, and the Balkans\, Greek modes\, Israeli and klezmer scales\, Japanese and Chinese pentatonic modes\, plus scales and meters used in classical ragas of India so as to get inside the music. He plays non-western instruments\, playing Indian cane flutes he bought in New Delhi\, India\, the Thai khean bought in Bangkok\, Thailand\, plus odd Peruvian pan flutes and penny whistles. \nMoss released records beginning in the 1970 on his independent record label\, Fourth Stream Records\, and produced three lps featuring Four Rivers—Upstream\, Cross Current\, and Live at ACIA. I went on to drop multiple cassettes and cds and digital releases. \nThe latest releases\, beginning in 2015\, feature the New York Free Quartet with pianist Steve Cohn\, bassist Larry Roland\, and drummer Chuck Fertal: Dream Time\, In Between Gigs…Can You Dig?\, and Free Play. He appears with guitarist Billy Stein on Intervals. This year Moss is dropping a 4 cd/digital box set including everything ROOTS to SHOOTS and Ensemble Bows in all of its iterations have recorded entitled Quantum Butterfly. \nMichael Moss holds a Ph.D. in psychology. \nWARREN SMITH\nWarren Smith was born May 14\, 1934\, in Chicago\, Illinois\, to a musical family.[1] His father played saxophone and clarinet with Noble Sissle and Jimmie Noone\, and his mother was a harpist and pianist. At the age of four Smith studied clarinet with his father. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1957\, then received a master’s degree in percussion from the Manhattan School of Music in 1958. \nOne of his earliest major recording dates was with Miles Davis as a vibraphonist in 1957. He found work in Broadway pit bands beginning in 1958 when he was in the original production of Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story. WIS also played with Gil Evans that year. In 1961 he co-founded the Composers Workshop Ensemble. In the 1960s Smith accompanied Aretha Franklin\, Nina Simone\, Lloyd Price\, and Nat King Cole; he worked with Sam Rivers from 1964–76 and with Gil Evans again from 1968 to 1976. In 1969 he played with Janis Joplin and in 1971 with King Curtis and Tony Williams. He was also a founding member of Max Roach’s percussion ensemble\, M’Boom\, in 1970. \nIn the 1970s and 1980s Smith had a loft called Studio Wis that acted as a performing and recording space for many young New York jazz musicians\, such as Wadada Leo Smith and Oliver Lake. Through the 1970s Smith played with Andrew White\, Julius Hemphill\, Muhal Richard Abrams\, Nancy Wilson\, Quincy Jones\, Count Basie\, and Carmen McRae. Other credits include extensive work with rock and pop musicians and time spent with Anthony Braxton\, Charles Mingus\, Henry Threadgill\, Van Morrison\, and Joe Zawinul. He continued to work on Broadway into the 1990s\, and has performed with a number of classical ensembles. \nSmith taught in the New York City public school system from 1958 to 1968\, at Third Street Settlement from 1960 to 1967\, at Adelphi University in 1970–71\, and at SUNY-Old Westbury from 1971. \nALEXIS MARCELO\nAlexis Marcelo is a pianist who creates a soulful New York City sound. He instinctively delivers a sound representative of a wide range of influences. His training began at the Harlem School of the Arts learning from JD Parran (AACM) and continued at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he studied composition with Yusef Lateef. \nAlexis Marcelo benefitted greatly from growing up in New York City as a black Latino. He was exposed to Hip Hop\, Rock\, Salsa\, Merengue\, and Gospel music. His studies led him to the greats in African American music where he fell in love with Thelonious Monk\, John Coltrane\, Miles Davis\, and Wayne Shorter. \nThe unique sound of Alexis Marcelo comes from all of these influences and aims to capture the soulful expression of man. He’s performed overseas and domestically at various festivals and prestigious venues. They include the North Sea Jazz Festival (Holland-Yusef Lateef)\, the Detroit Jazz Festival (Yusef Lateef)\, Etnafest (Italy-Yusef Lateef)\, Mediawave Festival (Hungary-The Hub)\, Alice Tully Hall in New York City as well as multiple tours to Germany\, Poland\, United Kingdom\, and Denmark. \nHe has also recorded multiple albums with former professor and mentor Yusef Lateef. He has just recorded his first album (coming out in 2019) and can be heard on current recordings with Adam Rudolph’s Go Orchestra & Moving Pictures\, and a new recording with Malcolm Mooney (Can). Alexis Marcelo is a very unique pianist who looks to provide a soulful experience. \nADAM LANE\nComposer/Bassist\nBy combining a disparate set of influences into a unique and personal improvisational voice\, Adam Lane has become recognized as one of the most original creative voices in the New York improv scene. He is the leader of several different ensembles that perform his original creative music compositions. His most recent projects include The Adam Lane Trio\, featuring legendary reedist Vinny Golia\, Four Corners\, a co-lead ensemble with reedist Ken Vandermark\, The Full Throttle Orchestra (both West and East coast versions)\, formed to perform Lane’s large group music for improvising orchestras\, and an ongoing solo project that combines unique processed double bass improvisations with Lane’s original story telling. Sam Prestiani of Jazziz says of Lane’s writing: “His confidence and confrontational prowess as well as his abiding sense of lyricism and heavy-groove power place him in the lineage of forward-jazz adventurism.”\nLane is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the Julius Hemphill award for large ensemble jazz piece\, several meet the composer awards\, and a Paternings Scholarship award for study at the Darmstadt School for New Music where Lane studied double bass with Steffano Scodanibbio\, and attended master classes in composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen. \nAs a sideman he has performed with an eclectic mix of musicians\, from tenor great John Tchicai\, to alto iconoclast Richard Tabnik\, to rock legend Tom Waits\, plus Steve Cohn\, Michael Bisio\, Lou Grassi\, Perry Robinson\, Julian Priester\, Blaise Siwula and Burton Greene\, Mark Whitecage and Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre as a co-leader. As a leader he worked with Avram Fefer\, Roy Campbell\, Barry Altschul\, Tayler Ho Bynum. \nJACKSON KRALL\nBorn December 10\, 1949\, Detroit\, Michigan\, growing up there and in Wisconsin. Drummer Jackson Krall has been an active member of the NYC Avant Jazz scene since the mid 1970’s. Mark Hennen and John Blum have been his musical collaborators\, individually and together\, for decades. Jackson has also played drums in performance with high-profile avant jazz musicians such as Bill Dixon\, Alan Silva\, Karen Borca\, William Parker\, J.D. Parran\, Jemeel Moondoc\, Rob Brown\, Steve Swell\, and many\, many more\, as well as choreographers Elaine Shipman and Kay Nishikawa\, and his own group “The Secret Music Society”. He was a frequent drummer of choice for the iconic pianist Cecil Taylor for 20+ years and served on the faculty of Bennington college while under the tutlige of Profs. Bill Dixon\, Milford Graves and choreographer Judith Dunn\, just prior to moving to New York in 1975. In the 1980’s he was a founding member of the largest of its kind in NYC\, Empire Loisieda Escola de Samba. He is also known as a maker of drums\, bells\, and other instruments and has created a series of sound sculptures dedicated to the memory of Sun Ra. \nm2moss11@gmail.com\nwww.m2Theory.com\nhttps://michaelmoss.bandcamp.com \nFirst Fridays Music is a curated free monthly live music event open to the public and is sponsored by the Westbeth Artists Residents Council and Westbeth MusicWorks.
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SUMMARY:First Friday Concert: Roots to Shoots: Michael Moss\, Alexis Marcelo\, Ken Filiano\, Michael Wimberly\, Isamil Baiz\, Andreas Brade
DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge Michael Moss ROOTS to SHOOTS\nFirst Fridays Concert Series\nOctober 4\, 2024 @ 7:00 pm \nWestbeth Community Room\n155 Bank St\nenter through courtyard\nNew York\, NY \nFor 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. \nMichael Moss:\nReed 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. \n“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.\nBANDCAMP:  https://michaelmoss.bandcamp.com \nAlexis Marcelo :\nAlexis 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.  \nAlexis 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. \n Alexis Marcelo is a very unique pianist who looks to provide a soulful experience. \nKen Filiano:\nKen 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. \n“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) \nMichael Wimberly:\nMichael 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\nClassical Theatre of Harlem\, St. Lucy’s Eyes for the Cherry Lane Theatre\, and Shackled\, Iced\, and Chain for the National Black Theatre Company.\nAs 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. \nIsmael Baiz:\nIsmael 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. \nWhen 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. \nIsmael 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. \nIn 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 \nWith 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. \nAndreas Brade:\nGerman 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. \nAndreas 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. \nAs 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. \nAndreas 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.\nhttps://westbeth.org/artist-page/andreas-brade/
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SUMMARY:Westbeth Day at Little Island
DESCRIPTION:Click to enlarge \nThursday June 27\, 2024\n6:30 – 7:30pm\nThe Glade  \nPerformances by Westbeth artists and friends. \nPele Bauch is an interdisciplinary choreographer who combines dance with theater and weaves mixed media and set design into unique performances. Bauch’s choreography has been selected for presentation at many venues including the Brooklyn Museum of Art\, the Chocolate Factory\, Danspace Project\, Movement\nResearch at the Judson Church\, Joyce SoHo\, HERE’s TALR and the Best f TALR\, Dixon Place\, and BAX. \nLegendary Indie Rock trio BETTY\, Alyson Palmer (vocals\, bass\, guitar)\, Elizabeth Ziff (vocals\, guitar\, electronic programming) and her sister\, Amy Ziff (vocals and cello)\, use beguiling melodies\, compelling lyrics and signature harmonies to create energetic live shows that mix music\, performance art\, politics and comedy.\nBETTY sings of joy\, love\, longing\, sex\, food\, heartbreak\, and the universal hilarity of human existence. More than a band\, BETTY uses music to channel their passion for representation\, fairness and equality. From the beginning\, they’ve blended their voices for causes they fight for\, their talents in collaboration with other artists of every medium\, and their time in support of women and girls\, worldwide. \nJazz guitarist Peter Bernstein has been a part of the jazz scene in New York and abroad since 1989. During that time he has participated in numerous recordings and performances with musicians from all generations. As a leader\, Peter has released nine albums and a DVD. As a sideman Peter has appeared in groups led by Sonny Rollins\, Bobby Hutcherson\, George Coleman\, Lou Donaldson\, Dr. Lonnie Smith\, Fathead Newman\, Joshua Redman\, Brad Mehldau\, Diana Krall\, Lee Konitz\, Jimmy Cobb and many more. Current projects include his album\, Monk\, with Doug Weiss and Bill Stewart\, a recently released solo record\, Solo Guitar – Live at Smalls\, and the highly acclaimed organ trio with organist Larry Goldings and drummer Bill Stewart. \nNew York City-based alto saxophonist\, bandleader\, composer and educator Mike DiRubbo has been the most swinging and soulful artist on his instrument for nearly 30 years.DiRubbo’s nine previous recordings as a leader from 1999 to 2018 include: From the Inside Out\, Keep Steppin’\, Human Spirit\, New York Accent: Live at the Kitano\, Repercussion\, Chronos\, Four Hands\, One Heart\, Threshold and Mike DiRubbo Quartet – “Live at Smalls.” DiRubbo has been featured in articles\, reviews\, and interviews in magazines such as Jazziz\, Hot House\, JazzTimes\, Down Beat and JazzWise. He’s also a perennial presence in The Down Beat Critics Poll in the Rising Star: Alto Saxophone category. \nReed player and composer Michael Moss has been actively involved in the downtown music scene for many years leading 4 Rivers\, Free Energy\, and Zone. Moss has performed with William Parker\, Dave Liebman\, Richie Beirach\, Greg Kogan\, Sam Rivers\, McCoy Tyner\, Elvin Jones\, Paul Bley\, Cal Massey\, Grant Green\, Burton Green\, Wilber Ware\, Mike Mahaffay\, Sabir Matin\, Ras Moshe\, Jackson Krall\, Mark Hennen\, Dan Rose and led the JCOA Jazz Composers Orchestra as well as the Free Life Communication Jazz Orchestra in his own compositions. Moss is following a life-long passion for expanding jazz improvisation to include musical traditions from around the world and has written original music to reflect these different ethnic traditions. \nTheo Bleckmann is a multi GRAMMY® nominated vocalist\, composer and ECM recording artist who has recorded over 17 albums and collaborated with artists such as Ambrose Akinmusire\, Sheila Jordan\, Kneebody\, Ben Monder\, John Hollenbeck\, Phil Kline\, David Lang\, Ulysses Owens\, Bang on a Can All-Stars\, and\, most prominently\, with Meredith Monk since 1994. Bleckmann has been interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air and appeared on the David Letterman show with Laurie Anderson. He has consistently appeared in top spots in DownBeat polls\, and is a recipient of the prestigious JAZZ ECHO award from the Deutsche Phono-Akademie in his native Germany. \nAs a freelance artist\, Judith Moss has conducted workshops and classes at the Rotterdanse Academie in Holland\, Mudra in Belgium\, The Place in England\, Centraalpark Studio in Berlin\, Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts\, Turks and Caicos in the Caribbean and Dance Omnium in Alaska. A recipient of fellowship awards in choreography from the National Endowment of the Arts\, Arts Councils in New York\, Wisconsin\, and Pennsylvania\, The Arts Council of Great Britain and the Turks & Caicos Friends of the Arts Foundation\, Ms.Moss has created more than fifty dances for Judith Moss & Dancers\, repertory companies and college dance departments. \nHaving first come to prominence as a member of the funk-jazz collective Fat Mama\, pianist/composer Erik Deutsch has taken his talents across the globe to play with some of the finest musicians alive. Born in Washington D.C. and currently a 13+ year resident of Brooklyn\, NY\, Erik exists in many musical worlds\, performing and recording with jazz\, pop\, rock\, bluegrass and country artists like The Black Crowes\, Dixie Chicks\, Norah Jones\, Rosanne Cash\, Citizen Cope\, Charlie Hunter\, Leftover Salmon\, Shooter Jennings\, Alice Smith\, Shelby Lynne\, Theo Bleckmann\, Al Green\, Jessi Coulter\, Joe Russo\, Allison Moorer\, Phillip Phillips\, Dori Freeman\, Joey Arias\, Since 2022 Erik has been the full-time keyboardist for rock legends The Black Crowes. \nA classicist in experimental clothing\, 6 time Obie winner David Greenspan is a playwright who is also passionately involved in the theatre as an actor and director. From his early more autobiographical plays (one of which\, Principia\, took inspiration from the shifting modalities of Joyce’s Ulysses) to more recent works inspired by (and at times adapted from the work of) Hawthorne\, Stein\, Molnar\, and Thorton Wilder\, Greenspan’s theatre is a place where anything can happen. Deliciously complicated\, incredibly funny\, the work\, whether tragic\, tender\, mysterious or cruel\, betrays a profoundly empathic imagination. Both wildly conjured and deeply attentive to diverse literary and theatrical traditionsfrom vaudeville and Greek mythology to the Bible and boulevard comedyGreenspan’s plays ask big questions about history\, creation\, sexual behavior\, the complications of family and the very act of performing a play. \nMarianela Fernandez was born in Buenos Aires\, but spent most of her life in the cities of Córodoba and New York. She has a masters degree in Filósophy and a BA in Classical Studies. Passionate teacher\, she has been philosophy professor in a variety of High Schools\, Community Colleges and in the Universidad Nacional de Villa María\, in Argentina. Currently she is a teacher in the progressive school “City and Country” in New York. In 2010 she published her first poem “The Other Woman”. Her poems have been published in different anthologies and compilations. Currently she is a candidate for the MFA in Spanish creative writing at NYU.
URL:https://westbeth.org/event/westbeth-day-at-little-island/
LOCATION:The Glade\, LIttle Island NYC
CATEGORIES:past-events
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