AUM Fidelity To Celebrate 15th Anniversary At Suoni Per Il Popolo + Vision Festival

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This June, Brooklyn-based record label AUM Fidelity will celebrate "15 years of premier jazz and avant-garde soul" by presenting special anniversary concerts at two major improvised music festivals, Suoni Per Il Popolo and the Vision Festival.

The festivities commence on Friday, June 8th in Montreal with three consecutive nights of music by AUM Fidelity artists, beginning with the North American premiere of bassist/composer William Parker's new large ensemble project, Essence of Ellington. Parker's Quartet and Raining On The Moon Sextet will perform on Saturday night, followed by alto saxophonist/composer Darius Jones' Quartet, which just released Book of Mæ'bul (Another Kind Of Sunrise), on Sunday night.

Next up is a hometown celebration at Roulette in Brooklyn on Tuesday, June 12th, when the Vision Festival will host the first-ever night of music dedicated to a single record label in its 17-year history. Pianist Eri Yamamoto, David S. Ware's Planetary Unknown, the Darius Jones Quartet and William Parker's In Order To Survive will each perform one set.

Here's the complete schedule:

Friday, June 8th at 8:30 p.m.
Suoni Per Il Popolo
La Sala Rossa (Montreal, QC)

William Parker's Essence of Ellington (2 sets)

William Parker, bass
Fay Victor, voice
Roy Campbell, trumpet
Lewis Barnes, trumpet
Matt Lavelle, trumpet
Rob Brown, alto saxophone
Darius Jones, alto saxophone
Sabir Mateen, tenor saxophone and flute
Ras Moshe, tenor saxophone
Dave Sewelson, baritone saxophone
Steve Swell, trombone
Dave Burrell, piano
Hamid Drake, drums

Saturday, June 9th at 8:30 p.m.
Suoni Per Il Popolo
La Sala Rossa (Montreal, QC)

William Parker Quartet

William Parker, bass
Lewis Barnes, trumpet
Rob Brown, alto saxophone
Hamid Drake, drums

William Parker's Raining On The Moon Sextet

William Parker, bass
Leena Conquest, voice
Lewis Barnes, trumpet
Rob Brown, alto saxophone
Eri Yamamoto, piano
Hamid Drake, drums

Sunday, June 10th at 8:30 p.m.
Suoni Per Il Popolo
Casa Del Popolo (Montreal, QC)

Darius Jones Quartet (2 sets)

Darius Jones, alto saxophone
Matt Mitchell, piano
Trevor Dunn, bass
Ches Smith, drums

Tuesday, June 12th at 7:00 p.m.
Vision Festival 17
Roulette (Brooklyn, NY)

Eri Yamamoto, piano

David S. Ware's Planetary Unknown

David S. Ware, saxophones
Cooper-Moore, piano
William Parker, bass
Muhammad Ali, drums

Darius Jones Quartet

Darius Jones, alto saxophone
Matt Mitchell, piano
Trevor Dunn, bass
Ches Smith, drums

William Parker's In Order To Survive

William Parker, bass
Lewis Barnes, trumpet
Rob Brown, alto saxophone
Cooper-Moore, piano
Hamid Drake, drums

About AUM Fidelity

AUM Fidelity is a Brooklyn-based recording label and action concern long devoted to procreative sound and song, perpetually producing vanguard album works with eternal Masters of Music since 1997.
 The focus is on premier Jazz & avant-garde Soul, with select excursions elsewhere. Guided by its founder, producer and designer Steven Joerg, AUM Fidelity has built a highly regarded catalog of over 60 releases, presenting definitive works by Rob Brown, Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter, Gerald Cleaver, Cooper-Moore, Hamid Drake, Darius Jones, Kidd Jordan, Joe Morris, Roy Nathanson, Other Dimensions In Music, William Parker, Matthew Shipp, David S. Ware, Eri Yamamoto and many other outstanding musicians. It has also released crucial archival work by the improvisational rock/pop band Shrimp Boat, and is a partner in the CaseQuarter label, which is devoted to sacred and spiritual music of the southern United States.

Learn more about AUM Fidelity and its releases at http://www.aumfidelity.com

[kurtdaniel]

id surely attend this..im a fan of Cooper-Moore in terms of piano playing.. my piano teachers really likes him too..

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David S. Ware, a foundational artist on AUM Fidelity, was originally scheduled to perform with his acclaimed quartet Planetary Unknown at the Vision Festival. As I write this, he is in a hospital stay, to be followed by an in-patient stay at a physical rehab center.

Many of the health complications that have arisen or been exacerbated since his kidney transplant in 2009 are due to the anti-rejection drugs that he (as any organ transplant recipient) is required to take. It was decided last week that a concert performance would not be possible in June, as all of his focus needed to be on regaining his strength and fully stable health. All who are reading, please send positive energy to him in central New Jersey. He will come out the other side of this and perform again.

Blessings and Love to Farmers By Nature members Craig Taborn, William Parker and Gerald Cleaver who stepped in to perform in DSW/Planetary Unknown's stead for this night's celebration. If I'd had two concert nights available from the get-go, they most definitely would have been an original part and parcel thereof. There are very few groups today that can match FBN for sheer improvisational invention and engagement. They create deep, cinematic experiences from multifarious sound every time they perform together. They will surely create a gripping, sensual and scintillating new movie of the mind for us on June 12.

Steven Joerg
May 10, 2012