Josh Roseman - special performances of new music

[the_Unknowns]

Hi everyone! I'm here promoting a few upcoming performances by Josh Roseman (the Roots, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Soulive, etc.) and crew. Please check out the press release below and come on out to the concerts - they promise to be totally cosmic! thanks!! xoxox


What:
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JOSH ROSEMAN 11-piece Band


When/Where:
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Tuesday, Jan 29, 2008 @ Biscuit
Biscuit BBQ
230 5th Avenue [at President Street]
Park Slope, Brooklyn, NYC 11215
718.399.2161

Thursday, Jan 31, 2008 @ Lucille's
B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
237 West 42 St.
New York, NY 10036
212-997-4144


Friday, Feb. 15, 2008 @ The Jazz Gallery
290 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10013
(212) 242-1063


Description:
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"An eleven-piece juggernaut of bad-ass musicians, each with their own clamorous personality interacting in a post-gamepiece quasi-libertarian Totalgeplante lands tonight as part of their January Metropolitan New York tour. Trombonist/Bassist JOSH ROSEMAN, who has recorded with at least three of your favorite artists ever, leads the group in a series of sideways, frontways, and otherwise Escheresque compositions that make full use of the twenty trumpets, fifty trombones, eighty saxes, several banshees and three or four rhythm section and electronics dudes whilst brilliantly knowing when and how to tell half the band to shut up. His groups have often been billed as "Jazz and Improv", which really applies more in terms to some of these guys' backgrounds than it does to tonight's Lemarchand Configuration, which features many of Roseman's regular luminarious cohorts: Peter Apfelbaum, Ambrose Akinmusire, Kenny Brooks, Ralph Alessi, Jacob Garchik, Curtis Hasselbring, Barney McCall, Chris Lightcap, Justin Brown, and Nir Felder.

To give you a less figurative idea of what to expect, this band collectively possesses over 300 years of experience of musical pursuit and subsequent mastery, something which trying to capture onto a flimsy little piece of reflective plastic would be sort of like trying to put a black hole into a hipster's man-purse. But if you want to try and get some kind of telescopic view, check out Roseman's last studio album, Treats for the Nightwalker, (Enja/Justin Time) which features an equally large ensemble in equally malleable frameworks, or his most recent recording Constellations: Live in Vienna, a convocation of many of tonight's freaks playing the music of ska founding-father Don Drummond, rearranged in a wholly modern but reverent way. Then take these CDs, put them in the microwave for 20 seconds, and as that blue lighting-shaped stuff dances around, imagine that your ear is a micro-phonograph stylus keyed right into the grain of those cracks in space. Remember that last time you saw Josh play in Groove Collective immediately after having bought a goo-ball from some hippie in the parking lot? Yeah, then try to remember attempting to fall asleep that night; that unknown space is what tonight's ensemble evokes, whether it means to or not. It's opening something up (responsibly though... we promise the opening will be closed at the end of the performance)."