FONT: Festival of New Trumpet Music

[Lois Gilbert]

FONT August 2004
Festival of New Trumpet music
www.fontmusic.org

August 25
8:00 & 10:00 PM
Tonic, $15
8:00 PM - Wadada Leo Smith's BLUE with Wadada Leo Smith, Tyondai Braxton and Ronald Shannon Jackson. Legendary trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith makes a rare NYC appearance with his new electric ensemble featuring renowned drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson.
10:00 PM - Shane Endsley and KneeBody. The young trumpeter from both Ani DiFranco's and Steve Coleman's bands presents an exciting new electric band. Kaveh Rastegar - bass/effects, Adam Benjamin - rhodes/effects, Nate Wood - drums, Ben Wendel - Tenor sax, Shane Endsley - trumpet/effects.

August 26
8:00 & 10:00 PM
Tonic, $15
"Brass Bands on the Cutting Edge"
8:00 PM - Extension Ensemble. Ralph Alessi, Sycil Mathai(tpt), Theo Primis(hrn), Michael Boschen(tbn), Andrew Bove (tuba) performing works by Carney, Alessi, and Moondog.
9:00 PM - TILT Brass Band with Dave Ballou, Russ Johnson(tpt), Tom Varner, Greg Evans (hrn), Chris McIntyre(tbn), Julie Kalu (bs tbn), Marcus Rojas (tuba), and Kevin Norton (perc).
10:00 PM - Urban Brass Quintet. William Owens, Josh Frank(tpt), Wei-Ping Chou(hrn), Brad Williams(tbn), Ben Green(bs tbn); works by Jan Bach, Norman Symonds, and Bruce Adolphe.
11:00 PM - Jon Nelson's Genkin Philharmonic with Mark Gould, Wayne duMaine, Sycil Mathai, Dan Grabois, Ben Herrington, Ray Stewart, Lazara Nelson, Nick Didkovsky, Dave Phillips, Greg Landis, Jeff Schiller, Brad Hubbard - perform music by Hendrix, Prokofiev, Pierson, Didkovsky, Harnas and Zappa.


August 31
8:00 & 10:00 PM
The Baha'i Center, $15
(students $10)
8:00 & 10:00 PM - Bill Dixon with Dominic Duval, Tony Widoff, and Warren Smith. The Festival of New Trumpet Music is proud to present Bill Dixon, organizer and producer of the October Revolution in Jazz in New York City in 1964, architect of the Jazz Composers' Guild (for the performance of contemporary American Black Music) in New York City in 1964, and founder of the
Black Music Division of Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont in 1973.






The venues are located at:


Tonic
107 Norfolk St (betw. Delancey & Rivington)
New York, NY
tel: 212.358.7501
www.tonicnyc.com


The Baha'i Center
53 E. 11th S. (betw. Broadway & University)
tel: 212.222.5159
www.bahainyc.org
with the assistance of Issue Project Room




FONT has been made possible with the generous support of the New York State Council on the Arts, and the American Music Center.
www.fontmusic.org