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Upcoming in Open Gate Sunday Evening Music Series
June 4th, 7:00 p.m. Sunday Series
Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock
"Intangible" and "Vlatkovich/Liebig/Powell Trio"
Center for the Arts,Eagle Rock
2225 Colorado Blvd., Eagle Rock
(one block west of Eagle Rock Blvd.).
Admission is $10,
(students, seniors, and past series performers half price)
Free parking�
"Intangible"
gamin (piri, taepyeonso,saenghwang), Robert Reigle (tenor saxophone), Jeff Schwartz (bass), and Tim Feeney (percussion)
Intangible includes gamin, a master of Korean wind instruments who performs traditional and experimental music, tenor saxophonist Robert Reigle, best known as the founder of Surrealestate and for his work with Tim Hodgkinson and Iancu Dumitrescu, ubiquitous local contrabassist Jeff Schwartz, and percussionist Tim Feeney, who has recently performed works by Julius Eastman, Harry Partch, Sarah Hennies, and himself. Their work explores long sounds, overtones, alternative instrumental techniques, textural extremes, and the globalization of free improvisation.
VLP
VLATKOVICH LIEBIG POWELL
While the band name VLP may stir nebulous memory remnants of some progressive rock supergroup of a bygone era, it’s actually something of a creative jazz supergroup of this present era. VLP stands for Vlatkovich, Liebig and Powell, more completely trombonist Michael Vlatkovich, bass guitarist Steuart Liebig and drummer-percussionist Garth Powell. What can be said about these three adept and distinguished artists? Each member of this aggregation is a veteran musician who has thoroughly demonstrated his aptitude for creative, spontaneous music-making, and this trio of heavy hitters, assembled with the idea of presenting some accomplished and adventurous improvised music, promises to bring it.
– Alex Cline
Michael Vlatkovich, trombonist, composer and arranger, is one of the leading talents among Los Angeles improvisational players. Located on the West Coast since 1973, he is an emotionally charged performer, comfortable in a variety of jazz and world music styles. Vlatkovich has performed extensively in the United States, Canada and Europe. His improvisionally free music expresses raw power and beauty in a minimally structured format.
When prompted to talk about himself, electric bassist/composer Steuart Liebig will tell you that he has been playing and writing music for a long time, but that it’s more interesting to see what other people have said about him:
“To say only that he plays bass would be misleading. As an improviser, he commands a shocking array of effects. As a composer, he can create rigorous but liberating frameworks . . . And mainly, he hears everybody else, assimilates it all and kicks it to another level.
” ••• “Liebig is equally at home charting lunar terrain as he is in the pocket.” •••
“. . . nonpareil rethinker of electric bass . . .”
For the percussion arts, time, rhythm and pulse are undeniable, non-negotiable components of the craft. Yet, the sonic domain remains for many, a peripheral concern. Timbre is not only of equal importance; it is an integral part of the harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic construct. All four exist in the parallel subdivision of frequency and waveform. This relationship demands understanding, discipline and mastery. In Garth’s music, these elements are meticulously combined, creating a transcendent force enveloping the listener. Ultimately, we are drawn into the ecstatic and the inexplicable.
June 4th, 7:00 p.m. Sunday Series
Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock
"Intangible" and "Vlatkovich/Liebig/Powell Trio"
Center for the Arts,Eagle Rock
2225 Colorado Blvd., Eagle Rock
(one block west of Eagle Rock Blvd.).
Admission is $10,
(students, seniors, and past series performers half price)
Free parking�
"Intangible"
gamin (piri, taepyeonso,saenghwang), Robert Reigle (tenor saxophone), Jeff Schwartz (bass), and Tim Feeney (percussion)
Intangible includes gamin, a master of Korean wind instruments who performs traditional and experimental music, tenor saxophonist Robert Reigle, best known as the founder of Surrealestate and for his work with Tim Hodgkinson and Iancu Dumitrescu, ubiquitous local contrabassist Jeff Schwartz, and percussionist Tim Feeney, who has recently performed works by Julius Eastman, Harry Partch, Sarah Hennies, and himself. Their work explores long sounds, overtones, alternative instrumental techniques, textural extremes, and the globalization of free improvisation.
VLP
VLATKOVICH LIEBIG POWELL
While the band name VLP may stir nebulous memory remnants of some progressive rock supergroup of a bygone era, it’s actually something of a creative jazz supergroup of this present era. VLP stands for Vlatkovich, Liebig and Powell, more completely trombonist Michael Vlatkovich, bass guitarist Steuart Liebig and drummer-percussionist Garth Powell. What can be said about these three adept and distinguished artists? Each member of this aggregation is a veteran musician who has thoroughly demonstrated his aptitude for creative, spontaneous music-making, and this trio of heavy hitters, assembled with the idea of presenting some accomplished and adventurous improvised music, promises to bring it.
– Alex Cline
Michael Vlatkovich, trombonist, composer and arranger, is one of the leading talents among Los Angeles improvisational players. Located on the West Coast since 1973, he is an emotionally charged performer, comfortable in a variety of jazz and world music styles. Vlatkovich has performed extensively in the United States, Canada and Europe. His improvisionally free music expresses raw power and beauty in a minimally structured format.
When prompted to talk about himself, electric bassist/composer Steuart Liebig will tell you that he has been playing and writing music for a long time, but that it’s more interesting to see what other people have said about him:
“To say only that he plays bass would be misleading. As an improviser, he commands a shocking array of effects. As a composer, he can create rigorous but liberating frameworks . . . And mainly, he hears everybody else, assimilates it all and kicks it to another level.
” ••• “Liebig is equally at home charting lunar terrain as he is in the pocket.” •••
“. . . nonpareil rethinker of electric bass . . .”
For the percussion arts, time, rhythm and pulse are undeniable, non-negotiable components of the craft. Yet, the sonic domain remains for many, a peripheral concern. Timbre is not only of equal importance; it is an integral part of the harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic construct. All four exist in the parallel subdivision of frequency and waveform. This relationship demands understanding, discipline and mastery. In Garth’s music, these elements are meticulously combined, creating a transcendent force enveloping the listener. Ultimately, we are drawn into the ecstatic and the inexplicable.
July 2 , 7:00 p.m. Sunday Series
Neighborhood Church in Ross Hall
Accordant Commons
a contemporary vocal chamber music group