Some Great Music. FREE!!! A Blanket Invite To Any Interested BTers. (Cross country, now.)

I may as well post this here as a diary. The info is also on a comment I wrote on Booman’s wonderful YouTube post today. I also posted in a slightly different…uhhh, context…on My Left Wing. (You don’t want to know…)

Anyway, I hereby reiterate my oft-offered and rarely accepted idea that I would be glad to get any lefty bloggers who are interested into the work I do for free (or in some cases, semi-free) to hear the high-level NYC-style jazz and latin-jazz groups with whom I play.

This spring, beside NYC……LA, Chicago, Cleveland, U of Michigan, Holland MI, and Toledo. Just for starters.

ALL are welcome. Lovers, haters, doubting Thomases…the works.

Read on for the particulars.

Any Sunday night that I am appearing at Birdland in NYC with the Chico O’Farrill Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra…or any night that I am anywhere else interesting (A partial list follows here), I will get BT-ers and at least a few guests in at either greatly reduced prices of for free. (Free if there are comps available.)

Check it out.

Or not.

As you must.

Besides the regular Sunday nights at Birdland:

The amazing Dave Liebman Big Band…you have to hear it to believe it, because the band walks the line between freedom and control better than any large group that I have ever heard…has a few performing dates in April.

4/12-University of Michigan. (I don’t know which campus yet. The one near Detroit. [???]). Concert.

4/13-Hope College in Holland, MI. Concert.

4/14-University of Toledo. Clinics and concert.

The four Mingus Epitaph performances to be given this spring in the US. A 30 piece orchestra comprised of the best on the best NYC players, conducted by MacArthur Grant winner Gunther Schuller.

For more info on this piece, go here.

Wed, Apr. 25 Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York

Fri, Apr. 27 Tri-C Jazz Festival Cleveland, OH

Wed, May. 16 Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles CA (Mingus and Disney. A match made in…oh, I’m not really sure just WHERE that match was made. Any piece with a movement titled “The Chill Of Death” that is going to be played in a hall named after the always-happy-and-now-cryogenically preserved Walt Disney is going to be quite…interesting at the very least. Bet on it.)

Fri, May. 18 Symphony Center Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chicago, IL

Come one, come all. Get in line early, thoug,…comps are limited, especially on the Epitaph concerts

Come one, come all.

It’s the only thing I have to offer you except my thoughts.

I just plays ’em as I hears ’em.

Get back to me.

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AG

Author: Arthur Gilroy

Born. Still working on it.