This will be a great show! Three solo sets by three different improvisors in one night!
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Three Sets Starting at 8pm:
Sam Newsome: Solo Soprano Saxophone
Roberta Piket: Solo Piano
Billy Mintz: Solo Drumset
Ibeam 168 7th Street, Brooklyn, NY www.ibeambrooklyn.com
$10 requested donation for the whole night, all ages admitted
Press release follows:
Saturday May 25th will be a special evening in Brooklyn as three musicians explore the challenging and rewarding art of playing solo.
Since deciding to become a soprano saxophone specialist in 1996, Sam Newsome has established himself as one of the leading voices on his instrument. Nate Chinen, in his New York Times review of one of Newsome’s solo saxophone concerts, described him as having an “outsized command of the horn.” He has developed his own brand of solo saxophone that successfully intertwines modern jazz vocabularies, extended techniques, and West African and East Asian sensibilities. Writer Michael Jackson, who gave Newsome’s Blue Soliloquy the coveted five star (masterpiece) rating in Downbeat, lauded him for his “succinct survey of the world outside, as well as the world within.” In addition to placing every year in the Downbeat Critics Polls in the “Soprano Saxophone” category, the Jazz Journalist Association (JJA) has named him as a nominee for “Soprano Saxophonist of the Year” in 2011 and 2013. http://www.samnewsome.com/
Roberta Piket has played professionally as a sidewoman with David Liebman, Rufus Reid, Michael Formanek, Lionel Hampton and the BMI/New York Jazz Orchestra, and has three times been a featured guest on Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz, on National Public Radio. Her 2012 release, entitled simply Solo, has garnered rave reviews and was on the “ten-best list” of two jazz writers. For video visit: www.tinyurl.com/robertayoutube “[Solo] displays a mastery that is frequently striking and always engaging. It’s hard to believe this is Roberta Piket’s maiden voyage on solo piano…. Her playing reflects various influences but it’s her own stunning and singular voice that makes this album so memorable.”– New York City Jazz Record
In an extraordinary career spanning nearly 40 years, Billy Mintz has played with Lee Konitz, Eddie Daniels, Harold Danko, Mose Allison, Mark Murphy, Bobby Shew, Charles Lloyd, Vinny Golia, Mark Feldman, Ellery Eskelin and the Alan Broadbent Trio. In recent years, Mr. Mintz has taken on new roles as a bandleader and a composer, performing his own compositions with various ensembles. He has been performing solo drumset concerts for over a decade. “[Mintz’s solo performances are] a form of holy worship for many musicians and drummers. Forget what you know about the drums and solo drums. This is no boom-chakka-lakka affair. Mintz is painterly and understated in his singular approach to music.” Willamette Week, Portland, Oregon