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 Mary Lou Williams Centennial Celebration:
From Swing to Sacred Music, a Journey of Faith
The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra with Special Guest Geri Allen, Pianist and
Father Peter F. O'Brien, guest narrator
Sunday, May 9, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Boston College, Robsham Theatre
140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA
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The Aardvrk Jazz Orchestra was invited to help the newly refurbished Paramount Theatre test and calibrate its sound system. The band had a rehearsal there on the evening of March 1st, 2010. Mark Harvey stood in for the vocalists by doing some remarkable scat singing. See the pictures! |
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March 22, 2010
Experimental Intermedia Festival
Screen Compositions 6 curated by Katherine Liberovskaya
including Constellation Suite, a trio of films by Kate Matson with sound collage by composer Forrest Larson
224 Centre Street Loft, New York City
Learn more: http://filmprov.tripod.com/index.html |
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 American Agonistes: Music in Time of War (Leo Records)
"Beautiful, poignant and raucous. . . This album drips with honesty,
intelligence, sound design, and art." Francois Couture, Billboard.com
"Truly impressive. . . a hit recording." Altrisuoni [Italy]
To read more reviews, find out about the cd tracks, listen to sample MP3 clips, and to order, click the Read more... link below. |
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 Aardvark has received a highly complimentary mention in a brand-new book by composer/educator Graham Collier entitled the jazz composer: moving music off the paper (London: Northway Publications, 2009), p. 124.
Discussing a quartet of international ensembles, including Aardvark, and comparing these with some of the recognized names in today's big band music, Collier writes... |
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Contents include the powerful Afro-jazz grooves of title track “The Seeker” (written for the Fifteenth Annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert), the evocative winds and piano of “Heartsong” (dedicated to Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Burmese democracy activist Daw Aung San Suu Kyi) and the multifaceted forty minute opus “Passages/Psalms IV” as given this past April in its premiere performance at MIT. This is imaginative, high energy music for the open ear, mind and heart.
Friday, September 3, from 8 PM to Midnight