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3 video stories: Sonny Rollins vs Michael Brecker vs Antibalas

Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Here are three YouTube videos of two musicians, Jazz icons Sonny Rollins and Michael Brecker, and the Afro Beat Brooklyn band Antibalas. These three video speak for themselves. They tell us stories you might like to know. Enjoy!

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Music listings – 11/29 through 12/5

1. Adam Rudolph’s Go Organic Orchestra

Date: Monday, November 29, 2010
Time:  8:30pm
Venue: The Roulette (20 Greene St., NY)
Ticket: $15
Genre: Jazz/contemporary

Composer Adam Rudolph returns with another series of Go: Organic Orchestraat Roulette. In concert he will conduct between 20 – 35 musicians in a spontaneous way, using a newly created score of music/letter grids, language themes, tone rows, traditional and synthetic scales, diadic and intervalic harmonies, The compositions will also utilize Rudolph’s rhythm concept of “Cyclic Verticalism” to generate form and weave what he calls an “audio syncretic music fabric”. The music is “organic” in the sense that the compositions and conducting exist as an inspiration and context for the musicians to express themselves by using their instruments as an amplifier for their inner voice.

2. Chicha Libre

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