Jazz + Contemporary Improvisation Faculty Spotlight

Great artists give free concerts at New England Conservatory—simply because they teach here.

"New England Conservatory’s jazz faculty distinguish themselves in a lot of ways but most of all because they maintain fulltime live performance schedules."
—Lucid Culture Blog

Tonight, members of NEC's Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation faculty come together for a rare opportunity to catch them in the act—working in combinations that may never occur outside our walls, along with guest artists from their performance activities outside of NEC.

Free
Stan Strickland, saxophone
John Lockwood, bass
Rakalam Bob Moses, drums

Exploration and Improvisations
Dave Harris, trombone
Rakalam Bob Moses, drums

26-2 (Coltrane)
Matt Glaser, violin
Norman Zocher, steel pedal guitar
Bruno Råberg '84, bass

Albumen (Coleman)
Anthony Coleman, piano

Opening Night (Rossi/Schwendener)
Living Geometry (Schwendener)
Ben Schwendener, piano
Marc Rossi '78, '80 M.M., piano

Lando the Free (Seager)
Bert Seager, piano
Amir Milstein, flute
Jorge Perez-Albela, cajón

Dog Years, Morning Song (Kihlstedt/Bossi)
Carla Kihlstedt, violin
Matthias Bossi '01, piano, cajón, vocals

Granoler (Dijkstra)
Carla Kihlstedt, violin
Jorrit Dijkstra, saxophone

This Pine Tree by the Rock Has Its Memories (Chase)
Carla Kihlstedt, violin, vocals
Linda Chase, flute
Hankus Netsky, piano

Traditional tabla solo in 10-beat jhaptal (arr. Leake)
Jerry Leake, tabla