Jazz/CMA Small Ensembles: Survivor's Breakfast and Coleman Early Jazz Ensembles

This is an in-person event with a private stream available to the NEC community: https://necmusic.edu/streaming-eben-jordan

THREE SETS: 7 PM, 8 PM, & 9 PM

7:00pm- Survivor's Breakfast

This ensemble explores the wonderful and terrifying space between Composition and Improvisation, including original compositions by ensemble members and its director along with pieces by such diverse masters as John Zorn, Christian Wolff and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Anthony Coleman, coach
Ariel Vera, voice 
Seth Goldman, bassoon 
Christopher Ferrari, saxophones/clarinet/flute 
Mattias Kaufmann, accordion
Grant Beale, guitar
Álvaro Emiliano López, guitar
Jamie Eliot, bass
Alexander Matheson, piano 
Henry Wilson, percussion
Alex Yoo, percussion 

8:00pm- Coleman Early Jazz Ensemble

Exploring the period of 1923 - 1935, beginning w/ the Oliver Creole Jazz Band, ending with the first recordings of Count Basie w/ Lester Young. We will define this in relation to 1) Iconic Recordings: King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers, Early Ellington, etc; and to 2) Iconic Players: Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Sidney Bechet, Johnny Dodds, Johnny St. Cyr, Pops Foster, Zutty Singleton, Baby Dodds, etc.  

Anthony Coleman, coach
Helen Bultman, voice
Jonah Kreitner, violin
Hunter McKay, saxophone
Aiden Coleman, trombone
Kai Lance, guitar
Santiago Galeano, piano
Hannah Dunon, bass
Jialin Guo, drums

9:00pm- Coleman Early Jazz CMA Ensemble

We’re going to work on the vocabulary that formed the basis for this music that has been the backbone of so much of American and world culture over the last hundred years, and yet is relatively little understood. We will particularly focus on rhythm and gestural concepts that were prevalent between the late teens and mid 1930’s. The idea of the collective ensemble is key. Specific to the CI version of this group, we will try to focus to some degree on what has been called the “Avant-garde” of early jazz.

Anthony Coleman, coach
Itay Dayan, clarinet
Nikita Mannin, clarinet
Michele Zimmerman, violin/voice
Roman Barten-Sherman, guitar/banjo/voice
Solomon Caldwell, bass
Henry Wilson, percussion