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Mundos Ninos children’s percussion workshop with Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez

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MUNDOS NIÑOS Children’s Percussion Workshop on June 27, 2009 at ISSUE Project Room in Gowanus, Brooklyn

Darmstadt Institute and ISSUE Project Room are proud to present an exciting music workshop for young children.

MUNDO NIÑOS, “Children’s World,” is the educational and entertaining music project for young children and children at heart led by acclaimed percussionists Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez. Mundos Niños teaches singing and counting rhythm in English and Spanish through music from around the world, including Latin America, Asia, America and Africa.  On Saturday June 27, from 1pm to 3pm at ISSUE Project Room, children and their parents are invited to join Ibarra and Rodriguez for this exclusive, hands-on concert.  Activities include playing percussion instruments, singing, and learning counting and rhythm exercises.  The Mundos Niños CD, “This is a Beat!” contains music for children to sing, dance, count and learn with and will be available for children to follow-up on the program at home.

This workshop is part of “Susie Ibarra Weekend” at ISSUE Project Room for DARMSTADT Institute, which includes a performance by the Susie Ibarra Quartet on Friday evening, June 26 at 8pm.

Tickets (required of all children and adults wishing to attend) are $12 advance (available at ISSUE Project Room, Other Music, and online)/$15 at the door.  Parents must accompany all children. This workshop is open to all but recommended for children ages 4 to 8.

ISSUE Project Room is located on the 3rd floor of the OA Can Factory, on 232 3rd Street (at 3rd ave), Brooklyn NY 11215

This program is made possible in part by funding from Meet the Composer

MUNDOS NIÑOS Children’s Percussion Workshop
June 27, 2009 from 1pm to 3pm
ISSUE Project Room at the OA Can Factory
232 3rd Street (at 3rd ave), 3rd Floor, Brooklyn NY 11215
$12 advance/$15 door
F, M, R to 9th Street-4th ave
phone: 718.330.0313

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Susie Ibarra is recognized as an innovative drummer and percussionist as well as composer in her solo works as well ensemble music.   She currently leads her own quartet, in addition to her band, Electric Kulintang.  She composes music for percussion, new opera/musical theatre, chamber ensembles and jazz ensembles.  She has also performed with many groundbreaking artists such as John Zorn, Dave Douglas, Trisha Brown, Yusef Komunyakaa, Tania Leon, Mark Dresser, William Parker, Butch Morris, and Pauline Oliveros, among others.  Susie Ibarra is a Yamaha Drums, Paiste Cymbals and Gongs, and Vic Firth Artist.  Susie Ibarra has taught music for 6 year-old children at grade schools and she has lectured and conducted workshops at numerous universities and conservatories including Juilliard, Mannes College of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and The New School.
http://susieibarra.com/

Roberto Juan Rodriguez is an acclaimed percussionist who has performed with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Orchestra, Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine, Julio Iglesias, Celia Cruz, Paquito D’Rivera, Joe Jackson, and Dr. L Subramaniam among others.  He currently composes for and leads his own ensemble, Septeto Roberto Rodriguez.  Rodriguez is a Grammy and American Music Award recipient.  Roberto Rodriguez has taught mentally challenged and disabled children in Miami, lower income children in the neighborhood programs of Brooklyn, written music for Sesame Street, and conducted workshops at Universities and Festivals.
http://www.robertojuanrodriguez.com

May 16, 2009 | Categories: children, discussion, events, master class | Tags: , , , | Comments Off

henry grimes and brandon ross present leo lindberg

LEO LINDBERG:
 
In 2OO3, when Leo Lindberg was a nine-year-old Swedish bass player, he wrote Henry Grimes a letter after reading in a jazz magazine that Henry had returned to the music world after many years away: 
“Stockholm, Sweden
21.7.03
Hallo Henry!
My name is Leo Lindberg and I am 9 years old. I listen to jazz music all the time and plays double bass drums and trumpet. First time I heard you was on a record of my father ‘Complete Communion’ with Don Cherry. I thought you were fantastic specially the bow solos and your sound. Then I listened to McCoy Tyner’s ‘Reaching Fourth’ and Roy Haynes quartet with Roland Kirk. When I saw your picture in my father’s jazz magasin and read that you should start playin’ again I was very happy. I took the picture and had one T-shirt made as you see on this photo. Hope you feel good and starts playin again. You are my bass hero. Greetings from Leo.”
And he included a photo of himself in the aforementioned T-shirt:
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This letter really meant the world to Henry:  to be so appreciated by a little fellow far away who hadn’t even been born when the records he named were made!  The following year we booked a concert for Henry in Stockholm, and we had Leo brought to the club, and the two played together between the sets and brought the house down and appeared on the front page of Sweden’s biggest newspaper the next morning.  And since then, whenever we’ve been in Scandinavian countries, we’ve taken Leo around on tour with us, and he’s sat in with several of Henry’s groups.  He’s now 15 and playing drums, Hammond B3, piano, keyboards, flute, alto saxophone, guitar, bass (still and always), etc.  

This is Leo Lindberg’s first trip to New York City, so please let’s welcome him, just as he welcomed Henry Grimes!  For a little child shall lead us… 

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Henry Grimes & Leo Lindberg, 2OO7, photo by Cornelia Mueller

HENRY GRIMES 

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Master jazz musician HENRY GRIMES (acoustic bass and violin, + spoken and written word) has played more than 3OO concerts in 23 countries (including many festivals) since May of ‘O3, when he made his astonishing return to the music world after 35 years away. He was born and raised in Philadelphia and attended the Mastbaum School and Juilliard.  In the ‘5O’s and ‘6O’s, he came up in the music playing and touring with Willis “Gator Tail” Jackson, “Bullmoose” Jackson, “Little” Willie John, and a number of other great R&B / soul musicians; but drawn to jazz, he went on to play, tour, and record with many great jazz musicians of that era, including Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Haynes, Steve Lacy, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan, Sunny Murray, Sonny Rollins, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, and McCoy Tyner.   Sadly, a trip to the West Coast to work with Al Jarreau and Jon Hendricks went awry, leaving Henry in Los Angeles at the end of the ‘6O’s with a broken bass he couldn’t pay to repair, so he sold it for a small sum and faded away from the music world.  Many years passed, as he lived in his tiny rented room in an S.R.O. hotel in downtown Los Angeles, working as a manual laborer, custodian, and maintenance man, and writing many volumes of handwritten poetry.  He was discovered there by a Georgia social worker and fan in 2OO2 and was given a bass by William Parker, and after only a few weeks of ferocious woodshedding, Henry emerged from his room to begin playing concerts around Los Angeles, and shortly afterwards made a triumphant return to New York City in May, ‘O3 to play in the Vision Festival.  Since then, often working as a leader, he has played, toured, and / or recorded with many of today’s music heroes, such as Rashied Ali, Marshall Allen, Fred Anderson, Marilyn Crispell, Andrew Cyrille, Dave Douglas, David Murray, William Parker, Marc Ribot, and Cecil Taylor.   In the past few years,Henry has held residencies at the University of Michigan Berklee School of Music, New England Conservatory, and other fine educational institutions, has given a number of workshops and master classes on major campuses, released several new recordings, made his professional debut on a second instrument (the violin) at the age of 7O, published the first volume of his poetry, “Signs Along the Road,” and has been creating illustrations to accompany his new CDs and publications.  He has received many honors in recent years, including four Meet the Composer grants and a grant from the Acadia Foundation. He can be heard on more than 80 recordings on Atlantic, Ayler Records, Blue Note, Columbia, ESP-Disk, ILK Music, Impulse!, JazzNewYork Productions, Pi Records, Porter Records, Prestige, Riverside, Verve, and others. He now lives and teaches in New York City.  http://www.henrygrimes.com, musicmargaret@earthlink.net.   brandon-ross-blazing-beauty    
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BRANDON ROSS 

 

 

BRANDON ROSS is a guitarist / composer / singer / songwriter who has worked and/ or recorded with Muhal Richard Abrams, Arrested Development, Michelle Branch, Don Byron, Mino Cinelu, Bill Frisell, Craig Harris, Timothy Hill, Fred Hopkins, Leroy Jenkins, Jewel, Oliver Lake, Bill Laswell, Arto Lindsay, the Lounge Lizards, Myra Melford, Ron Miles, Butch Morris, Diedre Murray, Me’Shell N’degeocello, Joan Osborne, Zeena Parkins, Bobby Previte, Archie Shepp, Wadada Leo Smith, Sekou Sundiata, Henry Threadgill, Moreno Veloso, Tony Williams, Cassandra Wilson, and many others, crafting a personal approach to guitar and improvisation that has taken him all over the world.  “Future-folk music” is his term for his family of sounds, at once pastoral, dissonant, intimate and subtly avant-garde.  He co-leads the avant power trio called Harriet Tubman, with bassist Melvin Gibbs and drummer JT Lewis; the trio is dedicated to musical revelation/ investigation in a pan-African vernacular of Now, exploring electronics and pan-tonality to sculpt a multidimensional, interactive, sonic language in a “classic” R&B/ Rock configuration of guitar, bass, and drums.  In Blazing Beauty, his acoustic-based quartet, Brandon Ross plays banjo, electric, acoustic and soprano guitars, cornet, acoustic bass guitar, and drum set, extending his expressive field into “folk”-oriented musics and compositional approaches while communicating his dedication to fresh musical experience.  Brandon Ross also composes music for his acoustic string duo For Living Lovers, with acoustic bass guitarist Stomu Takeishi.  And Brandon has scored music for the surviving reel of a 1922 Chinese silent film called “Lotus Blossom,” commissioned by the New York Guitar Festival, 2006, and has arranged and performed interpretations of the music of Rev. Gary Davis and Mississippi John Hurt for the New York Guitar Festival in 2004 and 2006.  Brandon Ross can be heard on the American Clave, Avant, Axiom, Black Saint, Blue Note, Cryptogramophone, Elektra, Intoxicate, Knit Works, New World, Sterling Circle, and W&W / JMT labels, among others.  http://www.myspace.com/brmuse, bkr1@optonline.net.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Mar 23, 2009 | Categories: events, music | Tags: , | 2 Comments »