Some Great Music. FREE!!! A Blanket Invite To Any Interested BTers. (Cross country, now.)

I may as well post this here as a diary. The info is also on a comment I wrote on Booman’s wonderful YouTube post today. I also posted in a slightly different…uhhh, context…on My Left Wing. (You don’t want to know…)

Anyway, I hereby reiterate my oft-offered and rarely accepted idea that I would be glad to get any lefty bloggers who are interested into the work I do for free (or in some cases, semi-free) to hear the high-level NYC-style jazz and latin-jazz groups with whom I play.

This spring, beside NYC……LA, Chicago, Cleveland, U of Michigan, Holland MI, and Toledo. Just for starters.

ALL are welcome. Lovers, haters, doubting Thomases…the works.

Read on for the particulars.

Any Sunday night that I am appearing at Birdland in NYC with the Chico O’Farrill Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra…or any night that I am anywhere else interesting (A partial list follows here), I will get BT-ers and at least a few guests in at either greatly reduced prices of for free. (Free if there are comps available.)

Check it out.

Or not.

As you must.

Besides the regular Sunday nights at Birdland:

The amazing Dave Liebman Big Band…you have to hear it to believe it, because the band walks the line between freedom and control better than any large group that I have ever heard…has a few performing dates in April.

4/12-University of Michigan. (I don’t know which campus yet. The one near Detroit. [???]). Concert.

4/13-Hope College in Holland, MI. Concert.

4/14-University of Toledo. Clinics and concert.

The four Mingus Epitaph performances to be given this spring in the US. A 30 piece orchestra comprised of the best on the best NYC players, conducted by MacArthur Grant winner Gunther Schuller.

For more info on this piece, go here.

Wed, Apr. 25 Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York

Fri, Apr. 27 Tri-C Jazz Festival Cleveland, OH

Wed, May. 16 Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles CA (Mingus and Disney. A match made in…oh, I’m not really sure just WHERE that match was made. Any piece with a movement titled “The Chill Of Death” that is going to be played in a hall named after the always-happy-and-now-cryogenically preserved Walt Disney is going to be quite…interesting at the very least. Bet on it.)

Fri, May. 18 Symphony Center Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chicago, IL

Come one, come all. Get in line early, thoug,…comps are limited, especially on the Epitaph concerts

Come one, come all.

It’s the only thing I have to offer you except my thoughts.

I just plays ’em as I hears ’em.

Get back to me.

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12 Comments

Arthur Gilroy on March 11, 2007 at 5:12 pm

Help spread the word.

Rec this up a notch or two.

Thanks…

BooMan on March 11, 2007 at 5:14 pm

I was in the city a couple of Sundays ago (was it only one?) and thought of you, but we had to go home after a long day and kids that had school on Monday, etc.

Wish I could have stayed. If I can swing it, I’ll come check out one of your gigs.
dada on March 11, 2007 at 5:18 pm

passing the hat, a noble tradition

thanks for the offer

thanks for the offer, I’ll be in touch if I get close to any of those venues….you and Chico or whoever, get to Denver…a great latin/jazz market, btw…see KUVO…it’d be my pleasure.
northcountry on March 11, 2007 at 5:53 pm

We’ve got some great little clubs out here and of course First Avenue!

refinish69 on March 11, 2007 at 5:41 pm

I do love music. Let me know if you make it to the Austin area!!!!!

Arthur Gilroy on March 11, 2007 at 6:13 pm

Eventually, i get out to almost everywhere. Unfortunately, most of the work I am doing…and most of the work in which I am most interested…is large ensemble stuff. 16+ musicians.

The interface between real composition and real improvisation.

But…large ensembles are EXPENSIVE.

Expensive to move…airfare, etc…expensive to house, and at the level that I am working, expensive to pay. Not that any of us are getting rich…hell, we work for $75 and less in NY if the music is right. But in NY, we can always send in a sub if we pick up a gig that pays more. On the road, you cannot do that. And we NEED more. Families, mortgages, loans…just like regular folks, most of us. (I’m a liittle freer than most of my colleagues, but I had to pay some HEAVY dues to get to that point. Still paying, truth be known.)

So…I’ll post whatever I am doing that I really like.

Austin? Minneapolis? Etc.?

Any day now.

AAAaaany day…

Later…

refinish69 on March 11, 2007 at 7:12 pm

LOL I am willing to pay to see good music!!!!
James Benjamin on March 12, 2007 at 12:57 am

Still looking for the excuse to get to NYC. Unless it’s work-related, probably won’t happen for a while. But if you’re ever around Amarillo, I could imagine swinging that. Heck, I have a musician friend who’d probably join me.

AP on March 12, 2007 at 7:46 am

So you perform at Birdland? Damn. Small world.

Anyway, this is very, very generous. Thank you. Coming to the DC area anytime soon? Lots of folks who would really appreciate your work, as you know. We try to support as much as we can though my underemployment makes that more difficult. (I think the fabulous Buck Hill worked at the post office while performing locally. Now, I’m not downing the post office–AT ALL. But I do wish he could have concentrated on his music 100%. I think he’s retired now, but still.)

I’ll huddle with the husband and see what we can do. Any more Mingus Epitaph dates?

Thanks again!

Knoxville Progressive on March 12, 2007 at 8:20 am

Thanks for the generous offer. Now all I have to do is get Mrs. K.P. away from the veterinary clinic long enough to visit NYC, LOL!

Ever head to the Southeast? Atlanta and Raleigh-Durham ought to economically be able to support a big band visit, and maybe even Nashville or Memphis. Then there’s always Florida. We need “missionaries of truth” in unenlightened lands, not among the converted, as it were…

Arthur Gilroy on March 12, 2007 at 12:34 pm

I refer you both to the “To all who post “Ever get out to…?” comment above.

I don’t book these bands…that’s a fulltime job all by itself and I already have my hands full playing, writing and teaching. I’d have more say if I was famous, but…fortunately or unfortunately (Fame is a two edged sword.) I am not.

So it goes.

See ya somewhere, though.

Sometime…

AP on March 12, 2007 at 1:57 pm

Bet on it.

Seriously. It’s how we stay sane.

Arthur Gilroy on March 11, 2007 at 5:12 pm

Help spread the word.

Rec this up a notch or two.

Thanks…

AG
- BooMan on March 11, 2007 at 5:14 pm
  
  I was in the city a couple of Sundays ago (was it only one?) and thought of you, but we had to go home after a long day and kids that had school on Monday, etc.
  
  Wish I could have stayed. If I can swing it, I’ll come check out one of your gigs.
- dada on March 11, 2007 at 5:18 pm
  
  passing the hat, a noble tradition
  
  thanks for the offer
  
  thanks for the offer, I’ll be in touch if I get close to any of those venues….you and Chico or whoever, get to Denver…a great latin/jazz market, btw…see KUVO…it’d be my pleasure.
- northcountry on March 11, 2007 at 5:53 pm
  
  We’ve got some great little clubs out here and of course First Avenue!
refinish69 on March 11, 2007 at 5:41 pm

I do love music. Let me know if you make it to the Austin area!!!!!
Arthur Gilroy on March 11, 2007 at 6:13 pm

Eventually, i get out to almost everywhere. Unfortunately, most of the work I am doing…and most of the work in which I am most interested…is large ensemble stuff. 16+ musicians.

The interface between real composition and real improvisation.

But…large ensembles are EXPENSIVE.

Expensive to move…airfare, etc…expensive to house, and at the level that I am working, expensive to pay. Not that any of us are getting rich…hell, we work for $75 and less in NY if the music is right. But in NY, we can always send in a sub if we pick up a gig that pays more. On the road, you cannot do that. And we NEED more. Families, mortgages, loans…just like regular folks, most of us. (I’m a liittle freer than most of my colleagues, but I had to pay some HEAVY dues to get to that point. Still paying, truth be known.)

So…I’ll post whatever I am doing that I really like.

Austin? Minneapolis? Etc.?

Any day now.

AAAaaany day…

Later…

AG
- refinish69 on March 11, 2007 at 7:12 pm
  
  LOL I am willing to pay to see good music!!!!
- James Benjamin on March 12, 2007 at 12:57 am
  
  Still looking for the excuse to get to NYC. Unless it’s work-related, probably won’t happen for a while. But if you’re ever around Amarillo, I could imagine swinging that. Heck, I have a musician friend who’d probably join me.
AP on March 12, 2007 at 7:46 am

So you perform at Birdland? Damn. Small world.

Anyway, this is very, very generous. Thank you. Coming to the DC area anytime soon? Lots of folks who would really appreciate your work, as you know. We try to support as much as we can though my underemployment makes that more difficult. (I think the fabulous Buck Hill worked at the post office while performing locally. Now, I’m not downing the post office–AT ALL. But I do wish he could have concentrated on his music 100%. I think he’s retired now, but still.)

I’ll huddle with the husband and see what we can do. Any more Mingus Epitaph dates?

Thanks again!
Knoxville Progressive on March 12, 2007 at 8:20 am

Thanks for the generous offer. Now all I have to do is get Mrs. K.P. away from the veterinary clinic long enough to visit NYC, LOL!

Ever head to the Southeast? Atlanta and Raleigh-Durham ought to economically be able to support a big band visit, and maybe even Nashville or Memphis. Then there’s always Florida. We need “missionaries of truth” in unenlightened lands, not among the converted, as it were…
Arthur Gilroy on March 12, 2007 at 12:34 pm

I refer you both to the “To all who post “Ever get out to…?” comment above.

I don’t book these bands…that’s a fulltime job all by itself and I already have my hands full playing, writing and teaching. I’d have more say if I was famous, but…fortunately or unfortunately (Fame is a two edged sword.) I am not.

So it goes.

See ya somewhere, though.

Sometime…

AG
- AP on March 12, 2007 at 1:57 pm
  
  Bet on it.
  
  Seriously. It’s how we stay sane.

Some Great Music. FREE!!! A Blanket Invite To Any Interested BTers. (Cross country, now.)

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