NOTICE:
While preparing for our move, Roulette concerts this season will be held in short condensed periods rather than continuous programming:
February 14 - 27
March 9 - 20
April 25 - May 1

ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
Admission $15 Students/Seniors/Under 30s $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
           
Jason Kao Hwang / BURNING BRIDGE
Mon Feb 14 - 8:30 PM                                
"Hwang has his finger firmly on the racing pulse of the 21st century, where everything is interconnected and boundaries of time and geography seem hopelessly quaint. If there’s a war cry for music of the new millennium, it might well be: Burn the bridges – there’s no going back." The Washington Post.  Jason Kao Hwang’s Burning Bridge was composed upon a Burning Bridge. The nature of this music consumes temporal illusions while enveloping the concurrence of life and death. On this Burning Bridge, the tinder of history and culture feed flames that vibrate within the core of both instinct and identity. The fire, often ignored, has always existed, with bridges burning each moment of our ever-changing lives. For Burning Bridge, the various traditions of each instrument, Chinese, Jazz and Classical, are united into a single musical voice resonant with distinct cultural overtones.  Burning Bridge is the experience, not the representation.  “Burning Bridge” by Jason Kao Hwang and has been made possible with support from Chamber Music America’s 2009 New Jazz Works: Commissioning and Ensemble Development program funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Brandon Ross: Blazing Beauty
Wed Feb 16 - 8:30 PM       
Guitarist, composer, singer, songwriter Brandon Ross has worked with everyone from Muhal Richard Abrams, Don Byron, Bill Frisell, Leroy Jenkins, Oliver Lake, Arto Lindsay, to Joan Osborne, Henry Threadgill, and many others.   Self described as “Future-folk music”, Ross’ music is at once pastoral, dissonant, intimate and avant-garde.  Tonight at Roulette, Ross presents Blazing Beauty, his acoustic-based trio with Stomu Takeishi (acoustic bass guitar), JT Lewis (drums), and Brandon Ross (guitar/banjo/vocal) - extending his expressive field into “folk”-oriented musics and compositional approaches while communicating his dedication to fresh musical experience.
               
INTERPRETATIONS: David Wessel / Roscoe Mitchell 70th Birthday
Thu Feb 17 - 8:00 PM
Two contrasting settings featuring innovative woodwind virtuoso and Art Ensemble of Chicago founder Roscoe Mitchell. Electronic music pioneer David Wessel and Roscoe Mitchell, long time collaborators, play a set of duo improvisations, followed by the Roscoe Mitchell Quartet featuring Dave Burrell (piano), Henry Grimes (bass), and Tani Tabbal (drums).

Doron Sadja
Jim Staley plus Special Guests
Sweet Combustion: Ikue Mori, Jennifer Choi, Marco Capelli & Rubin Kodheli
Fri Feb 18 - 8:30 PM                                            
Doron Sadja is a sound and visual artist investigating how sound, light, movement, and the body can react to and augment the architectural, atmospheric, and psychological space of the performance environment.  Doron is a cofounder of Shinkoyo - an experimental music record label/art collective, and the Paris London West Nile experimental performance space in Brooklyn (2006-2010). 

Trombonist, composer, and founder of Roulette Jim Staley has been shaking up the downtown experimental music scene for over 30 years. Working primarily with improvisation, crossing genres freely between post-modern classical music and avant-garde jazz, Staley has collaborated for many years with other highly experienced improvisers, both dancers and musicians. Tonight Staley will be joined by special guests.

In Sweet Combustion, four adventurous collaborators merge musicalities in an evening of conceptual, improvised, and chance music resulting in a surreal and powerful combustion of sounds and atmospheric melodies. Sweet Combustion is Jennifer Choi (violin), Ikue Mori (laptop), Marco Cappelli (guitar), and Rubin Kodheli (electric cello).

Oliver Lake Organ Quartet
Sat Feb 19 - 8:30 PM                       
Composer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, and painter Oliver Lake is renown for his extraordinary talents as a composer and explosive, bluesy saxophone sound.  Co-founder for the World Saxophone Quartet and a Guggenheim fellow for composition, Lake was the first African American commissioned by the Library of Congress and McKim Foundation for composition.  Tonight at Roulette, Lake presents his Oliver Lake Organ Quartet with Jared Gold (organ)
Freddie Hendrix (trumpet), Mclenty Hunter (drums), Oliver Lake (alto sax).  

INTERPRETATIONS: Sylvia Smith / Pauline Oliveros
Thu Feb 24 - 8:00 PM                                   
Dynamic and highly intimate visions of sonic meta-resonance. Percussionist Sylvia Smith and flutist Carrie Rose perform musical theatre works from composer Stuart Saunders Smith, including his “spoken opera” By Language Embellished: I. Composer and improviser Pauline Oliveros has been an important pioneer in American music for five decades. She presents Oracle Bones, a performance corresponding to the Taoist Cardinal Directions, with Oliveros performing on accordion along with the spoken word of Ione and the koto of Miya Masaoka.                                     

Susie Ibarra Quartet
Fri Feb 25 - 8:30 PM
“Ibarra is one of the all too few jazz artists who combine prodigious talent with cultural awareness to create art and make the world a better place in the process" - AAJ- NY
Inspired by the rhythmic cycles in Southern Philippine gong musicand the interplay between rhythms and chaos in Nature, Composer/Percussionist Susie Ibarra presents Mysteries of Nature - a series of quartets, duos, and solo compositions for violin, piano, harp, and percussion.  The compositions are an expression of nostalgia, folklore, laments and admiration by Ibarra for mysteries of nature.

DANCE AT ROULETTE
Sat Feb 26 & 27th - 8:30 PM
Roulette will host two evenings of experimental dance curated by dancer Caitlin Marz.  MORE INFO TBA.  



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