The group of Vance Provey, Dave Sewelson, Stephen Haynes, and Abbey Balgochian, with John Loggia on drums and percussion, will play improvised music at Best Video Film & Cultural Center Fri., Dec. 8. The show starts 7 PM and the cover is $10.
Haynes and Provey first met 40 years ago at Bennington College drawn together by a desire to work and study with the great Bill Dixon. This quintet will explore where they have gone since then. We are excited to have Dave Sewelson come up from the city to join us. Expect the unexpected!
Stephen Haynes
Stephen Haynes is an improviser, arts organizer and recording artist. His practice ranges from small groups to large orchestras with a focus on working directly with composers in the development of new music. His work is featured on Pillars, Tyshawn Sorey’s groundbreaking work for octet released on Firehouse 12 Records. He is also a founding member of Adam Rudolph’s East Coast version of Go: Organic Orchestra. Over the past 40 years, he has worked with a range of vanguard composers including Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor, George Russell, Butch Morris, Rhys Chatham, LaMonte Young and Earle Brown.
Vance Provey
A trumpet soloist with a long history as a composer and leader. His approach is rooted in the jazz idiom using strong melodic and rhythmic approaches, but now mostly in a more free improvisatory space. His work with Bill Dixon at Bennington College in The Black Music Division is a guiding influence.Provey draws from an aesthetic that is very different. His use of long extended tones pitted against very short clusters of notes is a yin yang in and of itself. This style of playing creates a strong sense of tension and release in his band's overall sound.
Dave Sewelson
Dave Sewelson is a baritone saxophone specialist, double bass player, composer, bandleader, radio host and educator based in Brooklyn. He arrived in New York City in the summer of 1977, settled in the East Village becoming a stalwart of the downtown scene, a founding member of the Microscopic Septet and lifetime member of William Parker’s Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra. Current projects include Sewelsonics, Smooth FreeJazz and the Bass Bridge Quartet. He broadcasts the show Music for a Free World Saturday afternoons on WFMU's Give the Drummer radio stream.
Albey Balgochian
Relentlessly pursuing his love for his instrument, NYC bassist Albey Balgochian captures the pure essence of soul in his playing. Synchronistically introspective and extrospective, he explores self-expression, uncovering sounds of profound beauty. A part of the downtown music scene since the 1970s, his public profile has escalated since joining with the Cecil Taylor Trio & Big Band. Best Performances '05 & '09 Cecil Taylor Trio & Big Band
John Loggia
John Loggia will plays drums and percussion for this show.