Photo: Bryan Murray

Tonight at 8:00 p.m., Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist/composer Josh Sinton will celebrate the release of his latest recording, Pine Barren (Engine), with a special solo performance at Barbès.

He’ll present the title book of original music heard on the record, which brings together three smaller suites, on baritone saxophone and bass clarinet.

The same compositions can be heard on a complementary release featuring his quintet holus-bolus, with Jon Irabagon (tenor saxophone), Jonathan Goldberger (guitar), Peter Bitenc (bass) and Mike Pride (drums), coming later this year on Prom Night Records.

Sinton will also perform this Sunday at The Local 269 in New York, where he will break out his newly acquired amplified contrabass clarinet for his first-ever set of improvised duets with drummer Satoshi Takeishi.

Learn more about Josh Sinton at http://joshsinton.com

Photo by Ines Kaiser

On Friday, March 9th, Darcy James Argue and his acclaimed big band Secret Society will return to Brooklyn’s Galapagos Art Space, where they celebrated the release of their GRAMMY® nominated 2009 debut, Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam Records), for a special double-bill with the new music collective Anti-Social Music.

The music will begin at 7:00 p.m. with Anti-Social Music (ASM) performing archival music from 11tet, a now-defunct jazz composers workshop from the late 1990′s, as well as new works written for ASM by Kamala Sankaram, Dan Lasaga and Pat Muchmore. The group’s members include Franz Nicolay (Hold Steady), Peter Hess (Balkan Beat Box), Jean Cook (Jon Langford, Ida), Ed RosenBerg (jerseyband) and John Wriggle (Ex Caminos).

Secret Society will follow with a set featuring Vijay Iyer’s “Three Fragments” and David T. Little’s “Conspiracy Theory”, two pieces commissioned by the band and premiered at the Ecstatic Music Festival in February 2011, as well as a suite of original music from the score of Brooklyn Babylon and other selections from the ensemble’s growing catalog.

Doors open at 6:00 p.m. Advance tickets are available online for $20.

Learn more about Anti-Social Music and Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society at http://antisocialmusic.org and http://www.secretsocietymusic.org

After a quick detour to New York for APAP|NYC and Winter Jazzfest last week, we’re now officially up and running with our newly expanded client roster for 2012. It is our great pleasure to be serving as the exclusive media contact for these nine musicians and two labels throughout our 10th anniversary year.

Please click on the following links to visit each client’s page on our site for additional information.

AUM Fidelity
Darcy James Argue
Eric Hofbauer
Fay Victor
James Falzone
Jason Stein
Jon Irabagon
Josh Sinton
Mary Halvorson
Myra Melford
Playscape Recordings

For those not familiar with our roster system, this is the third consecutive year we’ll be working with a small group of clients to help them promote all of their performing and recording activities on a per-year basis. This is intended to be a more organic alternative to the traditional one-off system in which individual events or recordings are promoted outside the larger context of one’s overall career. In cases where a venue or label already has a publicity infrastructure in place, we will augment that promotion as appropriate by collaborating with those existing contacts. In short, if at any point you have any questions or requests related to the 11 clients listed above, please direct them to us and we’ll be happy to help.

In the meantime, thank you for your continued support of independent creative improvised music and we look forward to being in touch with you about all the exciting projects our clients are a part of in 2012.

Photo by David C. Sampson

Tonight, Chicago-based clarinetist/composer James Falzone begins a four-night run of rare New York performances.

These events will feature Falzone in all-new collaborations, including a duos and trios set with cellist Daniel Levin and trumpeter Nate Wooley, his first-ever concert with the improvising collective Gowanus, Co. and the debut of his latest ensemble, James Falzone’s Ground Quartet.

That group, featuring Wooley, bassist Dominic Lash and drummer Harris Eisenstadt, will premiere a new book of original music Falzone composed with inspiration from the plants and animals in his garden.

He will conclude the tour with an abridged version of his extended solo work for clarinet and electronics, Sighs Too Deep For Words.

Thursday, July 28th at 8:00 p.m.
Gowanus, Co.
feat. Josh Sinton,Owen Stewart-Robertson, Dominic Lash, James Ilgenfritz, Weasel Walter, et al.
Douglass Street Music Collective
295 Douglass Street in Brooklyn
$10 suggested donation

Friday, July 29th at 8:30 p.m.
James Falzone, Daniel Levin and Nate Wooley + James Falzone’s Ground Quartet
Ibeam
168 7th Street in Brooklyn
$10 suggested donation

Saturday, July 30th at 8:00 p.m.
James Falzone’s Ground Quartet
Cafe Orwell
247 Varet Street in Brooklyn
No cover

Sunday, July 31st at 6:00 p.m.
James Falzone performs Sighs Too Deep For Words
Downtown Music Gallery
13 Monroe Street in NYC
No cover

The versatile Falzone is an acclaimed member of Chicago’s jazz and creative improvised music scene, a veteran contemporary music lecturer and clinician, the longtime Director of Music for Grace Chicago Church and an award-winning composer who has been commissioned by chamber groups and symphony orchestras among other institutions.

A nominee for Clarinetist of the Year at the 2011 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards, critics have called him “a virtuoso and a brilliant strategist” (Michael Jackson, DownBeat), “an articulate and interesting composer” (Jerry D’Souza, AllAboutJazz.com) and “the finest  improvising clarinetist in Chicago” (Neil Tesser, Examiner.com).

His most recent releases as a bandleader are the Arabic-themed Lamentations (Allos Documents), with his Allos Musica Trio, and Other Doors (Allos Documents), his longstanding quartet KLANG ‘s innovative homage to his fellow Chicago-born clarinetist, Benny Goodman.

The latter was reviewed earlier this month by jazz blogger Patrick Jarenwattananon on NPR’s All Things Considered.

Learn more about James Falzone and his many genre-spanning musical endeavors at http://allosmusica.org