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Il Claudia Quintet al JAM Festival di Mira
by Angelo Leonardi
JAM Festival 2016 Teatro di Villa dei Leoni Mira, Venezia 12.03.2016 Il lungo tour europeo del Claudia Quintet ha toccato l'Italia in un'unica data, sabato 12 marzo nell'ambito del JAM Festival di Mira. Giunta alla dodicesima edizione, la rassegna ha assunto un ruolo centrale nella programmazione musicale in Triveneto, grazie alle ottime scelte qualitative e al coinvolgimento con le realtà economiche e istituzionali dell'area. Anche quest'anno il cartellone ha coinvolto massicciamente ...
read moreThe Claudia Quintet at The Workmans Club
by Ian Patterson
The Claudia Quintet The Workmans Club Dublin Ireland November 25, 2013 Real fans do it on a Monday night," Improvised Music Company's Gerry Godley said in an address to the crowd that acknowledged the economic and logistical challenges facing promoters, musicians and fans alike. The Republic of Ireland's economy is still struggling half a decade on and at a time when incomes are stretched semi-improvised music isn't necessarily on the top of everybody's list ...
read moreThe Claudia Quintet: September
by Glenn Astarita
September is a month that signals the return of football, the advent of fall, and when the youngsters say goodbye to summer and venture back to school. But for bandleader and drummer John Hollenbeck, it's when he seeks isolation and concentrates on artist residencies. September is The Claudia Quintet's seventh-release as the celebrated ensemble reaffirms its domain as an extraordinarily hip and unique entity. Under Hollenbeck's direction, the band radiates a disparate focus that includes minimalistic oeuvres amid tightly-woven and ...
read moreThe Claudia Quintet + 1 featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann: What Is The Beautiful?
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Poetry has always been the libretto of jazz music. Even before epic works of the late Gil Scott Heron like H2O Gate Blues" or Winter in America" (which inspired the nations of rap and hip-hop), there was Langston Hughes with bassist Charles Mingus on Weary Blues (Verve, 1958), the great Amiri Baraka, and A.B. Spellman. Then there was Kenneth Patchen, one of The Rebel Poets of America, an enigmatic legend who, if he chose, might have laid claim to creating ...
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by Mark Corroto
American poet Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) has been a favorite of musicians for over half a century, from composer John Cage to saxophonist Peter Brötzmann and bassist William Parker. This everyman writer, considered to be the father of the Beats," is their direct link to Walt Whitman and William Blake.Before Jack Kerouac performed his poems with a jazz band, Patchen was reciting poetry backed by Allyn Ferguson and Charles Mingus. His writings are a smattering of love poems to ...
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by Troy Collins
Jazz and poetry have a longstanding relationship that precedes the postwar experiments of the Beats, dating back to the Harlem Renaissance. As with any artistic collaboration, the cooperative efforts of improvising musicians and poets have yielded mixed results over the years. One of the first artists to successfully explore this territory (with John Cage and Charles Mingus) was Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972), a poet, novelist and painter whose innovative work ranges from political protest and sardonic humor to sentimental romance. In ...
read moreThe Claudia Quintet: For
by Tom Greenland
It's a challenge to describe the Claudia Quintet's sound: there are patent references, but distinct departures from these references as well. For, their newest project on Cuneiform, reunites Drew Gress (bass), John Hollenbeck (drums and electronica), Matt Moran (vibes), Ted Reichman (accordion) and Chris Speed (clarinet and tenor sax), continuing a trajectory established on three previous releases.Hollenbeck's nuanced part-writing fully exploits the tonal similarities of the frontline (clarinet, vibes & accordion); tracks like Be Happy, This Too Shall ...
read moreThe Cornelia Street Cafe presents The Alternate Takes Festival
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Alternate Takes Festival this Saturday, January 7 at The Cornelia Street Cafe The Cornelia Street Cafe presents the Alternate Takes Festival APAP Event (FREE for all APAP attendees!) 8:00 PMCLAUDIA QUINTET John Hollenbeckdrums Drew Gressbass Matt Moranvibes Red Wierengaaccordion Chris Speedclarinet, tenor saxophone 9:30 PMRUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA'S GAMAK Rudresh Mahanthappaalto saxophone David Fuze" Fiuczynskiguitars François Moutinbass Dan Weissdrums 11:00 PMBEN ALLISON BAND
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The Claudia Quintet + Gary Versace - Royal Toast (2010)
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Something Else!
By PicoThe Claudia Quintet is an ensemble that goes by its own set of rules. With its slightly weird combination of vibes, accordion, sax, double-bass and drums, and songs that don't follow the script of how songs go (but avoids skronkery and dissonance), the five piece band is an anomaly of an anomaly. It all comes for the deviously clever composing mind of its drummer and leader, John Hollenbeck. Drummers from Art Blakey to Matt Wilson have led ...
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The Claudia Quintet Releases 5th Album, "Royal Toast" on Cuneiform Records May 18, 2010
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Fully Altered Media
Composer/Drummer John Hollenbeck Continues Prolific Recording Period With Fifth Claudia Quintet Album, Royal Toast, Due May 18, 2010 on Cuneiform Records
On their fifth CD, Royal Toast, The Claudia Quintet raise a glass in salute to their regal muse with a set of new music fit for a king--albeit one with more refined tastes and open mind than your average monarch.
If a round table seems a wholly appropriate setting for this egalitarian ensemble (with an extra place setting this ...
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Medeski, Martin & Wood Perform John Zorn's Zaebos + the Claudia Quintet Perform at the Barbican!
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All About Jazz
Wednesday 8 July 7.30pm Medeski, Martin & Wood perform John Zorn's Zaebos + The Claudia Quintet Tickets 10/15/20/25 Produced by the Barbican in association with Serious Part of Blaze A firm favourite at the Barbican since their explosive set with guest guitarist John Scofield in 2007, the thrilling trio of organist/piano player John Medeski, drummer Billy Martin, and bassist Chris Wood formed in Brooklyn, New York, in 1991. Medeski and Wood, students at Boston's prestigious New England Conservatory of Music, ...
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Firehouse 12 to Present the Claudia Quintet October 12th
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Improvised Communications
On Friday, October 12th, New Haven's Firehouse 12 will present a two set performance by The Claudia Quintet as part of the venue's ongoing 2007 Fall Jazz Series. Led by New York-based drummer/composer John Hollenbeck, this decade- old ensemble features reed player Chris Speed, vibraphonist Matt Moran, accordionist Ted Reichman and organist Gary Versace. The group will be performing music from its fourth and latest CD, For (Cuneiform Records).
Critics have called The Claudia Quintet a very fresh jazz band ...
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George Garzone Celebrates Coltrane (Tonight) Armen Donelian Quintet (Sat) The Claudia Quintet (Sun) at the Cornelia Street Cafe
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All About Jazz
September 23, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014 Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St. a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987 This Weekend at Cornelia Street Cafe Sept. 23 thg Sept. 25 Fri ...
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