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Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble: Proverbs for Sam
by Troy Collins
Proverbs for Sam is dedicated to the late saxophonist Sam Furnace, a charter member of double reed master Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble. The majority of the album is culled from the 2001 Vision Festival in New York, while the majestic finale is drawn from the same 2001 Burlington, Vermont concert documented on Seasoning of the Greens (Boxholder Records, 2002). These live recordings feature some of Furnace's last performances with the Ensemble, who passed away in 2004.
Since the ...
read moreBill Cole & William Parker: Two Masters: Live At The Prism
by Chris May
Bill Cole and William Parker have much in common: belief in the healing and transforming power of music, respect for non-Western musical forms, and a commitment to free improvisation. Cole's Untempered Ensemble, which has included Parker in recent years, as well as Parker's prolific output with his own Little Huey Orchestra and a multitude of other lineups, have done much to challenge Western musical ethnocentricities and blow a fresh wind through creative jazz.
With all those credits behind ...
read moreBill Cole: The Path I have Taken and the Instruments I Play
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Bill Cole. On October 11, 2002 I turned 65. To celebrate I took my ensemble the Untempered Ensemble into the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. At the beginning of the second half all the members of the Ensemble played double reed horns that come from Asia. After the performance Anton Reid, long a strong supporter of musicians, mentioned to me that when I first came to New York, playing the instruments I ...
read moreBill Cole: Duets & Solos, Volume 1
by Derek Taylor
Bill Cole’s debut disc for Boxholder described the myriad strengths of his Untempered Ensemble at full muster ranging through a handful of powerful and highly personal compositions. Comprising a formidable roster of improvisers including Cooper-Moore, William Parker and Joseph Daley, and adhering to Cole’s rubric of incorporating non-Western instruments into jazz-based improvisatory settings the group was an ingenious amalgam of new and traditionally grounded sonorities. The 2-disc set turned out to be one of the most original and thought-provoking releases ...
read moreUntempered Ensemble - Untempered Ensemble (2011)
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Something Else!
Bill Cole, a multicultural multi-instrumentalist, is one of the guys at the top of the hierarchy in the improvised music scene, having been at it in earnest since at least the late 70s. Earlier this year I marveled at his mastery of Eastern reed instruments in his one-on-one with violinist Billy Bang, in what proved to be Bang's swan song. He quickly followed that up with another live performance, this one being the seventh album of his long-running Untempered Ensemble ...
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Bill Cole World Premiere Concert: Untempered Ensemble
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All About Jazz
The world premiere of a new Brecht Forum commission by Bill Cole featuring UNTEMPERED ENSEMBLE with Bill Cole, Billy Bang, Atticus Cole, Joe Daley, Shayna Dulberger, William Parker & Warren Smith April 25 9 pm at The Brecht Forum 451 West Street btw Bank and Bethune Manhattan $10 advance tix at www.brechtforum.org/nk Bill Cole is a musician, composer, educator and writer. Since its inception, Dr. Cole has led ...
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Bill Cole Non-Western Wind Instruments Workshop, April 25, 2008
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All About Jazz
Bill Cole will lead this workshop featuring his specialty: non-western wind instruments. He'll cover the Ghanaian atenteben, Chinese sona, Korean hojok and piri, South Indian nagaswaram, North Indian shenai, Tibetan trumpet and Australian didjeridu. Bill Cole is a musician, composer, educator and writer. Since its inception, Dr. Cole has led The Untempered Ensemble. He has performed and recorded Ornette Coleman, Jayne Cortez, Julius Hemphill, Sam Rivers, James Blood Ulmer, Fred Ho and many others. He has written acclaimed compositions for ...
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Bill Cole Joins Faculty of The College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University
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All About Jazz
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Roxanna Carpenter Monday, Dec. 5, 2005 Phone: (315) 443-3201 [email protected] Cole joins faculty of College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University Bill Cole of New Rochelle, N.Y., has joined the faculty of Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences as professor in the Department of African American Studies. Cole, an ethnomusicologist, composer and performer, is co-founder and artistic director of Shadrack, Inc., an organization that presents works by artists of color. He is also founder ...
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Bill Cole's 65th-Birthday Concert, Carnegie Hall, 10/11
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All About Jazz
WHO: Bill Cole and the Untempered Ensemble
WHAT: World Premiere: The Living Lives Not Among the Dead. Why Seek It There?"
WHERE: Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, 154 West 57th Street betw. 6th & 7th Ave's, closer to 7th Ave. New York City (take the F, N, Q, R, or W train to 57th St.)
WHEN: Friday, October 11, 2OO2, 8 p.m.
TICKETS: $2O ($15 for students and elders) from the Carnegie Hall box office, by phone at 212-247-78OO, ...
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