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Hey druggies and non-druggies....if you need something to do tommorrow night, I'll see you there... patrick >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Vincent Kargatis [SMTP:lartis@pressroom.com] >> Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 17:09 >> To: dc-improv-announce@wnur.org >> Subject: [dc-improv-announce] 6/11 - Henry Kaiser >> >> Press release for Henry Kaiser concert this Friday: >> -- >> "A rare appearance by one of the >> great American free improvisers" >> >> >> Jackaldog Uncorporated presents >> >> FRI, 11 JUN 1999 >> >> >> HENRY KAISER - guitar >> >> >> with >> JEAN COOK - violin >> JOHN MCCAIN - guitar >> >> @ >> Music Program Recital Hal, Bldg 46-W >> University of District of Columbia >> 4200 Conn. Ave NW (@ Van Ness), DC >> Metro: Van Ness/UDC (red) >> >> >> 8 pm $5 >> >> >> Widely recognized as one of the most creative and innovative guitarists, >> improvisers, and producers in the fields of rock, jazz and experimental >> music, California-based musician Henry Kaiser is one of the most >> extensively recorded as well, having appeared on more than 140 different >> albums. A restless collaborator who constantly seeks the most diverse >> and personally challenging contexts for his music, Mr. Kaiser not only >> produces and contributes to a staggering number of recorded projects, he >> performs frequently throughout the USA, Europe and Japan, with several >> regular groupings as well as solo guitar concerts and concerts of freely >> improvised music with a host of diverse instrumentalists. Evidence of >> his exceptional musical breadth and versatility can be found in a (very) >> abbreviated list of the extraordinary artists he's collaborated with: >> David Lindley, Rova, Elliot Sharp, John "Drumbo" French, Bill Laswell, >> Steve Lacy, Fred Frith, John Abercrombie, Leo Smith, Negativland, >> Michael Stipe, Terry Riley, Jim O'Rourke, Diamanda Galas, Sonny >> Sharrock, Hans Reichel, Chris Cutler, Henry Cow, John Zorn, David Torn, >> Bill Frisell, Joey Baron, George Lewis, Peter Brotzmann, Greg Allman, >> Jerry Garcia, Miya Masaoka, Cecil Taylor, and many, many more. >> >> As one of the "first generation" of American free improvisers, born in >> Oakland CA in 1952, Mr. Kaiser has helped unfetter the guitar from the >> conventions of genre-bound techniques, but his instrumental virtuosity >> and technological breakthroughs are always deployed in the service of >> deep and immediate personal expression. Likewise, he has developed a >> highly individual, inimitable style from an uncommonly varied range of >> influences. Some of his musical sources include traditional blues, East >> Asian, Classical North Indian and Hawaiian music, free jazz, free >> improvisation, American steel-string concert guitar, and 20th century >> classical, but like any probing artist he also draws creatively from >> other abiding interests, which for Mr. Kaiser include Information >> Theory, experimental cinema, mathematics, experimental literature and >> SCUBA diving. >> >> He will be performing in DC with local improvisors John McCain on guitar >> and Jean Cook on violin in an all-acoustic, unrehearsed free-improvised >> concert, the first meeting for this trio. All proceeds go directly to >> the artists. Mr. Kaiser is *rarely* in this area, so don't miss this >> opportunity to see and hear him live! >> >> The concert is held in the music building at the far end of the campus >> (away from the corner of Conn./Van Ness). Go as far as you can into the >> campus and you'll find it. >> >> Audio sample available at >> http://www.pressroom.com/~lartis/transparent/AllSched.html >