Special Guest: The great Art Baron on trombone!
Matt Lavelle: Flugel, Cornet, Alto-clarinet (leader)
Tim Stocker: Baritone Sax
Charles Waters: Alto and Clarinet
Ras Moshe: Tenor and Flute
Sweet Lee Odom: Soprano Sax and Clarinet
Claire Du Brunner: Bassoon
Laura Ortman: Violin
Stephanie Griffin: Viola
Gil selinger: Cello
Jack DeSalvo: Guitar and Banjo
Francois Grillot: Bass
Chris Forbes: Piano
Voice: Anais Maviel
John Pietaro: Vibes
Drums: TBD
Calendar of Events › Matt Lavelle and the 12 Houses Festival
March 14, 2015 8:00 pm
Matt Lavelle and The 12 Houses
March 28, 2013 8:00 pm
The 12 Houses Festival: Part VIII (Final)
12 HOUSES ORCHESTRA LED BY MATT LAVELLE,FEATURING ALL THE MEMBERS OF
12 HOUSES SETS AT 8PM AND 9:30
March 21, 2013 8:00 pm
The 12 Houses Festival: Part VII
8:00 pm Catherine Sikora Ensemble
Catherine Sikora: Tenor and Soprano Sax, Michael Lytle: Bass Clarinet, Ross Hammond: Guitar, Ken Filiano: Bass
9:30 pm SOS (Send Out Signals) meets Jack Desalvo
SOS is a collective that features telepathic spiritual music communication by players who have developed playing relationships over the course of many concerts since 1999.Improvised music that would appear to be memorized and rehearsed for weeks its spontaneous composition with lots of Heart and soul.
Ras Moshe and Matt Lavelle, Legendary Jazz educator and bassist,
Dr.Thomas Zlabinger and Drummer Jack Desalvo
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March 14, 2013 8:00 pm
The 12 Houses Festival: Part VI
8pm The Chris Forbes Trio
Chris Forbes: Piano and Compositions
Hilliard Greene: Bass
Michael “TA” Thompson: Drums
Chris Forbes is a pianist and composer who has been active on the New York free jazz scene since 2003. He has played with musicians such as Sabir Mateen, Daniel Carter, Matt Lavelle, Ras Moshe, Will Connell and Steve Swell. He is a member of Steve Swell’s Nation of We and the Steve Swell Quartet, with whom he appeared at the 2012 Vision Festival last June. He is also a member Matt Lavelle’s Morcilla and appears on the group’s CD The Manifestation Drama He is a frequent guest in Ras Moshe’s Music Now ensembles as well as Will Connel’s Adam Antine Project. He has recently premiered his Quezalcoatl project with singer Maryanne De Prophetis and Trumpeter Ron Horton. Forbes is also an accomplished concert music composer, with several orchestral pieces, a ballet and a music theater piece under his belt. He is also a full time music teaching artist with the “Life Lines” Community Arts Project in Sunset Park Brooklyn.
9:30 Ras Moshe ensemble
“Music Now!”
Ras Moshe: Reeds, Ken Filiano: Bass, Anders Nilsson: Guitar, Andrew Drury: Percussion, John Pietaro: Percussion
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March 7, 2013 8:00 pm
The 12 Houses Festival: Part V
8pm Claire de Brunner Freeway 3:
Carol Liebowitz: Piano, Adam Caine: Guitar, Claire de Brunner: Bassoon
9:30 Anders Nilsson featuring members of the 12 Houses
Mary Cherney: Flutes, Matt Lavelle: Trumpet, Ras Moshe: Saxophones, Catherine Sikora: Saxophones
Claire de Brunner: Bassoon, Chris Forbes: Piano, Francois Grillot: Bass, Anders Nilsson: Guitar, Kevin Shea: Percussion
February 28, 2013 8:00 pm
The 12 Houses Festival: Part IV
8pm Faith
Matt Lavelle: Trumpet/Alto Clarinet, Chris Forbes: Piano, Ryan Sawyer: Drums and Francois Grillot: Bass
9:30 Tim Stocker and Fechner’s Law
Tim Stocker: Baritone Sax & Compositions, Des White: Bass, Rajiv Jayaweera: Drums
February 21, 2013 8:00 pm
The 12 Houses Festival: Part III – Charlie Waters Quartet +2 and The Ryan Sawyer Ensemble
8PM Charlie Waters Quartet +2
Charlie Waters: Alto Saxophone, Clarinet, Andrew Barker: Drums, Chris McIntyre: Trombone
George Rush: Bass, Tuba
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Special Guest Mick Rossi: Piano and Adam Roberts: Bass
9:30 PM The Ryan Sawyer Ensemble
Ryan Sawyer: Drums, C. Spencer Yeh: Violin, Nate Wooley: Trumpet
February 14, 2013 8:00 pm
The 12 Houses Festival: Part II
8PM- The Mary Cherney Ensemble
Mary Cherney: Flutes and Piccalo , Matt Lavelle: Trumpet, Alto and Bass Clarinets, Claire de Brunner: Basson
Francois Grillot: Bass, Todd Capp: Drums
9:30 PM- Matt Lavelle and the Blessing
Back from a tour of Sweden and headlining at the UMEA Jazz Festival,the Blessing is a quartet led by Matt Lavelle to process the influence on him from spending time with Ornette Coleman.Ras Moshe on Tenor,Soprano,and Alto and Francois Grillot on bass have been playing with Matt as far back as 1993.The great David Miller on drums.
“I spent 20 years looking for my music,and OC really helped me get to the point so to speak.This project might be more in than out,but it’s all me.Since It’s Valentines day I will mos def play some ballads about the trials,tribulations,and intimacy that come with the holy force of LOVE.”
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February 7, 2013 8:00 pm
The 12 Houses Festival: Part I
8pm- the Giuseppi Logan Quartet
The ever tenacious brother G returns to lead his quartet with Matt Lavelle on Flugelhorn and Alto Clarinet,Francois Grillot on Bass,and David Miller on drums.Giuseppi Logan shocked the Jazz world a few years ago by proving that he still exists.After becoming somewhat of a legend and a mystery based on his ESP record in the 60′s,Giuseppi resurfaced in NYC and made a comeback record for Tompkins Square records.Giuseppi continues to have his own very personal way of writing and playing and has a story to tell unlike any other.Jazz as real as it gets. . . . .
The New York Times story on GL from Easter 2012:
9:30- The NY Soundpainting Orchestra & Gil Selinger
David Grunberg, Violin, Sebastian Noelle, Brian Abbot, Lily Maase, Guitars, Alan Brady, Clarinet
Rob Henke, Trumpet, Bodhan Hilash, Bass Clarinet , Evan Mazunik, Piano & accordian, Dennis Shafer, Saxophone, Mark Lindberg, Diana Norma Actors
Gil Selinger, Soundpainter
Soundpainting is the composing-conducting sign language invented by Walter Thompson with more than 800 gestures which can be used to communicate with musicians, actors, dancers and visual artists to create a spontaneous “live” composition.
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