Ches Smith

events

Date Event Name description recording
March 15, 2011 Raz Mesinai - music for instruments and live processing Composer, producer and sound alchemist Raz Mesinai makes music at the intersection of Dub and modern composition. As a solo artist and with his ensembles, he creates mythic performances evoking ancient rhythms with electronics, acoustic instruments and turntables. His recordings as Badawi have placed him on the forefront of the...
March 9, 2011 Ches Smith and These Arches \"A smartly unruly drummer active in devious art-rock and outsider jazz, Ches Smith (Xiu Xiu, Secret Chiefs 3) works often enough in other people’s bands to seem the quintessential journeyman. His stealth proficiency as a bandleader lurches to the foreground on “Finally Out of My Hands\" (Skirl). It’s the debut...
October 5, 2010 John Tchicai 6 Points: Ascension Unending John Tchicai\'s Six Points is a collaborative ensemble consisting of the following six sensible musical personalities: Saxofonist/singer Tchicai, the bass is \"the base\" bassist Dmitry Ishenko. Totally in tune with herself violinist/singer Rosie Hertlein, excuisite drummercompanion Ches Smith & with sounds ready for Victoriaville and elsewhere guitarist...
November 14, 2009 Hidden in Plain Sight, the music of TROPHIES: Alessandro Bosetti, Kenta Nagai, Ches Smith Tonight, composer and sound artist Alessandro Bosetti is joined by Kenta Nagai, and Ches Smith for TROPHIES. Central to the music of Trophies is the voice or a multitude of voices. A type of voices bordering song and speech but not embracing either one of those practices completely....
February 17, 2009 Roger Kleier Roger Kleier\'s \"El Pocho Loco Project\"
Roger Kleier (guitar), Annie Gosfield (keyboards), Trevor Dunn (bass), Ches Smith (drums...
February 13, 2009 Mary Halvorson Trio Mary Halvorson (guitar) John Hebert (bass) Ches Smith (drums)
with special guests Jonathan Finlayson (trumpet) and Jon Irabagon (alto saxophone)

On Friday, February 13th, Brooklyn-based guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson and her trio will perform at Roulette in New York. The group, which also features bassist John Hebert and drummer Ches Smith,...
August 4, 2008 Ches Smith & Devin Hoff (Good for Cows) w/ Mary Halverson, Jessica Pavone Zs Good for Cows began as a duo in 1999 when Devin Hoff (string bass) and Ches Smith (drums) would meet regularly to work on musical ideas from a rhythm section\'s perspective. At first the two focused on creative interpretations of jazz compositions, particularly the music of Thelonious Monk, Ornette...