Matana Roberts

events

Date Event Name description recording
March 20, 2011 Music for Merce CD Release Event NO MORE RSVPs! There will be a limited number of tickets at the door.

$25 Admission / $15 Students, Seniors, Under 30s
Admission for both 5:00PM and 8:30PM shows $40 / $25 Students, Seniors, Under 30s

“Dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919 – 2009) has been a decisive force in...
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...
January 21, 2010 INTERPRETATIONS: Roy Campbell’s Akhenaten / Matana Roberts’ Illumination Trumpeter and composer Roy Campbell’s Akhenaten performs music from their recent Aum Fidelity release, Live at the Vision Festival 12, with vibraphonist Bryan Carrott, bassist Hilliard \"Hill\" Greene, and drummer Michael Wimberly. Surprise special guest to be announced.

Saxophonist and composer Matana Roberts presents her compositional configuration Illumination, based on...
June 18, 2009 Matana Roberts Matana Roberts\' ILLUMINATION

Matana Roberts-- saxophone, JD Allen -- tenor saxophone, Vijay Iyer-- piano, Liberty Ellman-- guitar Thomas Morgan-- bass, Damion Reid-- drums

Last year the Chicago born, Brooklyn based, AACM saxophonist Matana Roberts released to much acclaim THE CHICAGO PROJECT, a recording of dynamic compositions that paid homage to her southside...
May 25, 2007 Matana Roberts Matana Roberts\' BLACK MAN One of the first “picture book� texts that Saxophonist Matana Roberts was given to read as a child was Joel Augustus Roger’s Africa’s Gift to America. The first edition originally published in 1961 ...
May 19, 2006 Matana Roberts Saxophonist/composer Matana Roberts presents CoinCoin:Installation 1, the first performance of her in-progress musical narrative, which explores the defining moments of one people’s shared history using the traditions of jazz- and improvisation-inspired music. Through original compositions and various ensemble configurations, Roberts pulls together tales from 7 generations and 4 continents of...