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Henry Threadgill & Steve Lehman multiple JJA awards nominations
HENRY THREADGILL EN STEVE LEHMAN ARE NOMINATED FOR MUTIPLE AMERICAN JAZZ JOURNALIST ASSOCIATION AWARDS.
HENRY THREADGILL, at Saturday 8 May in the Bimhuis, is nominated in the categories:
BEST COMPOSER, BEST ENSEMBLE, BEST MUSICIAN and BEST RECORD OF THE YEAR (for This Brings Us To, Vol. 1, with the same line-up as in the upcoming Bimhuis concert).
STEVE LEHMAN, at Friday 21 May in the Bimhuis, is nominated in the categories:
BEST COMPOSER, BEST ALTO SAXOPHONIST and BEST RECORD OF THE YEAR (for Travail, Transformation and Flow, with the same line-up as in the upcoming Bimhuis concert).
One of the most important living composers in and around the jazz idiom
NEW YORK TIMES
Henry Threadgill & ZOOID’s most recent album, This Brings Us To, Vol. 1, topped the annual critics’ polls of New York Times, Village Voice, Washington Post and many other publications. This proves once again that saxophone and flute player Threadgill is an icon of the American avant-garde.
This Brings Us To, Volume 1 is a spectacular return from an important jazz composer
ALL ABOUT JAZZ
http://bimhuis.com/gigs/henry-threadgill--zooid-2
Superb...immediately gripping...perfectly ultramodern.[…] ‘A blast of urban futurism at once hypnotic, kinetic and kaleidoscopic. And funky’
NEW YORK TIMES
The European debut of the Steve Lehman Octet, at 21 May in the Bimhuis, is a rare opportunity to see the group live.The octet only plays two concerts in Europe: in the Bimhuis en at the Moers Festival in Germany.
One of the most exciting saxophone voices on the current scene
[...] Lehman is making his own spiritual and creative
journey without succumbing to dogma or style.
THE WIRE
Music of genuinely visionary importance, a way forward for the art.
PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ
http://bimhuis.com/gigs/steve-lehman-octet
HENRY THREADGILL, at Saturday 8 May in the Bimhuis, is nominated in the categories:
BEST COMPOSER, BEST ENSEMBLE, BEST MUSICIAN and BEST RECORD OF THE YEAR (for This Brings Us To, Vol. 1, with the same line-up as in the upcoming Bimhuis concert).
STEVE LEHMAN, at Friday 21 May in the Bimhuis, is nominated in the categories:
BEST COMPOSER, BEST ALTO SAXOPHONIST and BEST RECORD OF THE YEAR (for Travail, Transformation and Flow, with the same line-up as in the upcoming Bimhuis concert).
saturday 8 may 20:30 € 20
HENRY THREADGILL 
Henry Threadgill alto sax/flute, Liberty Ellman guitar, Stomu Takeishi bass, José Davila trombone/tuba, Elliot Kavee drums
One of the most important living composers in and around the jazz idiom
NEW YORK TIMES
Henry Threadgill & ZOOID’s most recent album, This Brings Us To, Vol. 1, topped the annual critics’ polls of New York Times, Village Voice, Washington Post and many other publications. This proves once again that saxophone and flute player Threadgill is an icon of the American avant-garde.
This Brings Us To, Volume 1 is a spectacular return from an important jazz composer
ALL ABOUT JAZZ
http://bimhuis.com/gigs/henry-threadgill--zooid-2
friday 21 may 20:30 € 18 in collaboration with Moers Festival
STEVE LEHMAN OCTET
Steve Lehman alto sax, Jeremy Viner tenor sax, Jonathan Finlayson trumpet, Tim Albright trombone, Chris Dingman vibraphone, Jose Davila tuba, Drew Gress bass, Tyshawn Sorey drums
Superb...immediately gripping...perfectly ultramodern.[…] ‘A blast of urban futurism at once hypnotic, kinetic and kaleidoscopic. And funky’
NEW YORK TIMES
The European debut of the Steve Lehman Octet, at 21 May in the Bimhuis, is a rare opportunity to see the group live.The octet only plays two concerts in Europe: in the Bimhuis en at the Moers Festival in Germany.
One of the most exciting saxophone voices on the current scene
[...] Lehman is making his own spiritual and creative
journey without succumbing to dogma or style.
THE WIRE
Music of genuinely visionary importance, a way forward for the art.
PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ
http://bimhuis.com/gigs/steve-lehman-octet
