  [photo: TILT Creative Brass Band by John Christenson] |
>>COMPOSER BIOS<< On Wednesday, March 3rd, the 10-piece Brooklyn-based group TILT Creative Brass Band presents the second installment of its on-going series To TILT: Original Music for TILT Brass which focuses solely on repertoire written for the organization's distinctive ensembles (CBB and 6-piece SIXtet) at ISSUE Project Room. The program features works by a stellar group of composer/performers including Downtown legend Anthony Coleman, trumpet virtuoso Dave Ballou, avant-cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, Gold Sparkle's Charles Waters (featuring composer and world-class improviser Mick Rossi on piano), and TILT Director Chris McIntyre. TILT CBB features an extraordinary line-up of creative musicians including trumpeters Nate Wooley and Gareth Flowers, trombonists Curtis Hasselbing and Jacob Garchik, and and percussionist Kevin Norton.
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TILT Creative Brass Band Brooklyn based TILT Creative Brass Band (TCBB) is a beautifully strange combination of military brass band and Downtown repertoire ensemble. The group has presented concerts since January 2003 at venues ranging from Whitney Museum to Barbes in Brooklyn. Since its inception, TCBB has fearlessly taken on works from the fringes of experimental concert music, tongue-in-cheek agitprop, and hybrid scores combining notation and improvisation. The group frequently presents entire programs of original works by its composer/performer members (Kevin Norton, Curtis Hasselbring, Nate Wooley, among others) and colleagues from the field, including legendary pianist Anthony Coleman (released on Tzadik), Doctor Nerve's Nick Didkovsky, multi-instrumentist Charles Waters, and cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum. In addition, the Creative Brass Band is committed to presenting works from the experimental tradition, ranging from a Varése graphic score from the late 50's and selections from James Tenney's Postal Pieces to works by Fredric Rzewski (Les Mounton de Panurge) and early John Adams (Light Over Water). In June '09, TCBB kicked off a new on-going series of programs called New York Noise which presents historical and current works by important composers from the Downtown community and its ancestors such as Elliott Sharp, Lois V. Vierk, and Rhys Chatham. In 2010, the group will present several programs at ISSUE Project Room and will record and release its current To TILT repertoire. Mick Rossi |
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Dave Ballou is an improvising trumpeter/composer and Assistant Professor of Music at Towson University where he has revised the jazz studies curriculum and created the Towson Improvisation Ensemble. He has released 9 CDs as a leader and appears on over 50 CDs as a collaborator. Dave has appeared as a featured soloist for artists such as Gunther Schuller, Andrew Hill, Dave Liebman, LaMonte Young, Mario Pavone, and Maria Schneider. Recently, he was awarded a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award for Music Composition. Jon Nelson has recorded his composition Samskara for solo trumpet for the 8bells label. Taylor Ho Bynum is a performer on cornet and various brass instruments,
composer, bandleader, and interdisciplinary collaborator with artists
in dance, film, and theater. Bynum is committed to the further exploration
of the extensions of composition and improvisation pioneered by
20th century masters like Ellington, Ives, and the AACM, but with
a third millennial flavor and a trickster sensibility. He presently
leads his Trio, his Sextet, the chamber ensemble SpiderMonkey Strings,
and the little big band Positive Catastrophe, and has developed
a body of solo music for cornet and duo work with dancer/choreographer
Rachel Bernsen. In addition to leading his own groups, Bynum regularly
performs with some of the most innovative figures in creative music,
such as Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, and Bill Dixon, and has ongoing
collaborations with such artists as Bill Lowe, Jason Kao Hwang,
and Joe Morris. His work with Anthony Braxton spans over ten years
and ranges from duo to orchestra, with recent tours throughout Europe
and North America and over a dozen recordings; their collaborative
CD Duets (Wesleyan) 2002 received wide critical acclaim.
Other recent recordings as a leader include Other Stories (Three
Suites) with SpiderMonkey Strings, True Events with
drummer Tomas Fujiwara, and two albums with his Sextet and Trio: The Middle Picture and Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths.
Anthony Coleman is a composer, improvising keyboardist and teacher, born in New York City on August 30th, 1955. His ensembles have included the trio Sephardic Tinge (three CD's: Sephardic Tinge (1995), Morenica (1998), and Our Beautiful Garden is Open (2002) - all on Tzadik) and Selfhaters Orchestra (two CD's: Selfhaters (1996) and The Abysmal Richness of the Infinite Proximity of the Same (1998), both on Tzadik). Other CD's include the cycle by Night (1987 - 1992), a series of works inspired by Coleman's experiences in (the ex-) Yugoslavia (Disco by Night, Avant 1993), Shmutsige Magnaten (Tzadik), a live solo performance from the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival, Summer, 2005 which features interpretations of the songs of Mordechai Gebirtig, and Pushy Blueness (Tzadik) and Lapidation (New World), both recordings of his chamber music. Coleman has toured and recorded with John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Marc Ribot, Shelley Hirsch, Roy Nathanson and many others. Coleman is currently on the NEC faculty in the Contemporary Improvisation Department, where he also teaches Jazz and Composition students. His CD, Freakish: Anthony Coleman Plays Jelly Roll Morton has just been released by Tzadik. Christopher McIntyre leads a multi-faceted career as performer, composer, and curator/producer. The diversity of his activities led Time Out New York to note that "...with every passing week, trombonist-composer Chris McIntyre becomes more central to the new-music experience in New York." (2/08) He interprets and improvises on trombone and synthesizer in projects including TILT Brass Band and SIXtet, Ne(x)tworks, and 7X7 Trombone Band. He has contributed compositions to Lotet, TILT, Ne(x)tworks, 7X7 (for choreographer Yoshiko Chuma), Flexible Orchestra, and B3+ brass trio. McIntyre is also active as a curator and concert producer. He is currently Artistic Director of the MATA Festival, with independent projects at venues including The Kitchen, Issue Project Room, and The Stone (June 2007). Visit cmcintyre.com for more info. |