Ras Moshe

Saturday, January 10, 2004
9:00 pm

Tickets: $10
Reservations: 212-592-4644

Performer Bios:
(provided by the performers)

Ras Moshe  
  was born and raised in Brooklyn USA. March 22, 1968
His grandfather Ted Burnett ("Ted Barnett" for professional reasons), played with the big bands of Earl Bostic, Lucky Millender, Jimmy Mundy, Don Redman etc. after arriving here from Jamaica in the thirties.
His father Jacob Burnett played Alto on the new music scene in brooklyn throughout the seventies.
Ras, aside from lessons from his family, studied music in the public school system from grade school throughout high school. He started on Alto and Soprano then switched to Tenor as well in 1990.
He is also a long time listener and collector of "jazz" in all its forms.
Although he is musically trained in earlier forms of the music,he prefes to expand and develop the newer parts of the music's evolution. With varied approaches.
Ras has played with many Rastafarian groups as well.
Along with the music,Ras has been writing and reciting poetry since childhood.
He is the founder of the Music Now! festival,which has had successful runs for over four years now at venues like The Brecht Forum, Free103point9, The Orange Bear, Lotus Music And Dance, Four Corners Gallery and North Six.
Main Influences: John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Charles Parker, Max Roach, Archie Shepp, Peter Brotzmann, Thelonious Monk, Albert Ayler, Jackie McLean, Evan Parker, Eric Dolphy, Frank Wright, Wayne Shorter,Joe Henderson.
Ras has played and learned from: Billy Bang, William Parker ,Butch Morris, Todd Capp, Jackson Krall, Cecil Taylor's Workshop Band, Marc Edwards, Kyoko Kitamura, Matana Roberts, Jeff Arnal, Lou Grassi, Ken Filiano, Matt Lavelle, Tor Snyder,Matt Heyner,Todd Nicholson and many others.
Ras believes in creative music's ability to be a part of what's happening around us socially and spiritually.
Seeing "free jazz" as a folk music,he oftens plays the music in places that believe in positive change along with the other musical venues.
rasmoshe@yahoo.com
 

Recordings:
Into The Openness(music now records 2003)
Schematic(jump arts records 2001)
Blue Universe Quartet (cosmic mechanic records 2000)

 with Izititiz:
With Our With Jazz(sound@one #59 2000) Vinyl!
Lucky Bird(sound@one #65 2003)
The Diaper Band(conduit creations-limited cassette release)
With Matt Lavelle:
Handling The Moment(C.I.M.P records)
   
Matt Heyner
is a bassist that has been living and performing in New York City since 1993. He is part of a community of musicians,artists and dancers that collaborate and juxtapose their sounds, images and movements in various spaces throughout the city. As a member of the No Neck Blues Band, he has performed in parks,rooftops,mountaintops, Canadian forests, as well as more sheltered clubs.No Neck has a new CD out, "Intonomancy" on the Sound@one label and completed a European tour in May. Matt first started playing with the band Test(Tom Bruno, Sabir Mateen,Daniel Carter)underneath NYC in the subway system¹s Music Under New York program. Extending from his free improvisational work in Test, Matt also plays in Sabir's composition band
"Shapes Textures And Sounds Ensenmble." Matt also performs with his group IZITITIZ which he put together several years ago and is gigging around NYC and the East Coast with their second self released record, "Lucky Bird." Matt is also on the scene with many musical actions put together by saxophonist Ras Moshe and the Music Now!Society, as documented by Ras's self-produced cd, "Into the openess."
Kyoko Kitamura

has spent much time in the U.S., Japan and France, developing a unique style of vocal improvisation which incorporates the use of electronics and fuses Eastern and Western influences. She regularly appears in downtown NY venues such as the 55 Bar and the Knitting Factory, and has performed with improvisers such as Reggie Workman, Gerry Hemingway and dancer Maria Mitchell. She has recently recorded with alto saxophonist Steve Coleman for his next CD. She has also recorded with the Laura Andel Orchestra ('Somnambulist'/Red Toucan Label), a large ensemble under the leadership of composer Laura Andel, comprised of downtown improvisors which includes Reuben Radding, Oscar Noriega, Tatsuya Nakatani and others. The ensemble will be performing this spring as part of the Roulette Concert Series at Flea Theater.
Her website is here
Jackson Krall,
born in Detroit, began studying piano at age seven and drums at age nine. He studied with Bill Dixon at the University of Wisconsin and Bennington College in the early 1970s where he was also influenced by the teachings of music scientist Milford Graves and choreographer Judith Dunn. Since moving to New York in 1975 he has lived on the Lower East Side and performed with many avante-jazz groups on the downtown music scene. He has performed and recorded with Cecil Taylor since the mid 1990s. He also is the creator of sound sculptures and hand-made percussion instruments
Matt Lavelle
has been playing trumpet for 15 years,and bass-clarinet for 4. a new member of william parkers little huey orchestra,lavelle works mostly as
a part of new yorks current free jazz. scene .lavelle is a member of bands led by sabir mateen, steve swell,and ras moshe.
as a leader,lavelle has 2 cds."handling the moment",on cimp,and a series of duets with saxophonist daniel carter.
As the son of a failed jazz-fusion drummer, Diego Manuschevich
was born in Santiago, Chile, on the 11th of December of 1984. Due to his father's musical leanings, he had the privillige of having been welcomed by a record collection of a size and variety whose intriguing items were certainly unusual to other newly-born creatures. He became quickly acquainted with the music of Thelonious Monk. A drummer, his brother Hugo recieved an alto saxophone for his 18th birthday. He gave it to Diego whom since that day has been developing his music non-stop, now expanding into the tenor saxophone,
the french bombard, and his most loved bass clarinet. Originally self taught, he studied for sometime with Jemeel Moondoc in NYC. He cites Sonny Simmons as yet another influence in that area. The spirits of Ornette, Dolphy, John Gillmore, Braxton, Dewey Redman, Sonny Rollins all can be heard through his multiple horns. As of now he is a member of Stephen Gauci's Quartet, as well as one of the leading heads of the NYC-Boston based septet Negative Dialectics. In addition he is a member of the Boston "Negative Dialectics" crew, a performance collective formed by his brother Hugo which attempts to synthesize various musical-artistic practices and whose music itself is primarly influenced by Ornette's Prime Time and The Human Arts Ensemble. Diego is currently preparing himself for his second Chilean tour this winter in the company of his brother.

Reut Regev

born and raised in Israel, has been living in New York City since 1998. She plays the Trombone and the Flugabone in various bands, including her own Projects. She plays Jazz (old and new), Salsa, Rock, Funk, Brazilian, Blues, Classical, Contemporary, Jewish and Caribbean music.
Among the musicians Reut worked with are: Butch Morris, Igal Foni, Eric Revis, Adam Lane, Billy Bang, Michael Attias, Ras Moshe, The Cuchimbos, Dominic, Gold Sparkle Brass Band, Assif Tzahar, Jeremayah Lockwood and the Sway Machinery, FBI, Reggie Nicholson, The Phantoms, Raulin Rosendo, and many more.
( www.reutregev.com )
Matana Roberts
is a dynamic saxophonist, composer and improviser, who tries to expose in her music the mystical roots and spiritual traditions of African American creative expression .A Chicago native, she was fortunate enough to be surrounded by elder musicians who showed her by distinct example the importance of listening to one's personal creative voice while at the same time using the profound and many layered traditions of jazz and improvised musics to act only as her creative guide, not as her creative definer. By using their mentorship, she has been able to craft a voice and creative focus that truly speaks to her own true artistic individuality.
She feels strongly that her music should not only reflect the many colors and moods of universal human emotions, but that it should also testify, critique, document, and respond to the many socio-economic, historical, and cultural inequalities that exist not only in this country, but all over the world.
Her first recording collaboration with bassist Joshua Abrams and drummer/percussionist Chad Taylor - self-titled as Sticks and Stones was released to critical acclaim on Music 482 Records last year. Their second recording entitled ---Shed Grace will be released on Thrill Jockey records in February of 2004. Matana has also recorded with the afropunkfunkrockjazz ensemble Burnt Sugar, Ras Moshe, David Boykin and the renowned Canadian rock chamber ensemble—Godspeed You!Black Emperor on their recent release Yanqui U.X.O.
Roberts has played alongside such musical luminaries as Eugene Chadbourne, Henry Grimes, Miya Masaoka, Aaron Stewart, Ravi Coltrane, Don Byron, Vijay Iyer, Fred Anderson, Nicole Mitchell, Peter Brotzman, Jeff Parker, Robert Barry, Ras Moshe,Joe Maneri, Steve Lacy, Tony Malaby, Daniel Givens, and Ralph Alessi. Matana is currently working on a recording of her solo compositions, a large ensemble project to be premiered in New York in June 2004, and is collaborating with writer/ director/poet Reg E. Gaines and Dancer/choreographer Savion Glover on a multi arts piece that explores the musical contributions of saxophonists John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy. Roberts is an associate member of the Chicago chapter of the A.A.C.M.--Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and is also is a faculty member for the School for Improvised Music in New York City where she currently resides.

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