Gig Alerts: John Hollenbeck
John Hollenbeck"No Boat"Playing at: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker St., Greenwich Village)Get: Tickets | DirectionsFew compositions have been more fittingly named than this work by contemporary...
View ArticleHollenbeck plays Hollenbeck and Meredith Monk
On November 30th, 2009, composer and percussionist John Hollenbeck launched the first in a series of live Q2 webcasts from Greenwich Village’s (Le) Poisson Rouge with an ambitious, kinetic performance...
View ArticleNew Music for Sax(es)
For this New Sounds, we'll sample some music from the incredibly versatile Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society - it's a big band that dips into jazz territory and the minimalist section of new music -...
View ArticleMid-Sized Ensembles
We'll hear from four different mid-sized ensembles on this New Sounds program. The thing to keep in mind is the versatility of all these bands, who all have bass and drums, so that they almost look...
View ArticleTheo Bleckmann
Versatility is the name of the game when it comes to career longevity in New York's thriving musical scene and jazz singer and composer Theo Bleckmann has more than enough to go around. In this...
View ArticleNew Music for Sax(es)
For this New Sounds, we'll sample some music from the recording, "Infernal Machines" by the incredibly versatile Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, a big band that dips into jazz territory and the...
View ArticleMid-Sized Ensembles
We'll hear from four different mid-sized ensembles on this New Sounds program. The thing to keep in mind is the versatility of all these bands, who all have bass and drums, so that they almost look...
View ArticleLook & Listen Festival: Part III
Cease the last full month of Summer with the Look & Listen Festival running through August here on Cued Up. For the fest's third concert of four, enjoy two world premieres by the delightfully...
View ArticleUnusual Lead Instruments
For this New Sounds, hear some recent recordings that feature a strange assortment of music-making devices. From music boxes, a choir that whistles, and the Chinese double-reed woodwind instrument...
View ArticleOmnivorous Listening with John Hollenbeck
The music of drummer and composer John Hollenbeck omnivorously draws from jazz, post-rock and contemporary classical traditions. It makes sense: he's collaborated with an eclectic roster of musicians,...
View ArticleBig Bands, New Sounds-Style
We’re all about music for big bands on this New Sounds, and that’s certainly not the 1930’s swing bands. Listen for elements of rock, classical, and minimalism to crop up in music from Darcy James...
View ArticleMusic for Big Bands
From Bjork’s sleeper hit, “It’s Oh So Quiet” from the 1990’s, to much more recent big band recordings, like that of the German-based Monika Roscher Bigband, listen to horns a-plenty in clever...
View ArticleDrummers / Bandleaders
For this New Sounds, hear all sorts of drummer-led bands and ensembles, including music from composer/percussionist Susie Ibarra, alternative/avant-jazzer Jim Black, Afrobeat progenitor/drummer Tony...
View ArticleDrummers / Bandleaders (Special Podcast)
For this New Sounds, hear all sorts of drummer-led bands and ensembles, including music from composer/percussionist Susie Ibarra, alternative/avant-jazzer Jim Black, Afrobeat progenitor/drummer Tony...
View ArticleBig Works for Big Bands
Hear big bands that aren’t just jazz but draw from chamber music, science-fiction, ambient music, and the wonders of nature on this New Sounds show. There’s music from Maria Schneider and her most...
View Article"Songs of Experience": Music Inspired by Poetry of William Blake
Hear musical settings of William Blake’s poetry for this New Sounds. Listen to Martha Redbone’s rootsy setting of “The Garden of Love” from her album of the same name – an entire collection of hollered...
View ArticleMusic for Big Bands
From Bjork’s sleeper hit, “It’s Oh So Quiet” from the 1990’s, to much more recent big band recordings, like that of the German-based Monika Roscher Bigband, listen to horns a-plenty in clever...
View ArticleDrummers / Bandleaders
For this New Sounds, hear all sorts of drummer-led bands and ensembles, including music from composer/percussionist Susie Ibarra, alternative/avant-jazzer Jim Black, Afrobeat progenitor/drummer Tony...
View Article#3741: Big Works for Big Bands
Hear big bands that aren’t just jazz but draw from chamber music, science-fiction, ambient music, and the wonders of nature on this New Sounds show. There’s music from Maria Schneider and her most...
View Article#3746: "Songs of Experience": Music Inspired by Poetry of William Blake
Hear musical settings of William Blake’s poetry for this New Sounds. Listen to Martha Redbone’s rootsy setting of “The Garden of Love” from her album of the same name – an entire collection of hollered...
View Article#3609: Music for Big Bands
From Bjork’s sleeper hit, “It’s Oh So Quiet” from the 1990’s, to much more recent big band recordings, like that of the German-based Monika Roscher Bigband, listen to horns a-plenty in clever...
View Article#3615: Drummers / Bandleaders
For this New Sounds, hear all sorts of drummer-led bands and ensembles, including music from composer/percussionist Susie Ibarra, alternative/avant-jazzer Jim Black, Afrobeat progenitor/drummer Tony...
View Article#4054: Music for Big Bands
Hear an arrangement of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells for a colliery brass band, 29 players strong, who call themselves, wait for it…Tubular Brass. Also listen to music by Northern Irish artist &...
View Article#3741: Big Works for Big Bands
Hear big bands that aren’t just jazz but draw from chamber music, science-fiction, ambient music, and the wonders of nature on this New Sounds show. There’s music from Maria Schneider and her most...
View Article#3746: "Songs of Experience": Music Inspired by Poetry of William Blake
Hear musical settings of William Blake’s poetry for this New Sounds. Listen to Martha Redbone’s rootsy setting of “The Garden of Love” from her album of the same name – an entire collection of hollered...
View Article#4054: Music for Big Bands
Hear an arrangement of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells for a colliery brass band, 29 players strong, who call themselves, wait for it…Tubular Brass. Also listen to music by Northern Irish artist &...
View Article#4369, In This Garden
Listen to ostensibly garden-themed works, with several settings of William Blake poetry, Sam Lee's folk-song reworking, and beauty and dread by trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire.Hear a work by trumpeter...
View Article#4054: Music for Big Bands
Hear an arrangement of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells for a colliery brass band, 29 players strong, who call themselves, wait for it…Tubular Brass. Also listen to music by Northern Irish artist &...
View Article#4435, Songs of Thanksgiving
There’s music by Pete M. Wyer based on a Mohawk thanksgiving ceremony, a Thanksgiving song by one-woman band, Grouper, and large ensemble music of gratitude by guitarist Joel Harrison.From British...
View Article#4369, In This Garden
Listen to ostensibly garden-themed works, with several settings of William Blake poetry, Sam Lee's folk-song reworking, and beauty and dread by trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire.Hear a work by trumpeter...
View Article#4435, Songs of Thanksgiving
There’s music by Pete M. Wyer based on a Mohawk thanksgiving ceremony, a Thanksgiving song by one-woman band, Grouper, and large ensemble music of gratitude by guitarist Joel Harrison.From British...
View Article#4369, In This Garden
Listen to ostensibly garden-themed works, with several settings of William Blake poetry, Sam Lee's folk-song reworking, and beauty and dread by trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire.Hear a work by trumpeter...
View Article#4435, Songs of Thanksgiving
There’s music by Pete M. Wyer based on a Mohawk thanksgiving ceremony, a Thanksgiving song by one-woman band, Grouper, and large ensemble music of gratitude by guitarist Joel Harrison.From British...
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