[NewMusicEvents] Tonight! March 5th, 8:00 PM, 1510 8th St. Jack Wright, Bob Marsh, Charity Chan

[Charity Chan]

@1510 8th St. Performance Space
Oakland CA
8:00 PM
$6-10


Performing an evening of improvised music, Jack Wright (saxophones,  
east coast), Bob Marsh (cello/accordion, west coast), and Charity Chan  
(piano, Canada).

More information can be found at:

http://www.springgardenmusic.com
http://www.edgetonerecords.com/marsh.html
http://www.charitychan.com

Jack Wright began playing saxophone in 1952, and after eight years  
quit to pursue an academic life, and then political activism. He began  
again in 1979, playing exclusively free improvisation. He began Spring  
Garden Music as a vehicle for organizing an improvisational music  
community, and is still active in encouraging the improvised music  
scene in Phila. Touring in the US and Europe since 1982 (called the  
"Johnny Appleseed of Free Improvisation"), he currently plays with  
about fifty partners, bringing European musicians to the US for  
collaborations with Americans. These days he is playing mostly alto  
and soprano saxophones, and as a musical explorer his music ranges  
widely in vocabulary, depending on the situation and partners. He  
lives in Easton PA, which enables him to commute easily to NYC and  
Phila. He has released 35 recordings, samples of which are available  
at his website.

Jack is no stranger to the West Coast, and has been an ardent advocate  
of bringing east and west coast musicians together. His first visit as  
a musician was in 1982, when he came in search of players, and found  
Ron Heglin, John Grundfest, Henry Kuntz, Greg Goodman and a few  
others. He kept coming and soon met and performed with Tom Djll, John  
Shiurba, Ron Anderson, Dan Plonsey and a slew of other now "old guard"  
improv contortionists. From 1985 to 2003 he drove or flew in at least  
once a year, bringing players from the east coast like Bhob Rainey to  
play in the large ensemble of Djll, Stackpole, Heglin, Ingalls,  
Sperry, Guberman and Shiurba, who recorded it for his label. After  
2000 he met up with long-time partner Bob Marsh, who by then had moved  
to the Bay Area. In March will be his first visit to California since  
2004; besides the trio at Maybeck house he will be playing on various  
occasions with Matthew Goodheart, Tom Djll, Aurora Josephson, Ava  
Mendoza, and his Italian percussionist partner, Fabrizio Spera. See  
his website for details:
http://www.springgardenmusic.com/

Bob Marsh is a well seasoned improviser whose work has involved  
shaping sounds words images ideas. Originally from Detroit, Marsh  
arrived in the Bay Area in 2000 after ten years in Chicago where he  
played with most of the avant improvisers in that rich and varied  
scene. Since his arrival on the west coast, multi-instrumentalist and  
composer Marsh has been busy with several projects. He currently leads  
or directs String Theory, a string ensemble focusing on textures and  
microtonics; the Che Guevarra Memorial Marching (and Stationary)  
Accordion Band, structured and free improv for six to fifteen  
accordions; Robot Martians, electronics and processed voice; the Out  
of the Blue Chamber Ensemble, a mixture of reeds and strings; Opera  
Viva, voiced physical theater; the Quintessentials, a quintet  
specializing in interpreting graphic compositions based on alterations  
to the Michelin Road Guide to France; and the Illuminated Orchestra,  
structured improves for large ensemble. Additionally Marsh is a member  
of Romus/Diaz-Infante's Abstractions, Jim Ryan's Left Coast Improv  
Group, Moe! Staiano's Moe!chestra and Tom Bickley's Cornelius Cardew  
Choir. Bob Marsh tours frequently with his long term partner  
saxophonist Jack Wright. Bob has recently been presenting a solo work  
involving violin, voice and tap shoes. Marsh's educational background  
includes a BFA in sculpture and an MA in humanistic clinical  
psychology. He has studied classical piano, classical guitar and  
vibraphone and has taught himself various other instruments. He  
currently is active with cello, accordion, violin, voice, vibraphone  
and electronics.

Plays Well With Others Jim Baker, John Berndt, Tom Bickley, Jeb  
Bishop, Kyle Bruckmann, Gust Burns, Gene Coleman, George Cremaschi,  
Matt Davingon, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Dina Emerson, Bryan Eubanks, R.  
Albert Falesch, John Finkbeiner, Tara Flandreau, Stephen Flinn,  
Jonathon Fretheim, Carol Genetti, Greg Goodman, Morgan Guberman, Greg  
Hamilton, Chris Heenan, Ron Heglin, Jeff Hobbs, Matt Ingalls, Kurt  
Johnson, Aurora Josephson, Andrew Lafkas, Adam Lane, Eric Leonardson,  
Jacob Lindsay, Fred Longberg-Holm, Toshi Makihara, Tatsuya Nakatani,  
Tom Nunn, Suki Oâ€TKane, Garth Powell, Bhob Rainey, Hal Rammell, Rent  
Romus, Scott Rosenberg, Jim Ryan, Joe Sabella, Jonathon Segel, John  
Shiurba, Blaise Siwula, David Slusser, Damon Smith, Adam Sonderberg,  
Karen Stackpole, Grant Strombeck, Tom Swafford, Ken Vandermark, Matt  
Weston, Sue Wolf, Theresa Wong, Michael Zelner, Michael Zerang.

Charity Chan's live performances focus on the evocation of alternative  
timbres from the piano, and the combination of these sounds with more  
traditional performance techniques. The immediacy of physical gesture  
and collaborative communication are also strong influences in her  
improvisations.  While her creative work is primarily in contemporary  
improvised music, she has also worked and studied extensively in the  
classical and contemporary classical idioms.
Charity has performed throughout Canada and in the United States.   
Collaborations include: Lori Freedman, Anthony Martin, Steve Bagnell,  
Dave Chokroun, John Heward, Damon Smith, Gino Robair, Simon Rose, Fred  
Frith, Maggie Nichols,  Frank Gratkowski, John Heward, Jean Derome,  
Isaiah Ceccarelli, Nicolas Caloia, Joane Hétu,  Danielle Palardy  
Roger, and Jack Wright.
As a member of the trio Fenaison (Kris Covlin, saxophones; Rémy  
Bélanger de Beauport, amplified cello), she is an Ambiances  
Magnétiques recording artist.  She is also a performer on the upcoming  
CD of music by José Maceda, releasing on Tzadik in 2007. She has  
toured throughout the United States and Canada and has conducted  
several group workshops in improvisation.  May of 2007, she debuted at  
The Stone in New York City with the Ensemble Supermusique and the  
WONDEUR Quartet.
Having earned a Bachelor of Music degree (piano) frm McGill University  
(Montreal, QC), she is currently completing a Master of Fine Arts  
degree in Contemporary Improvisation at Mills College on full  
scholarship.  There, her studies include work with luminaries such  
as:  Fred Frith, Joëlle Léandre,  Zeena Parkins, Chris Brown and  
Roscoe Mitchell.
Prior to that, she worked with Lori Freedman, Tom Plaunt, Sara Laimon,  
Jesse Stewart, Heather Toews, and the Penderecki String Quartet. She  
has also participated in workshops with  Malcolm Goldstein, The Sun Ra  
Arkestra, Joe McPhee,William Parker, Oluyemi Thomas, Lé Quah Ninh,  
Maggie Nichols and  Frédéric Blondy.
Charity organized the inaugral “Free Improvisation Series Masterclass  
and Concert Series” at McGill University and has worked as the  
Contemporary Performance Ensemble and Music Improvisation Ensemble at  
Mills College (under the direction of Steed Cowart and Fred Frith  
respectively).
Her academic research approaches music from a socio-cultural  
perspective, and focuses on embodiment, ethics and legitimacy, and  
cultural memory in improvisation.  She is a member of the  
International Society of Improvising Musicians and the American  
Musicological Society.  Her academic work has been presented at the  
Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium (University of Guelph), the   
International Society for Improvised Music (University of Michigan,  
Ann Arbor), University of British Columbia, and the University of  
Kansas.

In Fall of 2007, she will begin her PhD studies at Princeton University.
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Graduate Student Initiatives Program Coordinator
Music Improvisation Ensemble Assistant
Contemporary Performance Ensemble Assistant
Mills College
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http://www.charitychan.com





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Graduate Student Initiatives Program Coordinator
Music Improvisation Ensemble Assistant
Contemporary Performance Ensemble Assitant
Mills College
Oakland CA
USA
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http://www.charitychan.com



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