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Nels Cline is one of the most versatile, imaginative and original guitarists active today. Combining breathtaking technique with an informed musical intelligence, Cline displays a mastery of guitar... more
Nels Cline-Toshi Makihara Duo
Friday, February 9, 2007 - 9:00pm
+Charles Cohen-Yanni Papadopoulos Duo
+Rick Iannacone-John Swana Duo
Rova was founded in October 1977 by Jon Raskin, Larry Ochs, Andrew Voigt, and Bruce Ackley. Its first concert was held at Mills College in Oakland in February of the next year. From the beginning,... more
Rova Saxophone Quartet performs "Certain Space"
Thursday, February 8, 2007 - 8:00pm
+The Pavones
+From Bacteria To Boys
Please join Ars Nova Workshop for the Philadelphia premeire of "one of the most exhilarating new groups on the European circuit!" (The Guardian).  Atomic is a Scandinavian free jazz supergroup,... more
Atomic
Wednesday, February 7, 2007 - 8:00pm
"Veteran pianist Dave Burrell personifies the best of neoclassicism, uncompromising individuality and in-the-moment gusto." -The New Yorker Since the mid-1960s, Dave Burrell has contributed to nearly... more
Dave Burrell Trio
Wednesday, February 7, 2007 - 6:00pm
Ars Nova Workshop and the Kelly Writers House are pleased to present Gary Giddins in conversation with his fellow JazzTimes columnist Nate Chinen, who is also a former assistant coordinator at the... more
"Jazz In The 1970s: The Whole Story" with Gary Giddins & Nate Chinen
Wednesday, February 7, 2007 - 5:30pm
Trio Tarana, formed in 2003, is led by percussionist/composer Ravish Momin, born in India and currently residing in New York City.  The trio primarily uses Indian and East-Asian rhythms (... more
Trio Tarana
Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 8:00pm
+Helena Espvall-Katt Hernandez-Sean Mattio
"The David S. Ware Quartet is the best small band in jazz today." - Gary Giddens, Village Voice David S. Ware (b. 1949) has been performing for over 40 years - first as a youth in informal practice... more
David S. Ware Unit
Friday, January 12, 2007 - 8:00pm
Ars Nova Workshop and Kelly Writers House welcomes John Szwed and pianist Dave Burrell in a public discussion that hopes to shed more light on the significance of pianist/composer Jelly Roll Morton... more
From Jelly Roll Morton to Avant-Garde Jazz: John Szwed & Dave Burrell
Thursday, January 11, 2007 - 6:00pm
"The Brooklyn avant-garde jazz scene has a lot going for it: world-class players such as Chris Speed, Trevor Dunn and John Hollenbeck and sympathetic venues like Barbès, Zebulon and the Center for... more
Skirl Records Party: The Clarinets
Friday, December 15, 2006 - 8:00pm
+The New Mellow Edwards
+Trevor Dunn-Shelley Burgon
A "free-form summit dominated by stratospheric eruptions." -Downbeat Please join us for the east coast debut of Spaceship on the Highway, a new quartet of jazz masters and elder... more
Henry Grimes' Spaceship on the Highway Quartet
Friday, December 8, 2006 - 8:00pm