Title: Phenomenal New Music, Improv and a trio of ideas, Master pianist/composer, Anthony Coleman

This Music Series: An Appetite for Adventure continues…

Not familiar with the trio of Musicians? You owe it to your musical self and curiosity to find out. Best reason to hear music on a weekday especially if your weekend is empty!

Anthony Coleman, piano, composer, NY/Boston (NEC)

Yoona Kim, Ajaeng (traditional Korean string instrument)

Greg Kelley, trumpet, electronics.

An original you can’t find anywhere, except right in your backyard performing soon. And led by an unsurpassed maestro of compositions, improvisations and playing so alluring!

A Rare public performance in Boston by Mr. Coleman though very much in demand playing from New York to international destinations.

One of the true geniuses of New Music pianists and composer’s—and from the improv angle—a weekday experience you can’t afford to miss!

Anthony and Yoona recently in multi-performances in New York, she a former member of Coleman’s NEC’s notable Survivor’s Breakfast.

This Music/TM Series:

This Music (TM) Series is a Boston musician’s initiative to recognize the creativity of many who haven’t been given the stage as leaders, often younger than the Jazz scene veterans; those with acknowledgement who can create a new project and musical ideas; and the unsung “gems” who aren’t in the public’ eye and deserve to be. The emphasis is on the freer forms, the adventurous (to help find a “home”).

Anthony Coleman:

 “Anthony Coleman is a prolific composer and pianist who has recorded numerous CDs under his own name, and has played on more than 150. His compositions have been commissioned and performed throughout the world. In the 1980’s, he was an important participant in what became known as the Downtown Scene, along with Glenn Branca, Elliott Sharp, Marc Ribot, and John Zorn, which broke down musical barriers, stretched genre definitions, and introduced Radical Jewish Culture as a compositional and improvisatory element”. Steve Coleman, Arts Fuse (boston), 2018:

“Part of what sets Anthony Coleman's (b 1955) music apart from that of his contemporaries is the intensely focused intellectual force with which he pushes against the sybaritic outward-moving impulse and compresses multiple vocabularies around a core poetic. Though compressed, the vocabularies do not merge or blend, they fray at the edges where the play of opposing forces is most intense, and languages contaminate and confuse each other”. New World Records.

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Yoona Kim is a Boston and South Korea based Ajaeng performer, Composer, and Improvisor who creates music based upon traditional aesthetics inherent in Korean music. Her work is focused on the relationship between Korean music, time, and absolute truth through sound.

She is the Artistic Director of Moderngagok which is a contemporary music group in South Korea. She has performed throughout India, Vietnam, North America and Europe.

She studied Musicology and Ajaeng performance at Seoul National University in South Korea. Recently, she has completed a master's degree in Contemporary Improvisation the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. 

Greg Kelly:

Trumpeter Greg Kelley within an improviser whose function, both in single contexts and along with his primary group nmperign, generally features calm explorations from the extended technique of his device.

Frequently, his playing noises so alien that it is hard to inform he’s playing a trumpet in any way. After their studies at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Kelley transferred to Boston, where he produced his documenting debut with nmperign in 1998. Nmperign’s second Compact disc implemented in 1999, and in 2000, Kelley started releasing some recordings for single trumpet, including Trumpet and Clear Gestures.

Since 2000, he provides performed with Masashi Harada, Anthony Braxton and Adam Coleman. In 2001, Boxholder Information released The Ilya Tree, a quartet disk that highlighted Kelley playing extroverted free of charge jazz using the fiery saxophonist Paul Flaherty. Also in 2001, he performed with an record by nmperign and a duo record with digital musician Jason Lescalleet. His 2002 produces included a single record entitled EASILY Never Match You ON THIS Life, I WANT TO Feel THE SHORTAGE, a trio disk with Flaherty and Chris Corsano, and some albums with both nmperign and fellow trumpeter Axel Dörner. Throughout 2002, Kelley continuing to tour being a solo musician and with nmperign.

Anthony Coleman (born August 30, 1955) is an avant-garde jazz pianist. During the 1980s and 1990s he worked with John Zorn on Cobra, Kristallnacht, The Big Gundown, Archery, and Spillane and helped push modern Jewish music into the 21st century.

From the Sarajevo Jazz Festival to the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland, Anthony Coleman’s musical odyssey has taken him through many cultures and led him to wear many hats as composer, improvising keyboardist, and teacher. Coleman joined the NEC faculty in 2006, returning to a school where he himself studied in the 1970s, during the birth of NEC’s Contemporary Improvisation program (then called Third Stream). Received a M.M., at Yale.

At the age of thirteen, Coleman started studying piano with Jaki Byard. At the New England Conservatory of Music he studied with George Russell, Donald Martino and Malcolm Peyton.[2]

Coleman has also toured and recorded with John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Marc Ribot, Shelley Hirsch, Roy Nathanson, and many others.

Coleman has been awarded numerous grants worldwide from New York to numerous European countries. Coleman's collaborators over the years have included guitarist Elliott Sharp, trumpeter Dave Douglas, accordion player Guy Klucevsek, composer David Shea, former Captain Beefheart bandmember Gary Lucas, classical and klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer, guitarist Marc Ribot, bassist Greg Cohen, drummer Joey Baron and saxophonist Roy Nathanson.

Coleman has recorded many CDs under his own name, and he has played on more than 100 CDs. Recent recordings areThe End of Summer (Tzadik), which features his NEC Ensemble Survivors Breakfast, Shmutsige Magnaten (Tzadik), Pushy Blueness (Tzadik) and Lapidation (New World), both recordings of his chamber music, and Freakish: Anthony Coleman Plays Jelly Roll Morton (Tzadik, 2009). Plus Damaged by Sunlight (2010) was issued on DVD by the French label La Huit. And You, a compilation of his large chamber ensembles and solo piano recording from 2008 to 2013.

His projects include the piano trio Sephardic Tinge, which has released three discs: “Sephardic Tinge,” “Morenica,” and “Our Beautiful Garden Is Open” (all Tzadik). And

His Selfhaters Orchestra has issued two CDs: “Selfhaters” and “The Abysmal Richness of the Infinite Proximity of the Same” (both Tzadik).

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