The Interpretations Series 35th season begins Thursday November 7, 2024, 8:00PM with a split bill featuring the music of composer/performers Marty Ehrlich and Ingrid Laubrock.A noted improvisor and multi-instrumentalist, Ehrlich will lead his septet in a new large-scale work combining composition, improvisation and poetry. The performers will include Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon) Ron Horton (trumpet); Erik Friedlander (cello); Matt Pavolka (bass); Satoshi Takeishi, percussion; poet Erica Hunt; and the composer on woodwinds. In great demand as a saxophonist and composer, Laubrock will lead her group Grammy Season, with Brandon Seabrook (guitar); Shawn Lovato (double bass); Tom Rainey (drums) and herself on tenor & soprano saxophone, in a program of works from the group’s recent recording The Last Quiet Place (Pyroclastic Records, 2023).
The concert will take place at 8:00PM at Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students & seniors, available at Roulette.org.
About the artists:
Saxophonist, clarinetist, and flutist Marty Ehrlich began his musical career in St. Louis, Missouri, performing and recording with the Human Arts Ensemble with Lester Bowie, Oliver Lake, Jim Marshall, J.D. Parran, and others. He attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where his teachers were George Russell, Jaki Byard, Gunther Schuller, Joseph Allard, Ran Blake, and Joe Maneri. In 1977, Ehrlich received the Conservatories’ Chadwick Medal for outstanding academic and artistic achievement at graduation.
A resident of New York City since 1978, Ehrlich has performed in the ensembles of George Russell, Chico Hamilton, Anthony Braxton, Julius Hemphill, Muhal Richard Abrams, Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell, and Baikida Carroll and others. He spent a number of years in the John Carter Octet, the Don Grolnick Octet, Andrew Hill Point of Departure Sextet, and Anthony Davis Episteme Ensemble. Other long-term associations have been with Robin Holcomb, Wayne Horvitz, and Bobby Previte, centered around the New York Composer’s Orchestra and Previte’s’ “Bump” quintet. He has performed in Jack DeJohnette’s Special Edition, Jerome Harris Ensembles, Mario Pavone Ensemble, and in diverse projects of John Zorn. Ehrlich appears on over a hundred recordings with these and other artists.
Ehrlich has also composed a distinctive body of music for his improvising ensembles of the last four decades, including his Dark Woods Ensemble, featuring his clarinet with cello and bass, and his two saxophone group, The Traveler’s Tales Quartet. His other ensembles include Trio Exaltation, The Rites Quartet, Philosophy of a Groove, and the Marty Ehrlich Large Ensemble. His compositions are represented on 30 recordings with these ensembles, on the Enja, New World, Muse, OmniTone, Palmetto, Tzadik, and Clean Feed labels.
Ingrid Laubrock is an experimental saxophonist and composer, interested in exploring the borders between musical realms and creating multi-layered, dense and often evocative sound worlds. She has worked with Anthony Braxton, Muhal Richards Abrams, Dave Douglas, Kenny Wheeler, Jason Moran, Tim Berne, William Parker, Tom Rainey, Mary Halvorson, Kris Davis, Tyshawn Sorey, Craig Taborn, Andy Milne, Luc Ex, Django Bates’ Human Chain, The Continuum Ensemble, Wet Ink and many others.
Awards include the BBC Jazz Award for Innovation in 2004, a Fellowship in Jazz Composition by the Arts Foundation in 2006, the 2009 SWR German Radio Jazz Prize, the 2014 German Record Critics Quarterly Award, Downbeat Annual Critics Poll Rising Star Soprano Saxophone (2015), Rising Star Tenor Saxophone (2018), Herb Alpert/Ragdale Prize in Composition (2019), and the 2021 Berklee Institute of Gender Justice Women Composers Collection Grant.
Laubrock is a part time faculty member at The New School and Columbia University and has taught improvisation workshops at Towson University, CalArts, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, Baruch College, University of Michigan, University of Newcastle and many others. In 2012 Laubrock was Improviser in Residence in the German city Moers. The post is created to introduce creative music into the city throughout the year. As part of this she led a regular improvisation ensemble and taught sound workshops in elementary schools.
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ROULETTE:
509 Atlantic Ave. Downtown Brooklyn
2, 3, 4, 5, C, G, D, M, N, R, B & Q trains & LIRR.
Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students for students & seniors, available at Roulette.org.
All concerts begin at 8pm unless otherwise noted.