OUTPOST 186 is a new arts, media and performance space at 186 1/2 Hampshire St. in Inman Square, Cambridge. Continuing the best traditions of the Zeitgeist Gallery, OUTPOST hosts several ongoing series of experimental music and performance events Wednesday through Sunday, and special art exhibits. It also serves as a node for progressive and experimental media. Open 1-4pm Tuesday-Sunday or appointment. Contact: Rob Chalfen - robchalfen@hotmail.com

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, March 2010


Srinivas Reddy - sitar & Sameer Gupta - tabla 14 March, 12 Noon

OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

(CONCERT & EVENT CALENDER FOLLOWS BOILERPLATE, BELOW)

OUTPOST NEWS:

OUTPOST now hosts life drawing classes, Sunday mornings 10am - 12:30pm


Outpost 186 has been nominated for The Boston Phoenix "The Best Non-Traditional Music Venue"!
Vote for us at:
http://thephoenix.com/theBest/Boston/Vote/nontraditionalmusicvenue/#TOPCONTENT
thanks!


YOU MUST READ BRILLIANT CORNERS, Chris Rich's amazing jazz blog.


OUTPOST is available for meetings, rehearsals & (non-musical) weekday daytime events.

OUTPOST wins Editor's Pick for BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VENUE in the Phoenix Best 2009!

OUTPOST featured in a short film, THE VENUE (april 2009)

19 August 2008 - Outpost has acquired a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano - come check it out!

OUTPOST DIRECTIONS: Near cr. Prospect, opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11. Big ‘186’ on R side. Follow walk at Left to gallery, REAR.

OUTPOST CONCERT INFO:
All shows 8pm door unless otherwise noted.
General admission, donations requested
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, spitting, alcohol, ether, qat or laudanum please!

ART

Outpost regularly exhibits visual art! If you are an artist and would like to exhibit @ Outpost, please send your website url to robchalfen@hotmail.com, or arrange to show your portfolio. Outpost does not charge to display art.

CURRENT EXHIBIT

Outpost is now showing paintings by Sarah Kinne
On exhibit: House On Wilkes Road

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery exhibits may be viewed during scheduled performances or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com

EMAIL LIST SIGN-UP: http://Outpost186.FanBridge.com


BOOKING:
OUTPOST is currently available for public performances @ $50 per event.
CONTACT: Rob Chalfen, director: robchalfen@hotmail.com
DETAILS: OUTPOST PRODUCER'S HANDBOOK - You must read this before you produce a show @ Outpost!
AACHTUNG! You must be 21 to produce events at Outpost.

WE GET PRESS!!


ROUGH NIGHT'S 11+1 REVIEWED IN PHOENIX!

ERIC JACKSON of WGBH jazz on Outpost in Globe Travel section, 9 Jan. '10:
Jackson says jazz fans who enjoy experimental acts should also check out Outpost 186 in Cambridge’s Inman Square. “The musicians at the Outpost stretch in different directions. It’s probably the most adventurous of the clubs out there.’’

Darius Jones Trio Oct 19 2009 reviewed by Jon Garelick, Boston Phoenix

Blog review of 27 Aug. 2009 Dave Bryant show

Hhere’s a nice review of the 24 Nov. 08 Scarecrow Mobius gig at the Outpost by Jon Garelick of the Boston Phoenix: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/72937-Mixed-grill//

Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Boss Town Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 Outpost is the 2nd item:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/01/26/six_nights_out____what_youre_hear_who_youll_meet/

on Richard Sandler's Films:
http://www.bloggernews.net/113600
On our "Small Arts Group Die Off", 13 January:
Globe: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/01/12/small_arts_groups_are_dying_to_be_heard/
Big Red & Shiny:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue75&section=article&article=DONT_DRINK_THE_1485440
BILL MARX/The Arts Fuse: Boston Foundation to Small Theatres - Drop Dead Please!
http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/01/20/boston-foundation-to-small-theaters-drop-dead-please/#more-401


nonprofit jobs



MARCH


Wednesday 3 MARCH @ Outpost 8pm, $10 or b/o
JOE MORRIS / MARCO ENIEDI / LUTHER GRAY
Marco Eniedi - alto saxophone / Joe Morris - bass / Luther Gray drums


Thursday 4 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
rough night presents
Mobius Quartet
Jed Speare - laptop electronics / Derek Hoffend - electronics / James Coleman - theremin / Tom Plsek - trombone

+Cereal Jazz Quartet Andrew Colwell - bass / Keiichi Hashimoto - trumpet / Jesse Kaminsky - alto sax / Kelly Roberge - tenor sax
“The band’s most recent incarnation as a horn trio draws on the influence of jazz and folk music as well as drone and meditational practices to explore the liminal states of sound."

Esther Viola
Friday 5 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
The Vortex Series for new and improvised music presents:
Beat & Brazuka Breakdown
Esther Viola - oboe / Silvana Costa - poet / Adam Brahmi - guitars & cavaquinho ...and others!

EV is trying out some ideas: putting music to words and bringing oboe to Brazilian beats and melodies.

PART 1: poetry and sound improv
PART 2: solo surprise
PART 3: non-traditional takes on Brazilian beats and sambas
http://improvortex.blogpsot.com

Aditya Balani
Saturday 6 March @ Outpost, 8pm, $10 or b/o
ADITYA BALANI WORLD JAZZ QUINTET

Aditya Balani - Fretless/Fretted Guitars
Aaron Bahr - Trumpet
Tarun Balani - Drums
Shin Sakaino - Bass
Sharik Hasan - Piano

Aditya Balani Group is a World-Jazz ensemble which brings together talented musicians from countries across the globe, like India, Spain, Serbia and Chile and US. Aiming for true artistic expression and drawing from their ethnic roots each musician adds a unique colour to their sound which is an exciting blend of the spontaneity and harmonic interplay of Jazz with the sheer intensity of melodies and rhythms influenced by Indian Classical/Folk music, and various other musical traditions of the world. Some of the tunes feature Aditya's unique approach to fretless guitar developed from sarod and sitar playing techniques.

The band is back in the US after their second tour of the Indian sub-continent in January 2010, featuring Aaron Bahr on trumpet, Will Cafaro on bass, Tarun Balani on drums , Sharik Hasan on piano, and Aditya Balani on fretless/fretted guitars.

"Their model is perhaps a pointer to the future — young, passionate jazz men who blend several influences and make jazz accessible to this generation." -Asian Age

"A mix of jazz, Indian classical and folk music...Aditya Balani's music brings to the table a very colorful and original sound." -DNA Mumbai

"An astonishingly good blend of world music and contemporary jazz." -Hindustan Times


Sunday 7 March - 10am - 12pm Life Drawing

Sunday 7 March - 1-5pm - private recording session

Sunday 7 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Dijkstra/Karayorgis/Lopes/Newton
Jorrit Dijkstra - alto sax / Pandelis Karayorgis - piano / Chris Lopes - bass / Curt Newton - drums

Thursday 11 March @ Outpost, 8pm $8 or b/o
Dave Fox 4 in “Adventures in Sound”
David Tronzo - guitar / Phil Grenadier - trumpet / Bruno Raberg - bass / Josh Rosen -piano, keys, special effects /
Dave Fox - drums, percussion


Friday 12 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
this is the basement
Peter Negroponte - drums
Andy Allen - saxophone
Borey Shin - piano/accordian
Mike Huse-guitar - bass

Saturday 13 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Eric Dahlman & Dave Smits
Eric Dahlman - trumpet / Dave Smits - gitars, bass
+ John Voigt & Tom Plsek
John Voigt - bass / Tom Plsek - trombone

Sunday 14 March @ Outpost, Noon-2pm $10 or b/o
Indian Classical Music on Sitar and Tabla
Srinivas Reddy - Sitar / Sameer Gupta - Tabla

Srinivas Reddy
Srinivas Reddy is the founder of SADHANA Foundation, an international organization dedicated to preserving and promoting the classical music of South Asia . He is a classical sitarist, composer and educator. Srinivas teaches Music of India at UC Berkeley and continues to study sitar in the tradition of Pt. Nikhil Banerjee with his guru Partha Chatterjee.

Sameer Gupta
Sameer Gupta is known as one of the few percussionists representing the traditions of American Jazz on drumset for roughly 20 years, and more recently Indian Classical Tabla. Though his first few years of tabla were spent under the guidance of Ustad Zakir Hussain, his own interests and love of tabla brought him to the great tabla maestro Pt Anindo Chatterjee, of whom he is now a dedicated disciple.

His diverse roster of colleagues and collaboraters can be found at his website.

Monday 15 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o

BOSTON FREE JAZZ ASSOCIATION - open jam
hosted by
Julee Avallone - flute
Garrison Fewell - guitar

Tuesday 16 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Jack Pezanelli / Sheryl Bailey Guitar Duo


Wednesday 17 March @ Outpost 8pm

Seijiro Murayama - percussion (Nagasaki, Japan)
(member of Absolut Null Punkt w/ KK Null, ex- Fushitsusha)
with
James Coleman - theremin
Greg Kelley - trumpet
+

Keith Fullerton Whitman
- modular synthesizer
Geoff Mullen - electronics

Seijiro Murayama formed A.N.P. with KK Null in 1984, creating an in-the-red mixture of free jazz, heavy rock, & industrial noise. He was also a member of Keiji Haino's Fushitsusha, appearing on that group's (first) self-titled double album on P.S.F. in 1989. Recent years have seen him deeply involved in experimental improvised music including recordings with Lionel Marchetti, Michael Northam, Jean-Luc Guionnet and Eric La Casa, and performances with Axel Doerner, Toshiya Tsunoda and Mattin among others. Tonight he will be performing with James Coleman and Greg Kelley of the BSC and the undr quartet.

Providence’s Geoff Mullen is a multi-instrumentalist (guitar, lo-fi electronics, synthesizer) and erstwhile droneologist. He has releases on Barge Recordings, Last Visible Dog, and his own Rare Youth imprint.

Keith Fullerton Whitman (synthesizer) is one of Boston’s most consistently innovative electronic musicians. Keith’s music references everything from mid-century musique concrete to contemporary lo-fi electronics and drone. He has releases on Kranky, Room40, Arbor, and Planet Mu.


Friday 19 March @ Outpost - 8pm, $5/10
Chagall Performance Art Collaborative presents
“CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE” Series
Debut Concert!
Remember those children’s books? A concert with 4 different endings—you decide! Don’t miss this mind-bending concept concert! Featuring Soundpainting and works by Berio, Britten, Jakob T.V. and more!
Rebecca Wellons - sax / Jennifer Bill - sax / Dennis Shafer - sax / Diana Norma - poet / Emily Beattie - dancer / Ashley Addington - flute / Rich Labedz - sax


Saturday 20 March @ Outpost, 3pm, $donation or b/o
unaffiliated poetry series presents



Saturday 20 March @ Outpost, 8pm, $10 or b/o
green umbrellas presents
Junko, Jacob & Laurence
Junko Simons - cello / Jacob William - bass / Laurence Cook - drums



Sunday 21 March @ Outpost 8pm
Dr T presents Visual Music Live featuring:
TODD BRUNEL & KEVIN FRENETTE
Todd Brunel - clarinets & Kevin Frenette - guitar

with Doctor T -- Video mixing

I've been performing improvised visuals with live music since 1974.
My goal is to produce a Visual Music, in which imagery and musical
sound compliment each other, with neither dominating. I bring the
same improvisatory spirit and artistic goals to my studio pieces as I do to live performances. Recent Video Work


Monday 22 March - private rehearsal


Wednesday 24 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
The Guitar Circle of New England
Eight acoustic guitars, 16 hands, 48 strings, 80 fingers and a singular sound - Bartok, fused with King Crimson, by way of PhilipGlass, punctuated with jazz and rock, The Guitar Circle New England aspires to make itself available to the benevolent presence of music, in service of the greater good and for your listening enjoyment. In this pursuit, members follow the principles of Guitar Craft, most having studied with its founder, Robert Fripp.

Bridging musical worlds, The Guitar Circle New England brings a sense of immediacy to its performances, playing new music, composed, improvised, and born of the listening of the audience. An evening with the Circle is a unique experience shaped and shared by all who are present.


Thursday 25 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Bryant Quartet
Dave Bryant - keyboards / Ken Wessel - guitar / John Turner - bass / Eric Rosenthal - drums


Friday 26 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Jacob William Quartet
Jorrit Dijkstra - Alto / Pandelis Karayorgis - Piano
Jacob William - Bass / Laurence Cook - Drums


Saturday 27 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Steve Lantner Trio
Steve Lantner - piano / Joe Morris – bass / Luther Gray – drums


Sunday 28 March @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10

TOTAL WAR - a staged reading of a play by Ian Thal

Somerville-based playwright Ian Thal returns to Outpost 186 to present a staged reading of his play, Total War.This is the third in a series of readings since the play was named a semi-finalist in last year’s Dorothy Silver Playwriting Competition. In the process of presenting the work in a stripped down manner, he has refined and rewritten the script.
The readings have also seen their share of controversy. During the first reading in April of last year was picketed by a lone epithet -hurling protester accosting both audience and actors as they arrived.

Total War is a five-act play that addresses the legacy of anti-Semitism after the student newspaper at a Catholic university publishes a Holocaust denial advertisement. Before faculty, students, and staff can begin the expected dialogue on free speech and religious pluralism, an anarchist-cell using the nom de guerre of “Total War” begins a campaign of guerrilla art attacks. Though a work of fiction, Total War was inspired by events Thal witnessed while attending graduate school.

A talk-back will follow the reading.

Bio:
Ian Thal is best known locally as a mime, puppeteer, and poet. He has performed with Bread and Puppet Theatre, was a founding member of Cosmic Spelunker Theater and frequently performs with the commedia dell’arte troupe, i Sebastiani. He has taught mime and commedia at The Huntington Theatre, The Stoneham Theatre, and Open Air Circus. He recently performed his one-act, solo show, Arlecchino Am Ravenous at the Perishable Theatre in Providence, RI.
His poetry has appeared in such magazines as BOOM! For Real, Flash!Point, Poesy, Ibbetson Street Press, and Crooked River Press and the anthologies Becoming Fire: Spiritual Writings from Rising Generations (Andover, MA: Andover-Newton Publications), Tokens: Contemporary Poetry of the Subway (New York: P & Q Press.) and Out of the Blue Writers Unite, and the forthcoming Crude: Poetry After the Age of Oil (Columbus, OH: Pudding House Press) and has been exhibited at Boston City Hall and incorporated into a public installation at the 2003 Boston Cyberarts Festival. His blog about Bread and Puppet Theatre is on the reading list for a course currently offered at Royal Holloway, University of London.


Wednesday 31 March @ Outpost, 7pm

depraved dave's back alley cinema presents
PSYCHO-DELIC SCI-FI SHOCKERS FROM THE MGM VAULTS!
When it comes to science fiction cinema from Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, there's undisputed classics like FORBIDDEN PLANET,THE TIME MACHINE,2001:A SPACE ODYSSEY,SOYLENT GREEN....and these films!

--7pm THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. VS. THE FEMBOTS: the original Fembots run amok courtesy of master fantasist Harlan Ellison!
-8pm WILD WILD PLANET: Laser-Ray Girls,Four Armed Stranglers,and Deadly Doll-Men are only a few of the wild things who populate the candy-colored tinker-toy kitsch world of the WILD WILD PLANET!
-9:30pm THE GREEN SLIME: This space outrage boasts direction by arthouse favorite
Kinji Fukasaku(BLACK LIZARD,BATTLE ROYALE),a script co-written by BATMAN comics
vet Bill Finger,Bond Girl Luciana Paluzzi(THUNDERBALL),and a psycho-delic title song
by THE GREEN SLIME band!
-11pm NO BLADE OF GRASS: Actor-director Cornel Wilde's multi-faceted and downright delirious adaptation of John Christopher's novel has humanity falling into savagery following famine and an ecological meltdown!


April 2010

Thursday 1 April @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
rough night presents

Tom Duprey - trumpet
Friday 2 April @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
The Vortex Series for new and improvised music:
Guitars and Horns, Duo & Trio
Duo
Tom Duprey - trumpet / David Hawthorn - guitar
Performing original works and mixing in improvisations.
Trio
Esther viola - oboe / Todd Brunel - clarinets / Garrison Fewell - guitar


Saturday 3 April @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
dual record release:
The King Egg + Crystalline Roses + Matt Wilga

The King Egg - Meandering, mellow songs brought to you by Nick Branigan.

Crystalline Roses - Ethereal, psychedelic tunes from western Mass. LP out now on Feeding Tube Records. A recent set in Holyoke

Matt Wilga - Solo debut. For fans of the Velvet Underground and the Jesus and Mary Chain. Songs from his full band, the Stoned Ambassadors



Monday 5 April @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10

small animal project presents


Thursday 8 April @ 8pm, $10 or b/o
LUTHER GRAY QUINTET
Luther Gray - drums / Jim Hobbs - alto / Timo Shanko - tenor / Forbes Graham - trumpet / Joe Morris - bass


Friday 9 April @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o

Katt Hernandez & Woody Sullender
Katt Hernandez - violin / Woody Sullender - banjo
others tba


Saturday 10 April @ Outpost 3pm $10 or b/o
Unaffiliated Reading Series presents:
Geoff Huth, NF Huth & Chris Rizzo

NF Huth’s writing has appeared in small magazines, and in a chapbook, Once Water (Runaway Spoon Press). Her visual poetry has been exhibited at the City Library of Helsinki, her book of visual poetry, sansound, has been published by dbqp, and her asemic musical notation will appear in The New Post-literate later this year. She also publishes found sound at her audio blog, Click Buzz Chirp, and photographic images that are both pointy and blue at Pointy Blue.

Geof Huth is a poet (textual, visual, aural, and digital) who writes almost daily on visual poetry and related matters at his blog dbqp: visualizing poetics. His most recent books of poetry are Longfellow Memoranda, texistence (with mIEKAL aND), a book / of poems / so small / I cannot / taste them, Gingerbread, and Eyechart Poems, and ntst: the collected pwoermds of geof huth.

Christopher Rizzo is a writer and editor who lives in Albany, New York. His critical and creative work has appeared in Art New England, The Cultural Society, Cannibal, Dusie, Effing Magazine, Jacket, Process, and Spell among other publications. He has authored several poetry collections, most recently Supposed to Sound (Ungovernable Press, 2008) and Playing the Amplitudes (BlazeVox Books, 2008). In 2009, Greying Ghost Press rereleased his short sequence Naturalistless. In 2010, Boat Train will publish his new chapbook, Tmēsis / In Other Words Continuing, which documents the documentary “Philip Guston: A Life Lived.” The founding editor of Anchorite Press, Christopher is currently a doctoral candidate in English at the University at Albany.


Saturday 10 April @ 8pm, $10 or b/o
Jane Park
I'm an acoustic indie/folk/singer-songerwriter. I play solo with acoustic guitar

+ Left Hand Does guitar/bass/vocals

Sunday 11 April @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Tom Hall & Session VII
Tom Hall (tenor and baritone sax)

Tuesday 13 April @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Jack Pezanelli / Sheryl Bailey Guitar Duo


Wednesday 14 April @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
brazilian jazz flute master
Fernando Brandao with

Thursday 15 April @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
All of Us
+StoneTones
+Novelty Act

All of Us
was formed by saxophonist Kelly Roberge in 2010. Performing several midi instruments and character sketches, Roberge takes on the roles of a four member band which will perform sax heavy compositions ranging from jazz to metal. Cecil, Marty, Stan and Kelly are excited for their first official performance as a band!!

The StoneTones is comprised of Rick Stone on alto sax, Andrew Stern on guitar, Kendall Eddy on bass, and Austin McMahon on drums. Influenced by groups such as Jim Black's Alas No Access, Radiohead, and Muse, the group promises to ROCK OUT!!! Come see it's debut performance at the OutPost.

Novelty Act was created by Singer/Songwriter/Composer Colin Stack in January of 05' and has played monthly shows in and around the northeast. The active line-up of the band consists of a rotating group of musicians from Boston and New York. The music can best be described as an eclectic mix of rock, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, jazz, folk, and vaudeville. Colin Stack has recently been featured in the Boston Globe and Insite Magazine. His latest album, Futile Serenade, will be on sale at the show!


Friday 16 April @ Outpost - 8pm, $5/10
Chagall Performance Art Collaborative presents
presents “CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE”
Visiting Composer Concert Series
Featuring Robert Lemay
Choose the order in which you hear music by Robert Lemay, played for Robert Lemay! Meet and greet with the Canadian composer afterwards with refreshments and find out how the music is made! Featuring works he wrote for saxophone and various instruments, and poetic interludes inspired by Diana Norma inspired by the music.
Dennis Shafer - saxophone / Diana Norma - poet / Tsuyoshi Honjo - saxophone / Deirdre Viau - flute / Rebecca Wellons - saxophone

Saturday 17 April @ Outpost, 3pm, $donation or b/o
unaffiliated poetry series presents

Saturday 17 April @ Outpost, 8pm, $10 or b/o
green umbrellas presents
Simons / Lantner / Gray
Junko Simons - cello / Steve Lantner - piano / Luther Gray - drums



Sunday 18 April @ Outpost 8pm

Dr T presents Visual Music Live featuring:
Eric Zinman - solo piano
with Doctor T -- Video mixing

I've been performing improvised visuals with live music since 1974.
My goal is to produce a Visual Music, in which imagery and musical
sound compliment each other, with neither dominating. I bring the
same improvisatory spirit and artistic goals to my studio pieces as I do to live performances. Recent Video Work


21 April - theatre rehearsal

Thursday 22, Friday 23, Saturday 24 April @ Outpost 8pm $12 suggested donation
Continuity Theatre and Dance Company presents
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

Continuity Theatre and Dance Company will be staging Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire April 22nd -24th at 8pm at The Outpost. Come see this exciting portrayal of the dark destruction of the human psyche and desires shown through the family dynamic as only Tennessee Williams’ classic production can produce. Tickets: suggested donation of $12 at the door, cash only. For more information please email continuitytheatreanddnceco@hotmail.com or check out: http://continuitytheatreanddanceco.webs.com/



Sunday 25 April @ Outpost 8pm, $10 or b/o
Karayorgis/Newton/William
Pandelis Karayorgis - piano / Curt Newton - drums / Jacob William - bass

While the piano-drums part of this trio goes back a long time, this will be their first public encounter with bassist Jacob William as a group. There will be originals, Monk and maybe some Don Cherry as well.

Pandelis Karayorgis Trio
the mi3

Monday 26 April @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Katt Hernandez & Andrew Neumann
Katt Hernandez - violin / Andrew Neumann - electronics


Wednesday 28 April @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Chuck Anastasiou - solo guitar

Thursday 29 April @ Outpost, 8pm $8 or b/o
Dave Fox 4 in “Adventures in Sound”
David Tronzo - guitar / Bruno Raberg - bass / Josh Rosen -piano, keys, special effects /
Dave Fox - drums, percussion

Friday 30 April @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Jon Damian Trio
Jon Damian - Guitar and Rubbertellie / Bob Nieske - Double Bass / Ralph Rosen - Drum kit and Dumbec

This exciting trio delivers an array of Jon Damian’s original music inspired by people and places, tradition, and avant visions of new possibilities. Jon’s Rubbertellie, his invention, along with his refreshing approach to the guitar will add a special touch to the concert. He will be joined by a stellar cast of players; Bob Nieske, bassist and long-time member of Jimmy Giuffres band and Brandeis professor and Ralph Rosen percussionist and member of the Bruce Katz Band. and Media Center director at the Berklee College of Music.

Jon Damian is an active international performer, composer, lecturer, clinician and author as well as a professor at The Berklee College of Music.

His varied performances have ranged from Luciano Pavarotti to Bill Frisell and from the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa to Johnny Cash with the Boston Pops under John Williams. Jon Damian has recorded in a wide range of settings including The Boston Pops Orchestra under Keith Lockhart and John Williams, Bill Frisell, Bob Nieske’s Wolf Soup, The Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa, Collage, and for NOVA. Jon will soon return to the Umbrian Jazz Festival in Italy, performing and conducting workshops. He is the author of The Guitarists Guide to Composing and Improvising and The Chord Factory: Build Your own Guitar Chord Dictionary available through Berklee Press and Hal Leonard Publications.


“…the most experienced and admired guitar teacher I know” Jim Hall

“ Jon is one of the few musicians I know who has found his own unique voice and the courage to stay true to it. He continues to be an inspiration and example. Bill Frisell


MAY

Saturday 1 May @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Steve Lantner Quartet
Alan Chase - alto / Steve Lantner - piano / Joe Morris – bass / Luther Gray – drums

Friday 7 May @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
The Vortex Series for new and improvised music presents:
Birdsongs of the Mesazoic
The Legendary Birdsongs of the Mesazoic will perform original works and transformative improvisations incorporating live electronics.
Michael Bierylo - guitar, loops / Ken Field - sax, loops / Erik Lindgren - piano / Rick Scott - synth, loops, samples / Encanti - electronics, beats



Saturday 15 May @ Outpost, 8pm, $10 or b/o
green umbrellas presents
Junko Simons & Anthony Coleman
Junko Simons - cello / Anthony Coleman - piano

JUNE

Friday 4 June @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
The Vortex Series for new and improvised music presents:
Dave Maxwell’s Out Takes Unlimited
David Maxwell - piano & percussion / Andrew Hickman - tenor sax, soprano sax & percussion / Blake Newman - double bass /
Todd Brunel - clarinets / Rob Bethel - cello / Lawrence Cook - drumset



Saturday 5 June @ Outpost, $10 or b/o
David Haney Trio with Blaise Siwula & Dominic Duval
David Haney - piano / Dominic Duval - bass / Blaise Siwula - reeds / Juan Pablo Carletti - drums


David Haney: In the past three years David has recorded Seven new projects for the New York based label CIMP/Cadence. His new projects have included many great artists such as Julian Priester, Andrew Cyrille, Dominic Duval, and a host of exciting young players. The music is hot and the excitement is not to be missed.

"Mr. Haney is a pianist drawn to experimental settings, and he creates a promising one here." The New York Times

"music that has absorbed the lessons of Art without forgetting the play of Jazz." Cadence Magazine

"Pianist Haney has played inside and out, from Bud Shank to John Tchicai." The Village Voice

"It's about excursions in sound as much as it is playing tunes. Pianist Haney reaches inside and plucks his strings when inspiration strikes." The Village Voice

"At times, Haney's dexterity can sound like piano for four hands, or more accurately music for piano and percussion, though never in overwhelming fashion; he frequently takes momentary pauses like a saxophonist's breath connecting short runs of notes. This is modern music in the minimalist vein, rarely swinging but proving that swing-ing is certainly not as essential as the improvising element to be a qualifier for jazz." Laurence Donohue-Greene, All About Jazz, New York

"He challenges Bud Shank and other first string collaborators he brings together (including, in the past, Han Bennink and Julian Priester) with his instant compositions that mix the kinetic energy of music-in-the-moment with harmonic structural touchstones." Bill Smith, Willamette Week

Videos, Music samples, Photos, Press Release all at www.davidhaney.org

David's groups have featured
Roswell Rudd
Han Bennink
Bernard Purdie
Johannes Bauer
Andrew Cyrille
John Tchicai
Julian Priester
Buell Neidlinger
Dominic Duval
Gerry Hemmingway
Wolter Weirbos



(some) CONCERT SERIES AT OUTPOST:

VORTEX - 1st Fridays, 8pm $5/10
Microtonal soundscapes painted over a radiant sea of anarchy. New and improvisational music, featuring various guest artists in different incarnations, seeking truth and the voice that brought them to this point. Hosted by Todd Brunel - http://www.clarinetconspiracy.com

INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS CABARET with SOUNDS IN BLOOM3rd Fridays, 8pm
http://www.myspace.com/dnorma
Sounds in Bloom is an internationally performing poetry-music-movement-art collaborative that performs in theaters, bookstores, concert halls, art galleries, educational settings. and forests. Sounds in Bloom recently started the Chagall Performance Art Collaborative Series, which is currently in residence at Outpost 186 in Cambridge every third Friday of the month.

Together with saxophonist/composer Dennis Shafer (co-founder), they collaborate with a variety of international artists, and give workshops to children and adults.
subconsciouscafe new chamber music : - occasional Saturdays, 8pm $10 or b/o
Rob Chalfen's long-running improvised music series continues at OUTPOST and elsewhere. Innovative chamber music at play on the spectra of jazz, electronic, classical and world. Also may be dug by the non-subconscious mind.
robchalfen@hotmail.com


THE WHIMSY! - 1 Sunday/mo, 8PM $5 or b/o
Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic
Hosted by Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com


Steve Lantner presents : 4th Saturdays
slantner@comcast.net

Dave Pryant presents : monthly, by announcement
DaveBryant1@comcast.net


SERIES PRODUCERS:
subconsciouscafe : Rob Chalfen : robchalfen@hotmail.com
VORTEX : Todd Brunel : thbrunel@earthlink.net
The Whimsy! : Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com
Steve Lantner presents : slantner@comcast.nethttp://stevelantner.com/
Courtney Brown
Dave Bryant presents : DaveBryant1@comcast.net
Josh Jefferson : jefferson.joshua@gmail.com
Joseph Moffett : moffjazz@comcast.net
John Mulrooney : poetics - jmulrron2002@yahoo.com

DISCLAIMER:
This disclaimer is for reflexive and tautological purposes only, and may not be construed as eluding responsibility for any errors, typos, or logical absurdities, real or imagined, that may be contained in this notice, without further notice.

Thank you,
Harlan T. Flash
Corresponding Secretary,
Outpost World Enterprises

Thursday, February 4, 2010

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, February 2010

BURTON GREENE TRIO, Friday 26 Feb.9pm

OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

(CONCERT & EVENT CALENDER FOLLOWS BOILERPLATE, BELOW)

OUTPOST NEWS:

OUTPOST now hosts life drawing classes, Sunday mornings 10am - 12:30pm


Outpost 186 has been nominated for The Boston Phoenix "The Best Non-Traditional Music Venue"!
Vote for us at:
http://thephoenix.com/theBest/Boston/Vote/nontraditionalmusicvenue/#TOPCONTENT
thanks!

ROUGH NIGHT'S 11+1 REVIEWED IN PHOENIX!

ERIC JACKSON of WGBH jazz on Outpost in Globe Travel section, 9 Jan. '10:
Jackson says jazz fans who enjoy experimental acts should also check out Outpost 186 in Cambridge’s Inman Square. “The musicians at the Outpost stretch in different directions. It’s probably the most adventurous of the clubs out there.’’


OUTPOST is available for meetings, rehearsals & (non-musical) weekday daytime events.

OUTPOST wins Editor's Pick for BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VENUE in the Phoenix Best 2009!

OUTPOST featured in a short film, THE VENUE (april 2009)

19 August 2008 - Outpost has acquired a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano - come check it out!

OUTPOST DIRECTIONS: Near cr. Prospect, opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11. Big ‘186’ on R side. Follow walk at Left to gallery, REAR.

OUTPOST CONCERT INFO:
All shows 8pm door unless otherwise noted.
General admission, suggested donation at door.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, alcohol, ether or laudanum please!

ART

Outpost regularly exhibits visual art! If you are an artist and would like to exhibit @ Outpost, please send your website url to robchalfen@hotmail.com, or arrange to show your portfolio. Outpost does not charge for exhibits.

CURRENT EXHIBIT

Outpost is now showing paintings by Sarah Kinne
On exhibit: House On Wilkes Road

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery exhibits may be viewed during scheduled shows or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com

EMAIL LIST SIGN-UP: http://Outpost186.FanBridge.com


BOOKING:
OUTPOST is currently available for public performances @ $50 per event.
CONTACT: Rob Chalfen, director: robchalfen@hotmail.com
DETAILS: OUTPOST PRODUCER'S HANDBOOK - You must read this before you produce a show @ Outpost!
AACHTUNG! You must be 21 to produce events at Outpost.

WE GET PRESS!!

Darius Jones Trio Oct 19 2009 reviewed by Jon Garelick, Boston Phoenix

Blog review of 27 Aug. 2009 Dave Bryant show

Hhere’s a nice review of the 24 Nov. 08 Scarecrow Mobius gig at the Outpost by Jon Garelick of the Boston Phoenix: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/72937-Mixed-grill//

Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Boss Town Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 Outpost is the 2nd item:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/01/26/six_nights_out____what_youre_hear_who_youll_meet/

on Richard Sandler's Films:
http://www.bloggernews.net/113600
On our "Small Arts Group Die Off", 13 January:
Globe: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/01/12/small_arts_groups_are_dying_to_be_heard/
Big Red & Shiny:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue75&section=article&article=DONT_DRINK_THE_1485440
BILL MARX/The Arts Fuse: Boston Foundation to Small Theatres - Drop Dead Please!
http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/01/20/boston-foundation-to-small-theaters-drop-dead-please/#more-401


nonprofit jobs


February

Monday 1 February - private rehearsal


Thursday 4 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Sidewalk Tzara presents:

A Dance Film Mini-festival

Early avant-garde filmmaker George Manupelli, showing work (on 35mm film) not seen in many years (he's been sort of a recluse in New Hampshire until now)
+Choreographer Katherine Ferrier, showing a dance made in collaboration with George Manupelli
+Animator Will Donovan, who has revisited a dance film he made several years ago
+Choreographer/filmmaker Emily Beattie, bringing a dance film
+Filmmaker Jed Speare and choreographer Marjorie Morgan show a series of short dance films made as part of a long-running collaboration


Friday 5 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
Todd Brunel Vortex Ensemble
Todd Brunel - clarinets / Rob Bethel - cello / Yael Bat Shimon - violin / John McClellan - drums / Geni Skendo - flute & shakuhatchi



Sunday 7 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Dijkstra / William / Cook
Jorrit Dijkstra - reeds / Jacob William - bass / Laurence Cook - drums

Monday 8 February @ Outpost, 8pm
Small Animal Project reading series

Tuesday 9 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Jack Pezanelli / Sheryl Bailey Guitar Duo


Thursday 11 February @ Outpost, 8pm by donation
Alex Pinter Groups

we will play two contrasting sets with slightly different bands:

one set will be freely improvised, band will include:

stephan dickbauer - ts/cl
alex pinter - guitar
publio delgado - guitar
dimitrije vasiljevic - keys
mario carillo - bass
michael kihn - drums

the other set will be some originals and some realbook tunes, band will include:

stephan dickbauer - ts/cl
alex pinter - guitar
ronen shmueli - keys
nick merriam - bass
michael kihn - drums



Friday 12 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Existence Establishment FRKSE 12" release after-party with
Epaulettes - JP harsh noise and drone (www.myspace.com/epaulettes)
+FRKSE - JP post-raga industrial/drone + a slideshow (www.myspace.com/oldforks)
+Bitcheneck - Harsh noise from JP (www.myspace.com/bitchneck)
+Xiphoid Dimentia - Roslindale noise (www.existest.org)

Brought to you by Existence Establishment


Saturday 13 February @ Outpost, 8pm $5 or b/o
an evening of electroacoustic noise with:
ALTO JEFFRO
UNUNI
GAETANA BROWN
I THE EYE
BLACK STEEL PEACOCK


Sunday 14 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Bryant Group
Dave Bryant - piano / Tom Hall - sax / John Voigt - bass / Eric Rosenthal - Drums




Thursday 18 February @ Outpost, 8:00pm $10 or b/o
MICHAEL MUSILLAMI TRIO
Michael Musillami - guitar / Joe Fonda - bass / George Schuller - drums

On Thursday, February 18th, veteran jazz guitarist/composer Michael Musillami will bring his longstanding flagship trio to Outpost 186 in Cambridge, Massachusetts' Inman Square. The group, featuring bassist Joe Fonda and drummer George Schuller, will preview music from its forthcoming April release, Old Tea (Playscape Recordings), in a program that will also include selections from its previous recordings. This concert is part of a short February tour marking the band's last American live dates before heading to Europe to celebrate its new record in late May and early June.

Musillami's current release, 2009's From Seeds (Playscape Recordings), is the recorded debut of an expanded version of his core trio called the Michael Musillami Trio + 3, featuring esteemed frequent collaborators Ralph Alessi (trumpet), Marty Ehrlich (alto saxophone) and Matt Moran (vibraphone). Critics called the record "exceptional in all respects" (Chris Kelsey, JazzTimes) and "a marvelous new music recording of great depth and vision" (Michael G. Nastos, AllMusic.com), while also noting "the distinctiveness of Musillami's compositions" (Nic Jones, AllAboutJazz.com) and "a tone that’s impossible not to love" (James Hale, DownBeat). AllAboutJazz-New York's Robert Iannapollo adds, "From Seeds shows Musillami, Fonda and Schuller to be one of the finest working units in jazz today, with or without the '+3'."

A 25-year veteran of the music business, Musillami has worked extensively as a performer, bandleader/composer and educator. In addition to his eight year-old trio, which has performed in the U.S., Canada and Europe and released four CDs, he has earned international acclaim as the leader of groups ranging from duo to octet featuring such prominent sidemen as Cameron Brown, Thomas Chapin, Mark Feldman, Drew Gress, Mario Pavone, Michael Sarin and Matt Wilson. He is also the longtime Director of Jazz Studies at The Hotchkiss School and founder/director of the highly respected independent label, Playscape Recordings, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2009. Learn more at http://www.michaelmusillami.com


Friday 19 February @ Outpost - 8pm, $5/10
Chagall Performance Art Collaborative

Saturday 20 February @ Outpost 3pm $10 or b/o
Unaffiliated Reading Series presents:
from Providence and Cambridge by way of Vermont :
Kate Schapira & Andy Hughes


Saturday 20 February @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
green umbrellas presents
Members of the Metal and Glass Ensemble
Matt Samolis - flute / Heather Townsend & Thadd Comstock - glass organ /Junko Simons - cello

Sunday 21 February @ Outpost 8pm
Dr T presents Visual Music Live featuring:
Dave Bryant & Curt Newton
Doctor T -- Video mixing
Dave Bryant -- piano
Curt Newton -- percussion

I've been performing improvised visuals with live music since 1974.
My goal is to produce a Visual Music, in which imagery and musical
sound compliment each other, with neither dominating. I bring the
same improvisatory spirit and artistic goals to my studio pieces as I do to live performances. Recent Video Work

Monday 22 February - private rehearsal


Tuesday 23 February @ Outpost, 8pm $ 10 or b/o
Eric Zinman presents
Citizens’ Orchestra
Laurence Cook - drums / Kevine Frennette - guitar / Forbes Graham - trumpet / Jim Hobbes - alto saxophone / Chris Kottke - trumpet / Glynis Lomon - cello / Jacob William - bass / Eric Zinman - piano

Wednesday 24 February @ Outpost, 8pm $3 or b/o
back alley cinema presents the surrealistic sleaze-o-rama!
7:30 pm: scorpio rising - a rare european print of kenneth anger's homoerotic look at 60s biker culture with it's original soundtrack!
8:00 pm: funeral parade of roses - an encore presentation of this psycho-delic transgendered mindbender from 1969!
9:30 pm: 99 and 44/100% dead - a violence-filled pop art- inspired deadpan black comedy from 1970 starring chuck connors as the cyborg mob enforcer harry the claw!
11:00: wicked wicked - surreal psycho-killer thriller presented in it's original "duovision" split screen format courtesy of prolific "green acres" series director richard l. Bare!



Thursday 25 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Eric Zinman presents
new language collaborative
Glynis Lomon - cello / Syd Smart - drums / Eric Zinman - piano


BURTON GREENE - Friday, 26 February
Friday 26 February @ Outpost, 9pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafe presents
Burton Greene / Brian Groder
BURTON GREENE - piano / ADAM LANE - bass / BRIAN GRODER - trumpet PLUS SPECIAL GUEST
NOTE: WE REGRET THAT DUE TO SEVERE WEATHER ADAM LANE WILL NOT APPEAR.
Describing their trio as a Snow Globe of Free Form Improvisation in
which they shake up contrasting rhythms and harmonies all the
while blending in historical elements and nuances of the jazz idiom.
All these musical motifs swirl and envelope the listener’s ears.

Burton’s scope of the free jazz language starts from day one with Alan Siva of the early Free Form Improvisation Ensemble which joined the legendary Jazz Composers Guild (New York 1964-65). He continues today in various musical projects including his exploratory Klezmer jazz collaborations. Adam is a rising star in the stable of Portuguese jazz label, Clean Feed. His notable compositions and arrangements are showcased in Full Throttle Orchestra which he leads. Brian’s previous 2007 release with Sam Rivers brought him international attention, including a four-star “Best of ‘07” from Downbeat. Together they seamlessly develop inspiring and engaging music. They can be heard on the 2009 Latham Records release “Groder & Greene” along with Rob Brown, alto sax and Ray Sage on drums.

Saturday 27 February @ Outpost, 3pm
Small Animal Project reading series

Saturday 27 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Steve Lantner Quartet
Allan Chase – saxophones / Steve Lantner - piano /
Joe Morris – bass / Luther Gray – drums

Sunday 28 February @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5 or b/o
markus nechay presents
“The Whimsy!” Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic

Labels: , , , , ,

Thursday, December 31, 2009

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, January 2010


Ras Moshe - Friday 22 January, 8pm




JANUARY 2010

Friday 8 January @ Outpost, 8pm
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
Todd Brunel Vortex Ensemble
Rob Bethel - cello / Todd Brunel - clarinets / Matt Samolis - flute
+Keith Crook & Steve Provizer
Keith Crook (amplified classical guitar, voice) and Steve Provizer (trumpet, voice) have been playing improvised music in cement stairways, kitchens and other acoustically propitious spots since the 1960’s.

Senor Crook studied classical guitar in Barcelona for 7 years and has been teaching at various universities in Maine for the past 22. His own compositions bridge the unbridgeable; rooted in improvisation, pushing harmony to the limits, yet worked into rigorous structures. He plays in classical and jazz groups in Maine and his compositions have been published in Guitar Review Magazine.

Monsieur Provizer has been playing since his drum major days and has led various jazz groups, including his present aggregation “Travelin’ Light,” a vocal jazz group which does standards. Unlike Crook/Provizer, the group is available for weddings and bar-mitzvahs.

"Crook played with pure virtuosity”- Portland Press Herald

Oddly empathetic.” says the Curmudgeon Monthly.

“A hushed, but menacing duo”-Tony Rubella.


Sunday 10 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Tom Hall & Session VI

The Sessions, a series of performances hosted by saxophonist Tom Hall, brings creative musicians from any and all musical styles and genres together and turns them loose in a free improvisatory setting. For Session VI, Tom brings pianist Tim Ray, guitarist Jon Damian, and bassist Michael Rivard to the Outpost for an evening of free improvisation.

Tom Hall (tenor and baritone sax)
Tom Hall has spent his life improvising all kinds of music, in groups such as Your Neighborhood Sax Quartet, Bob Neiske’s Wolf Soup, the Bruce Katz Band, and Club d’Elf and with people like John Medeski, D.J. Logic, Jon Damian, Matt Maneri, Tim Ray, Duke Levine, Curt Newton, Dave Bryant, and Dave Tronzo. He is the author of the recently published book Free Improvisation: A Practical Guide, and the host of The Sessions.

Tim Ray (piano)
Perhaps best known as pianist for Lyle Lovett and Jane Siberry, Tim has performed in concert with an extensive list of pop music icons, notably Bonnie Raitt, Aretha Franklin, Lou Reed, Rickie Lee Jones, Willie Nelson, kd lang and Soul Asylum. He regularly performs with leading figures in the jazz world, among them Gary Burton, Scott Hamilton, Eddie Daniels, Bucky Pizzarelli, Lewis Nash and Rufus Reid, and his classical credits include solo performances and concerts with Gunther Schuller, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and the Boston Classical Orchestra.



Jon Damian (guitar, rubber telly)

Besides being the inventor of the Rubber Telly and an improvisation, education, and performance art icon, Jon has performed and recorded with ensembles such as The Boston Pops, Boston Symphony Orchestras, the Boston Opera, the Boston Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet, and a range of Jazz luminaries including Howard McGhee, Jaki Byard, Bill Frisell, Jimmy Giuffre, Nancy Wilson, Sheila Jordan, Don Byron, and Bobby Watson.



Michael Rivard (bass)

Michael Rivard is the leader of the Moroccan-dosed-psychedelic-dub-jazz collective Club d’Elf, whose rotating cast has included John Medeski and Billy Martin (MMW), DJ Logic, Marc Ribot, Skerik, Reeves Gabrels, and many, many more. His folk and pop credits include Aimee Mann, Bruce Hornsby, Peter Wolf, Guster, Paula Cole, Shawn Colvin, Patty Larkin, Dar Williams, and Lori McKenna. In addition, he has pursued interests in world music with the West African bands Oyie and Mamma Tongue, and jazz and avant garde music with Joe and Mat Maneri, Bob Moses, Vernon Reid, and others.




Monday 11 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Rafiq Bhatia Collective

Jeremy Viner: tenor saxophone
Corey King: trombone
Rafiq Bhatia: guitar, loops
Jackson Hill: bass
Alex Ritz: drums

Biography:

"A contemporary mind with the true potential of the future, Rafiq Bhatia is definitely an artist to look forward to hearing."
—Billy Hart, legendary jazz drummer

Rafiq Bhatia is a 21-year old East-African Indian American guitarist/composer seeking to synthesize a genre-bending musical lexicon informed by the traditions of his transmigratory heritage.

A first-generation American, Bhatia is currently completing an interdisciplinary honors degree in economics and cognitive science at Oberlin College. He is also associated with the world-renowned Oberlin Conservatory, where his concept quickly caught the attention of prolific drummer Billy Hart, who decided to include Bhatia in his new project, The Billy Hart Laboratory. Besides apprenticing under Hart and Cleveland-based drummer Paul Samuels (Greg Osby), Bhatia is the artist-in-residence at The Feve, an Oberlin mainstay, where his group has attracted a loyal fan-base and critical acclaim for their regular performances. He also frequently returns to New York, performing with the Rafiq Bhatia Collective and studying with Downbeat magazine's "Rising Star Jazz Pianist/Composer" Vijay Iyer.

www.rafiqbhatia.com
myspace.com/rafiqbhatiamusic
pirecordings.com/weblog



Tuesday 12 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Rare Degree : Michael Strauss / Dana Jessen
Michael Strauss - soprano, alto and tenor saxophones /
Dana Jessen (Amsterdam) - bassoon, squeaky toys, wii remotes and bamboo

Michael Straus (saxophones, recyclable objects and electronics) & Dana Jessen (bassoon, squeaky toys, tibetan bowls and bamboo)

presenting works by G. Douglas Barrett, Cory Kasprzyk, Matthew Burtner, Ivo Bol, Anne La Berge and Dana Jessen


rare degree is an Amsterdam-based duo focused on the performance of new and experimental electroacoustic music. Founded in 2007 and always on the move, the duo has presented concerts at venues throughout the U.S. and Europe, with recent appearances at Chicago's Heaven Gallery of Art, Portugal's Musicbox Club, Amsterdam's De Kazerne, U.K.'s Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Washington D.C.'s Artomatic Festival. They have performed with wide variety of experimental artists including turntablist DJ Dubble8, visual artist Sarah Buckius, guitarist Vitor Rua, Quatuor Bozzini and self-proclaimed knife virtuoso Hyaena Reich. Formally educated, they hold graduate degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music, Peabody Conservatory of Music and are both recent recipients of Fulbright Fellowships. Please visit www.mstraus.net and www.danajessen.com for further exploration.

The program is a Dutch meets American experimental music of sorts. Our duo has presented concerts throughout the US and Europe with recent appearances at the Heaven Gallery of Art (Chicago), Musicbox Club (Lisbon, Portugal), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (U.K.), De Kazerne (Amsterdam), Artomatic Festival (Wasington, D.C.) and Franklin Pierce College (New Hampshire) and Lilypad (Cambridge). We hold graduate degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music (Boston), Peabody Conservatory of Music (Baltimore) and are both recent recipients of a Fulbright Fellowship for performance and research in Amsterdam.

Wednesday 13 January @ Outpost, 8pm $3
back alley cinema presents tba



Friday 15 January @ Outpost - 8pm, $5/10
Chagall Performance Art Collaborative
presents



Saturday 16 January @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o

green umbrellas presents
Vincent Monaco - trumpet / Junko Simons - cello / Nat Mugavero - percussion
premiering Robert Levy's "Briarwood Variations" and also performing Chardon's "Sonata for Trumpet and Cello" with added improvised percussion, as well as additional improvised pieces.

Sunday 17 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
DAVE BRYANT - solo piano

(Note: this show was formerly listed as Michael Huse Trio)
Wednesday 20 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
GrassbladeSonicExplorers (NYC)
Jeremy Quick - guitar
Alfred Marra - vibes
Mike Huse - bass
Dan Romans - drums

One of the many experiments of six and four stringer Mike Huse, GrassbladeSonicExplorers will premiere a new long form comprovisational work.




Thursday 21 January @ Outpost, 8pm $8 or b/o
Dave Fox 5 in “Adventures in Sound”
David Tronzo - guitar / Phil Grenadier - trumpet / Bruno Raberg - bass / Josh Rosen - piano, keys, special effects /
Dave Fox - drums, percussion

Since late 2008 , "adventure in sound" has been enjoying a successful "third thursday" residency at our musical home base- The Outpost 186 in Cambridge.


Ras Moshe
Friday 22 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
subconsciouscafe presents
RAS MOSHE Quartet (nyc)
Ras Moshe - tenor sax & flute / Forbes Graham - trumpet / Tor Yochai Snyder - Guitar / Dave Miller - drums


+NEW LANGUAGE COLLABORATIVE
Glynis Lomon - cello / Syd Smart - drums / Eric Zinman - piano

ABOUT RAS MOSHE
Ras Moshe: Born on the 22nd of March 1968 in Brooklyn NY. Studied music in school as a child (elementAry to high school) and with his father (Ted "Jacob" Burnett II) who plays alto saxophone,flute and bass clarinet. His grandfather - Ted Burnett I (the last name "Barnett" was used for professional reasons) played tenor sax in the bands of Earl Bostic, Lucky Millinder, Jimmy Mundy, Don Redman, Ella Fitzgerald and many others after coming to America from Jamaica. The drummer Shadow Wilson was a close friend. Later on in life, for a variety of reasons, Ted I began to only play music within the church context. Ras' other grandparents didn't play music but grew up with many jazz and calypso artists in Harlem. Ras (Ted III) renamed himself in 1987. Although trained in earlier forms of "jazz", Ras' preferred mode of improvisation is in the later or "free" developments of the music,without relying on generic terms. He has been writing and reciting poetry since childhood as well. At the age of 16 he started playing alto in roots reggae bands...in the early 90's he got tired of only playing "jazz" at home and "here and there".....he picked up the tenor and decided to pay homage to Coltrane, Albert Ayler, John Gilmore and his other favorites on a permanent basis. Without copying verbatim (or trying not to!) He definitely believes in the positive effect the new music will have on social and personal change. The music is a spiritual and social force. It is the opposite of close mindedness...and its certainly connected to things much higher than war. The music is indeed the voice of the people. He formed The Music Now Unit in 1999 with Jackson Krall,Tor Yochai Snyder,Matt Lavelle,Kyoko Kitamura,Matt Heyner and Todd Nicholson. You can hear different editons/combinations of the band on the "Live Spirits" series on Utech records. His new band is The Transcendence Unit with Dave Ross,Matt Lavelle, Shayna Dulberger and Rashid Bakr. They just did a new release called "Transcendence" on kmb jazz. He has some ongoing musical relationships with Kyoko Kitamura and Dafna Naphtali who are in the forefront of electronic/vocal improvisations. He is the founder and organizer of The Music Now festivals. The festival series is still going strong after 7 years. He plays Tenor sax,sometimes Alto and the flute. 2007: Transcendence KMB Jazz/kmb007 www.kmbrecs.tk Ion Storm with Marc Edwards Slipstream Time Travel 2006: Live Sprits3 Live Spirits4 The Spark Trio www.utechrecords.com The Vampires Revenge with Dom Minasi 2005: Live Spirits1 Live Spirits2 www.utechrecords.com 2003: Into The Openness MusicNow 1 2002: Izititiz-With Our With Jazz(limited edition vinyl) Izititiz-Lucky Bird conduit creations 002 Schematic Jump Arts 004 Handling The Moment -The Matt Lavelle Quartet CIMP records 2001: The Blue Universe Quartet cosmic mechanic 001


Saturday 23 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Steve Lantner - solo piano



Monday 25 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o

Jack Pezanelli / Sheryl Bailey Guitar Duo


Wednesday 27 January @ Outpost, 8pm $5
search music sessions with Nat Mugavero
Nat Mugavero - percussion, zen lunacy + weekly guests tba


Jeff Platz Trio
Friday 29 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o

Jeff Platz's Oh Pulsar Trio with special guest Jim Hobbs

Jeff Platz-guitar
Kit Demos- bass
John Mclellan-drums
Jim Hobbs- alto saxophone

www.myspace.com/jeffplatz
www.myspace.com/jimhobbs

Saturday 30 January @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Three solo ambient performances with:
Christopher Glenn
+Great Hopes

+Brandon Terzakis

A night of three solo musicians, all doing experimental/ambient sounds.

Brandon Terzakis may have just recently relocated to Boston, but he has quickly established himself as a name to watch. Working with prepared guitar and utilizing traditional improvisational training Brandon's work ranges from the subtle and static to relentlessly agressive. Glistening overtones meet the distorted murk we all try and deny.


Christopher Glenn loops guitars, vocals, and organs to accomplish a very obtuse interpersonal relationship of things.


Great Hopes embodies the guitar-based arrangements and compositions of Nathan Heskia.

Sunday 31 January
private function

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

OUTPOST186 Concert & Event Schedule, December 2009

Matt Lavelle - bass clarinet - Saturday 12 December

OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages

(CONCERT & EVENT CALENDER FOLLOWS BOILERPLATE, BELOW)

BULLETIN: SUNDAY 29 NOV Herb Robertson / Ana Isabel Ordonez SHOW IS CANCELED AS THE FILMMAKER WAS INJURED IN A CAR ACCIDENT

OUTPOST NEWS:

OUTPOST is available for meetings, rehearsals & (non-musical) daytime events!

OUTPOST wins Editor's Pick for BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC VENUE in the Phoenix Best 2009!

OUTPOST featured in a short film, THE VENUE (april 2009)

19 August 2008 - Outpost has acquired a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano - come check it out!

OUTPOST DIRECTIONS: Near cr. Prospect, opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11. Big ‘186’ on R side. Follow walk at Left to gallery, REAR.

OUTPOST CONCERT INFO:
All shows 8pm door unless otherwise noted.
General admission, suggested donation at door.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, alcohol, ether or laudenum please!

ART
Outpost regularly exhibits visual art! If you are an artist and would like to exhibit @ Outpost, please send your website url to robchalfen@hotmail.com, or arrange to show your portfolio. Outpost does not charge for exhibits.

CURRENT EXHIBIT

Outpost is now showing paintings by Scott Cahaly
On exhibit: "Geisha Girls", oils, 2000

GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery exhibits may be viewed during scheduled shows or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com

EMAIL LIST SIGN-UP: http://Outpost186.FanBridge.com

BOOKING:
OUTPOST is currently available as a rental @ $50 per concert event.

CONTACT: Rob Chalfen, director: robchalfen@hotmail.com
DETAILS:OUTPOST PRODUCER'S HANDBOOK - You must read this before you produce a show @ Outpost!
NOTE: You must be 21 to produce events at Outpost.

WE GET PRESS!!

Darius Jones Trio Oct 19 2009 reviewed by Jon Garelick, Boston Phoenix

Blog review of 27 Aug. 2009 Dave Bryant show

Hhere’s a nice review of the 24 Nov. 08 Scarecrow Mobius gig at the Outpost by Jon Garelick of the Boston Phoenix: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Music/72937-Mixed-grill//

Outpost featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 19 June 2008:
An-Outpost-on-the-edge-of-music

John Voigt featured in Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July 2008

Nice write up on Outpost in the Glob, Sunday 27 Jan. 2008 Outpost is the 2nd item:
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/01/26/six_nights_out____what_youre_hear_who_youll_meet/

on Richard Sandler's Films:
http://www.bloggernews.net/113600
On our "Small Arts Group Die Off", 13 January:
Globe: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/01/12/small_arts_groups_are_dying_to_be_heard/
Big Red & Shiny:
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue75&section=article&article=DONT_DRINK_THE_1485440
BILL MARX/The Arts Fuse: Boston Foundation to Small Theatres - Drop Dead Please!
http://www.theartsfuse.com/2008/01/20/boston-foundation-to-small-theaters-drop-dead-please/#more-401


nonprofit jobs



DECEMBER

Tuesday 1 December @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Downtowwn Diaspora Trio
Set 1: Downtown Diaspora Trio : Blaise Siwuala - reeds / Ken Silverman - guitar, charango / John McLellen - drums

Set 2: Diaspora Trio w/Eric Zinman - piano

Wednesday 2 December @ Outpost, 8pm $3
back alley cinema presents
AN ALL ASIAN LETHAL LADIES THREE-WAY
FUNERAL PROCESSION OF ROSES - psycho Japanese surrealism from 1969 with a gruesome horror movie subplot and climax,insane fuzzed-out garage rock,and the most beautiful she-male protagonist ever-and more!
SCHOOL OF THE HOLY BEAST - classic Japanese entry into the traditionally European "naughty nun"/"nunsploitation" genre!
REVENGE OF THE SHOGUN WOMEN - these lethal ladies aren't Japanese Shogun women but Chinese Shoalin women! We're talking
BALD AND BEAUTIFUL KUNG FU NUNS! Come early for this one!


Friday 4 December @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
VORTEX presents
TRIO RAIZ(Brazil)

guest - Esther Viola, oboe

With Nelson Latif and Bosco Oliveira on guitar and Rafael dos Santos on percussion, the group unites three Brazilian musicians with diverse musical backgrounds. Latif is an ambassador of choro, an instrumental genre originating in Rio de Janeiro, and a master of cavaquinho, the small 4-string Brazilian guitar. He also spent formative years playing on the São Paolo jazz scene. Oliveira, with a classical foundation, has delved into Spanish flamenco. Santos infuses Afro-Brazilian rhythms with modern jazz. The three join forces in expanding and celebrating their native Brazilian music.

Their current program, “Violão Brasileiro” (Brazilian Guitar), includes original compositions as well as their own arrangements of great Brazilian masters, such as Villa-Lobos, Jacob do Bandolim, Egberto Gismonti, and Baden Powell. On December 4th the Trio may be joined by several local choro-musicians for an informal jam in the final set.



Saturday 5 December @ Outpost 3pm $donation
The unaffiliated poetry series presents

Carol Weston
+Douglas Rothschild

Carol Weston's history as a poet is linked to such figures as Jack Powers, John Wieners, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsburg, and Carl Solomon (to whom Allen Ginsburg's "Howl" was dedicated). Her credentials include being poetry editor of the Impressions Workshop. She is also the author of "What the Poet Expects of Himself," an essay published in the Tufts Review. Married to John Galloway, science teacher at Endicott College , she taught for ten years at the Chesnut Hill School . Her poetry credits include The Farleigh Literary Review, Bomb, Stone Soup Anthology 2003, and the anthology dedicated to John Wieners, The Blind See Only This World. Her chapbook, Spirals, Whorls Sutures, Septa, was published by Stone Soup.

Douglas Rothschild

Having once been considered, by some, the complete man (though often considered by others to be an incomplete platypus), Douglas Rothschild now finds himself more likely to be compared with the complete gimp. & though his stock has plummeted drasticaly over the past few years of his self imposed exile to Zipcode{tm} 12208, he reputation as a poet has experienced a rather bullish rally since the spring publication of his new volume THEOGONY. "Most certainly something not to be missed." --P.T. Barnum

"Douglas Rothschild is our Charles Olson and Theogony is all about the polis and the friendships that it holds. In one part he takes us on one of his walks through the neighborhood where he lovingly tells us the history of what we walk by everyday and never notice. And in another part he calls us up on the phone and laments what it means to be hyperaware in this contemporary moment."
--Juliana Spahr

"It's heartening--a complete relief, in fact--to finally have a lengthy tome from Douglas Rothschild, a poet whose independence and observational precision are, for me, unparalleled within the art. Rothschild is a poet of emphasis, analysis, opinion, argument, outrage, anguish, personality, friendship and deep feeling. His walking, talking line, freer within its various formal constraints (Dug is a master of the long poem made of short poems) than any surface-of-the-moment, sounds like no one else. This is a book of tremendous clarity, and I'm grateful for its existence."
--Anselm Berrigan

Reviews of which can be found at:
my performance last week in Orono)

theogony (short but sweet & very thoughtful)

pierre jorris is very kind here--this is nice.

(a very good review by susan schultz out in hawai'i)


Saturday 5 December @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Garrison Fewell’s Variable Density Sound Orchestra

BERN NIX
Sunday 6 December @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Bern Nix/Dave Bryant Quartet

Featuring former members of Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time!

Dave Bryant - piano / Bern Nix - guitar / John Turner - bass / Eric Rosenthal - drums

“For years, keyboardist Bryant and guitarist Nix were cornerstones of Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time band. Check them out if you want to hear why the best of the jazz avant-garde is as focused as it is ferocious.”
Jon Garelick, Boston Phoenix, 24 April 2009

Thursday 10 December @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
New Language Collaborative
Eric Zinman - piano / Glynis Lomon - cello / Syd Smart - Drums


Friday 11 December @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
Jacob William Quintet
Laurence Cook - Drums / Steve Lantner - Piano / Jim Hobbs - Alto Sax / Forbes Graham - Trumpet / Jacob William - Bass

Matt Lavelle - trumpet

Matt Lavelle - bass clarinet

Saturday 12 December @ Outpost, 8pm $10
subconsciouscafe presents
Matt Lavelle / Sid Smart / John Voigt
Matt Lavelle - bass clarinet, trumpet / Sid Smart - drums / John Voight - bass
Matt Lavelle is a trumpet/flugelhorn,..and bass clarinet player,composer,and writer,. living and playing in New York city since 1993. Lavelle (1970)came up through the ranks by learning swing from the source,.in the band of swing veteran sir hildred humphries,..who played with billie holiday, roy eldridge, and basie.

discovering the downtown scene led by william parker in the late 90's,..Lavelle has found a community of like minded musicians that he has worked with ever since.the culmination of all of this was studying with grand master Ornette coleman,.who has taken Lavelle through the process of harmelodics,..and truly aligned Lavelle with his own music.

to date,.he is the only jazz musician to have his own voice on trumpet and bass-clarinet,.and more instruments may be on the way. Lavelle’s album on silkheart records (distributed internationally)..received wide critical acclaim worldwide,.and was in the village voice top 10 for albums of the year in 2006. Lavelle recently was instrumental in helping avant sax legend Giuseppi Logan return to both playing and recording.
www.myspace.com/mattLavelle
www.myspace.com/trumpetrising



Sunday 13 December @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Tom Hall & Session V

Tom Hall - saxes
Sonny Barbato - accordion, piano
Jerry Leake - percussion


The Sessions, a series of performances hosted by saxophonist Tom Hall, brings creative musicians from any and all musical styles and genres together and turns them loose in a free improvisatory setting. On Session V, Tom Hall is joined by accordion wizard Sonny Barbato and muti-percussionist Jerry Leake.

Tom Hall (tenor and baritone sax) has spent his life improvising all kinds of music, in groups such as Your Neighborhood Sax Quartet, Bob Nieske's Wolf Soup, Bruce Katz Band, Club d’Elf, and with people such as John Medeski, D.J. Logic, Jon Damian, Matt Maneri, Tim Ray, Duke Levine, Curt Newton, Dave Bryant, and Dave Tronzo.

Joe “Sonny” Barbato, a freelance musician in the Boston area, plays accordian and piano. He has performed at festivals and concerts with Ravi Coltrane, Eddie Harris, Stanley Turrentine, Donald Harrison, Joe Locke, Jerry Bergonzi, Jeff "Tain" Watts, David Sanchez, and Larry Coryell. He has played accordion on over 30 recordings that range in style from country to jazz, and is a pioneering voice in jazz accordion, as evidenced by his 2006 release Crackerjack, featuring Jimmy Ponder on guitar and David Budway on piano.

Jerry Leake is co-founder of the acclaimed world-music ensemble Natraj. He also performs with Club d'Elf, R.A.R.E, Moksha, and the Agbekor Drum and Dance Society. On tabla, he has accompanied Ali Akbar Khan, Steve Gorn, Sharafat Ali Khan, Kumkum Sanyal, and Chitravena Ravikiran. He is featured on many CDs and has just released a new recording Cubist , a brillliant co-mingling of ancient African and Indian percussion traditions with modern influences of groove, ambient, rock, jazz and more.

www.freeimprovisation.com


Monday 14 December @ Outpost, 8 pm
Small Animal Project Reading Series presents
Jack Christian, Cheryl Clark Vermeulen, Zach Savich

Jack Christian is the author of the chapbook Let’s Collaborate from Magic Helicopter Press. His poems are upcoming in Drunken Boat, Sixth Finch, and Thermos, and his work has appeared recently in Cimarron Review, notnostrums, Phoebe, and Diagram. He is from Richmond, Virginia, and lives now in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Cheryl Clark Vermuelen’s poems and translations can be found in the journals DIAGRAM, Third Coast, admit2, Can we have our ball back?, Carve [poems], Dispatx, and eXchanges, as well as the anthology Connecting Lines: New Poetry from Mexico. Her chapbook Dead-Eye Spring is published by Cy Gist Press. Hailing from Illinois, she now lives in Boston and teaches writing at the New England Conservatory and the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.

Zach Savich’s first book, Full Catastrophe Living, won the Iowa Poetry Prize. He has had recent poems in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly,Kenyon Review, and the anthology Best New Poets 2008.

Friday 18 December @ Outpost - 8pm, $5/10
Chagall Performance Art Collaborative
presents
Inter-Holiday Party Collaborative Concert !
Featuring twisted holiday-style live film scoring of short films by David Lynch (backed up by our Collaborators), and the poetry of special guest Raffael de Gruttola and Diana Norma in silent film-interludes by the Lumiere Brothers. Raffael will read his renku poetry and we will finish with a Haiku jam featuring his jazz haiku!

Bring your friends and come have your holiday party here! All religious/non-religious followings welcome! Followed by an open mic and cocktail so bring your own favorite original words and music to jam with us!

Collaborating Artists

Raffael de Gruttola - poet
Diana Norma - poet
Dennis Shafer - saxophone
Jonathan Hurley - guitar
Jason Felitto - bass
Christopher Montecalvo - percussion and wind up toys

Saturday 19 December @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
green umbrellas presents
John Voigt - bass / Junko Simons - cello


Saturday 19 December @ Outpost 8pm $10 or b/o
green umbrellas presents
John Voigt / Junko Simons - cello / Katt Hernandez (back from Philly!) - violin


Sunday 20 December @ Outpost, 8pm

The Fire of Prometheus presents
Brother Blue Memorial Hoedown
Fire of Prometheus
+Underground Surrealists
et alia

Wednesday 23 December @ Outpost, 8pm $5/10

search music sessions with Nat Mugavero
Nat Mugavero - percussion, zen lunacy + weekly guests tba