An evening of experimental improvised music

Free with Free Drinks and Snacks

8pm on Saturday, May 7
At The Home Of
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Featuring Two Acts:

Act 1: Jamie Paul Lamb (bass), Edward Schneider (Alto Saxophone), Yohuru Ralph Williams (percussion)

Jamie Paul Lamb is a bassist and composer currently living in Connecticut. Before his recent move, he was the founder of the Minneapolis Free Music Society, a large collective of musicians engaged in experimental and free improvisation. Lamb is now an active member of the New Haven Improvisers Collective and is an actively performing in both Connecticut and New York.

Edward Schneider is an improviser, composer, and educator currently living
in Brooklyn, New York. Before his recent move to New York, Schneider lived in
 Minneapolis. During this time he co-founded the quintet Process is the Goal and
 was an active member of the Minneapolis Free Music Society. In 2009 Schneider 
received a Subito grant from the American Composers Forum to produce the
 compact disc (Again) Against/Because. . . That same year his new electronic
 composition, the tree that was a bird, was performed as part of the Conny Purtil l
performance at the Blinky Palermo puppet theater at the Pompidou in Paris.
 Recently, Schneider was the subject of a new documentary by filmmaker Mark 
Nye.

Yohuru Ralph Williams Started playing music in Philadelphia, working with musicians including Odean Pope and Eddie McFadden. Then moved to Berkley where he played with Jackie McLean and others. His career also included work as a studio percussionist for Leo Smith. In addition Yohuru was an active member of the Creative Improvisers Orchestra, with musicians including: Anthony Braxton, Oliver Lake, Gerry Hemingway, and Bobby Naughton. He has also worked as an educator, creating lessons that mix his passions for creative music and environmental conservation.

Act 2: DISCONTENSE: Constance Cooper, Jamie Paul Lamb, Edward Schneider, and Yohuru Ralph Williams.

Constance Cooper (piano, vocals) received first prize in the 2002 Gustav Mahler Competition (Austria). Her reflections about string instruments led to her invention of new hand-positions and notation for Coming From Us, commissioned by the American Composers Forum (Cadence Recordings). Her Divertimento for String Quartet is available on the Princeton CD label. Amoroso for orchestra was recorded by Harold Farberman in 2001. Her improvisatory pieces for organ, synthesizer, and bass Repaying Sin-Driven Senators by Not Thinking About Them were completed during a residency at ArtOMI. She has appeared as composer, pianist, and singer at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors and with the Princeton University Composers Ensemble, Continuum, and the American Microtonal Festival; and produced her own contemporary vocal recital series for 7 years. She received her doctorate in composition from Princeton University in 2003.

see above for biographies of Edward, Jamie, and Yohuru . . .