{"id":89,"date":"2008-05-11T16:36:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T20:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2008\/05\/comin_right_up_introducing_mat\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T16:34:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:34:43","slug":"comin_right_up_introducing_mat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2008\/05\/comin_right_up_introducing_mat.html","title":{"rendered":"Comin’ right up — introducing Matt Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a renewed effort to keep readers abreast of good listning, J-B-J introduces Matt Miller, who has some recommendations for places to go, comin’ right up. Matt is a 23-year-old tenor saxophonist, graduate of the New School Jazz and Contemporary Music program, who writes for AllAboutJazz-New York and Jazz.com, besides contributing here.<\/p>\n


\n<\/p>\n

Monday, May 12 <\/b><\/span>Tony Malaby<\/a>‘s robust tenor sax fronts a different
\nforward-thinking ensemble each Monday, including this week pianist drummer Tom
\nRainey, bassist Eivind Opsvik and guitarist Mary Halvorson; 9 and 10:30 p.m. at
\nthe funky-comfy Tea Lounge, 837 Union St. (between 6th<\/sup> and 7th<\/sup>
\nAves.), $5 donation requested.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0Tuesday,
\nMay 13 – Saturday May 17 <\/b><\/span>Saxophonist
\nPharaoh Sanders<\/a> has mellowed considerably since his days as John Coltrane’s
\ndemonic foil, but his husky tone and melodic sense have developed into
\nsomething like serenity, at the midtown Manhattan supper club Birdland, 215 W.
\n44th<\/sup> St.. 8:30 and 11 p.m.; $35 – $45 music charge.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0Wednesday, May 14 <\/b><\/span>Another chance to hear Malaby and Rainey – with <\/b><\/span>bassist Mark Helias<\/a>, this month’s curator of the
\nweekly Night of the Ravished Limbs <\/i><\/span>series
\nin the intimate back room of the hipster neighborhood tavern Barbes’, 376 9th<\/sup> St.,
\nBrooklyn, at 8 and 10 p.m., $10.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday, May 15 –
\nSaturday, May 17 <\/b><\/span>Multi-reedist\u00c2\u00a0composer and early member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative
\nMusicians Henry Threadgill <\/a>explores an unusual timbral palette with his band Zooid<\/i><\/span> <\/b><\/span>(named
\nfor an organic cell capable of independent movement or several cells forming a
\ncolony) <\/span>— Liberty Ellman, guitar; Stomu
\nTakehishi, bass guitar; Jose Davila, tuba; Elliot Humberto Kavee, drums; Dana
\nLeong, cello and trombone (15 and 17th<\/sup> only); Judith Sanchez,
\nmovement (16th<\/sup> only), at the Jazz Gallery, a multi-arts cultural
\ncenter, 290 Hudson St., Manhattan, 9 and 10:30 p.m., $20 ($10 for members).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In a renewed effort to keep readers abreast of good listning, J-B-J introduces Matt Miller, who has some recommendations for places to go, comin’ right up. 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