7.19.12 Angel City Arts presents: The ACE Jazz Collective [Beth Schenck + Brian Walsh + Chris Kallmyer + Ben McIntosh + David Johnson + Jodie Landau + Cathlene Pineda + Ivan Johnson + Tina Raymond + Matt Wrobel]
The Academy of Creative Education is a summer arts program that gives students the freedom and tools to make their artistic visions come true. A place where students and faculty create and perform side by side in order to push the artistic classroom to the limit. Our music faculty is made up of musicians and composers from NYC and LA. This year, we are thrilled to present the premier of a collection of pieces composed for this ensemble by members of the collective.
Beth Schenck was born in Manhattan, Kansas (aka: The Little Apple). She now resides in New York City (aka: The Big Apple) where she is active as a musician and composer. She is lucky to have traveled all over the world playing music, and even more lucky to have been able to perform and work with great musicians like Jim Black, Andrew D’Angelo, Henry Threadgill, Bill McHenry and many others. Her recent debut recording, “What Shock Heard,” has been described by critics as “frank, beautiful, and, in the end, strangely peaceful.” One might argue that the result is the sound of a soul in crisis and, ultimately, redemption.
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“Cal Arts ain’t no clone factory. Musicians who come out of that university sound like themselves, and it’s usually worth making their acquaintance.
Clarinetist Brian Walsh, for instance, has woven himself into the fabric of L.A. improv for some years alongside Vinny and Nels and the gang; I think this trio thing is his first record as a leader. It’s avant, sure, but he gives you a star to steer by.
Without disrespect to the hi-flites of Benny Goodman and Barney Bigard, Walsh favors the darker hardwood ranges of the clarinet, which he wrangles in its B-flat and bass manifestations. His tone is clear but rich, his technique crisp but unfussy. And as an improviser, he can spin off strong centrifugal flow, knowing to stop before he runs out of ideas. For untrammeled whammo, Walsh indulges in a couple of pad-rattling solo excursions that banish any evil spirits of restraint.
The trio’s “Set One” sports a certain tension between freedom and communication. One senses that drummer Trevor Anderies prefers the gently stirred cymbals and rumbling toms of “14,” so the slightest current of irony surfaces when he’s required to swing a straight titty-boom, as on “Blues for Lee Van Cleef” (with Walsh’s dryly incredulous clarinet commentary), or when he’s called upon to take a quick blues walk, as on the boplicious “Ivar’s Octopus.” Still, he’s aware that kind of stuff is where the audience connection lies, and bassist Colin Burgess’ big, confident boom throughout makes the same entrée.
Still, these dudes make no apologies for their eccentricities — you can’t miss the quirks in the thunderfoot unisons and Tuvan vocal accents of “Eserav” or the tweet, roll & sproing of “The Imp.” A good compromise: “The Madness of Hans Petter Bonden,” combining hard angles with the drive of a hoppin’ contrapuntal tango.
Most approachable, though, is the sole non-original, “A Little Pain,” Walsh mentor Bobby Bradford’s tribute to Billy Strayhorn. It’s got a pretty melody, a gently butt-twitching rhythm, a bluesy segue and a sensitive offbeat jam, which should be about all you need.
Imaginative musicians, of course, are never satisfied until the wheel has been thoroughly reinvented. Who says it’s gotta be round?” - Greg Burk, review of Walsh Set Trio, “Set One” (Nine Winds)
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Chris Kallmyer is an artist living in Los Angeles, CA who works in sound installation, composition, performance, and electronic music. He has presented work at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, the Hammer Museum, the Getty Center REDCAT, Machine Project, the Goldwell Open Air Museum, and other spaces in America and Europe. His work is influenced by a sense of place, architecture, field recordings, inquiry and intimacy.
Chris is an artist//curator Machine Project, is a member of wild Up, and earned his MFA in music from the California Institute of the Arts where he studied with Thomas Stevens, Vinny Golia, Wadada Leo Smith, and Aashish Khan. He holds a BA in trumpet performance from St. Mary’s College of Maryland. In 2012 Chris will be an Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts.
Statement
My work deals with how sound can explore and articulate the dynamic between the natural and the built environment. Working with everyday things like cheese, lawnmowers, sheep or car horns in site-specific contexts, I aim to make pieces that explore the processes, customs, and environments through which humans have altered landscape and place.
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Mr. McIntosh has been a resident of Southern California since 2002. After receiving his Bachelors degree in 1999 from the Lamont School of Music in Denver, Ben toured internationally with YoungBlood Brass Band, an eight-piece compositionally driven New Orleans-style hip-hop brass band formed by Ben and his brother, sousaphonist Nat “The Warrior” McIntosh. Ben attended the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, continuing his career as performer, composer, conductor, arranger, copyist, and teacher. Ben specializes in music of all styles, from salsa to classical, show tunes to the avant garde and beyond. He is currently enjoying being an occasional member of internationally acclaimed tuba/euphonium ensemble, Sotto Voce, and of course, trombonist in the Los Angeles Brass Ensemble. Ben is the Assistant Conductor of Instrumental Music at The Oakwood School in North Hollywood, with teaching duties including brass, theory and composition. He is also the Dean of Oakwood’s summer arts enrichment program, the Academy of Creative Education with job duties including conducting and composing for the school’s two large instrumental ensembles, the SoundLab, and the Preparkehstra. He also shares administrative and executive duties with the schools founders. When not working, he tries to stay sane with reading, good movies and sculpting.When not playing, writing, or teaching music, Ben enjoys watching movies made by the Cohen brothers and saying the lines along with the actors. Name this one: “Oh, look at this. I got blueberry syrup on my safari jacket!”• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
David studied with Ed Grier, John Bergamo, Shankar Gosh, Zakir Hussein, Dave Friedman, Bill Kraft and Charlie Shoemake, He has been on the faculty of the California Institute of the Arts since 1991 and teaches at the Academy of Creative Education, a summer youth arts program in Los Angeles. He has performed and given clinics at numerous universities, colleges and other venues throughout the United States. He occasionally works in the movie industry on Local 47 recording sessions and can be heard on approximately 40 movies including, Spider Man Three and Matrix.
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“Cathlene Pineda has the ears, touch & sound of a seasoned player decades beyond the date on her driver’s license – what a surprise to find that she is still at the beginning of her career. Record companies, this is your wake-up call – she’s a player to watch….and a name to remember.” - John Schneider, The Global Village KPFK-fm
Award-winning pianist and composer Cathlene Pineda has carved out a significant career in creative, improvised music, both as a composer, and as a performer. Her extensive classical background combined with a unique approach to harmony makes her a fresh and innovative contribution to the Los Angeles music scene. She continues to perform original music throughout the west coast.
Cathlene began her Bachelor of Music Degree at the California Institute of the Arts, where she performed a wide range of contemporary and classical music, working with such noted musicians as James Tenney, Vicki Ray, Alan Vogel, and Gavin Bryars.
In 2006, Cathlene graduated with honors from the Mannes College of Music: New School, with a Bachelor of Music, studying with Victor Rosenbaum and focusing on contemporary music with Madeleine Shapiro. She was awarded the Newton Swift Award for excellence in the area of chamber music and vocal accompanying, one of Mannes’ top awards.
After graduating, Cathlene decided to delve into the world of creative and improvised music, and immediately enjoyed success as a performing composer and pianist. She was lucky enough to play and work with such notable musicians as Fred Hersch, Ralph Alessi, Ben Street, Wadada Leo Smith, Vinny Golia, Larry Koonse, Darek Oles, Michael Mossman, Antonio Hart, and Andy Milne.
Along with her musical collaborations, Cathlene has worked with puppeteers, actors, visual artists, writers, and dancers and has performed group and solo work widely across the US and Europe. Recent performances have included the REDCAT Theater at Disney Hall in Los Angeles, The Stone, the Ukrainian Institute, Second Presbytarian Church (as part of the ModernWorks festival), The Morgan Library and Gallery, the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio in New York City, The Skirball Center, Bowdoin College, Roy O. Disney Concert hall at the California Institute of the Arts, the Janet Wallace Concert Hall at Macalester College, The Landmark Center, The Mannes College of Music, and St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City.
Cathlene recently moved back to Los Angeles from Brooklyn where she is pursuing her Masters Degree in composition and improvisation from the California Institute of the Arts. She performs, records, and teaches throughout the Southern California area.
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IVAN JOHNSON from Los Angeles, completed his BFA degree at California Institute of the Arts in 2003, where he studied chamber music, jazz, composition, theory and arranging. He has studied contrabass with Charlie Haden, Darek Oles, and Peter Rofe; arranging and composition with Michael Pisaro, Marc Lowenstein and Mark Menzies; and Baroque music with Allen Vogel and Tisha Goldstein. Ivan has performed all over the United States with an eclectic group of ensembles, and made his solo debut at the 2003 Athens Music Festival in Athens, Georgia. As a musician on the progressive music scene he has premiered compositions by Marc Lowenstein, Vinny Golia, Mark Menzies, Anne LeBaron, Michael Pisaro, James Tenney, Kris Tiner, and Jason Mears. Mr. Johnson’s current projects include the Lian Ensemble – a classical Persian group which streches the boundaries of traditional Iranian music, Dark Wing plays a unique blend of world music using free improvisations and original composition for marimba, string bass, tar, setar, ney and a variety of percussion instruments, and the Nate Lapointe Band – a rootsy eclectic songwriting and improvising group. Ivan is head of the jazz program at Oakwood High School in Los Angeles, and he co-founded the Academy of Creative Music. Recently Mr. Johnson was the Assistant Music Director for the world premiere of the critically acclaimed opera “The Peach Blossom Fan,” working closely with Stephin Merritt from the Magnetic fields, and has been an Artist In Residence at Stanford University, performing music by Brian Ferneyhough, and Mark Applebaum. Mr. Johnson recently premiered his own opera “Lucid Dreams” with composer Ethan Gruska.
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“…Tina is taking LA by storm with her sophisticated command of percussion…” – Pat Senatore: bassist from Tijuana BrassTina Raymond is only beginning what hopes to be a long and exciting career in music. She grew up in the metro-Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills. After High School, she attended the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of music and studied with the percussionists from Percussion Group Cincinnati and jazz drummers John Von Ohlen and Art Gore. While attending CCM, Tina was chosen as the 2007 Sisters and Jazz Drummer for IAJE. With this band she toured NYC, Washington DC, and Costa Rica. Tina recently finished her Masters degree from the California Institute of the Arts where she studied with Joe La Barbera. Tina currently resides in Los Angeles, and maintains an active performing and teaching calendar. She recently performed at the Kennedy Center’s MaryLou Williams Jazz Festival in Washington DC with Ann Patterson’s Maiden Voyage Jazz Orchestra. She performs regularly around Los Angeles with her own trio (with guitarist Tim Fischer and bassist Emilio Terranova), and also as a sideman with other Los Angeles musicians.
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