jazz
8-10pm
$10
the fred woodward trio
fred woodward - guitar
esperanza spalding - bass
yoron israel - drums
jazz
10pm-12am
$10
the fringe
george garzone (tenor sax)
john lockwood (bass)
bob gullotti (drums)
production: bob gullotti
jazz
7-9pm
$7
Kyle Nasser Group
Leo Genovese/Corey Bernhard - piano
Lee Fish - drums
Hogyu Hwang - bass
Kyle Nasser - sax
production: knasser@gmail.com
dance
9:30pm – 12am
$5
argentine tango dance party (milonga)
buenos aires style with occasional performances
producer: simonida cekovic-vuletic 617-497-5568
b3 jazz organ
9:30pm-12am
$7
15 yr. old Organ Prodigy
Jake Sherman Duo
OTIS GROVE DUO
OTIS GROVE DUO:
Sam Gilman - Organ
Blake Goedde- Drums
Production: Sam Gilman
avant cabaret
9:30pm-12am
$5
markus nechay presents:
“WHIMSY”
A monthly variety show of local talent hosted by two evermorphing characters.
The performers will be followed by an audience participatory open music/poetry/ dance jam.
If you would like to perform, this is a quasi Open Mike, so just talk to the host, and you can go on stage.
Production: Markus Nechay
Jan. 3rd to Jan. 22nd 06
Artists Reception Jan. 7th 3-6 pm
Sandra Cohen
Jesse Kaminsky
Stefan Barton
CompLEXity / Klecks (splotch, blot, blotch, blob, daub…)
I like to experiment with the naturally flawed constructions that have rooted in human consciousness and continue to structure and affect our present ideas of reality. Underlying my work is a matrix of scientific and spiritual conceptualizations of the universe.
Sandra Cohen
Cosmology and how we relate to it are constant themes in my work. When I talk about cosmology I don’t mean merely making models of scientific phenomena, but trying to figure out for my self what the complex interactions in the universe look like in the 3-dimensional world of sculpture. I like to let the materials have a certain amount of autonomy in my work in order to see what they want, and therefore, how they are made.
Jesse Kaminsky
The universe is simultaniously highly organized and chaotic. The difference between order and disorder is a human concept like beauty or tragedy. We find room for interpretation. I search for order in disorder and disorder in order. The emergence of one from the other fascinates me. I juxtapose seemingly random and unrefined improvisation with a feeling of reality, a sense of cause and effect and precision to convey the tension between order and disorder.
Stefan Barton
jazz
9:30pm-12am
$10 donation requested
benjamin sharoni quartet
Personnel:
Benjamin Sharoni - tenor saxophone
Joe Barbato - piano
Bruce Gertz - bass
Bob Kaufman - drums
the benjamin sharoni quartet delves into the modern and hard bop jazz
realm and features original compositions, as well as standards and latin
selections. the synergy within the band is undeniable, and features highly
acclaimed players from the boston, new york and national jazz scenes.
jazz
8pm
$5
Midnight Shoveler
One night of original songs, art songs, and recompositions
An eclectic mix of piano and voice reminiscent of late-night jazz sessions, Philip Glass minimalism, contemporary classical, old-school pop, piano rock, and who knows what else. Shovel it up!
Nathan Hall, piano, keyboard, voice
and special guests Abe Lateiner and Kate Casolaro
jazz 10–12am $5
gill's wednesday night jam
a jazz jam run by gill aharon and his crackerjack houseband variously featuring:
wednesday night house band:
gill aharon – piano
blake newman - bass
eric hoffbauer – guitar
alex spiegelman – sax
& our famed rotating drummers: nat mugavro, dave coniglio, will buchanan & jason nazary
production: gill aharon
b3 jazz organ
9:30pm-12am
$8 suggested donation
hammond b3 nights
BEN KURIS AND THE ODA ORGAN GROUP
THE ORGAN TRIO
Sam Gilman - Organ
Tyler Drabick - Guitar
Blake Goedde - Drums
Production: Sam Gilman
jazz-improv
9:30pm-midnight
$12
rob chalfen & subconsciouscafe new chamber music
presents
-PANDELIS KARAYORGIS / KEN VANDERMARK DUO
-KATT HERNANDEZ – solo violin (opening)
"Reed player Ken Vandermark and pianist Pandelis Karayorgis will play a set of duets on the night before their new recording session. This comes four years after their Boxholder release "No Such Thing" with bassist Nate McBride and a series of concerts around the same time in trio or quartet settings with drummer Curt Newton.”
Pandelis Karayorgis
References to Thelonious Monk and Lennie Tristano, Cecil Taylor and Andrew Hill sometimes appear in accounts of his playing but these are valid more as reference points than as true stylistic touchstones. It might be more accurate to suggest that Karayorgis brought to turn-of-the-century jazz piano hints of how those earlier innovators might have played had they been up-and-coming now rather than then. To quote Billy Taylor, in a blindfold test carried out by Bill Milkowski in JazzTimes, "I have no idea who this is but it is really very clever, very refreshing." Clearly, Karayorgis is intent on pushing the envelope of improvised music, and is very capable of achieving his aims.
(Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Copyright Muze UK Ltd. 1989 – 2005)
Ken Vandermark
For the past 20 years, Ken Vandermark has been exploring and expanding the possibilities of improvised and composed music.
Since moving to Chicago in 1989, he’s worked within a variety of contexts with many internationally renowned improving musicians. Currently, the majority of his work has been directed toward the Vandermark 5, Bridge 61, The Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet, Fme, Sonore, The Nilssen-Love/Vandermark Duo, The Territory Band and Free Fall.
Beyond creating music, Ken has made many significant and highly respected contributions to both the local and international jazz/improvised music collectives. In 1996, he and writer John Corbett began co-organizing the Empty Bottle "Wednesday Night Jazz Series" concerts that continue to bring improvisers from Chicago, North America, and Europe to audiences on a weekly basis. Ken became the head curator of these performances in January 2002, and began directing the "Chicago Improvisers Series" which now features local ensembles for month long Tuesday night residencies. His work as a presenter led to being invited to act as the creative director for the ACME Festival, a four-day event held in Athens, Georgia, April, 2004, which featured concerts and workshops involving 21 musicians from Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the United States.
Production: Rob Chalfen
1pm-
$7 donation
Melanie Maz, violin
Itamar Ronen, piano
Program-
Schumann, Sonata No. 1
Brahms, Sonata No. 3
Dvorak, "Romance"
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Melanie Maz
Violinist Melanie Maz has performed in recitals, chamber music groups, orchestras and music festivals, including the Idyllwild Arts Academy summer program, the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival and Opera in the Ozarks. Since moving to Boston in 2000, she has been a violinist in the Longwood Symphony, the Longy Summer Orchestra, the Brahms Society Orchestra, and the New England Philharmonic.
A native of southern California, Melanie began studying violin and piano in elementary school. She received a B.A. with Distinction and Honors in Music and Communication from Goucher College (Towson, MD) in 1998, where she studied violin with Ronald Mutchnik and piano with Lisa Weiss. Post-college, Melanie continued her violin studies with Michael Tseitlin in San Diego and with Janet Packer at the Longy School of Music.
Melanie is currently a violinist in the Newton Symphony and teaches lessons at her Somerville studio. She is also an established visual artist who exhibits regularly in the Boston area. Her website is www.maz-art.com.
Itamar Ronen
Born in Jerusalem, Israel, Itamar took his first piano lesson at the age of 9. Soon after, he enrolled at the Israeli Conservatory of Music, where he studied piano, music theory and music history. He focused on chamber music early on, and performed in public with several chamber music ensembles and singers, specializing in the German Art Song. During his military service he connected with several wind players, and together they formed a piano and wind quintet which held together for several years.
Itamar holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Tel Aviv University. Following a five-year post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, he is now a faculty member at the Department of anatomy and Neurobiology at the Boston University School of Medicine. His research is in the field of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the brain, and focuses on how MRI methods can reveal the microscopic structure of the brain.
contact: Ai Isshiki 617-764-0298 zeitgeistca@mac.com
: Sylvain Bouix sbouix@gmail.com
drawing session
10:30am–1 pm
$10
life drawing
every sunday @ zeitgeist
production: jamie mclaughlin
avant-folk film music
9:30pm-midnight
$8
robert stillman's horses cd release
robert stillman's horses (rural instrumental songs)
flying (dream-pop-noise-folk)
squids (undersea dance party)
festival of the now: two bands from brooklyn on seattle's mill pond records (horses and flying) tour in support of horses january 10th self-titled release, and in anticipation of flying's march release. locals squids join the festivities.
jazz-improv
7-10pm
$6
Blood Cells with Jonathon LaMaster and special guests.
A special addition to the bill will be a duo performance with Karate's Gavin McCarthy
on drums and Josh Jefferson saxophone.
Blood Cells travel in free improv, surreal groove and ambient domains via tonal and microtonal strategies.
Blood Cells is:
Eric Dahlman (Hal Russell, Aardvark Jazz Orchestra) - trumpets, melophone and space walrus
Michael Hutcherson (L Contra Band, Tiny Amps) - drums, Fender Rhodes and analog synths
Adam Franks (Rose of Sharon, Tiny Amps) - electric guitar and bells
Jonathan LaMaster (Cul de Sac, Saturnalia String Trio) - violin, bass
rounds out the bill with TBA special guests.
jazz
10pm–12:30am
$10
Out-jazz & free improvisation at its best. This trio has been playing together for over 30 years, and reinvents itself every time!
george garzone – tenor sax
john lockwood – bass
bob gullotti –drums
production: bob gullotti – 781.899.9382
jazz
7-9pm
$7
Kyle Nasser Group
Leo Genovese/Corey Bernhard/Lawrence Fields - piano
Lee Fish - drums
Hogyu Hwang - bass
Kyle Nasser - sax
hard-hitting, straight-ahead modern jazz...sit-in by invitation, so bring your axes.
jazz
8pm
$10
AVANTRIO
SOFIA KOUTSOVITIS (voice)
JORGE ROEDER (bass)
JORGE PEREZ-ALBELA (cajon/percussion)
Special guests: DAN BLAKE (Soprano sax and Clarinet)
" Three South American musicians exploring their musical backgrounds, from Lima, Peru and Buenos Aires, Argentina throughout the streets of Jazz"
"Festejos, Lando, Peruvian waltz, Panalivio, Zamacueca, Marinera, Argentinean Zamba song styles with a Jazz flavor in a unique instrumentation: Voice, bass, percussion"
Performing original arrangements of compositions by: Chabuca Granda, Caitro Soto, Felipe Pinglo, Nicomedes Santa Cruz, etc.
jazz 10–12am $5
gill's wednesday night jam
a jazz jam run by gill aharon and his crackerjack houseband variously featuring:
wednesday night house band:
gill aharon – piano
blake newman - bass
eric hoffbauer – guitar
alex spiegelman – sax
& our famed rotating drummers: nat mugavro, dave coniglio, will buchanan & jason nazary
production: gill aharon
piano jazz
7-9pm
$10
aruan ortiz quartet
with jerry bergonzi
aruan ortiz
jerry bergonzi
john lockwood
bob kaufman
b3 jazz organ
9:30pm-12am
$8 suggested donation
hammond b3 nights
Rusty Scott Organ Trio
bluegrass
7-9pm
$8
jaded mandolin, laurel grove, and geoff brown and friends
http://www.jadedmandolin.com
http://www.laurelgrovemusic.com
http://www.geoffbrownmusic.com
1pm-
Hatch Sterrett (Piano)
David Welans (flute)
BIOS --
Hatch Sterrett, piano, has played the Mozart 22nd Piano Concerto with the Harvard Musical Association orchestra and Mozart's 9th Concerto for a Dance Collective performance at Boston University. He has played in the American Women Composers Music Festival at Northeastern, has accompanied the Brahms Violin Sonata in G, with violinist Farzaneh Behroozi, at several venues including the Zeitgeist, and most recently improvised at the 2005 PianoFest at the Zeitgeist.
David Welans, flute, is a performer, composer, and teacher, who also specializes in flute customization and headjoint design.
Together, Hatch and David have performed pieces by Kuhlau, Schumann, Bach, Prokofiev and others.
PROGRAM --
Opera House Wedding Waltz
--- Nobuo Uematsu
(Arr. by Arnold Morrison from Final Fantasy VI)
Adagio (Eb major)
--- Johannes Brahms
(Flute adaptation by the performers from Violin Sonata #1 in G major, Op. 78)
2nd Mvmt, Piano Concerto #22, K482 – Andante (C minor)
1st Mvmt, Piano Sonata in D major, K311 – Allegro con spirito
--- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Berceuse in F major, Op. 16
--- Gabriel Fauré
contact: Ai Isshiki 617-764-0298 zeitgeistca@mac.com
: Sylvain Bouix sbouix@gmail.com
aboriginal jazz
7-9pm
$10
nomad stories
ANDRES JIMINEZ - DRUMS, PERCUSSION
WILLIE JONES JR. - PIANO, KEYBOARD, VOCALS
SHANE ALLESSIO – BASS / ROGER PANELLA – GUITARIST
KELLY SHEPHERD - SAXOPHONES, FLUTE, STORYTELLING
VICTOR – PERCUSSION
Nomad Stories is an ensemble which performs a combination of aboriginal folk music from around the world , improvised music based in the classical and jazz tradition, with a bit of storytelling thrown in the mix. Their emphasis and goal lies in sound and the manipulation of tone and resonance.
Led by saxophonist Kelly Shepherd (Cdbaby.com/cd/kellyshepherd), the mood always changes with NoMad Stories as they frequently feature special guests ranging from hip hop to folk to classical artists.
Music which touches and reflects the ancient, aboriginal stories of the earth and simultaneously reaches the outermost expanse of the modern spheres, acoustic and electric. These are the NoMad Stories.
Like the old school saxophonists he admires, Shepherd expresses a great deal of emotion with his horn. From the tumultuous "Freedom Call" and the soulful "Talib's Quest" to the hopeful "Prayer for Africa" and the sultry "L.I. Blues," he plays with real feeling. "I really appreciate the vulnerability in the sound," he says of the disc. "It's not perfect, but I want people to hear that there was a baby's cry underneath all of it, a strong cry that wasn't hampered by perfection. I wanted people to hear the rawness and get a real glimpse of who I am." (John Lewis-Baltimore City Paper)
Production: Kelly Shepard
benefit
9pm-midnight
$10
a benefit for the zeitgeist with
The Mustn't Grumble
Shawn Hershey - Trumpet
Carl Staaf - Saxophone
Chris Scharl - Drums and silly faces
John Rice - Banged-up old bass and epiglottally distressed moray eel
Ben Vigoda - Gypsy Jazz Guitar
An improvisation of folk harmonies, gypsy acoustic contra-swing, and witful and wistful lyrics by an unusual orchestra that will move you, make you dance, and make you laugh.
Long time friends of the Zeitgeist Gallery, The Mustn't Grumble, are back in Cambridge after headlining the Cape Cod Folk Music Festival, drawing enthusiastic crowds at Barbes in Brooklyn, and playing live on WAMC Performance Place (Hudson Valley NPR). They will be playing a benefit concert for the Zeitgeist on Saturday, January 21, to help support expansion of the gallery as it opens its new space in Inman Square at ???.
The Mustn't Grumble have been together for a number of years, playing through-out New England, but are still somewhat of a well-kept secret in their home base of Cambridge, Ma. With influences ranging from Django Reinhardt to Gillian Welch with Bela Fleck and John Zorn in between, Carl Staaf (on his vintage 1910 Saxophone) and Shawn Hershey (both electronic and silver trumpets) range from quiet close harmonies to going wild on their horns, while audiences that love to swing or contra-dance often jump up to rhythms of band leader Ben Vigoda (who studied gypsy-jazz guitar with French master of the style, Stephane Wrembel and also built his own magneto-acoustic infinite-sustain guitar at the MIT Media Lab), Chris Scharl (on suitcase percussion) and John Rice (on upright bass). Ben Vigoda and bassist John Rice also sing wonderful harmonies on an appalachian ballad from a Gillian Welch record and the entire band joins in on a chorus of "Singing in the Bathtub" singing, "I'm forever blowing bubbles, pretty bubbles in the air." They dress up in vintage vaudeville-era suits complete with old felt hats, and this band leaves you with the impression that they are deeply listening to each other and the audience at the same time that they are having a whole lot of fun onstage.
jazz
7-9pm
$10
Nina Ott Four
Nina Ott (piano wurli)
Phil Grenadier (trumpet)
Chris Poudrier (drums)
Chris Lopes (Bass)
indie/noise/pop
9:30pm-12am
$5
28 degrees taurus
this car up
amerosa
28 degrees taurus is a high energy psychedelic noise pop duo consisting of guitar and drums.
this car up is an indie pop quartet. they write
beautiful 60's style pop hits.
amerosa is an instrumental noise freak out trio
consisting of guitar, bass and drums.
jazz
10pm–12:30am
$10
Out-jazz & free improvisation at its best. This trio has been playing together for over 30 years, and reinvents itself every time!
george garzone – tenor sax
john lockwood – bass
bob gullotti –drums
production: bob gullotti – 781.899.9382
jazz
8pm
$10
Alon Nechushtan - piano
John Lockwood - Bass
Bob Gulotti - drums
Michael Dessen Trio
eclectic jazz
10pm-12:30
$7
Michael Dessen, trombone + electronics
Jorge Roeder, bass
Bob Weiner, drums
Trombonist Michael Dessen has recorded with Yusef Lateef, Anthony Davis, the collective quartet Cosmologic, and many others. In this new trio, he plays both acoustic and computer processed trombone, and is joined by Jorge Roeder, a dynamic bassist on Boston's jazz and creative music scenes, and Bob Weiner, a virtuoso drummer who has worked with Bob Moses, Kenny Werner and many others. Performing all original compositions, this new trio moves fluidly among acoustic and electronic sound worlds, with tight ensemble work alongside adventurous improvisation.
acoustic guitar
7-9pm
$10
matt joy and chuck anastasiou
solo acoustic guitar performances by matthew joy and charles anastasiou (freedom for gus)
eclectic guitar
9:30pm-midnight
$12 or b.o.
rob chalfen & subconsciouscafe new chamber music
presents "2 non-sectarian guitars"
Robbie Lee – solo augmented guitar
Glenn Jones – solo acoustic guitar
ROBBIE LEE
New York-based multi-instrumentalist Robbie Lee keeps himself busy with a number of little-heard musical projects; this solo set of guitar improvisations is among his most recent. A wide variety of pedals and other noisemakers are deployed to manipulate electric guitars, but this isn’t your grandma's loop-based music. The sound reflects Lee’s love of the extremes of pop music, evoking not only the classic songwriting harmonies of the Beach Boys and the Kinks, but also the maverick experimentation of noisy heroes like Keiji Haino, Giacinto Scelsi, and John Fahey. The unexpected results of his music-making are unseemly, surprising, and exciting – like nothing you've ever heard.
GLENN JONES
Since 1989, Glenn Jones has led Boston’s “avant-garage” instrumental rock band, Cul de Sac, whose musical adventures are documented on 10 albums, including a soundtrack for cult-director Roger Corman (The Strangler’s Wife, 2003), and collaborations with guitarist John Fahey (The Epiphany of Glenn Jones, 1996), and former Can vocalist Damo Suzuki (Abhayamudra, 2004).
In 2001, Glenn began playing acoustic guitar, which he hadn’t touched in more than a decade, and the two most recent Cul de Sac studio albums (including the rapturously received Death of the Sun, 2003) have featured as much of his acoustic guitar as his electric.
A 30-plus-year devotee of the so-called “Takoma school,” Jones has written extensively on the label’s two leading lights: John Fahey, with whom he was friends for nearly 25 years, and Robbie Basho, who befriended Jones in the last five years of his life.
With former Takoma label guitarist Peter Lang -- along with Michael Gulezian, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Henry Kaiser, Gary Lucas, Tony Conrad and others -- Jones performed at sold-out concerts honoring John Fahey in New York City and San Francisco shortly after Fahey’s death in 2001.
In June 2004, Jones released his first solo acoustic guitar album, This Is the Wind That Blows It Out, for the Strange Attractors Audio House label. He followed it up with month-long tour of Europe with guitarist Jack Rose, including appearances on The John Peel Show and The Wire's ‘Resonance.’
REVIEWS:
“Gorgeous, luminous . . . scored across a series of open tunings, which he threads with beautiful rolling melodies, his slide work sounding like the flutter of tiny metal butterflies. . . . One of the best of the recent deluge.” --David Keenan, The Wire
". . . a kind of sensory magic at work. . . . It’s all done with a natural, unforced feel devoid of flash and etched in slow detail so every nuance of his vibrato and tone can be absorbed. Really, the right word is 'felt,' since these instrumental compositions all have genuine emotional resonance, no slight accomplishment." --Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix
"From the slide blues opening of the title track, to the Spanish-tinged fingerpicking of ‘Sphinx Unto Curious Men’, Jones recalls such great Fahey albums as Dance of Death and Other Plantation Favourites and Days Have Gone By. . . . That figures like Jones and Sonic Youth are curating this music – and the centuries this music in turn curates – is perhaps surprising at first glance. But it's just the folk process: Canned Heat curating country blues, Hendrix updating its project and making it roar in vivid scarlet. That Sunburned Hand of the Man, Steffen-Basho Junghans and the new ‘anti-folk’ movement are here is laudable. So here's a map to the past, rich in detail, a necessary guide for anyone packing a rucksack, intending to move along that road, back to the future." --Michard Reltzer, Plan B Magazine
Production: Rob Chalfen
1pm-
$5~10 Suggested Donation
Nathan Selman, Viola
Program:
Bach Suite
etc.
Contact: Ai Isshiki zeitgeistca@mac.com 617-780-4292
: Sylvain Bouix sbouix@gmail.com
January 24th to February 16th
Opening Reception January 28, 3-6pm
An exhibition of over 30 curated photographs
including 18 members of the Boston Photography Center
drawing session
10:30am–1 pm
$10
life drawing
every sunday @ zeitgeist
production: jamie mclaughlin
eclectic classical
7-9pm
$10
Michael Nicolella
solo classical and electric guitar
Praised by Gramophone for his "stunning technical skill and unfailing musicality" and characterized by Classical Guitar magazine as "a fully enlightened musician of our time," Michael Nicolella is recognized as one of America's most innovative classical guitarist virtuosos. In his concert at Zeitgeist, he will perform music for classical and electric guitar, including works by Steve Reich, J.S. Bach, Hans Werner Henze, Astor Piazzolla, John Fitz Rogers, Jacob Ter Veldhuis, Jimi Hendrix and himself.
Since the passing of Andres Segovia the guitar world has needed an advocate... perhaps Michael Nicolella is that person." - THE WASHINGTON POST
lebanese music
9:30pm-midnight
The ZilZALA Middle Eastern Ensemble:
ZilZALA is:
Christiane Karam (Voice, Percussion)
Anastassia Zachariadou (Kanun, Flute)
Walid Zairi ('Ud)
Nicole Rampersaud (Trumpet, Flugelhorn)
Petr Cancura (Soprano Sax, Clarinet)
Giacomo Merega (Bass)
Eric Doob (Percussion)
Tupac Mantilla (Percussion)
Led by acclaimed vocalist / arranger Christiane Karam,
the ZilZALA Middle Eastern Ensemble is a Boston-based
World Music band that draws from several musical
cultures to re-interpret classical, traditional and
folk Arabic Music. The outcome is a powerful and
uplifting blend of Eastern and Western influences that
range from Lebanese, Egyptian, Turkish, Greek and
North African grooves and melodies, to contemporary
Jazz harmonies, that creates a truly unique musical
experience. The ZilZALA Ensemble has been playing to
packed houses in Boston and New York, bringing
together music lovers from the Middle East with a
western audience that is eager to learn about and
enjoy the exotic middle eastern rhythms and melodies.
ZilZALA has headlined at venues such as Ryles Jazz
Club, the Berklee Performance Center, Club Passim, The
Zeitgeist Gallery and Tagine in New York City. They
have been featured several times on WMBR (88.1 FM),
Cambridge. The ensemble owes the richness of its sound
and its colorful interpretations of traditional Middle
Eastern music to the diversity of its musicians'
musical and cultural backgrounds. www.zilzala.com,
www.christianekaram.com
silent film
7-9:30pm
$8
the cabinet of dr. caligari
Lowbudget Records is proud to present our version of "The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari", a film which many have heard of but few have actually seen. Our version is different from any other version in that we have replaced the long-winded title cards with subtitles, thereby quickening the pace of the film. We've also done some frame-blending in scenes where missing frames made the action suddenly jerk, and we've added various fade-outs and crossfades to give the film a more traditional flow. And, of course, our version boasts what we consider to be the best soundtrack available for this title, composed by Hayim Kobi.
Why would we want to edit this film? To paraphrase the late film historian William K. Everson, films that were once considered "masterpieces" sometimes end up simply as "milestones", depending on the times. For every film student who sat mesmerized at a 16mm print of "Caligari" in a college auditorium, there were 49 who were falling asleep. Blame can be partially attributed to lousy washed out prints that are difficult to watch, but a lot of it can be attributed to the film itself. In 1919, it was rare to see a feature film that moved along at a brisk pace, and Caligari sometimes slowed down more than most. What we've attempted to do is to try and allow the viewer to focus on the stunning film itself and not on the lengthy title cards. To give you an idea of how many title cards there were, we trimmed a 75 minute film down to 61 minutes - about 1/5 of the film had been titles. Though the changes we've introduced to the film aren't as extreme as those in our version of "Nosferatu", we feel that we've made a version of "Caligari" that finally begs for repeated viewing.
jazz
10pm–12:30am
$10
Out-jazz & free improvisation at its best. This trio has been playing together for over 30 years, and reinvents itself every time!
george garzone – tenor sax
john lockwood – bass
bob gullotti –drums
production: bob gullotti – 781.899.9382
space-jazz
7:30-9:30 pm
$8 donation
3play+ with special guest George Garzone!
also featuring Phil Grenadier and Marcello Pellitteri
George Garzone, tenor sax
Phil Grenadier, trumpet
Josh Rosen, piano
Lello Molinari, bass
Marcello Pellitteri, drums
3play+ returns to the Zeitgeist with its unique brand of space-jazz, where freedom and interplay rule. Tonight, in a very special performance, 3play will be joined by sax great George Garzone!! We will also feature two other outstanding guests, Phil Grenadier and Marcello Pellitteri.
Phil and Marcello will be joined by 3play regulars Josh Rosen, piano, and Lello Molinari, bass, for an evening of free improvisation, original compositions, and deconstructed standards.
dance
9:30pm – 12am
$5
argentine tango dance party (milonga)
buenos aires style with occasional performances
producer: simonida cekovic-vuletic 617-497-5568