“Ornette Speaks”: graphic novelist Matthew Brown illustrates on-site acc. by reside harmolodic jazz

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – July 29, 2024 – PRLog — For August’s “Third Thursdays” month-to-month jazz sequence live performance, artist Matthew Brown, writer of the graphic novel Ornette Speaks: A Cartoon Grammar, will create artwork in actual time, accompanied by sequence host keyboardist Dave Bryant, saxophonist Jorrit Dijkstra, bassist Jacob William, and drummer Miki Matsuki and by Daniel Kurganov performing Ornette Coleman’s “Trinity,” a bit for solo violin.

Matthew Brown (https://www.amazon.com/shops/writer/B08953CSDP/about) was a part of the Montreal underground zine scene of the early Nineties, and he credit his inventive strategy to inspiration from the work of many free jazz artists, together with Archie Shepp, Don Cherry, Thelonius Monk, Eric Dolphy, and Ornette Coleman. In Ornette Speaks, quotes from interviews with Ornette Coleman are introduced in a graphic documentary format with a docu-brush type that has been described as “gestural and wild … and emphatically rhythmic.” Brown has since revealed a graphic novel that explores the lifetime of Eric Dolphy, and a graphic novel on Thelonious Monk is forthcoming. jazz.fm/ornette-speaks-a-cartoon-grammar-matthew-brown-graphic-novel-ornette-coleman/

A livestream of 5 graphic novel readings by Brown on numerous subjects, accompanied by alternatives from jazz artists, will also be discovered at his Ambient Zero Comedian E book weblog at ambientzero.blogspot.com/2020/04/live-stream-graphic-novel-reading-movies.html The fifth studying is from Ornette Speaks: A Cartoon Grammar, which Brown describes as, “A stream-of-consciousness odyssey via phrases spoken by avant-garde saxophone genius and composer Ornette Coleman, with music by the person himself.“

Itemizing data for the August live performance:
Ornette Speaks: graphic novelist Matthew Brown (https://www.amazon.com/shops/writer/B08953CSDP/about) creates impromptu zine artwork work, with jazz accompaniment by “Third Thursdays” Dave Bryant (host/keys), Jorrit Dijkstra (sax), Daniel Kurganov (violin), Jacob William (bass) and Miki Matsuki (drums). A part of the “Third Thursdays with Dave Bryant and Associates” month-to-month harmolodic jazz sequence. On Thursday August 15, 8:00 pm. Admission on the door: $10 (money/examine/cost/venmo). Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church, 1555 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138. Complimentary “Third Thursdays” live performance parking is on the market on the Everett Road Storage at 10 Everett Road in Cambridge. For additional data: https://dbryantmusic.com/third-thursdays/ (https://dbryantmusic.com/third-thursdays/), bryantequilibria@gmail.com, 617-447-3030.

Bryant’s “Third Thursdays” (https://dbryantmusic.com/third-thursdays/) schedule for Fall consists of the next performances:
— September 19: saxophonist Neil Leonard with Brazilian percussionist Thiago Trad, together with guitarist David Tronzo, bassist Max Ridley, drummer James Kamal Jones, and host/keyboardist Dave Bryant;
— November 8: a particular “Third Thursdays On The Street” efficiency in NYC on the ShapeShifter Lab of alternatives from Dave Bryant’s new album Wire and Bone which was initially showcased throughout this previous Might’s “Third Thursdays” live performance. The entire Wire and Bone performers had been in attendance, becoming a member of Bryant in an especially energetic night with Jamaaladeen Tacuma (bass), George Garzone (tenor saxophone), Kenny Wessel (guitar), Eric Hofbauer (guitar), and Chris Bowman (drums). In November, they are going to all be sharing that power with their NYC viewers. The Wire and Bone album is on the market at davebryant.bandcamp.com. These harmolodic jazz live shows are made potential by the beneficiant help of the Appalachian Springs Basis (https://dbryantmusic.com/asf-statement/).

Month-to-month performances have been video recorded, with the objective of documenting Ornette Coleman’s affect on the free jazz motion. One other key function of the sequence is to doc the experiences, reminiscences, and musical contributions of members of Coleman’s bands. All movies, together with interviews with Bryant’s former Coleman colleagues, can be found at dbryantmusic.com/third-thursdays, dbryantmusic.com/musician-interviews, and on youtube.com/@davebryantmusic/movies (https://www.youtube.com/@davebryantmusic/movies).

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