Flex - the new album ...
Slate & Quartz, the anticipated next album from Flex, is in the queue for manufacturing. Pre-order and digital access information, coming soon.
Slate & Quartz features some of Art's older and unrecorded pieces, including Pathways (for Bill Evans) and Underbrush (written for and first played by Steve Swallow). This album also includes beautiful pieces written by Gonzalo and Dru, as well as new pieces written while wintering in Arizona. Anticipate a release of Slate & Quartz in the summer of 2022.
Annie Booth Sextet CD Release
Alpenglow, a new album from the Annie Booth Sextet, will be released in late June, 2022, with an initial concert on Saturday, June 25, at Caffe Sole in Boulder, CO.
Art Lande might be heard on a few notes that evening, as a potential guest artist, due to his role in the project last fall. See this news story for more info on that grant winning project, check Annie's site for other gigs and info, and certainly get to Caffe Sole on Saturday, June 25, to hear the debut of the album Alpenglow.
Samuel Williams and Art Lande play the Music of Glenn Cronkhite - an Aspen Armchair Concert
Aspen Armchair Concerts are a collection of virtual concerts created during the pandemic by musicians in the AMFS fold, both alumni and long-time performers. Samuel Williams is one of those distinguished musicians.
Sam and Art will play music by original Rubisa Patrol drummer, Glenn Cronkhite. In a phrase, these pieces map right into that enigmatic category of 1970's/ECM/major quality and substance.
This performance is featured as the Armchair concert for April. View it for free at any time starting April 12 (6PM MDT) and ending on April 15,2022 by visiting this page at AMF Virtual Stage. Visit AMFS Armchair Concerts for more information about the series.
Daisy - from Edward Simon and Art Lande
Release date: February 11, 2022
In April of 2019, Edward Simon and Art Lande played their first concert together. They wanted more, so despite many obstacles during the COVID-19 pandemic, they got together in the studio, recorded, mixed and produced Daisy.
Daisy is an exquisite and moving album from two brilliant and masterful musicians. It was released world wide via digital music archive hosts and streaming services on February 11, 2022. Give it a listen at your favorite site now, or purchase/preview CDs here and/or purchase/listen to digital download/streaming from Art's Bandcamp page ...
Daisy
By Edward Simon and Art Lande
Being Music: The Art of Open Improvisation
This remarkable book by Mark Miller with Art Lande is gaining praise. Get your copy from University Professors Press.
Visit the link NOW and peruse the moving notable reviews, make an order and spread the word.
Being Music: The Art of Open Improvisation by Mark Miller with Art Lande.
More good info about the book is available at Mark's website.
Annie Booth Sextet Awarded Performance Plus Grant
Performance Plus is a Chamber Music America program providing grants to US based gender minority and women-led jazz ensembles.
Annie Booth is a recognized woman leader in all kinds of jazz music and jazz ensembles. But how does Art Lande fit-in?
Annie Booth Sextet, plus Art Lande
Patrick McDevitt (bass), Alejandro Castaño (drums), Annie Booth (piano/bandleader), Art Lande, John Gunther (saxophone), Greg Gisbert (trumpet), Anisha Rush (saxophone)
The purpose of Performance Plus is to engage an experienced jazz artist-educator (Art Lande) with such a jazz ensemble (Annie Booth Sextet) for six evaluative listening sessions with the goal of enhancing the ensemble’s performance. The listening sessions will culminate in a recording session resulting in a high-quality demo for use by the grantee ensemble.
And there it is — after the CMA panel review process, the Annie Booth Sextet was awarded a Performance Plus grant and had six dynamic and inspiring master class sessions with Art during September, October and November of 2021.
With parts A (award) and B (the sessions) complete, the recording session and our ability to hear the resulting demo are yet to come. More info about those dates and session insights will be posted as it becomes available. Check back for related news about this project.
Congratulations to the Annie Booth Sextet, and many thanks to Chamber Music America, the Doris Duke Jazz Ensembles Project, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation for their support.
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