SPRING 2012 SEASON
ALL TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW
FEBRUARY
Friday, February 3, 5-8pm
Inpost Artspace Reception
ABQ artist Jenny Berry’s quirky, culturally subversive work utilizes imagery rife with retro-Americana and puts our idiosyncratic pop culture under her microscope. Beneath a candy coating of kitsch and nostalgia, her raw style and hard-edged melding of vintage, iconic imagery is at once powerfully evocative and comfortingly familiar.
Exhibition dates: February 3- March 30, 2012
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Saturday, February 11, 8pm
OUTPOST RENTAL:
AMP Concerts presents Joe West & The Santa Fe Revue
St Valentine's Day Affair
Tickets & information at AmpConcerts.org
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Thursday, February 16, 7:30pm
OUTPOST RENTAL:
AMP Concerts & Art of the Song presents Leni Stern
Tickets & information at AmpConcerts.org
Leni Stern, who has won five consecutive Gibson Female Jazz Guitarist of the Year awards, has always defied expectations. An expert instrumentalist, she is also a singer-songwriter who has much to share from her travels throughout the world. She has released several CDs, including her 2007 release, Alu Maye (Have you heard) which juxtaposes her trademark inventive guitar and vocal explorations with the indigenous sounds of accomplished African instrumentalists and singers. It is in the sahel and savanna of Africa where she has discovered her surest artistic footing and her latest independent release, Sabani, is testament to her authentic acoustic African experience. For this concert, she'll be joined by artists from Nigeria and Mali and Senegal. The evening will begin with a live interview by John and Viv from Art of the Song Creativity Radio followed by a full concert performance.
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Friday February 17, 7pm
OUTPOST RENTAL:
Siyeric:
Classic Blues Rock with Contemporary Edge.
Tickets & Information at 505-821-2160 or siyeric.com
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Thursday, March 1, 7:30pm
Outpost’s Spring 2012 season opens with a tribute to the music of legendary guitarist, Charlie Christian who, though he died at the age of 25 (1916-1939), left an enormous legacy. Both as the house guitarist at New York’s Minton’s Playhouse and a member of the historic Benny Goodman Sextet, Christian led the transition from swing to bebop and pushed the electric guitar into the spotlight when it was in its infant stages. At the urging of bassist, Micky Patten, tonight’s all-star tribute ensemble was formed in February 2011 and features longtime Albuquerque resident and Los Angeles session guitarist, Michael Anthony; Grammy award winning trumpeter, Bobby Shew; and drummer, Cal Haines.
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Friday, March 2, 8pm
OUTPOST RENTAL:
Amp Concerts presents Mamak Khadem
Tickets & information at AmpConcerts.org
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Sunday, March 4, 7pm
OUTPOST RENTAL:
Defendemos presents An Evening of Poetry & Performance
An evening in solidarity with the people in Arizona protesting banning of books and elimination of ethnic studies in schools.
$5 suggested donation at the door only.
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BOTH NIGHTS SOLD OUT. Call to be on a waiting list.
Thursday, March 8, 7:30pm CONCERT
Friday, March 9, 6:30pm BENEFIT EVENT
These events are part of Women & Creativity Month
An extraordinarily gifted jazz vocalist whose sincere and romantic interpretations of exceptional songs has made her a favorite in both the jazz and cabaret worlds, Jane Monheit has garnered numerous accolades and critically acclaim. Time Magazine wrote, “Jane Monheit can’t miss. She has, in a word, everything.” Tonight, Ms. Monheit will be joined by her regular accompanists, Michael Kanan, piano; Neal Miner, bass; and Rick Montalbano, drums.
Thursday will be a concert like others at The Space. Friday will be an Outpost Benefit in a small table jazz club setting with pre-concert reception with hors d’oeuvres, desserts and more provided by Flying Star Cafe; Special Touch Catering; St. Clair Winery & Bistro; and Zinc Wine Bar & Bistro
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Thursday, March 15, 7:30pm
Tonight’s concert grew from a conversation between drummer John Trentacosta and multi-reed maestro, Arlen Asher, as they spun records by legendary baritone saxophonist, Gerry Mulligan. Asher said that he’d like to perform a piano-less trio concert featuring the baritone saxophone. Tonight, that great idea comes to fruition as Arlen Asher, appears on stage with just his bari sax plus Michael Glynn, bass; and John Trentacosta, drums. . Also on the bill, Brian Wingard, a modernist on both tenor and soprano saxophones, performs w. John Rangel, piano; Colin Deuble, bass; and John Trentacosta, drums.
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Friday, March 16, 7:30pm
Two of ABQ’s leaders in the vibrant NM Latin music scene come together to explore one of the most beautiful lyric traditions in Latin America— the bolero. From Cuba, vocalist, trombonst, percussionist, César Bauvallet and vocalist Jackie Zamora from Peru will be joined by an all-star band consisting of Steve Figueroa, piano; Michael Anthony, guitar; Janet Harman, bass; and Victor Rodriguez, bongos.
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TWO NIGHTS:
Thursday March 22, 7:30pm
Friday, March 23, 7:30pm
This event is part of Women & Creativity Month
Multi-Grammy award nominee, Brazilian pianist, singer, composer, and arranger, Eliane Elias is known for her alluring voice, her impressive piano and compositional chops, and the blending of her Brazilian roots with jazz, pop, and classical influences. Jazziz Magazine called her “a citizen of the world and an artist beyond category.” Performing with her tonight are her long time accompanists, Marc Johnson, bass; and Rafael Barata, drums.
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March 25-April 1 Creative Soundspace Festival 2012
presented in partnership with the John Donald Robb Composers' Symposium
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CREATIVE SOUNDSPACE 2012 SPRING EVENT
Sunday March 25, 7:30pm
ABQ tuba player/composer Mark Weaver formed the UFO Ensemble in 2008 as a vehicle for his compositions. As he puts it, “The compositions playfully and unrestrainedly explore creative concepts of form and structure, with the rich blend of three brass horns plus drums displaying a personal approach to tonality and a surprising tunefulness.” UFO will be joined by prolific NYC-based drummer/composer, Harris Eisenstadt. UFO also features trumpeter, Bill Clark and trombonist, Christian Pincock— who will open with a solo performance.
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CREATIVE SOUNDSPACE 2012 SPRING EVENT
Thursday, March 29, 7pm
This event is part of Women & Creativity Month
Trio M is a collectively-led ensemble of three visionary jazz artists with extensive histories in numerous ensembles of their own and others. Comprising Myra Melford, piano; Mark Dresser, bass; and Matt Wilson, drums. “Unbound by piano trio conventions, the leaderless project erases distinctions between frontline and accompanist, requiring each player to shape the music’s flow as it unfolds. The resulting sounds can be fierce and beatific, playful and rigorous, earthy or abstract, extravagantly joyous or quietly introspective.”
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CREATIVE SOUNDSPACE 2012 SPRING EVENT
Thursday, March 29, 9pm
at North 4th Art Center
(Trio M ticket good for admission to this concert as well)
Garden is a three-chapter series of live music-driven intermedia performance/installations using linear-immersive media (live music, installation, transparent screens and projected video). This first “Night” chapter of the project is a collaboration between Santa Fe’s Chris Jonas and the San Francisco-based Del Sol Quartet is violinists Kate Stenberg and Rick Shinozaki; violist Charlton Lee; and cellist Kathryn Bates Williams.m
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CREATIVE SOUNDSPACE 2012 SPRING EVENT
Friday March 30, 7:30pm
This event is part of Women & Creativity Month
Founded in 1997 by multi-instrumentalist, sound-designer, and conductor, Dino J.A. Deane, OOC explores Conduction, which uses a vocabulary of signs and gestures transmitted to an orchestra in order to instantaneously generate harmony, melody, rhythm, articulation, phrasing or form. The ensemble is J.A. Deane, conductor; Alicia Ultan, viola; Katy Harlow, cello; Carlos Santistevan, bass; CK Barlow, sampler/live sampling; Jefferson Voorhees, percussion; John Flax and Lee Reed, voice; Jon Baldwin, cornet; Bonnie Schmader, flutes; Joseph Sabella, vibes, wavedrum; Milton Villarrubia III, sampler, percussion; Ross Hamlin, guitar, electronics; Paul Bossert, trombone. Pianist, Myra Melford will join OOC tonight as a special guest. Opening the evening will be composer, performer, and sound designer, CK Barlow.
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CREATIVE SOUNDSPACE 2012 SPRING EVENT
Saturday, March 31, 11am
OOC founder & conductor, Dino J.A. Deane, plus select members of OOC (including CK Barlow on sampler and pianist, Myra Melford) introduces Outpost’s Advanced Youth Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Kanoa Kaluhiwa, plus others, to the language of ‘Conduction.’ For youth with instrumental facility ages 14-18 years of age.
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Saturday, March 31, 7:30pm
2012 marks the 125th birthday of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos and Fred Sturm, who has specialized in his music for years, is celebrating the occasion by organizing a three-concert Villa-Lobos Chamber Festival, featuring a wide variety of performers, at Outpost as well as at UNM’s Keller Hall.
APRIL
Thursday April 5, 7:30pm
Led by pianist, Bert Dalton, The Brazil Project performs a blend of traditional, contemporary, and original Brazilian music featuring samba, bossa nova, the excitement of carnival, and top-flight jazz and Latin improvisations. The Brazil Project, which released its self-titled CD in 2011, features Patty Stephens, vocals; Rob “Milo” Jaramillo, bass; Frank Leto, percussion; and John Bartlit, drums.
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Friday, April 6, 5-8pm
Inpost Artspace Reception
ArtsCrawl First Friday
John Gallegos draws his impressions of writing, music, whimsy and other intangible ideas. He combines these impressions with physical concepts like biology, anatomy, and calligraphy and uses a stream of consciousness process to realize these ideas with the permanency of ink and glass pen.
Exhibition dates: April 6, 2012-May 25, 2012
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Saturday, April 7, 11am
This session, which is offered twice a year by Outpost Director, Tom Guralnick, should be subtitled: “Everything you wanted to know about Outpost but were afraid to ask.” Now’s your chance. How funding works, how booking works, where Outpost has come from, where it is going, how it fits into the scope of the arts scene/the jazz scene, etc. Ask questions; offer input and suggestions. It’s an informal session for those who are interested.
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Saturday, April 7, 7:30pm
Tonight, it’s the 2012 ABQ Grand Slam Poetry Slam Championship— an evening of slam poetry with ten of the top performance poets in Albuquerque competing for a spot on the 2012 ABQ Poetry Slam Team, which will represent the Duke City at the National Poetry Slam in August. Among the poets who may appear in this year’s three-round ABQ Grand Slam are renowned local performance poets Khalid Binsunni, Eva Crespin, Cuffee, Damien Flores, Zachary Kluckman, Jessica Helen Lopez, Olivia Gatwood, and Jasmine “Jazz” Sena.
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Wednesday, April 11, 7pm
@ Simms Auditorium, Albuquerque Academy
The Carolina Chocolate Drops are a young African-American string band based in North Carolina who explore the rich tradition of fiddle and banjo music from the Carolina Piedmont— a unique music popular among Southern African-Americans before World War II in which the banjo is the lead instrument while the fiddle plays an accompanying role. The ‘Drops’ are Dom Flemons, vox/banjo/guitar/percussion; Rhiannon Giddens, vocals, fiddle, banjo; and new members, Hubby Jenkins, guitar, vocals, mandolin; and Leyla McCalla, cello, vocals, banjo. Jenkins and McCalla recently joined the group after founding member, fiddler, Justin Robinson, left to pursue new projects.
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Thursday, April 12, 7:30pm
A Member Only Event
Pre-concert conversation hosted by Mark Weber:
The Hammond B3 & The Saxophone— a Special Relationship
Tonight we say THANKS! to all of our wonderful supporters by offering a very special event ONLY for them (and hey... if it encourages some of you to join our member family, that would be great too!) Albuquerque-based, tenor saxophonist Doug Lawrence is famed as the featured soloist and lead tenor saxophonist with the Legendary Count Basie Orchestra. He has appeared at almost every major concert hall, jazz club and music festival on the planet and has also played with a virtual “who’s who” of musicians. In 2000, Lawrence began collaborating with Chicago organist Dan Trudell who had recently won the DownBeat Polls for Organist Deserving Wider Recognition.
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Friday, April 13, 7:30pm
OUTPOST RENTAL: Pray For Brain:
Mustafa Stefan Dill, Jefferson Voorhees & Christine Nelson
CD release celebration. $10 General. $5 Students & Seniors. Available at the door.
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Saturday, April 14, 7:30pm
Born Michelle Johnston in Dallas in 1962, Michelle Shocked is the chosen name of a singer-songwriter known for her musical and political iconoclastic bent. She has explored a wide range of musical interests in folk, western swing, gospel, and blues with Texas roots. As a young feminist, she left Texas to travel Kerouac-style, and was caught up in the grassroots politics of the 1980s. Her musical career was ignited by a bootleg recording made in 1986 at a Kerrville Folk Festival campfire on a Sony Walkman. It was subsequently released in England as The Texas Campfire Tapes and went on to top the independent charts. Her latest, Soul of My Soul (2009), features an all-new set of originals.
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Friday April 20, 7:30pm
A New Mexico Jazz Festival Spring Event
@ Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe
Charles Lloyd New Quartet with Maria Farantouri
featuring Jason Moran, Reuben Rogers, Eric Harland & Socratis Sinopoulos
Saxophone legend, Charles Lloyd returns to NM with his latest project featuring his New Quartet plus the venerable Greek vocalist, Maria Farantouri (“the soul of Greece”). Known for incorporating the music of many cultures into his original compositions, Lloyd’s latest 2011 CD on ECM, Athens Concert, was recorded at the foot of the Acropolis. It “raises the bar for ‘trans-cultural’ music-making.... embracing suites of traditional Greek songs of Mikis Theodorakis and Eleni Karaindrou, as well as Lloyd originals.” Also featured tonight is Lloyd’s New Quartet— Jason Moran, piano; Reuben Rogers, bass; Eric Harland, drums— plus Socratis Sinopoulos, lyra (a pear-shaped fiddle) and laouto (Eastern lute).
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Sunday, April 22, 7:30pm
From Accra, Ghana, sculptor, afrifone inventor, and multi-instrumentalist Nii Noi Nortey returns to Outpost for the first time since Fall 2007, when his Accra Trane Station project was featured alongside the late great Rashied Ali. Nii Noi will perform on African flutes, xylophones, mbiras, harps, and lutes, as well as his unique afrifones (African winds with saxophone mouthpieces).
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Thursday, April 26, 7:30pm
Pikante is the Latin Jazz ensemble of Dr. Mariano Morales, an accomplished composer, arranger, pianist and violinist from Puerto Rico who has recorded and performed internationally with artists including Marc Anthony, Franco de Vita, El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, Dave Valentín and Tito Puente, Luis Perico Ortíz, and Michelle Camilo. Directed by Morales, Pikante features Brian de la Fé, tumbadoras; Miguel Escuriola, timbales; Yosmel Montejo, bass; and Josiel Pérez, trumpet.
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Friday, April 27, 7:30pm
Roust the House Teen Performance Nights include music sets from selected local teen bands of all varieties, spoken word performances, and any other performances local teens are ready to share. It’s a great opportunity for young performers to play to supportive Outpost audiences and for Outpost enthusiasts to hear what newer talents are creating.
Stay tuned to www.outpostspace.org for further details.
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Saturday, April 28, 7:30pm
(In Memory of Tim De Young)
Formed in 1978 by several UNM professors, including nationally-known old-time/bluegrass fiddler, Bruce Thomson, The Adobe Brothers began as a restaurant group, playing at the Country Barbecue in Corrales. The Adobe Brothers are Bruce (Toby Adobe) Thomson, vocals, fiddle, and guitar; Wayne (Moby Adobe) Shrubsall, vocals, banjo, and guitar; Jimmy (Jacoby Adobe) Abraham, vocals, guitar, fiddle, and harmonica; and Dave (Nairobi Adobe) Klaus, vocals and bass fiddle.
MAY
Thursday, May 3, 7:30pm
Brazilian vocalist Claudia Villela has an astounding five-octave range. Her distinctive songwriting, flair for risk-taking, and haunting improvisations have earned her an enthusiastic and devoted following. She was described by Helcio Milito, one of the fathers of the bossa nova, as “the biggest expression of Brazilian music in the U.S. today.” Brazilian guitarist, Romero Lubambo, who performed at Outpost with Luciana Souza as well as at the 2007 New Mexico Jazz Festival with Dianne Reeves, came to the United States in 1985, and brought with him a distinctive new sound in Brazilian jazz guitar.
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Saturday, May 5, 1pm
The Kids Variety Shows are an Outpost tradition. They’re great and they’re for and by kids of all ages and levels. Dance, music, comedy, theater. You name it! It’s a wonderful relaxed performance environment. Today, the Home School Opera Program and others will perform.
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Saturday, May 5, 7:30pm
OUTPOST RENTAL:
AMP Concerts & Art of the Song present Sandra Wong, Dominick Leslie, Ty Burhoe Trio
Tickets & information at AmpConcerts.org
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Thursday, May 10, 7:30pm
One of the most prolific jazz composers and pianists coming out of Europe, Amina Figarova was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, where she began playing piano and composing at an early age. She studied classical piano at the Baku Conservatory before concentrating on jazz at the Rotterdam Conservatory and the Berklee College of Music in Boston. JazzTimes wrote, “... Figarova is among the most important composers to come into jazz in the new millennium...” Her latest CD, Sketches was released in 2010. The Amina Figarova Sextet features Bart Platteau, flutes; Ernie Hammes, trumpet; Marc Mommaas, tenor sax; Jeroen Vierdag, bass; and Chris “Buckshot” Strik, drums.
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Friday, May 11, 7:30pm
Tonight’s performance showcases poets from Toronto, San Francisco, Washington DC, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque, all of whom have some kind of a “disability.” This will be a night of unique perspectives and a celebration of the newly released Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, from Cinco Puntos Press in El Paso, which has been named one of ALA’s Notable Books of 2012. This show is the kick-off event for (L)INK: THE WRITE DISABILITY which will continue discussions with the authors at the downtown Main Library on Saturday, May 12th.
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THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT. Call to be on a waiting list.
Saturday, May 12, 7:30pm
A New Mexico Jazz Festival Spring Event
@ The Outpost Performance Space
Outpost welcomes back renowned pianist Brad Mehldau. Born in 1970 and classically trained, Mehldau moved to NYC in 1988 to study jazz at The New School under Fred Hersch, Junior Mance & Kenny Werner, also playing with the legendary, Jimmy Cobb. Mehldau plays original compositions and jazz standards and is one of the earliest to perform arrangements of popular music such as the work of Nick Drake, Radiohead, and the Beatles. Tonight he performs with his long-time collaborators, Larry Grenadier, bass and Jeff Ballard, drums.
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Thursday, May 17, 7:30pm
WolffClark Expedition, is co-led by pianist Michael Wolff and drummer Mike Clark who both began their careers in the Bay Area in the 1970s. The music of the WolffClark Expedition combines Wolff and Clark’s looseness and experimental jazz natures with their funky roots. They play deconstructed takes on standards as well as original compositions. Now based in ABQ, the ubiqiuitous bassist Michael Olivola played with Mike Clark during the “Herbie Hancock days” when they both lived in the Bay Area. Later living in NYC, they continued to play together in the bands of such greats as Steve Turre and Onaje Allen Gumbs.
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Friday, May 18, 7:30pm
Roust the House Teen Performance Nights include music sets from selected local teen bands of all varieties, spoken word performances, and any other performances local teens are ready to share. It’s a great opportunity for young performers to play to supportive Outpost audiences and for Outpost enthusiasts to hear what newer talents are creating.
Stay tuned to www.outpostspace.org for further details.
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Saturday, May 19, 7:30pm
Now based in Taos, singer-songwriter, Don Conoscenti has played venues from the Troubadour to The Bluebird Café and, as he puts it, “the most prestigious Lobby Gig in the world,” the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Recently moved to Santa Fe, Bob “Catfish” Hodge has been a mainstay on the American Blues music scene for three decades. Born and raised in Detroit, he formed the popular band Catfish in the late 1960s and toured with the Chicken Legs Band (former Little Feat members). Tonight, they will each play solo followed by a short set together.
SUMMER 2012
June 21-August 9
17th Annual Summer Thursday Jazz Nights 2012
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July 13-29
7th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival
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August 5-September 23
The Roost Creative Music Series
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