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Saturday, February 18, 2012 - 8:00pmJoin Ars Nova Workshop for a performance by the Two Rivers Ensemble led by Iraqi-American composer-performer Amir ElSaffar, whose unique compositions bring together traditional Iraqi and jazz musics.
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Friday, March 9, 2012 - 8:00pm
Matthew Shipp Trio
Record Release Celebration
Philadelphia Art Alliance251 S. 18th Street
Philadelphia, PA Map
Price: $15 General Admission Buy TicketsPlease join Ars Nova Workshop for the Philadelphia debut of the Matthew Shipp Trio. Following 2011's spectacular The Art Of The Improviser LP, tonight Shipp's Trio celebrates the upcoming release of Elastic Aspects on Thirsty Ear Recordings.
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Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 8:00pm
Join Ars Nova Workshop for a free double-header at The Rotunda featuring a performance by the duo Aster and a solo set by guitarist/electronicist Mario Diaz de Leon.
“Once in a while something gets slapped in the tape deck that just utterly, completely nails you to the underpinnings of heavens dripping maw,” wrote Byron Coley and Thurston Moore about Ashley Paul's 2010 cassette, if only goodnight, which earned the top spot on their “Tongue Top Ten” for Arthur Magazine.
+Mario Diaz de Leon
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 8:00pm
Ars Nova Workshop presents the Philadelphia debut of heavy-hitting power-trio Ballister, and a rare solo performance by Norwegian noise artist Lasse Marhaug.
“They use their instruments like artillery, launching a barrage of explosive free improvisation,” the Chicago Reader correctly observes about Ballister's debut LP, Bastard String. “Though individual players occasionally drop out and the group sometimes turns down the heat, giving the performances dynamic range, the music is never polite.”
+Lasse Marhaug
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Saturday, April 14, 2012 - 8:00pm
Join Ars Nova Workshop for the Philadelphia debut of Endangered Blood!
“They play fast, looping, dynamically even and entwining lines, laying bebop over clanky grooves,” The New York Times writes about Endangered Blood, a new quartet featuring saxophonists Chris Speed and Oscar Noriega, bassist Trevor Dunn and drummer Jim Black. The band's hard-hitting self-titled debut was released last year on Speed's Skirl label and features original pieces by Speed as well as reworkings of classic tunes, like Thelonious Monk's “Epistrophy.”
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Sunday, April 15, 2012 - 8:00pm
Steve Lehman Trio
Record Release Celebration
Ars Nova Workshop presents the first Philadelphia concert by the Steve Lehman Trio since 2009, and Lehman's first local appearance since ANW's three-night Composer Portrait: Fieldwork series in March, 2011. Tonight is a Record Release Celebration for the trio's Pi Recordings CD, Dialect Fluorescent.
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Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 8:00pm
Johnny Brenda's1201 N. Frankford Avenue
Philadelphia, PA Map
Price: $15 General Admission Buy TicketsPlease join Ars Nova Workshop for a special performance by Steve Coleman and Five Elements.
"Steve Coleman comes up with some of the most original song structures in jazz," writes NPR. "In many others' hands, they'd sound like algebra; with his virtuosity and arranging, it crackles with excitement."
Ars Nova Workshop is a Philadelphia nonprofit jazz and experimental music presenting organization. As a facilitator between artists and their audiences, Ars Nova Workshop works to inform, inspire and challenge listeners in order to elevate the role of jazz, improvisation and experimental music in contemporary culture.