Chicago-born, New York-based saxophonist Matana Roberts, leading Birmingham-based drummer Mark Sanders, and Cork-based Korean-American guitarist Han-earl Park will perform at 8pm in the Ó Riada Hall, UCC Music Building, Sunday’s Well. Earlier in the day, Roberts will give a presentation about turning her family history (which includes Irish ancestry) into compositional material.
The event marks Matana Roberts’ first performance in Ireland. Hailed as one of the “brightest lights of the new Chicago wave” (The Wire) and an “eloquent, dramatic tone-warping free-jazz artist, right out of Ayler’s anti-bebop tradition” (John Fordham, The Guardian), Matana Roberts represents the younger generation of African-American experimentalists. She is a member of the New York chapter of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and the Black Rock Coalition. Roberts’ work traverses jazz, rock, music theatre and acoustical engagements with architecture.
Mark Sanders has been heard in Ireland on tour with the great Charles Gayle and William Parker, performing in groups with Paul Dunmall, and with Paul G. Smyth and Hannah Marshall at the National Concert Hall. In free improvisation and avant-rock circles, Sanders is arguably the most sought-after drummer of his generation. A sensitive and skillful collaborator, he has been called upon by musicians as diverse as Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, John Butcher, John Tchacai, Peter Brötzmann and Jah Wobble.
Han-earl Park teaches improvisation at the School of Music and Theatre, UCC. As an improviser, he is fascinated by the collision of improvisative traditions, ideologies and agencies, engaging on-stage with the high-energy free jazz of Paul Dunmall, avant-rock back-beats of Charles Hayward, downtown ambient noise of Kato Hideki, with Richard Barrett’s patchwork complexity and, shortly, with Leo Smith’s creative world music.
Matana Roberts will also be presenting a talk, ‘Coin Coin: a Blood Narrative in Blacks, Browns, Reds and Blues’ at the UCC Music Building at 11am on November 25th 2010. The talk is free, and open to the public.
Tickets for the Concert: €10 (€5 concessions) available at door.
Visit: http://www.music.ucc.ie
Picture: Chicago-born, New York-based saxophonist Matana Roberts, leading Birmingham-based drummer Mark Sanders and Cork-based Korean-American guitarist Han-earl Park
