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SYNERGY at Bowery Poetry Club -Live!!!! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PLEASE FORWARD *** Contact: Amir Bey 917-685-2383 *** SYNERGY: Sight
and Sound *** At Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery 212-614-0505 *** $12.00 *** Synergy: Sight and Sound, a high-energy free-style Jazz
band, the innovative collaboration between sculptor/designer Amir Bey and
musician/composer Saco Yasuma, begins a series of concerts at Bowery Poetry
Club on Profiles of the SYNERGY
Artists Mixed media sculptor
and curator Amir
Bey has worked with musicians and performers since
the 1970s, including set designs and costumes for Idris Ackamoor and Rodessa
Jones of Cultural Odyssey, Maria Mitchell of Black Pearl Dance Company,
and Lorna Littleway, who have incorporated his art in their
productions. Bey is based in Alto
saxophonist, composer and band leader Saco Yasuma has written
many styles of music since she was the age of ten. She intensely began
composing for various ensembles since 2001 in NYC, including the annual Billy
Parker concert at The
iconoclastic and masterful multi-instrumentalist, Sabir Mateen, who plays "action music", has been
called a "gentle giant" who can "display controlled intensity
without falling into undisciplined methodology" (Cook, Collins). His
current ensembles such as Juxtapositions, M.A.S.K., Shapes, Textures &
Sound Ensemble, and Movement Of The Future Ark, and his
other projects are leading influences on the
international avant-garde scene. Ros Moshe, a
third generation reed player who, although trained in earlier forms of
"Jazz", says his preferred mode of improvisation is in the later or
"free" developments of the music. He has led The Music Now
Unit since 1999 and played with many original artists such as Billy
Bang, William Parker, William Hooker, and Kali Z. Fasteau. He is a firm
believer in the positive effects of the new music for social and personal
change. Jackson Krall, a
drummer who is noted for his sensitive accompaniment as well as his
precise playing, has been performing with Cecil Taylor since the mid
1990s. Krall has been working with many of the "cutting
edge" musicians of this time; of him bassist William Parker has said,
"His multi-leveled drumming has propelled many bands in the Francois Grillot is
a versatile bassist and composer who has performed and recorded with such
artists as Daniel Carter, Steve Swell, Roy Campbell, Burton Greene, and
many others. He has lived in Public
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