jc pals -- just a quick note to let you know about the debut of my new trio, stalker, at the living theater this saturday night at 10:30 pm. details below. hope to see you there. peace, jk

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James Keepnews - guitar and electronics
Todd Nicholson - bass
Mike Golub - drums

Place: the Living Theatre
21 Clinton street (btw Houston & Stanton), New York, NY 10002

General admission: $10
Students & seniors: $7

A guitar trio for the 21st century, stalker draws on elements from free jazz, electro-acoustic improvisation, progressive rock and freakout improv, utilizing digital processing and real-time sampling to expand ensemble dynamics and orchestration to more than one breaking point. original compositions and improvisations are featured along with pieces from the fire music tradition.

Come get stalked!

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ha! that's jos. cory's warehouse, around the corner from where i live now. and they are inviting artists to take studios there, some of whom are taking them up on it, despite the fact that they have corrugated steel walls, like painting in a locker...and this building is two blocks away from american can, where 600 richer people will become my neighbors soon...

i'm mystified by some of the arguments being posed here, and elsewhere in this thread. some history -- i lived in 111 briefly, right at the end, and hoped (foolishly, in retrospect) that there'd be enough back and forth to hopefully permit a negotiated settlement -- or at least, the negotiations would be so drawn out i could live and rehearse for a year or two in a beautiful loft downtown. such temerity, having to ask this owner to accept the historical designation of a property his father couldn't do a damned thing with, until the artists arrived, renovated galleries for sweat equity, etc...we needn't rehash the whole history. i've been loath to enter into this debate, since it's all over, and it breaks my heart to watch 111 literally go down...

BUT!!!!!!!!! what in g-d's name is driving some of you to see A SINGLE INFINITESIMAL PIECE OF MERIT IN GOLDMAN'S APPROACH TO 111 until the city had no choice but to cry uncle? (some say they had other choices, but let's face it, they couldn't face the mu$$ic...) will you now suggest that the attempted arson of 111 in nov. '04 was just, you know, some unknown firebug taking it upon him or herself to light oily rags near an open gas feed? #OOPS#ing spare me.

and what other implication could one draw from some of your specious arguments here except that no city should be allowed to prevent their historic districts from being torn apart like 1/4 chickens whenever someone rich enough decides to do so? are they allowed to do that to city hall? the fire department? and, are distinctive pieces of industrial urban history unworthy of preservation, in the face of some pomo glass cubes most of the people reading this couldn't afford to live in if their lives depended on it?

whatever anyone thinks about 111, the artists who spent a generation BUILDING THE JERSEY CITY ARTS SCENE THERE...rest assured, there'd be no artist tours, no real cultural vibrancy in this city but for the efforts of those who worked, lived and were otherwise associated with 111 st street. forget all of that, and simply recognize the great injustice being carried out in a Powerhouse Arts District with a Powerhouse, and no arts...

remember 111. it won't stop there. jk

rest in peace, truly -- mr. hill's contributions to modern music are still being worked out by successive generations of new musicians. his late-period works is especially uncanny and masterful, where his initial 60's work helped define a broad embrace of harmonic advance, improvisational courage and exacting compositional rigor that was shared by many of his fellow blue note progressives, and exemplified by no one better. blue note founder alfred lion loved hill and thought him to be the last great giant he signed, so much so that his last request before his death in the 90's was to have the (pre-norah) revitalized blue note record hill one more time.

peaceout, andrew hill. jk

p.s. jersey city, and jclist, should be mournful of the loss of one of the true greats who lived in the city. "not jersey city," indeed... i'm going to request this thread be re-posted to arts & entertainment...