Matana Roberts - horns/voice/wordspeak
Chris Ryan Williams - trumpet
Lester St. Louis - cello
Adi Myerson - bass
Ryan Sawyer - drums
Experience soundscape snippets from Matana Roberts’ Coin Coin like never before. In this open rehearsal, workshopping, and performance format, Roberts opens the vaults of her groundbreaking series, inviting a new and continuing wave of sonic alchemists to reinterpret, deconstruct, and reimagine fragments of her radical sonic tapestry. Coin Coin / The Echo Sessions is not just a remembering: it’s a revival, a journeying, a deep sonic exploration. A collision of process, past, present, and future. Human memory unfurled, unraveled, and recomposed into new considerations of self, sound, and story.
Matana Roberts is an internationally documented artist, composer, and musician.
Roberts works in many contexts and mediums, including improvisation, dance, poetry, and theater. She made two records as a core member of the Sticks And Stones quartet in the early 2000s and has gone on to release a diverse body of solo and ensemble work under her own name on Constellation and Central Control over the past decade. She is perhaps best known for her acclaimed Coin Coin project, a multi-chapter work of “panoramic sound quilting” that aims to expose the mystical roots and channel the intuitive spirit-raising traditions of American creative expression while maintaining a deep and substantive engagement with narrativity, history, community and political expression within improvisatory musical structures. Constellation began documenting the Coin Coin project in 2011 and has released the first three of a projected twelve album-length chapters to date.
SPONSORSHIP
The Jazz Gallery is a not-for-profit arts organization presenting emerging artists who challenge convention, take creative risks, and lead their field as performers, composers and thinkers. We provide a platform for artists to discover their unique voice and a home for established musicians to continue to experiment and grow. At The Jazz Gallery, artists and audiences come together from around the world to explore new creative ideas, collaborate and celebrate jazz as a dynamic art form that reflects our ever-changing world.
We rely on the generosity of our members and community to keep the music playing, thank you for your continued and much appreciated support! If you would like to sponsor a Livestream Concert, please use the links above or be in touch with our Executive Director, Janet Luhrs, here.