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Bad Touch at Howland Cultural Center
Courtesy of James Keepnews | Posted on May 6, 2013
Where
Howland Cultural Center
477 Main Street
Beacon, NY
Map
845-831-4988
When
Fri, May 31, 2013
8 PM
At Door
Save the date
Musicians
Loren Stillman
saxophone, altoNate Radley
guitarGary Versace
pianoTed Poor
drumsBad Touch
band / ensemble / orchestraAbout
“Bad Touch is a young group facing the usual embarrassment of riches. It's looking at 60 or so years of style and temperament in American jazz: soft, fast, loud, slow, in tempo, out of tempo, free, composed, cluttered, sparse, swinging and non. And it has chosen all of them.” -- Ben Ratliff, New York Times
Continuing into May, the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY presents a monthly series, “Change of the Century – New Jazz for the 21st”, featuring some of the most exciting figures in contemporary music. Organized by local musician, writer and multimedia artist James Keepnews, “Change of the Century” intends to debunk any notion of jazz being an “old,” much less “dead” music. In this new century, artists spanning many generations continue to re-examine and re-invigorate jazz, continually weaving in new influences, formulating new challenges and establishing new standards. Any music that so thoroughly embraces the immediacy of improvisation is by definition a perpetually new music. Come hear the shock of new each month at “Change of the Century”....