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Sunday, October 6, 2006, 7pm
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 East Locust Street, Milwaukee

Alternating Currents Live presents SOLO PIANO 2006
featuring Marilyn Crispell
with Improvisation Workshop, Friday, October 6, 1-3pm

Marilyn Crispell is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music where she studied classical piano and composition, and has been a

resident of Woodstock, New York since 1977 when she came to study and teach at the Creative Music Studio. She discovered jazz through the music of John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor and other contemporary jazz players and composers. For ten years she was a member of the Anthony Braxton Quartet and the Reggie Workman Ensemble and has been a member of the Barry Guy New Orchestra and guest with his London Jazz Composers Orchestra, as well as a member of the Henry Grimes Trio, Quartet Noir (with Urs Leimgruber, Fritz Hauser and Joelle Leandre), and Anders Jormin's Bortom Quintet. In 2005 she performed and recorded with the NOW Orchestra in Vancouver, Canada and in 2006 she will be co-director of the Vancouver Creative Music Institute and a faculty member at the Banff Centre International Workshop in Jazz.

In addition to playing, she has taught improvisation workshops and given lecture/demonstrations at universities and art centers in the U.S., Europe, and Canada.

QUOTES:

"Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz."

(Jon Pareles, The New York Times)

Regarding her recent trio recording Nothing Ever Was, Anyway: "This is one of the lovliest records of piano music ever released on ECM... succeeds at every level. It is a great concept, stunningly played and breathtakingly recorded."

(John Corbett, Downbeat Magazine)

This concert is brought to you by the Alternating Currents Live series, broadcast on WMSE (91.7) FM, Milwaukee.

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