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Alternating Currents Live Archive Alternating Currents Live: Making Sounds Musical |
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| Sunday, May 18, at 7pm Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 East Locust Street, Milwaukee $6.00 General/$5.00 Advance tickets and Members Alternating Currents Live presents The Nicole Mitchell Trio featuring Nicole Mitchell - flute, Josh Abrams - bass, and Myron Cherry - drums Nicole Mitchell is one of few African American women to take the path as a creative instrumentalist,  composer and bandleader. As a jazz flutist, she
was recently recognized in Downbeat Magazine's Critic's Poll as "Talent
Deserving Wider Recognition." She began to play the flute at age 15, and at
age 20, was introduced to the flute playing of Eric Dolphy and James Newton
by jazz trombonist Jimmy Cheatham. As a creative musician, her career
began as co-founder of the Chicago-based Association for the Advancement
of Creative Musicians’ first all-women ensemble Samana.Nicole Mitchell has performed with a wide variety of musicians and composers including Ed Wilkerson, Leroy Jenkins, James Newton, Roscoe Mitchell, David Boykin, Ernest Dawkins, Malachi Favors, Fred Anderson, Hamid Drake, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Douglas Ewart, Ari Brown, Joseph Jarman, Phil Niblock, Michael Zerang and others. She leads her own group, "Black Earth Ensemble," as a forum for her own compositions and creative vision. Black Earth recently released her debut album as composer and bandleader, the CD "Vision Quest" (Dreamtime Records). She also performs with the David Boykin Expanse on flute and piccolo and co-leads PTSH!, an ensemble including Edward Wilkerson (tenor sax), Vincent Davis (percussion), and Harrision Bankhead (bass). As a composer, her newest work, "Africa Rising: A Trilogy," was featured recently by Ernest Dawkins’ Live the Spirit Jazz Band and the Muntu Theater Drummers at Hamilton Park, Chicago. Mitchell also plays classical and jazz flute for the New Black Repertory Ensemble of the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College. As an educator, Mitchell is a Professor of Flute at Chicago State University, a part-time Professor of Music for Northeastern Illinois University at the Center for Inner City Studies, and teaches for the AACM School of Music in Chicago. "(Nicole Mitchell)...announced herself as a noteworthy bandleader-composer-soloist in her own right the night she unveiled her Black Earth Ensemble. ...it pointed to a musician equally persuasive in traditional swing-based rhythm, outlandish sound effects, carefully composed pieces and the freeist of the free-form improvisation." (Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune)
"Flutist/composer Niki Mitchell has risen as an intriguing, genial presence on the Chicago experimental scene. Mitchell's flute-tone is assured and iridescent, and from tempered classical origins flower a battery of growls, smears and purrs, hop scotching notes blending with aerodynamic lines." (John MacCalkies, New City)
This concert is brought to you by the Alternating Currents Live series, broadcast on WMSE (91.7) FM, Milwaukee. 
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