ROUST Records Presents . . . Avant Garde at Potsdam Public Library is excited to present a solo performance for saxophone by Phillip Greenlief, Sunday, July 27. Doors at 6 PM/music at 6:30. $10 door, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Local free jazz group, Trio Inaugurate, made up of Claude Aldous: drums, Ola Aldous, piano, and William Eckert, alto saxophone, will kick the evening off.
Greenlief began playing solo in the early 80’s, using jazz and popular music titles as a launchpad for improvisation. Over the years his solo practice expanded to include his own work that utilized traditional notation until the 2000s, when he re-invented his solo language to embrace the sound worlds of electro-acoustic improvisation. At this time he also began composing non traditionally notation systems, which resulted in the BARBEDWIRE (37 graphic scores for trio) and his signature works known collectively as MAP SCORES.
During these past three decades he has dedicated solo concerts as space for free improvisation, playing the dynamics of the room as much as the instrument itself. Phillip Greenlief has taught solo improvisation at The California Jazz Conservatory (Berkeley), the New School (NYC) and an international roster of colleges and universities abroad. He has released four solo albums to date and is planning on recording a new solo project in fall 2025.
Find out more about Greenlief's solo work at
https://www.phillipgreenlief.com/pg-solo
Since his emergence on the west coast in the late 1970s, saxophonist/composer Phillip Greenlief has achieved international acclaim for his recordings and performances with musicians and composers in the post jazz continuum as well as new music innovators and virtuosic improvisers. He has performed with Wadada Leo Smith, Meredith Monk, Rashaun Mitchell & Silas Reiner, and They Might Be Giants. Albums include two LANTSKAP LOGIC TRIO releases (w/ Evelyn Davis and Fred Frith), THAT OVERT DESIRE OF OBJECT with Joelle Leandre, ALL AT ONCE with FPR (Frank Gratkowski and Jon Raskin), and OH THAT MONSTER with LA punk pioneers Thelonious Monster. Recent residencies have included the Banff Center for Art and Creativity, Neue Muzik Koln, suddenly/Listen (Halifax, NS), and Headlands Center for the Arts. His critical writing has been published in Art forum, Open Space (SFMOMA), Sound American, and Signal to Noise.
"The Bay Area's do-it-yourself ethos has produced a bevy of dazzlingly creative musicians, but few have put the philosophy to work as effectively as Phillip Greenlief." – Andrew Gilbert, San Francisco Chronicle
Photo credit: Manuel Enriquez
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