The New Jazz Now Series

The Avant Jazz Workshop has created its own performance series in order to provide a platform for new jazz in Santa Fe -

May 30 - Love Unfold The Sun & Present Moment
7:30 pm / Paradiso - Santa Fe / $20

The May 30 show will the atmospheric, searing, and hypnotic, the Middle Eastern-tinged free jazz quartet Love Unfold The Sun as well as the new electronic jazz group Present Moment. Tickets info available here .
Love Unfold The Sun: 
https://loveunfoldthesun.bandcamp.com/album/explode-yourself
Present Moment
https://www.psyrecords.com/presentmoment.html

June 7 - Carlos Santistevan & Thollem
7:30 pm / Entropy Gallery, Santa Fe / $10

Carlos Santistevan is a bassist, sounds engineer, conductor, and organizer. Since 2001 he has helped establish an oasis of creative music in the high desert southwest as the director of the High Mayhem Emerging Arts collective based out of Santa Fe, NM. https://highmayhem.org/carlos-santistevan

He will be performing a short solo bass set, followed by a duo performance with piano phenomenon Thollem McDonas.  Daniel Spencer of The Wire writes "Thollem displays a chameleonic ability to adapt to suit whatever musical context presents itself... there is more than one way to access the infinite." https://www.thollem.com/

Entropy Gallery is at 1220 Parkway Drive, Santa Fe, NM 87507
Tickets are $10 at the door

July 19 - Glass Key Trio
7:30 pm /  Entropy Gallery, Santa Fe / $10

Based in Santa Fe, NM and led by Jeremy Bleich’s eclectic guitar and compositional style, the Glass Key Trio produces and explores compositions inspired by Americana, Balkan, Arabic and contemporary classical music and film noir. Each composition is a vehicle for spirited dialogue between the players ushering the listener into a narrative exploration of musical landscapes. 

Jeremy Bleich is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who incorporates a wide palette of sound and culture into the process of creating music. He has toured extensively across Europe and the U.S playing bass and electronics with critically acclaimed trio Birth, award winning Kodama Trio and oud with Zevk Ensemble and Trio Andaluz. He resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he is involved with presenting new music on his Grasshopper Music record label, producing House Concert Chamber Music events, and teaching Orchestra at Los Alamos Public Schools. Jeremy has played and/or recorded with musicians as diverse as Count Vu, Joe Maneri, Chris Jonas, Carmen Castaldi, Jason White, Keven McCarthy, and Rick Elias. Jeremy has composed, conducted, and produced a variety of musical theatre works including "Love and Emma Goldman" A Rock Opera made possible by a generous grant from The California Foundation for Peace and Justice.

Ben Wright from Dixon, New Mexico plays double bass. He cut his teeth in Philadelphia punk rock, and has since been working the bass for 40 odd years, bolstered by intense spats of incidental formal training. A lover of the lowest frequencies, Ben has explored many disparate forms of music through the bass, yet always returns to the wellspring of improvisation. Currently, Ben plays with Glass Key Trio, Santa Fe Avant Jazz Workshop, Irksome Trio, Radio Free Bassanda, Jack Wright, and assorted eclectic partners locally and nationally. "I play music for the bliss of that instant when I lose consciousness of my surroundings, my instrument, and myself… there is only music. That is the crux where spontaneous creation between performers and audience is conceived."

Milton Villarrubia III grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and has been crafting his music art in Santa Fe, New Mexico since 1996. Milton has performed with Ellis Marsalis, Myra Melford, Anthony Braxton, Peter Bernstein, Steve Masakowski, The University of New Orleans Jazz Studies Program,
The Santa Fe Opera, New Mexico School for the Arts, William A. Thompson, IV, Circus Luminous, The Academy for Technology and the Classics, Candyman Strings and Things, Ray Francen's Drum Center and Drummer's World. In 2016 Milton and the Santa Fe based group Kodama Trio won best Jazz Album as well as Best Jazz Song in the Prestigious New Mexico
Music Awards.

Entropy Gallery is at 1220 Parkway Drive, Santa Fe, NM 87507
Tickets are $10 at the door