The Michele Brangwen Dance & Music Ensemble creates art on an incredibly high level, as evidenced by the joy in the audience response to performances this year in the Duffy at the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, The Jazz Loft in Stony Brook, NY, and the MATCH in Houston, and by the great review in the December issue of the New York City Jazz Record. When you join us as a donor, you are supporting the creation of new work of this caliber and the artists who make it come alive. And you are sustaining us so that we can bring you another year of live performance. Please consider joining us.
https://michele-brangwen-dance-ensemble.square.site/
@brangwendance
When I began collaborating with Michele Brangwen on a work that would tribute the great Don Cherry, we talked about Cherry's love (and ours) for the sound of Charlie Haden's bass. I wrote this unaccompanied bass solo section and Michele heard it as a very intimate dance and music Mandala - 5 dancers and 4 musicians make the Mandala which revolves in performance, fueled by sound of the bass. You can hear a little of it here in rehearsal, played beautifully by Thorbjørn Stefansson and danced by Adam Castaneda, Cristian Laverde Koenig, Lindsey McGill, Meredith Fages, Michele Brangwen, with musicians Evan Hyde, Michael Eaton, Angela Wang and me...this is what Michele does so well: blur the boundaries of the disciplines in the subtle and emotional ways. Come and see the entire work on Friday November 7 at 8 p.m. at the Mark Morris Dance Center, Brooklyn, NY. Tickets: https://michele-brangwen-dance-ensemble.square.site
A little old school hand-drawn poster for the Michele Brangwen Dance & Music Ensemble upcoming performances of our work that tributes the great Don Cherry. Can't wait to hit with these amazing dancers and musicians in Michele's beautiful and loving creation, with original music by me, and of course sections of improvisation by all performers: Cristian Laverde Koenig, Adam Castaneda, Lindsey McGill, Michele Brangwen, and Meredith Fages, dancers; with Michael Eaton, sax; Angela Wang, voice and dance, Evan Hyde, drums; Thorbjorn Stefansson, bass. The program will also include music by Don Cherry. Click here for tickets: https://michele-brangwen-dance-ensemble.square.site/
We hope to see you there at the James & Martha Duffy Performance Space at the Mark Morris Dance Center, Brooklyn, NY
My Tim Hagans Synesthesia Band will be filling the Performing Arts Center at Providence College with some wild jazz for peace and love this weekend. With Michael Eaton, Rez Abbasi, Jay Anderson, and Ian Froman. Saturday September 13. The concert is free and open to the public. https://music.providence.edu/events/
Excited to hit with the amazing Evi Feelippou at Zig Zag Jazz Club in Berlin on August 20, with Zuza Jasinska, Julius Gawlik, Jim Hart, Robert Lucaciu, and Keisuke Matsumo.
More upcoming gigs listed in my latest newsletter:
https://mailchi.mp/.../welcome-to-tim-hagans-newletter...
A wildly creative set of concerts with Evi Feelippou, composer, vibraphonist, & drummer, with myself (conducting, arranging & trumpeting) and the incredible NDR Bigband. With special guests Zuza Jasińska, Keisuke Matsuno, Jim Hart, and Robert Lucaciu. It was such an exciting and inspiring project to be a part of!
I am really excited to be performing at Jazz at Lincoln Center this coming Sunday as part of the Kenny Dorham Centennial Tribute, and also looking forward to being the guest host for the late night jazz jam on Thursday tributing great Kenny Dorham. I hope to see you there! Dizzy's Club, Evette Dorham It is going to be an amazing multiple day concert celebration of Kenny Dorham! Whooooo!
It was the Autumn of 2021, things were opening up and we were experiencing making music together once again. Please consider voting for Michele Brangwen's beautiful documentary film of a magical week rehearsing and performing: "A Week In Hamburg: Reherasing & performing Tim Hagans' A Conversation." Released November 2022 on YouTube.com/timhagans
It was so inspiring and energizing to perform with my new quartet featuring Rez Abbasi on guitar; Thomas Helton on bass; and Samuel Knight on drums, last week at the Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston. Now we head to Virginia to perform at Washington & Lee University. Can't wait! https://columns.wlu.edu/wls-sonoklect-series-presents.../
Gratitude to Michele Brangwen Dance & Music Ensemble for presenting us at the MATCH and Terry Vosbein and the Sonoklect Series for presenting us at Washington & Lee. It's going to be wild!!!
I am very excited to debut my new quartet at the MATCH this Friday February 17 at 8 p.m. featuring Tim Hagans, trumpet; Rez Abbasi, guitar; Thomas Helton, bass; and Samuel Knight, drums.
It is going to be wild!!!!!!!!
Tickets are available online or in person at the MATCH box office: /events/2023/tim-hagans-quartet
It was so great to do this interview with the amazing Greg Bryant for WBGO. Find the interview at WBGO.org! We talked about my new recording, "A Conversation" with the always incredible NDR Bigband, working with one of my all time heroes Thad Jones, and the music scene in general. Here is the link to the interview page on WBGO. Thank you to Greg, WBGO, and Lydia Liebman Promotions.
Verrrry interesting....trumpet flowers? In the heart of NYC? Happy Bandcamp Friday! All proceeds from sales today go directly to the artists. /album/a-conversation-2 My new CD "A Conversation" with the NDR Bigband is available in digital or physical form, and there is a 20% discount for purchasing all three releases currently on bandcamp. Do I hear wild 8th notes emanating from these blossoms?
