jonathan freilich presents

Jazzfest performances

Jonathan Freilich — Sun, 05 May 2013 16:23:00 +0000

Playing today. 6pm at the lagniappe stage at New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

Tomorrow 9pm at the big top, Clio st, New Orleans.

Bass: james singleton
Vibes/ drums- mike dillon
Saxophone- tim Green
Guitar- Jonathan Freilich

This will be a very interesting concert of improvisations and originals. Come on out

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!The Arthur Blythe Sextet!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jonathan Freilich — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:22:22 +0000

One of my favorite groups ever. Featuring Kelvyn Bell, one of my favorite guitar players in my favorite period! So driving! So interesting! So much there, given, in so many directions. If there is one major influence...

L'Ile De Goree

Jonathan Freilich — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:16:25 +0000

Xenakis wrote this about the horrific island prison off the coast of Senegal, a slave warehouse for the hideous Atlantic slave trade.

Venice, CA- w/ New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars Trio- 4/24/13

Jonathan Freilich — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 04:18:19 +0000

I'll be appearing at the Club Good Hurt in Venice, CA. The band will be THe New Orleans Klezmer All-Star trio featuring Erin Armstrong on woodwinds; Jon Graves on bass; jonathan Freilich-guitar.

We start at 8pm, there are more klezmer operations on the bill...

Milan Kundera on Xenakis

Jonathan Freilich — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 03:34:16 +0000

From Total Rejection of Inheritance or, Who is Iannis Xenakis?- Milan Kundera(1980)

“Can his experiments with sounds and noises that are beyond notes and scales signal a new period in the history of music? Will they remain in the memory of music lovers? No one can say for sure. But what will survive for sure is this gesture of immense rejection: for the first time ever, someone dared to tell European music that it is possible to abandon it. To forget it. (Is it a coincidence that during his youth, Xenakis lived through the massacres of a civil war, was condemned to death, his handsome face having been permanently marred by a wound, came to know human nature to a greater extent than any other composer?) And I think of the necessity, in the profound meaning of this necessity, which led Xenakis to choose the world’s objective sonority over the subjective one of a soul.”

Brecht- On the reading of plays

Jonathan Freilich — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:52:54 +0000

"The Threepenny Opera is concerned with bourgeois conceptions not only as content, by representing them, but also through the manner in which it does so. It is a kind of report on life as any member of the audience would like to see it. Since at the same time, however, he sees a good deal that he has no wish to see; since therefore he sees his wishes not merely fulfilled but also criticized (sees himself not as the subject but as the object), he is theoretically in a position to appoint a new function for the theatre. But the theatre itself resists any alteration of that function, and so it seems desirable that the spectator should read plays whose aim is not merely to be performed in the theatre but to change it: out of mistrust of the theatre. Today we see the theatre being given absolute priority over the actual plays."

- Bertolt Brecht 1927

The Great Hymn of Thanksgiving

Jonathan Freilich — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 05:31:20 +0000

I saw this performed a couple of months ago at Zipper Hall.

Absolutely blew me away on so many levels and I had never heard of Rick Burkhardt.

GREAT HYMN OF THANKSGIVING composed by Rick Burkhardt from H.P. Mendoza on Vimeo.

With Klezmer All-Stars Duo March 1 & 2: Fillmore Aud. SF

Jonathan Freilich — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:52:24 +0000

Will be appearing at The Fillmore, Sf in the poster room with accordionist before some band named Galactic. I think two heretics fromThe New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars are still bopping around with Galactic. So, you never know what may happen when they begin to fall in line again under the weight of hyper-modern Yiddish music pressure.

Show up for a show. Friday or Saturday or...both. 8pm

Freilich/Hartman jazzfest New Orleans

Coming up! The big yearly performance- Feb.12

Jonathan Freilich — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:04:57 +0000

The Klezmer All-Stars will be back Mardi Gras Day at DBA, New Orleans at the terminus of the Krewe of Jewlu parade. I will be there. Remember the gig at DBA on Fat Tuesday has been going on since 1998. That's some history!

Ellington and Joan Miro

Jonathan Freilich — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:16:37 +0000

Always been one of my favorite clips. Check the Ellington piano attack at the end!