☞ LISTEN: The Christian Scott Quintet

Friday-Saturday, October 28th-29th,7:30 PM, The Christian Scott Quintet at the Gatehouse, 150 Convent Avenue at 135th Street. The Christian Scott Quintet will premiere five new compositions that seek to build a new Harmolodic system using seamless compositional forms (see Miles Davis Isle of Wright Call it Anything) with the types of collective improvisational elements of the early Jazz of New Orleans interwoven with textural elements of Modern Alt Rock.

Harmolodics is the musical philosophy of jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman and is therefore associated primarily with the jazz avant-garde and the free jazz movement, although its implications extend beyond these limits. Harmolodics seeks to free musical compositions from any tonal center, allowing harmonic progression independent of traditional European notions of tension and release. Harmolodics may loosely be defined as an expression of music in which harmony, movement of sound, and melody all share the same value. The general effect is that music achieves an immediately open expression, without being constrained by tonal limitations, rhythmic pre-determination, or harmonic rules.

Advance $25 tickets may be purchased on line: LINK