Boiler House Jazz ONLINE: Charlie Kohlhase (saxophone) & Callie Chapman (improv dance & digital video design-projection)
YOUTUBE LINK: https://youtu.be/0Hju11d7FyI
Two creative people from two different artistic mediums will come together for the first time for an adventurous collaboration combining sound, movement, and digital video projection. Charlie Kohlhase, one of the stalwarts of the Boston jazz scene for well over 20 years and someone who has significantly contributed to the local jazz scene both as a performer and a radio host. He fronts Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club and is also a long-time member of Either/Orchestra and the Makanda Project. From avant garde to modern creative post-bop, Charlie is an energetic force in the jazz community. His collaborator for the evening, Callie Chapman, is one of the most exciting and expressive improv dancers in the Boston area. She is also a highly regarded digital video projection designer and a tireless advocate for the arts community. This bodes to be an illuminating night of creative exchange.
Charlie Kohlhase
Alto, tenor and baritone saxophonist Charlie Kohlhase has performed in a number of ensembles over the years and has written over 50 compositions with his music spanning a broad range of styles with an emphasis on the contemporary and the improvised.
In 1989, he formed the Charlie Kohlhase Quintet , an ongoing project that has performed locally and nationally for a decade and half. Their live 2-CD set, “Play Free Or Die,” was released on the Boxholder label to critical acclaim. Kohlhase has also lead the CK5, a second quintet that released a live debut, “CK5 Live!” Charlie's other bands, Explorer's Club and Saxophone Support Group , have charted new territory. Explorer's Club , in particular, has built upon his long relationship with New England saxophonist Matt Langley. SSG is an ever-changing quartet to octet of local sax luminaries.
In addition, he has co-led groups with the great Danish/Congolese saxophonist John Tchicai for New England tours in 1997, 1998 and 2003. Charlie has also been a member of Either/Orchestra, playing throughout North America, Europe and Russia. His recordings with Tchicai and Roswell Rudd have received critical acclaim. Charlie was an artist-in-residence at Harvard in 2003 with Dave Douglas and Roswell Rudd.That same year, he recorded with Anthony Braxton's Genome Project and worked with violinist/composer Leroy Jenkins at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art.
Charlie teaches at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has also been active in jazz radio for many years and currently hosts “Research and Development”, a program devoted to modern jazz heard on WMBR 88.1FM in Cambridge, MA and on the web. http://www.charliekohlhase.com/
Callie Chapman
Callie Chapman is a dancer, dance instructor, choreographer, installation/projection artist, graphic designer, and a mother of 2 young boys. She has produced her own dance/theatre work for over 14 years with Zoe Dance and has also performed with Prometheus Dance. Callie is also a freelance graphic designer and composes her own projections for her dance/theatre pieces. She has presented her work in venues such as CrashArts' “Ten's the Limit” at the ICA and Green Street Studios, Corporacion Cultural de Las Condes (Santiago, Chile), multiple self-produced concerts, festivals, part of the Dance Renewal Project's “Virgin”, Dance Complex's Shared Choreographers Concert, among others. She has worked with choreographers Nicola Hawkins, Karen Murphy, and Emily Beattie, collaborated with video artists Greg Shea and Ken Kinna, composer Ivan Korn, and composers/musicians Pancho Molina and Billy Herron as well as Odyssey Opera, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Sleeping Weasel, and Anakaya Dance. Her work has been shown in Illuminus Boston 2015 and 2018 as well as the projection installation at Emerson College 2018. She was the founder and artistic director of her own space Studio at 550 in Cambridge, which served as a multidisciplinary artist exchange organization since 2016.
www.calliechapman.com www.zoedance.org
The Boiler House Jazz Series is underwritten in part by
JazzGeneration, a project of KeyedUp.org
The Boiler House Jazz Series is made possible by your voluntary financial support. Please give what you can. Any amount will be appreciated.
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All donations are shared equally by the ARTISTS, the MUSEUM, and DINE AID WALTHAM, a fundraising effort to support the local restaurant community
Dine Aid Waltham is a fundraising effort led by the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation to support independent Waltham restaurants and their employees who are under extreme financial stress due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Inspired by a tradition of supporting causes through music, the Museum is committing its three Spring 2021 concert series to help the local restaurant community.
One third of all the funds contributed by donors and sponsors via the concerts will go to
Dine Aid Waltham.
The funds directed to Dine Aid Waltham will be split evenly between the Waltham Waiters COVID Relief GoFundMe supporting Waltham restaurant employees and the restaurants themselves.
