Jordan Mclean: News

After months of day after day in the theatre doing my part to bring FELA! to the stage and touring with Antibalas and the Sway Machinery, I will be in NYC presenting more works more regularly, so please check the calendar here so we can see one another in person sooner than later!

Out here on the San Fransisco coast with the Sway Machinery (miss you Stu!), looking forward to a day with Gus and Troy in the Park, and a night of turning the place on its head with this un-containable music...

The cat is a little out of the bag by now...
Here is what my life is about, 6 days a week through the fall.

http://www.felaoffbroadway.com/

In the meantime I am recording my solo trumpet/electronics record this July 4th weekend, recording with the great Amir Ziv next week, playing Celebrate Brooklyn with the Sway Machinery the following week, and with DROID at the Issue Project Room the last week of July.

Please stay in touch if I fall out...

Yes Friends,
It is time to make a proper Sway Machinery album.
We will be outside of Montreal for the next seven days, culminating in a 92nd St. Y Shavus celebration next Sunday night.
Follow the Sway links for details.
YES

Antibalas departs for Europe and Reunion Island today.
We are back in the first couple days of May.
Until then, take care of each other...

Please check out Stephen's blog.
This man can play FYI...

http://www.stephenhaynes.blogspot.com

Please join us friends, on Wednesday the 2nd of April for our first performance since the release of our cd.
All the details on the calendar page.
Thank you everyone for your support of the group and all of the positive feedback we have been getting on the record...

The beautiful Piano Music and Song Trio cds are ready.
Let me know you want one, or go to cdbaby.com and look us up there.

Thanks so much...

Dear artist friends,
You all help the world breathe a little easier and I'm glad that when you were young you followed your soul and not the warnings and practical advice you received. I hope 08' is a great year for you in your
respective mediums.
Bill

This is from a great teacher, a great American, and strong supporter of the creative human
tendencies.

To celebrating the spirit of the sleeping Earth with rites and rituals, and brushing aside the elements of commercialism these next two weeks.
LOVE!

This season finds me rehearsing the Piano Music and Song Trio for upcoming concert events (Nov. 27th at Zebulon being next up) and more recordingsas well as preparing our first cd release.

I am at work in my first university teaching position, composing and practicing in an effort to be ready for any musical opportunity which may be presented to me.

Please stay tuned for sparse but well timed and placed performances and recordings with Antibalas, Jeremiah Lockwood, the choreographer Emma Cotter and the Piano Music Trio...

Have a look friends!
This Saturday from 7 to 10 in Soho. FREE!!!

http://www.crush3r.com/page/mftxeawku

I am so focused on our workshop with Bill T Jones and searching for a home for the fall, I have fallen behind on posting all of my performances.

As of now, September 4th at Zebulon for the PMT is all you need to know as far as where and when for me.

Oh, and I will be conducting a piece on the 30th of September, which I will post lots of details on soon.

Have a great week!

My last trip over seas this year has found me in the UK for a set at WOMAD, the largest "world music" festival of the year, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for a little hang with the lady.
Steph and I collaborated on the music for her show, "Bomber's Row", and I provided musical assistance for another NYC-spun show, "Spawn And Die", so this is a fine way to wrap up the touring year.
See you in New York!

I will miss NY so much, I cannot even say. I will however return in July for good, so take care the place for me!

On Tour With the Band.
All month. All of April, most of May and all of June...
Check antibalas.com for my exact where-abouts.
Love.

Greetings from Austin TX, where the wind is warm and the civic initiatives lean green.
Anitbalas has 5 days down here to remind people to dance and not to sleep on our jobs as citizens.
Straight to California fromn here, with not a lot of NYC in the near future...

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in {The Middle East} and justice throughout the developing world, a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. Shall we say the odds are too great? Will our message be that the forces of American life militate against {the world's arrival as a whole people}, and we send our deepest regrets? Or will there be another message -- of longing, of hope, of solidarity with their yearnings, of commitment to their cause, whatever the cost? The choice is ours, and though we might prefer it otherwise, we must choose in this crucial moment of human history.

...In one of his last public statements, Berrigan said,

The American people are, more and more, making their voices heard against Bush and his warrior clones. Bush and his minions slip out of control, determined to go to war, determined to go it alone, determined to endanger the Palestinians further, determined to control Iraqi oil, determined to ravage further a suffering people and their shattered society. The American people can stop Bush, can yank his feet closer to the fire, can banish the war makers from Washington D.C., can turn this society around and restore it to faith and sanity.

[edit] Death

My piece for trumpet and electronics is building steam...
We will have a couple of premiers in Germany and France in March by the great Grahm Ashton, and the piece is one of three finalists in this year's American Modern Ensemble's composition competition.
What a fancy tea party!

Hey!
Happy New Year.