This is a matrix in the original sense of "source". It is a "small-world" network, meaning that the nodes (people) inside it are — mirroring human society — within a few steps of everybody else inside it. The matrix was built to allow regional Brazilian musicians to be discoverable steps away from everybody else in the arts world, and by logical necessity this m.o. requires not only that the great Brazilians be matrixed, but so far as possible, all working artists in our time. Ergo:
THIS MATRIX, THOUGH BRAZIL-BORN, IS UNIVERSAL
This Roy Nathanson matrix node is steps away from the entire planet by the well-known small-world ("6 degrees") phenomenon dictating that in human society you yourself are within several degrees of Roy Nathanson.
1 DEGREE FORWARD: Roy Nathanson (node) ROUTES TO THESE ARTIST NODES
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CURATION STATUS
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Who & Where
- Name: Roy Nathanson
- City/Place: Brooklyn, NY
- Country: United States
Life & Work
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Bio:
Roy Nathanson has a varied career as a saxophonist, composer, band-leader, actor and teacher. He is leader and principal composer of the Jazz Passengers, which he co-founded with Curtis Fowlkes in 1987.
He has scored works for PBS, and films by Jacob Burkhardt and Tamara Jenkins as well as numerous theater productions for playwright Roy Dobbins and others.
He has written children’s songs for the HBO series Happily Ever After. Several of his songs were featured in Karole Armitage’s adaptation of “Sheherazade” at the Florence Opera House, and songs that he has written or arranged have appeared in Robert Altman’s film Short Cuts and Chantal Akerman’s Histoires D’Amerique.
He scored the animated film JOY STREET directed by Suzan Pitt which premiered at the New York Film Festival in October ’95.
The Fire at Keaton’s Bar & Grill was Mr. Nathanson’s recording released under his own name by Six Degrees Records in March 2000. It is a story of a fire in a mythical bar and features performance by many of the collaborators he has worked with in his career, including Charles Earland, Ms. Harry, and Mr. Costello. It has been performed at Arts at St. Ann’s in New York City and at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
His sideman credits include four years recording and touring with The Lounge Lizards, work with Marc Ribot’s Rootless Cosmopolitans, Charles Earland and The Shirelles. He has also performed in special projects including a saxophone quartet concert in Brussels with Steve Lacy and Ned Rothenberg in which each of the four musicians contributed an original composition.
Contact Information
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Management/Booking:
Management:
Dana Hall
dana@jazzpassengers.com
phone 201-906-2189
For booking:
United States:
Andreas Scherrer, Company of Heaven, NYC
info@companyofheaven.com
523-525 W 152 Street, Suite 51, New York, NY 10031
phone 212-281-9785
Europe:
Saudades Tourneen GmbH
Jakob Flarer, jakob@saudades.atAnna Erhart, anna.erhart@saudades.at
Rotholz 369a, 6220 Buch in Tirol, Austria
phone +43-5244-61151
Media & Markets
- ▶ Buy My Music (downloads/CDs/DVDs): http://jazzpassengers.com/shop/
- ▶ Twitter: roynathanson
- ▶ Website: http://jazzpassengers.com
- ▶ Website 2: http://5pmporchconcerts.com
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCDUwYNXXsCfVUBpzU64vfPA
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/2mOOVTd6PhsBIEh6hGbFhd
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/30WOyWa6aOBYPb3bhRLjce
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/056nnt351T7e17SXDOdRSQ
- ▶ Spotify 4: http://open.spotify.com/album/0B07X7rxlL9HVTEbBaxV2m
- ▶ Spotify 5: http://open.spotify.com/album/3x0oBWSc117m9RKDGUyUZo
- ▶ Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/nyregion/coronavirus-musicians-nyc-streets.html
Clips (more may be added)
THE MATRIX WAS BUILT HERE, inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone... The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum...it sings!
Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes
Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word
Limned in prosody and cadenced song
brəˈzɪl / from "brasa" / Latin for "ember"
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
Given the immense untapped power of the small-world phenomenon, from Brazilians the matrix was expanded to include nodes per jazz artists, given jazz's common roots with Brazilian music (nodes based in publicly available information; some artists we informed — Bob Mintzer, Kamasi Washington, David "Fuse" Fiuczynski, Vijay Iyer, Greg Osby — and got thumbs up, others we'll get to), and moved on from there. Artists/academics/"creative people" are welcome to create their own nodes and curate (connect to other artist nodes, so that others may follow). BTW, our logo is a cortador de cana, cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specializes in.
MUCH MORE on all of this in the window below (which, if you are logged in, will instead contain instructions on recommending), and in the window within that window (which includes a "radio" called by The Guardian one of "10 of the best music radio stations around the world"):
