Featured guest artists Marc Ribot and Frank London will lead their own masterclass / workshop following basic practice with Billy Martin and Ken Filiano*

This weekend will be hosted by CMS artistic directors Billy Martin and Ken Filiano 12-6pm Saturday and Sunday Jan 4th and 5th 2020

• Saturday • Jan 4th, 12-3pm Billy Martin & Ken Filiano; 3:30-6pm featuring MARC RIBOT

• Sunday • JAN.5th, 12-3pm Billy Martin & Ken Filiano; 3:30-6pm featuring FRANK LONDON

• sign up for just one day of your choice or get the full weekend experience •

Creative Music Studio™ will present a 2 day intensive workshop program (12 hours) at The New School, 55 West 13th Street, New York City

Learn from the unique expertise and musical experience of MARC RIBOT and FRANK LONDON during their intimate masterclass sessions.

In addition, learn from CMS guiding artists Ken Filiano, and Billy Martin on core principles of their creative process:

- Improvisation

- String of Phrases

- Rhythmic Harmony

- Improvisers Orchestra

- Deep Listening

- And More

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ABOUT OUR FEATURED GUEST ARTISTS

Marc Ribot, who the New York Timesdescribes as “a deceptively articulate artist who uses inarticulateness as an expressivedevice,” has released 25albums under his own name over a 40-year career, exploring everything from the pioneering jazz of Albert Ayler to the Cuban sonof Arsenio Rodríguez. His solo release, Silent Movies (Pi Recording 2010) has been described as a "down-in-mouth-near master piece" by the Village Voice and has landed on several Best of 2010lists including theLA Timesand critical praise across the board, and 2014 saw the monumental release: Marc Ribot Trio Live at the Village Vanguard(Pi Recordings), documenting Marc’s first headline and the return of Henry Grimes at the historical venue in 2012 and includedon Best of 2014lists such as Downbeat Magazineand NPR’s 50 Favorites. 2018 saw the release of two politically charged albums: YRU Still Here? (Northern Spy), the long awaited third album from Ribot’s post-rock/noise trio Ceramic Dog, and Songs of Resistance 1942-2018(featuring guest vocalists Tom Waits, Steve Earle, Meshell Ndegeocello and more on Anti-Records) voicing anger and outrage during these turbulent times, andboth albums landing on various Best of 2018 lists including NPR’s All Songs Considered. Rolling Stonepoints out that “Guitarist Marc Ribot helped Tom Waits refine a new, weird Americana on 1985's Rain Dogs, and since then he's become the go-to guitar guy for all kinds of roots-music adventurers: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Elvis Costello, John Mellencamp.” Additional recording credits include Neko Case, Diana Krall, Elton John/Leon Russell’s The Union, Solomon Burke, John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards, Marianne Faithful, Joe Henry, Allen Toussaint, Medeski Martin & Wood, Caetono Veloso, Susana Baca, Allen Ginsburg, Madeline Peyroux, Nora Jones, Jolie Holland, Akiko Yano, The Black Keys, and many others. Marc works regularly with Grammy® award winning producer T Bone Burnett and NY composer John Zorn. He has alsocomposed andperformed on numerous film scores such as "Walk The Line” (Mangold), "The Kids Are All Right," and "The Departed" (Scorcese).“...he can sit down with just his guitar and simultaneously confound you with technique, beauty, and surprise.” -John Garratt and Will Layman, PopMatters

http://marcribot.com

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Trumpeter/composer FRANK LONDON is a member of the Klezmatics, Hasidic New Wave, has performed with John Zorn, LL Cool J, Mel Torme, Lester Bowieπs Brass Fantasy, LaMonte Young, They Might Be Giants, David Byrne, Jane Siberry, Ben Folds 5, Mark Ribot, Maurice El Medioni and Gal Costa, and is featured on over 100 cds. His own recordings include INVOCATIONS (cantorial music); Frank Londonπs Klezmer Brass Allstarsπ DI SHIKERE KAPELYE and BROTHERHOOD OF BRASS; NIGUNIM and THE ZMIROS PROJECT (Jewish mystical songs, with Klezmatics vocalist Lorin Sklamberg); THE DEBT (film and theater music); THE SHEKHINA BIG BAND; the soundtrack to THE SHVITZ; the soundtrack to Perl Gluck's THE DIVAHN and four releases with the Hasidic New Wave.

His projects include the folk-opera A NIGHT IN THE OLD MARKETPLACE (based on Y.L. Peretz's Bay nakht oyfn altn mark), DAVENEN for Pilobolus and the Klezmatics, Great Small Works' THE MEMOIRS OF GLUCKEL OF HAMELN and Min Tanaka's ROMANCE. He composed music for John Sayles' THE BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET and MEN WITH GUNS, Yvonne Rainer's MURDER AND MURDER, the Czech-American Marionette Theaterπs GOLEM and Tamar Rogoff's IVYE PROJECT.

http://www.franklondon.com

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* all scheduling subject to change