Avant-garde composer Wolff to perform with jazz musicians in Brooklyn
Avant-garde classical composer Christian Wolff will team up with some of the best New York-based jazz musicians for an evening of his own compositions on Thursday, March 5, at Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave., at 8 p.m.
The concert will include the world premiere of “Brooklyn (for 6 Players)” and the complete version of “Song (for 6),” which was partially performed at the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s farewell performances at the Armory in 2011.
Wolff was born in 1934 in Nice, France, but has mainly lived in the U.S. since 1941. While he has basically been self-taught as a composer, he has collaborated with John Cage, Morton Feldman, David Tudor and others. Some of his pieces were used by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, starting in 1953.