The Resonance of Objects

Wait, there’s more: TheGyan Riley Trio plays Friday at HSU’s Fulkerson Hall. The son of minimalist music legend Terry Riley (and a former HSU music teacher) guitarist Gyan Riley mixes classical and jazz styles adding East European, Indian and African elements. One of my favorite jazz drummers, Scott Amendola, is on Gyan’s latest album, Melismantra, and he’ll be up for Friday’s gig playing tunes from the CD along with violinist/violist Timb Harris. “We’ve also opened up certain sections for improvisational solos to allow for unexpected twists and turns,” says Riley.

The Red Fox continues its role as reggae-central: Friday they have niceness by Pato Banton (backed by Mystic Roots), Saturday it’s Bob’s son, Ky-Mani Marley, then on Wednesday, Oct. 15, it’s former Black Uhuru vocalist Junior Reid and The One Blood Band. Irie!

The raw food restaurant Green Life Evolution Center is moving into the old Greenhouse Boardshop in Arcata and, as they did when they were out in Blue Lake, they’ll have music on occasion. Saturday, Oct. 11, they ease into the new space with a show featuring the amazing kora player Youssoupha Sidibe, who blew many minds at this summer’s Reggae Rising.

Up at Fulkerson Hall Saturday, pianist Deborah Clasquin plays 20th centurymusic from all over including tunes by Ravel, Bartok, jazz piano great Bill Evans and lesser known composers Frederico Mompou and Karol Szymanowski.

Kabile Traditional Wedding Band has been playing traditional Bulgarian village music on traditional village instruments for 30 years, which, according to the Humboldt folkdancers bringing them to town, makes for “an acoustic experience quite different from [music] played on Western instruments influenced by American jazz.” So, the Kabile show Sunday evening at Unitarian Fellowship Hall in Bayside should be totally worldly.

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Comment / By Robert Tripp / Oct. 13, 2008, 1:20 p.m.

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