Past recordings and performances
Jazz / Improv
Jeff Beer Pocket GamelanChicago Jazz Composers Collective
with Jeff Beer, Mitch Paliga , Ryan Shultz , Dan DeLorenzo, Damon Short , Kathy Kelly , and Mark Nagy on jazz instruments and Balinese gamelan instruments calung , gong, gumanak.
Green Mill, Chicago. August 28, 2005
Mike Ellis World Jazz Ensemble2002 Ufa Jazz Festival (Russia) with Mike Ellis , Barry Wedgle , Andrey Mongush ,
Bob Amacher-BoudinChicago Spontaneous CombustionRecording: Chicago Spontaneous Combustion Suite
with Mike Ellis , Jeff Beer,
Ryan Shultz ,
Larry Kohut ,
Damon ShortAndre CaporasoRecording: Pathways, Blue Room Records - BRR005
Damon Short Quintet
Recording: Third Prize!
Recording: Airplay
Brackets
with Jeff Beer, Dan DeLorenzo, Michael Raynor, and Ryan Shultz
Recording:
An Internet Jazz Sampler
1989 Northeastern Illinois University MIDI conference
Premiers Genetic Hobby, a solo composition for trumpet and computer improvisation
Performs Kurt Schwitters’
Ursonate and other multi-media improvisations with Andrew Laties and Lynn Book in Cabaret Voltaire and Chicago Filmakers in Chicago in 1984 and 1988.
Performs at
1987 Ottawa Jazz Festival (Canada) with
Northeastern Illinois University Jazz Band, directed by
Dr. Aaron Horn
Mike Ellis -What Else Is New?
Alfa ALZ28016 F rec Paris 7/1/85
with Jeff Beer (trumpet), Mark Sims (trombone), Matthew Russell (flute), Francois Creamer (bass clarinet),
Mike Ellis (soprano sax),
Jon Handelsman (soprano and tenor sax), Bobby Few (piano), Barry Wedgle (guitar), Jean-Jacques Avenel (bass), John Betsch (drums), Abdou M'Boup (percussion)
Celestial Communication Orchestra
Alan Silva , director
member from 1980 to 1983
1982 Paris Jazz Festival
1981 Cafe Dunois Festival
1980 Paris Jazz Festival
Recording: Desert Mirage IACP 7004/5
Ancient Babies
with Dan Anderson , Jeff Beer, Larry Beers , Doug Tidaback , and Brad Wheeler
1982 Witchita Jazz Festival
1982 Notre Dame Jazz Festival, awarded Outstanding Trumpet
WEFT broadcast, May 1982
Performs with Pierre Akendengué in Paris in May, 1983
Performs with
Bernard Lubat at
1982 Fete d'Avignon (France)
Performs at
1981 Montreux Jazz Festival
Performs with Don Cherry , Charlie Haden , Karl Berger , and Ed Blackwell at the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, NY, and the Riverside Church in NYC in May, 1979
Performs with Roscoe Mitchell in Urbana Illinois, February 1977
Gamelan
Wayang Kulit: Bima and Dewa RuciHyde Park Union Church
November 17, 2007
Friends of the Gamelan Performance Ensemble
With guest artists Joko Sutrisno and Midiyanto
The World's Fair Festival Concert
Music Institute of Chicago
Nichols Concert Hall, Evanston, Illinois
Friends of the Gamelan Performance Ensemble
This concert features Javanese gamelan music that was also performed at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in the Java Village exhibit. Trumpet soloist on Lou Harrison's A Cornish Lancaran.
New Music Chicago: Creating new Art Music In A Global Culture
Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) October 29, 2006
with Seth Boustead , Friends of the Gamelan Performance Ensemble
composition Gong Song by David Hunter
Indonesian Cultural Celebration
October 28, 2006 in the Northeastern Auditorium.
Indonesian Performing Arts Chicago, Friends of the Gamelan Performance Ensemble
Wayang Kulit: Babad Wanamarta (The Clearing of the Marta Forest)
Preston Bradley Hall , Chicago Cultural Center , June 25, 2006
Kalamazoo College , June 27, 2006
Purbo Asmoro , dhalang
with Wakidi Dwidjomartono (kendhang),
Djoko Walujo , (gender),
Sudi Rahayu (sindhen),
Anne Stebinger (rebab),
Jesse Snyder (gambang),
Susan Walton (slenthem),
Kitsie Emerson (interpreter), and Friends of the Gamelan Performance Ensemble
Sekehe Dharma Purwa Jati
Performs at the 2000 Bali Arts Festival.
(reference)
Recording: Sweet Sukawati Seeds YP 1040
