Founded and curated by Bradley Bambarger, the Sound It Out concert series -- now in its fifth season -- aims to further a progressive tradition by presenting performances by musicians from jazz and other venturesome genres at the acoustically perfect concert hall of the Greenwich House Music School in New York’s West Village. Musicians from Nels Cline to William Parker, Evan Parker to Ted Nash, Anat Cohen to Fay Victor have performed in the series. Greenwich House Music, established in 1905, has long been a focal point of the downtown arts scene, with pivotal figures from Henry Cowell, Edgar Varèse and John Cage to Meredith Monk, Joan La Barbara and Morton Subotnick associated with the institution. Singer-songwriter Steve Earle and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen have performed at Greenwich House, and jazz has a history there, too: Varèse and composer Earle Brown, collaborating with saxophonist-producer Teo Macero, hosted an improvisation session in 1957 with a group of players that included Charles Mingus and Art Farmer. More recently, the Jazz Composers Collective held important concerts at the Greenwich House Music School in the early ’90s. About Bradley Bambarger:
A longtime New York City-based music journalist and producer, Bradley Bambarger has written for publications ranging from Billboard to Gramophone and album liner notes for such labels as ECM Records and Sony Legacy. He currently contributes multiple pieces to each issue of the music quarterly Listen (which he helped found) and writes regularly for the jazz magazine DownBeat. He also founded and curates the avant-jazz concert series Sound It Out, having produced nearly 200 concerts since 2012 by a who’s who on the jazz scene in the venerable hall of Manhattan’s Greenwich House Music School. The New York Times has called Sound It Out “a beacon of adventurous programming in Greenwich Village.” In summer 2015, he was chief editorial producer for Medici.tv’s coverage of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and St. With filmmaking partners, he produces an ongoing series of promotional videos for ECM, among other clients. From 1995 to 2000, Bradley was the New York-based senior writer for Billboard magazine, helping to expand the magazine’s international coverage in the classical, jazz, world and edgier rock genres. He eventually served as executive editor of Billboard, co-leading a redesign of the century-old publication. From 2002 to 2009, Bradley was a staff music critic, columnist and reporter at The Star-Ledger daily newspaper of New Jersey, covering rock and classical in New York City, the Garden State and beyond. He produced award-winning archival CD+book boxed sets for pioneering classical firm Andante, has been a content consultant for the Metropolitan Opera Shop, and has taught music history classes at New York University. He has written liner notes for not only ECM and Sony Legacy but also for the Anzic, Clean Feed, Harmonia Mundi, Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical, Decca and RCA Victor labels. His writing has also appeared in such publications as Rolling Stone, Symphony, Relix, Musical America, Chamber Music, Stereophile, Revolver, Guitar World, Time Out New York, Playbill, Sing Out! and the New England Conservatory’s Notes magazine, among others. Bradley graduated from the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism.
