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Catherine
Upcoming shows:
May 2nd, 2013 7:30 pm
Karl Berger's Improviser's Orchestra
El Taller, 2710 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10025
May 30th, 2013 7:30 pm
Karl Berger's Improviser's Orchestra
El Taller, 2710 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10025
June 5th, 2013
Eris 136199 (Han-earl Park and Nick Didkovsky)
Douglass Street Music Collective
http://295douglass.org/
June 19th
Avant! Guitar! Night! Series at Spectrum
121 Ludlow, Second Floor.
A new improvising quartet with Lucio Menegon – guitar, Jessica Lurie – saxophones, Catherine Sikora – saxophones, Nick Didkovsky – guitar
Terence McManus will do a set and also Sweet Talk (Jake Henry/Devin Drobka/Dustin Carlson)
Catherine Sikora, Saxophonist
Equipment:
Catherine is proud to play Bari reeds and a Soprano Planet mouthpiece.
Press:
Review of Catherine Sikora, Ian Smith and Han-Earl Park (Cork, 4-04-2011) on Dave Sumner's site:
http://www.birdistheworm.com/?p=3135
and two more reviews of the same recording, both on freejazz-stef.blogspot.com:
here and here. Click on the album artwork to the left of this paragraph to get to the Bandcamp page for this album.
Other press quotes:
The player to emerge most from this sonic mélange is Sikora. With a tone reminiscent of Jan Garbarek circa 1974, she avoids gratuitous displays of technical facility like the neo-boppers or constantly playing the high-energy card as some avant garde sax screamers might. Rather, she projects sincerity in the moment of improvisation. (from review of Francois Grillot's Contraband, New York City Jazz Record, February 2012)
Sikora is a free-blowing player’s player with a spectacular harmonic imagination and an evolved understanding of the tonal palette of the saxophone.
-Chris Elliot, April 4 2007
I just picked up this cd, Lullabies for Wolves, last night direct from the artist and I'm really blown away. I was in town to see David Ware solo at the Stone and stopped by another venue just to grab this cd. The band, Beasts at Play, consists of Catherine Sikora on tenor and Ziv Ravitz on drums. It's a passionate, soulful cd reminiscent of Kidd Jordon's essential "Palm of Soul" release. Sikora's plaintive wail really grooves throughout. I highly recommend finding this… I don't know her and I've yet to see her live but this cd smokes. My favorite release of 07 thus far.
-Kevin O’Reilly, March 12 2007
A fascinating experience, listening to this recording. It reminds me of some of the things Max Roach did with Archie Shepp. I met Catherine a few weeks ago, and she had a number of interesting things to say about how the music came about.
I only have a raw provisional copy of the CD; I didn't know the definite one has come out in the meantime. Got to get one myself one of these days.
-Thomas Kohler, March 13 2007
All About Jazz forum
(get Lullabies For Wolves here)
Sikora, who absolutely burns on “My Favorite Things,” deserves special mention—not only for her work on that tune, where she gets inside of Coltrane's style, but anywhere she plays.
-Budd Kopman, All About Jazz, October 2006
Sikora’s statements on tenor and soprano saxophone paid great attention to both silence and sound; her lines were as sharply defined as a strand of carefully spaced gems on a necklace.
-Fred Cisterna, The Brooklyn Rail, September 2006
A creator of dissonant and melodic flowing lines, Sikora speaks clearly through her sax. Her phrases are purposeful statements and no notes are wasted.
-Noah Marmar, April 2006
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