[jazzblues] Yosef Ben Israel Ensemble - Thursday, November 29, 2007

[Jeff Machota]

From: 	Jason Finkelman <finkelma at uiuc.edu>




*Yosef Ben Israel Ensemble*

Ari Brown - saxophone
Robert "Baabe" Irving III - keyboard
Avreeayl Ra - drums
Yosef Ben Israel - bass

Thursday, November 29, 2007
7:30pm - FREE

Krannert Art Museum
500 East Peabody Drive
Champaign, IL

*For Immediate Release*
*CONTACT:* Jason Finkelman_ finkelma at uiuc.edu
_*
      Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. Krannert Art

Museum will present in the Sudden Sound Concert Series bassist

Yosef Ben Israel leading an all-star, Chicago-based, progressive jazz

ensemble featuring keyboardist Robert "Baabe" Irving III, saxophonist

Ari Brown and drummer Avreeayl Ra.


*        Yosef Ben Israel's hallmark is his versatility in performing a
variety of musical

styles including jazz, blues and the avant-garde, which has allowed him
the opportunity

to perform with a wide spectrum of noted artists including Willie
Pickens, Clark Terry,

Ramsey Lewis and Muhal Richard Abrams.  After a noted tenure as Miles Davis'

keyboardist and music director, Robert "Baabe" Irving III worked
primarily as an

arranger, producer and occasionally as a sideman, but has now re-emerged
in 2007 as a

solo artist and group leader with his release "New Momentum."  Ari Brown
is noted

for blending traditions of the Chicago tough tenor and the Association
for Advancement

of Creative Music (AACM), presenting soulful music which journeys inside
and out.  An

in-demand master drummer/percussionist and long term member of the AACM,

Avreeayl Ra considers himself fortunate to have come up in the richly
progressive

Chicago "avant-garde" jazz community.  The Yosef Ben Israel Ensemble
will perform

original compositions and improvisations.

The Sudden Sound Concert is curated by Jason Finkelman.

         Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion is a unit of the
College of Fine and Applied Arts at the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The museum is located at the
corner of Sixth Street and Peabody

Drive in Champaign, one block east of Memorial Stadium. The museum is
open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, and 2 to 5 p.m.
Sunday. Admission is free; suggested

donation $3.

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________________
Jason Finkelman

Events Coordinator
Asian Educational Media Service

Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
805 West Pennsylvania Avenue, MC-025
Urbana, IL 61801

TEL: 217-265-0640
FAX: 217-265-0641
finkelma at uiuc.edu
www.aems.uiuc.edu