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Fortuna Quartet at Bop Shop Records
Courtesy of Tom Kohn | Posted on October 26, 2014
Where
Bop Shop Records
1460 Monroe Ave
Rochester, NY
Map
585-271-3354
When
Sun, November 30, 2014
8:00 pm
At Door
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BOP ARTS presents
THE FORTUNA QUARTET - OMAR TAMEZ, ANGIE SANCHEZ, JOE FONDA & HARVEY SORGEN
Sunday November 30 8pm
Bop Shop Records
1460 Monroe Ave
$15 donation requested/ $10 for students
Back in December, 2011 when the Bop Shop moved, it signaled the end of the Atrium series. It took us a while to get the music back up and running on a regular basis.
But at the end of November 2012, at the first jazz concert in the new store, we introduced a new face to the Bop Shop series: Mexican guitarist Omar Tamez. Tamez dazzled us with his multi-faceted guitar work: melodic lines looping endlessly, feeding back, bracing dissonances and shimmering chordal work. And that's not to mention his work on kalimba. Tamez brought his years of experience playing with Wadada Leo Smith, Herb Robertson, Conrad Bauer (and many others), as well as studying with composers like Helmut Lachenmann, Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen a/o....