Jan 7, 2024 | News
It’s time to sign up for Winter Session 2024 Jazz & Latin Music Classes!
The Latin Music Classes, taught by César Bauvallet, are now FULL! But, registration is still open for all other classes, including The Jam Session: A Jazz Artist Incubator with instructors Rodney Bowe and Paul Gonzales on Monday evenings; Open Source All Ages Class with Kanoa Kaluhiwa on Wednesday afternoon; and the Outpost Can Do Band Adult Class with Kanoa, also on Wednesday! All classes cover music theory, ear training, solo development, song forms and various rhythm section approaches and aim to build positive attitudes, trust, teamwork cooperation, confidence, compassion and a sense of humor—skills and values that will serve participants well beyond the workshop and throughout their entire educations and lives. In short, if you want to be there, we want you and a good time will be had by all.
Nov 27, 2023 | News
It’s the season of giving, and, that means it’s time again for Outpost’s Annual Year End Fundraising Appeal – Season’s Pleadings, our most important fundraising appeal of the year, when your 100% tax deductible donation makes all the difference! WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT MORE NOW THAN EVER so we can continue to present the best in jazz, international and experimental music, folk, blues and more, plus educational programs, art exhibits, & more year-round! A few words from Outpost Founder/Director, Tom Guralnick below:
November 2023
Dear Outpost Friends,
YEP! It’s that time again! Time for Outpost’s Year-End Fundraising Appeal —Season’s Pleadings — our most important fundraising appeal of the year, when your tax-deductible gift has the greatest impact on Outpost’s programs! Last year at this time, we talked about the great year we had as we were emerging from the pandemic. It’s hard to believe that we are still talking about the pandemic, but we gotta do it because we are still feeling the effects as audiences remain hesitant to return to intimate venues like the Outpost Performance Space. Listening to my colleagues in the field, this is true throughout the industry.
This past year was another fantastic one – first with limited audiences and masks required and then, as things loosened up, with higher capacity and voluntary masking. But, with audience numbers still slightly down, WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT NOW MORE THAN EVER in order to continue to provide world class music, art and educational programs in our intimate, friendly, respectful Outpost Performance Space as well as other venues.
Last year and the beginning of this season have been great at Outpost in so many ways! We had a terrific spring and summer season (Mark Guiliana, Immanuel Wilkins, David Doucet, AfroMundo Festival 2023, Magos Herrera, Geoff Muldaur, and the all-NM-based Artists’ Summer Thursday Jazz Nights Series, to name a few) and once again in September, we were able to present the New Mexico Jazz Festival (17th Annual) featuring a stunning and exciting three weeks of music (24 events in 25 days) in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Taos. And now, we look forward to the Spring 2024 Season! Some of the highlights include Magos Herrera; Bernstein/Goldings/Stewart Organ Trio; Jane Bunnett & Maqueuque; Armen Donelian; Ethan Iverson; Spring Record Fair; AfroMundo Festival 2024 w. Hubby Jenkins; Diane Richardson; John Hollenbeck’s George; Bobby Shew & Greg Ruggiero; Joe Fonda; Andy Milne Trio & more! It’s going to be another exciting one, and, of course IT’S ONLY MADE POSSIBLE WITH YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT!
We know we can continue to thrive and be stronger than ever as we move into another new year! Won’t you be part of our big, wonderful supportive family? MAKE A YEAR-END, TAX DEDUCTIBLE GIFT TODAY HERE! OR send a check to Outpost Productions, Inc., PO Box 4543, Albuquerque, NM, 87196. We thank you in advance for your love, generosity and support these many years, and we look forward to sharing the rest of the 2023-2024 season with you.
– Tom Guralnick, Founder & Executive Director Outpost Productions, Inc.
Nov 3, 2023 | Inpost Artspace
Reception: Friday, November 17th, 5-7pm
November 7 – March 23
This exhibition combines works by Zuyva Sevilla with images of the cosmos taken by members of The Albuquerque Astronomical Society Christopher Mauche and Joey Troy. Lightspace celebrates a sense of wonder and mystery present in Sevilla’s illuminated, digitally layered images of projected light and Mauche and Troy’s photographs of space. Though each image-maker uses very different methods, the images convey a similar mood and appearance. Lightspace is an experiment in honoring light in its purest form, and an invitation to consider the awesomeness and grandeur the universe has to offer.
Sep 12, 2023 | Inpost Artspace
Inpost Artspace Reception: Sunday, September 10, 3-5pm
Exhibition dates: July 10 – November 2, 2023
This Inpost Artspace photo exhibit features two dedicated jazz fans/photographers who have frequented Outpost shows ever since each of them moved to Albuquerque. They are an intrinsic part of Albuquerque’s celebrated jazz scene. We decided to let them use their own words to define the show and their artistic approaches. Mark Weber: “Photographs inhabit the 4th dimension, they are shadows & light of what has passed, five days ago or 25 years bygone. I take them for memory. Sentimental. First time I watched the ghost of an image appear in a developing tray it blew my mind. I was like the wildman Enkidu seeing Babylon for the first time. As to my aesthetic, it’s a bit sideways of prevailing practices . . . For the most part I’m a documentarian in the anthropological sense: A jazz scene includes artists, instrument repair techs, promoters, deejays, record stores & record collectors, journalists, priests, recording studios, historians, photographers, hagiographers, club owners, university jazz departments, agents/managers, and the audience. Is there a narrative to this show? Yup. It’s the community of listeners and musicians that have grown up around the Outpost. My favorite jazz photographer (besides, Roch) is William Gottlieb, who knew that jazz is a culture and photo’d it in its natural habitat: the jazz club of the 40s & 50s. Like any art form, one must be decisive, and with photographing music concerts there’s an etiquette, unspoken, but if you don’t pick up on it, you won’t last – it involves common decency, patience, tact, and mostly the fact this is the audience’s concert, not yours.” Roch Doran: “My goal is to document what I see without ever changing the experience of those that may be sharing that space in time with me. The challenge is to see beyond the obvious and to capture what is unique in that solitary moment. After years of being in a band that had dissolved more into talking about music than playing music, I was in heaven when I got my first camera. The camera gave me the freedom to share something about my world without hours of conversation. Since 1977, when I began this journey, my two loves have been constant, nature and documenting people creating music. Over the years the technology has changed and I have gone from film to transparencies, back to film, to digital and now digital with a mirrorless camera. While the tools have changed, the objects of my interest have not.”
Led by renowned Albuquerque-based drummer Cal Haines, a long-time friend and associate of Mark Weber, The Cal Haines Quartet, which took home three awards at this year’s New Mexico Music Awards, also features David Parlato, electric bass; Alex Murzyn, tenor sax & flute; and Adolfo Acosta, trumpet & flugelhorn. The group plays original compositions and beloved standards, but with an open, chordal-free format (i.e. no guitar or piano). FREE!
Jul 24, 2023 | News
It’s that time again! Outpost’s Annual Summer Fundraising Appeal! We need your help to Keep Outpost Strong and Keep It All Happening! There’s so much to look forward to with the 17th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival just ahead in September, another terrific Fall Season 2023, and of course all the great Summer Thursday Jazz Nights yet to come in August! We love sharing it all with you and we always love seeing you at the Space and beyond! Your support keeps it all happening and that’s why we are once again coming to you to ask for your HELP! We hope you’ll consider making a donation to our Summer Fundraising Appeal so we can continue to bring you the best in jazz, folk and roots music, international and experimental music, art, classes and more! WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT! Be a part of what keeps Outpost healthy and strong and MAKE A DONATION ONLINE TODAY! OR, you send a check to: Outpost Productions, Inc. at PO Box 4543, ABQ, NM, 87196. Either way, we can’t do what we do without you and we truly appreciate YOU!
Jun 8, 2023 | News
Outpost is proud to announce that Founder/Director Tom Guralnick/Outpost Performance Space was named the 2023 Creative Bravos Legacy Award recipient by the City of Albuquerque, which “recognizes his sustained leadership, mentorship and professional excellence in Albuquerque’s creative economy.” Given annually to individuals, youths, teams, events, programs, organizations and businesses that celebrate the breadth of creative work that exists in the city, the awards are dedicated to recognizing and honoring work that makes a significant impact on the lives of residents, neighborhoods, and/or communities. Check out the other eight award recipients here! An award ceremony will take place on June 28th, 6:00pm, at the Kimo Theater.
We are also proud to announce that Outpost also recently received a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support the New Mexico Jazz Festival and ancillary events! We have been very fortunate to receive support from the NEA for the NM Jazz Festival since our first festival in 2006 (including the NEA Jazz Masters on Tour support) and we continue to present NEA Jazz Masters each year! This year’s NEA grant supports the entire NM Jazz Festival and NEA Jazz Master, violinist Regina Carter will perform on Sept. 14 at The Lensic in Santa Fe. Retired NEA Chairman, A.B. Spellman, will also host a Meet the NEA Jazz Master event! Check out this year’s 17th Annual NM Jazz Festival Schedule Here!
