Roulette (brooklyn)

Roulette has been an organization, series of events, and also a jazz and experimental music venue in New York City since 1978 .

In 1978 Jim Staley , Dan Senn and David Weinstein founded Roulette Intermedium, Inc. as a non-profit company. In the fall of 1980, a series of concerts began to be held in Staley's loft in the Tribeca district of Lower Manhattan (228 West Broadway), which eventually became the Roulette Concert Series of Adventurous Music and Intermedia Events ; there entered u. a. 1982 Derek Bailey on. At the end of the 1980s, the independent label Einstein Records was also founded .

For the twentieth anniversary, a benefit concert was held at Lincoln Center , at which Steve Reich also performed. In 2000 the television channel Roulette TV Series was created in collaboration with Downtown Community Television . After Weinstein's departure in 2006, Roulette shared the premises with a gallery in SoHo , before Staley and Roulette Intermedium signed a 20-year contract in 2010 to use a former 600-seat YWCA theater in Brooklyn , which is located at 509 Atlantic Avenue (near Third Avenue) is located in the Boerum Hill neighborhood. At the opening concert in September 2011 u. a. Sylvie Courvoisier / Mark Feldman , Marc Ribot , Fred Frith , Laurie Anderson , Lou Reed and John Zorn In 2012, the Vision Festival took place in roulette , with performances a. a. by Paul Dunmall and Mark Dresser .

Roulette has hosted more than 1000 concerts since 1978. Since its inception, a number of live recordings from roulette have also been released on recordings, including a. by Anthony Braxton , Anthony Coleman , Jerome Cooper , Shelley Hirsch , Earl Howard , Andy Laster , Jim O'Rourke , Evan Parker , William Parker , Matthew Shipp and Jim Staley.