UW CONTEMPORARY GROUP
Conductor Jeremy Briggs Roberts leads variously sized ensembles in Hans Gefors' L'invitation au voyage, Toru Takemitsu's percussion piece Rain Tree, Giacinto Scelsi's Anahit for solo violin and 18 instruments, and yet another performance of Jaako Mantyjarvi's Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae. The premiere of Stuart Dempster's Choral Riffs for solo trombone, chorus, and audience should also rile things up. Meany Theater, UW Campus, 543-4880, 7:30 pm, $8/$5.
MONKTAIL CREATIVE MUSIC CONCERN
For free jazz in both senses of the word, look no further. The sonically scabrous, erotic, entrancing, and baffling Monktailers start a weekly residence at the charming corridor known as Coffee Messiah. Coffee Messiah, 1554 E Olive Way, 861-8233, 8 pm, free.
FRED KRONACHER
Pianist Kronacher discusses the legacy of the composer/pianist, which really means composers who toured relentlessly in order to eat. Fred then tackles Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodie in D-flat, Beethoven's Sonata in F-sharp, op. 78, and four of the Visions Fugitives of Prokofiev, along with morsels by Mozart and Chopin. Greenlake United Methodist Church, 6415 First Ave N, 368-9247, 8 pm, $17/$12.
MICHAEL NICOLELLA
Nicolella's ferocious appetite for performing and commissioning new guitar music continues unabated. This gig features works for classical and electric guitar by Seattle composers Tom Baker, Joshua Kohl, and David Paul Mesler, and even a brief snippet by yours truly. Apart from the flotilla of local composers, J. S. Bach, Astor Piazzolla, Elliott Carter (the aptly titled Shard), Bryan Johanson, Anthony Gatto, and Fernando Sor also grace the program. Recital Hall at Benaroya, 200 University St, 297-8788, 7:30 pm, $20/$15.
KENNY GARRETT QUARTET
This imaginative alto saxophonist has gigged with Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard, and the post-Duke Duke Ellington Orchestra. Yeah, he was nominated for a Grammy, but fear not, he's guaranteed good jazz. Also June 6 at 8 pm and 10 pm, June 7 at 8:30 pm and 10:30 pm, and June 9 at 6:30 pm and 8:30 pm, which should ease your hangover considerably. Jazz Alley, 2033 Sixth Ave, 441-9729, sets at 8:30 and 10:30 pm, $20.50/$16.50.
SEATTLE SYMPHONY
The Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Chorale revive Robert Schumann's rarely heard Das Paradis und die Peri. As long as we're reviving undeservedly forgotten works by great composers, how about Luigi Nono's no hay caminos, hay que caminar... or Iannis Xenakis' Metastasis? Pre-concert lecture one hour prior to performance. Also June 6 at 7:30 pm, and June 7 at 8 pm. Benaroya Hall, 200 University St, 215-4747, 2 pm, $71-$11.
LOOP LOOP
Starting with Bobby Timmons and Lee Morgan in the '60s, the CTI crowd and the Headhunters in the 1970s, and on through the early '80s with the Acid Jazzers and US3 in the early '90s, musicians have been funking up jazz for almost five decades. A rotating cast of DJs, straight-ahead players, and exploratory musicians give it another go. Good thing, too. Why should Matthew Shipp and other East Coasters have a monopoly? Chop Suey, 1325 E Madison, 324-8000, 9 pm, $4.
