Saturday, June 28
Jazz Against Apartheid
Doors 6 pm, $15 suggested donation
Featuring performances by Keshtkar & Co, Jacob Hart Quartet, Radical Henna Artist The Dutchess of Beirut.
Organized by Return Collective and Arab Women United
Friday, July 4
Folk Music [Nate Wooley, Chris Corsano and Ches Smith]
Doors 7 pm, $10-20 suggested
Folk Music is Nate Wooley [trumpet, amplifier], Chris Corsano [drums, clarinet, feedback], and Ches Smith [drums, sampler, electronics, percussion]. After a decade of conceptually-minded bands such as Mutual Aid Music and knknighgh, trumpeter Nate Wooley put together the trio Folk Music to reconnect with pure improvisation. Asking two of his favorite collaborators, the percussionists Chris Corsano and Ches Smith, to join him with the only rules being flexibility and spontaneity. The result has become an improvising trio capable of whispering sensitivity and huge monoliths of sound.
Nate Wooley began playing trumpet professionally with his father, a big band saxophonist, at the age of thirteen. He made his debut as soloist with the New York Philharmonic at the opening series of their 2019 season. Considered one of the leading lights of the American movement to redefine the physical boundaries of the horn, Wooley has been gathering international acclaim for his idiosyncratic trumpet language.
Chris Corsano is a New York-based drummer who has been active at the intersections of collective improvisation, free jazz, avant-rock, and experimental music since the late 1990’s. He’s been the rim-batterer of choice for some of the greatest contemporary purveyors of “jazz” (Joe McPhee, Paul Flaherty, Mette Rasmussen, Zoh Amba) and “rock” (Sir Richard Bishop, Bill Orcutt, Jim O’Rourke), as well as artists beyond categorization (Björk for her Volta album and world tour, Michael Flower, Okkyung Lee).
Originally from Sacramento, California, Ches Smith is a drummer, percussionist, and composer based in New York. He has collaborated with a host of artists on many scenes since the early 2000s, including Marc Ribot, Tim Berne, John Zorn, Darius Jones, David Torn, John Tchicai, Nels Cline, Mary Halvorson, Trevor Dunn, Terry Riley, Kris Davis, Dave Holland, Secret Chiefs 3, Xiu Xiu, Good for Cows, Theory of Ruin, and Mr. Bungle, among others.
Sunday, July 6
King Sophia Record Release Show
Details TBA
Saturday, July 19
Heat On [Edward Wilkerson Jr., Fred Jackson Jr., Nick Macri, and Lily Finnegan]
Details TBA
Chicago drummer and composer Lily Finnegan’s project, Heat On!, is celebrating its first recording, released on the Cuneiform label this June. It introduces her powerhouse, multi-generational quartet featuring legendary Chicago tenor saxophonist Ed Wilkerson Jr.(8 Bold Souls, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Muhal Richard Abrams), alto great Fred Jackson Jr. (Bobby Hutcherson, Jimmy Smith, Horace Silver, Earth Wind and Fire) and the versatile Nick Macri (Vandermark’s Audio One, Stirrup, Tara Jane O’ Neal, on upright and electric bass.
A regular collaborator with Ken Vandermark in Edition Redux with pianist Erez Dessel and Beth McDonald on tuba, Finnegan is also part of saxophonist Sarah Clausen’s trio, punk band Cucuy, and duo with violinist gabby fluke-mogul. Adding to those overlapping circles she’s collaborated with James Brandon Lewis, Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid, Macie Stewart, Fay Victor, Sylvia Bolognesi, Shanta Nurullah, Dave Rempis, Katie Ernst, Jason Stein, Devon Gates, Lia Kohl and many others.
