SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall
116 9th St @ Mission SF
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7:30 pm EGW Trio
Karl Evangelista - guitar, Francis Wong - tenor saxophone, Jordan Glenn - drums
8:40 pm Recycling Club
Joshua Allen - tenor saxophone, Philip Everett - drums, Ray Schaeffer - bass

The EGW trio represents a convergence of personalities and concepts, featuring Oakland-based Filipino-American guitarist Karl Evangelista (Grex, Lewis Jordan, Cabbages, Captain, and King), percussion dynamo Jordan Glenn (Fred Frith Trio, Jack O' the Clock, Wiener Kids), and legendary saxophonist/Asian Improv aRts cofounder Francis Wong. EGW's music draws from the full spectrum of contemporary jazz, free improvisation, and Asian musics, rendering improvisations that are at once ferocious and cerebral.


Ray Schaeffer currently performs on fretless 6 string , fretted 4 and 8 string basses using a host of electronic effects that are incorporated to be part of the instrument. After studying music theory and upright bass in high school and junior college, Ray has performed in a diverse array of ensembles from full orchestra to folk rock bands, and experimental improv groups going back to the 70s.
Joshua Allen has created his own personal language on the tenor saxophone, with an emphasis on polytonal and asymmetrical phrasing, as well as extending the range and sonic ability of the instrument. He does this with constant emphasis and study of the overtone series, and the generation of multiphonics from the application of this process.
Philip Everett's experience from his earlier development brought him to the conclusion that discovering new music was much more truer to his heart and left it all for his decision to play only creative music in the direction of sonic exploration.
His current projects include Tri-Cornered Tent Show, an improvisation group that explores music inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, various group concepts with saxophonist Rent Romus including the Abstractions, and writing experimental country music for his project "White Buffalo, Midwestern Gothic".

Cost: $10-$15 sliding scale

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