Play or Die 2016 #1:
Adam Theis +
Larry Ochs +
Jordan Glenn Trio
Randy McKean's Bristle (McKean,
Lisa Mezzacappa,
Cory Wright, Murray Campbell)
"Play or Die": a call to action by Anthony Braxton in the seventies. We're still in agreement. Improvised music has to be heard live to be best appreciated! AND musicians practicing this rugged discipline must perform to a live audience as often as possible in order to evolve, in order to feed the mind. Tonite Adam Theis joins
Larry Ochs and
Jordan Glenn for a first-time meeting of sounds and minds. Sparks should fly. And following that set, the great but under-appreciated "Bristle" - led by Randy McKean - will take the stage and blow you away with its magnificent combination of composition and improvisation (with
Lisa Mezzacappa,
Cory Wright, and Murray Campbell).
Cost: 15/10
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
avantNOIR, a suite of compositions for jazz quartet plus guests, is a musical companion to the crime novels of Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster. All music by Lisa Mezzacappa.
Fred Frith, Guitar; Jordan Glenn, Drums; Jason Hoopes, bass