Berkeley Arts
2133 University Avenue Berkeley
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Berkeley Arts - 2133 University Avenue,Berkeley
Sunday, March 10th, 2013 $10-20 no one refused
2 Sets DARK PRECURSOR & THE NON-PROFIT PROPHETS
DARK PRECURSOR: Jim Ryan sax & flute, Scott Walton contrabass, Mark E. Miller drums with special guest Dave Sewelson baritone sax . . .
THE NON-PROFIT PROPHETS includes all the above plus Peter Kuhn from L.A. on clarinet, and other improvisers yet to be announced.

Mark E.Miller, drummer, studied gamelan in Java for two years, worked in NYC from the late 70's into the 90's performing and recording -- notably with the band ‘Toy Killers’ that included Bill Laswell bass, Elliott Sharp guitar & bass, Wayne Horvitz keyboards, John Zorn alto, and others. A new ‘Toy Killers’ album Awayward, with Charlie Noyes, Weasel Walter, Henry Kaiser, Damon Smith, and others is about to be released. Mark is currently recording and performing in the Bay Area.

Scott Walton is a bassist and pianist whose music negotiates the terrain between jazz, free improvisation, and the classical avant-garde. He has performed and recorded with Alex and Nels Cline, George Lewis, Myra Melford, Wadada Leo Smith, John Carter, Vinny Golia, and Clifford Jordan, among many others, and has collaborated with poets, dancers, performance artists, filmmakers and telematic artists.

Jim Ryan plays alto & tenor sax, flute. He participated in Steve Lacy’s weekly Paris jam sessions during the 70’s and formed the ‘Free Music Formation’ at that time. Returning to the States, he formed the ‘Art Performance Group’ during the 80’s in Washington, D.C. -- a group that included poetry, dance, and visuals. Since joining the Bay Area scene in the 90’s he has formed several performance and music groups ranging from free style jazz to improvisatory chamber ensembles. His various recordings are on Edgetone Records. http://www.edgetonerecords.com/ryan.html

Dave Sewelson was born in Oakland, California, in 1952. There was a half-size violin kept in the closet in case he wanted to be a concert violinist. He played trumpet at the age of nine, moving to baritone horn at the age of eleven, followed by a stint on drums until settling on electric bass at thirteen, adding upright bass to the mix until the switch to saxophone at the age of twenty-one. He has specialized in the baritone saxophone since the early seventies.
Dave arrived in New York City in the summer of 1977, settled in the East Village, played in many bands in the area including the 25 O'Clock Band, Jemeel Moondoc’s Jus Grew Orchestra, Noise R Us, Mofungo, Freedomland and Fast 'n Bulbous. He was a founding member of the Microscopic Septet, and is a Lifetime member of William Parker’s Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra. The occasion for Dave’s presence on the west coast, across the continent from his current home in Brooklyn, N.Y., is the concert he will be playing with William Parker’s Essence of Ellington Orchestra at Stanford on March 9th.



Cost: $10-20

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