Jordan Glenn SOLO
Nathan Clevenger TRIO
Jordan Glenn makes a rare solo drum set appearance. As a drummer/percussionist/collaborator for many local creative music outfits, JG solo is a distillation of what he values most... spontaneity, space, texture and groove. A document of this work can be heard on his first solo recording "Flustered", released this past May on Full Spectrum Records. For this performance he will be highlighting some home-constructed instruments in conjunction with the traditional drum set and acquired junk.
Nathan Clevenger TRIO Oakland musicians
Nathan Clevenger,
Jordan Glenn, and
Cory Wright share a long and entwined history of collaboration across various projects, including Wiener Kids, Ashen Cleric, and Fellow Hominids. In early 2021, in the depths of the Covid-19 quarantine, Nathan was asked to assemble a small ensemble for a socially distanced online music festival the Karl Evangelista-curated Unsolitary Series and this ensemble was born. Working from, between, and against Clevengers compositional frames and utilizing the multi-instrumental flexibility of each player, the trio weaves between non-idiomatic improvisation and often gnomic composed material, with focus on spaciousness and timbral detail.
Since relocating to Oakland in 2006,
Jordan Glenn has found himself in a variety of creative music scenes. He is most associated with Fred Frith (FF Trio, Gravity Band), William Winant, Zeena Parkins (The Adorables), Roscoe Mitchell, Ben Goldberg, Todd Sickafoose, John Schott, Lisa Mezzacappa, Kyle Bruckmann, Michael Coleman, Karl Evangelista, Matthew Welch and bands Jack O' The Clock, Secret Chiefs 3, The Rova Sax Quartet, tUnE-yArDs and the collective Sifter with Rob Ewing, Beth Schenck and Lisa Mezzacappa. As a leader, he composes and conducts the large, percussion heavy band BEAK, and since 2007 has led the saxophone/percussion trio Wiener Kids. He also has been commissioned to create scores for evening-length dance pieces by Sharp & Fine and Liss Fain Dance.
Nathan Clevenger is an Oakland born composer and multi-instrumentalist, working on the margins of modern composition, jazz, and improvisation. In 2022, Clevenger released i had a dream about amnesia, an album compiling 2 suites for solo, duo, and trio configurations, composed and recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown. The eight-piece
Nathan Clevenger Group has released three albums, including Stateless (2019, Slow & Steady Records). Current projects include a trio with
Jordan Glenn &
Cory Wright and the improvising chamber ensemble, Ashen Cleric. Notable recent performances include the premieres of extended compositions at the SF Contemporary Jewish Museum (for david berman, performed by Ashen Cleric) and the Exploratorium (Ice Hours, a multimedia collaboration with violinist/composer Kristina Dutton and artist Kim Miskowicz).
Reeds player and composer
Cory Wright studied music at Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Southern California and has been involved in both the jazz and creative music worlds for the past 20 years, including time spent in New York, Los Angeles and his current home in the San Francisco Bay Area. His recent projects reflect his interest in blurring the distinction between composed and improvised music, and in combining the harmonious with the atonal, the grooving with the arrhythmic. Wright has performed in ensembles led by Anthony Braxton, Vinny Golia, Todd Sickafoose, Adam Rudolph and Yusef Lateef. He is currently a member of Bristle, the
Nathan Clevenger Group, and Goggle (saxophone quartet) and leads his own projects Fellow Hominids and The Green Mitchell Trio.
Cost: $10-$25 sliding scale
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Fred Frith, Guitar; Jordan Glenn, Drums; Jason Hoopes, bass