Evander Music Presents
MTKJ Quartet (Los Angeles)
Bruckman – Grabmiller - Greenlief Trio
8 pm – Kyle Bruckman, Lance Grabmiller,
Phillip Greenlief Trio
9 pm – MTKJ Quartet
Evander Music (Em) presents an evening of electro-acoustic improvisation and new compositions for modern jazz quartet by two highly talented west coast groups.
The Bruckman-Grabmiller-Greenlief trio explores the more supple realms of electro acoustic improvisation and features Kyle Bruckman: Oboe & English Horn; Lance Grabmiller: Laptop; and
Phillip Greenlief: Saxophones. These celebrated musicians create sonic landscapes that access the intelligence of 20th century composition, the scientific mystique of electronic music while exploring the quieter side of spontaneous improvisation.
The MTKJ Quartet has been blazing trails across the West Coast creative music scene, delivering their own highly intense brand of new jazz, which has been described as “an example of well-stoked spontaneous combustion” (Tucson Weekly) and a “dynamic cauldron of creativity” (All About Jazz). The group’s original compositions explore a diverse mix of musical influences within a unique modular system of organizing notated and improvised elements. With several tours under their belt and a recent CD release on the Nine Winds label, the MTKJ Quartet has developed a music that has been praised as a substantial and original contribution to jazz on the left coast.
Members of the group have worked with icons of creative music such as Wadada Leo Smith, Vinny Golia, Milford Graves, Leroy Jenkins, Charles Gayle, Charlie Haden,
Phillip Greenlief, Gerry Hemingway, Jack Wright, Michael Vlatkovich, Frank Gratkowski, Steuart Liebig, Brad Dutz, John Bergamo, and Jeff Kaiser.
Cost: $6-$10