Gallery 23ten
2310 Telegraph Avenue Oakland CA
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8PM - TREYJAZZ + WIRES

Treyjazz = Jim Ryan reeds & words, Damon Smith contrabass, Peter Valsamis percussion

Wires = Scott R. Looney keys & electronics, Matthew Burnter midi sax

The first set (above) will be a uniting of jazz trio and electronic sounds and textures triggered by Looney's keys and Burnter's midi-sax respectively. Jim's Forward Energy has been playing the experimental venues around the bay for the past couple of years and he's recently been working with trumpeter Eddie Gale. Jim has two CDs available: "Forward Energy @ The Yellow Room" 1997 & "Triptych" 19999. Damon Smith is a constant force on the scene, and Peter Valsamis from Montreal, has been living in Oakland
for several years, playing all types of gigs from Trance to Avante Guarde.

He recently received his M.A. in music from Mills College. He works in electronic as well as acoustic percussion. His duo CD with pianist Dana Reason "Border Crossings" on the Red Toucan label was released in 1997.

Scott Looney, a graduate of Cal Arts, has total grasp of composition and electronic media, as well as heavy free-jazz chops. Matthew Burtner is a young composer at Stanford who likes to trigger his electronic brainstorms via midi-sax . . . on which he too, has serious chops . . . ie. split tones, multi-phonics, and circular breathing . . . he likes to recreate the glacial landscapes of his Alaskan childhood in sound. His CD "Portals of Distortion" was issued in 1999 on innova by the American Composers Forum.

9:00PM
THE JACK WRIGHT, BHOB RAINEY, Ron Heglin TRIO
From Boulder CO, saxophonist Jack Wright, sound-barrier-breaking veteran From Boston MA, Bhob Rainey, soprano sax sounds beyond imagination From Berkeely CA, trombone and other low brass bubbling from the center of the earth

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