SIMM Series
Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF
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7:30pm Dark Precursor
Jim Ryan - saxes, Scott Walton double bass, Mark E. Miller drums
8:30pm Mutual Aid Project
Tracy Hui guitar, Nick Obando alto saxophone, Marshall Trammell drums

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, 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

Mutual Aid Project
Rangshar Tracy Hui is an improvisor/composer/guitarist living in Oakland CA. He began his long addiction to musicking as a young child at home. He has lived and played in many localities in protean formations often unrecognizable from previous incarnations. He has also studied/played/observed intently with/about/( ) a plethora of musical entities and sat at the feet of many masters. He has a deep commitment to the process of realizing a better society and realizing in itself through a persistent practice and theoretical searching. He is actively musicking with youths in the communities he serves expressing indignation, joy, suffering, love and collectivity. He will musick with anyone who asks.
Nick Obando is a saxophonist and a Bay Area native. His path to music came at a very young age when discovering a saxophone in his family’s closet. That journey began with symphonic music all the way through college where he studied jazz at a southern California State University. Moving back to Oakland he began to educate youth through different mediums. Obando also continues to be a student emerging himself in his Filipino culture by studying and teaching traditional folk music. Working in free improvisation he makes sure to keep a deep root in blues and R&B which will always be his first influence and love.
Raised in Oahu, Hawaii, Marshall Trammell utilizes a Multi-Aesthetic approach to Improvisation as a framework for his development as a percussionist. His other projects include: (film) Decolonizing the Imagination: An Arts Practicum; (curation) Heavy Discipline: Duos and Interviews Music Series, The Displacement Project and Orbits: an cognitive embodiment video project; (research) Oakland Tenderness Project, a mutual aid, alternative currency and participatory research pilot project; and (composition) TTM-H, a Creative Music trio and RotorCraft: a Solo Project.


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