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Cross Modulations Series: Bishop/Dessel/Ra/Wilkerson 4tet + Mai Sugimoto/Chad M. Clark Duo

March 18 @ 8:00 pm

$15 at the door
no one gets turned away

Bishop/Dessel/Ra/Wilkerson 4tet

Jeb Bishop

Trombone & electronics, has been heavily involved in Chicago’s experimental music scene since the ’90s, from jazz to free improv to the avant-garde hybrid genre post-rock. He has been a member or recorded with a wide variety of collaborators, including The Flying Luttenbachers, Stereolab, Vandermark Five, Jim O’Rourke, Gastr del Sol, The Sea and Cake, and The Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet.

Erez Dessel

Erez Dessel is an improvising pianist and  composer living and working in Chicago, Illinois. He holds a BM in jazz piano from the New England Conservatory of Music.  Dessel’s work explores the piano as a vehicle for human connection. A primary part of his practice is the history of the instrument as a tool for storytelling and world-building.

Avreeayl Ra

Avreeayl is a long-term member of the Chicago AACM, his relationship with the seminal music organization having begun with early studies with AACM co-founder Kelan Philip Cohran. Avreeayl has performed and /or recorded with Fred Anderson, Amiri Baraka, Fontella Bass, Lester Bowie, Ari Brown, Oscar Brown, Jr., Henry Butler, Henry Byrd (“Professor Longhair”), Hamid Drake, Malachi Favors, Donald Raphael Garrett, Charles Gayle, Henry Grimes, Billy Harper, Joseph Jarman, Edward “Kidd” Jordan, Nicole Mitchell, Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Malachi Thompson, and many more.

Edward Wilkerson Jr.

Edward Wilkerson Jr. is one of the great saxophone and clarinet players on the Chicago scene, but from the ’80s into the new millennium may have become best known as a bandleader and composer, particularly associated with medium- to large-scale projects (somewhat daunting in an era when creative music bandleaders are challenged to keep even small ensembles together). He has also been a major presence in Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), teaching composition at the organization’s music school and serving for a time as AACM president.

 

Mai Sugimoto/Chad M Clark Duo

Mai Sugimoto

Mai Sugimoto is a saxophonist, composer, and active member of Chicago’s jazz and improvisational music scene. “A compelling performer” with “dry-champagne tone and lyrical lines” (Chicago Tribune), Sugimoto draws inspiration from her upbringing in Japan and her roots in jazz to compose and perform from her unique multicultural experience. Born/Raised, her debut album (Asian Improv Records, 2018), explores this cultural and musical binary, juxtaposing, among others, a jazz rendition of a Japanese children’s song alongside compositions inspired by the American jazz idiom. Sugimoto is also a core member of the quartet Hanami, whose two albums similarly mix Japanese culture into creative music. Mai has performed three times at the Chicago Jazz Festival: in 2015 with Hanami, in 2019 as a leader, and in 2018 with renowned bassist Tatsu Aoki, with whom she frequently plays, including appearances in his Fred Anderson Legacy Band. Her first solo album, monologue (Asian Improv Records) was released in March of 2021.

Chad M Clark

Chad M Clark is a Chicago-based guitarist. Immersed in the instrument’s physical properties, his palette is a measure of size, encompassing both finite and infinite magnitudes. From the narrow rasps of strings stretched taut to the creaking breath of the wood itself, the ways in which particular vibrational phenomena contour the subjective experience of time and space permeates Clark’s practice. He has performed with many improvising musicians, including Tim Daisey, Weasel Walter, Mark Feldman, Bill Harris, Damon Smith, Jim Baker, Viv Corringham, Norman Long, Carol Genetti, and Jack Wright.

Details

Date:
March 18
Time:
8:00 pm