Your Guide to the Local Jazz Scene
Artie Black - tenor saxophone, clarinets, shruti box, percussion Hunter Diamond - tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet, percussion Black Diamond thrives on the chemistry and compositions of saxophonists Artie Black and Hunter Diamond. They met while studying under David Baker and Tom Walsh at Indiana University. A mutual admiration for the collaborative recordings of saxophonists Lee […]
Improvising musicians meet in the world, in real life, to really be together - human beings on Earth - to feel and propagate vibrations, to plunge into the same cosmic flow, then send it back out into the universe. At the very least. Hélène Labarrière remembers this happening at the Café de l'Univers: "I was […]
Dave Rempis – saxophones Pandelis Karayorgis – piano Jakob Heinemann – bass Bill Harris – drums “A fascinating study in the development of understanding and rapport”-Bill Meyer, Downbeat Magazine “The music’s miracle is hard to describe, the way in which light can suddenly grow….it’s always free jazz, but it removes any sense that the form […]
Brennan Connors & Stray Passage has maintained a presence in Madison, Wisconsin as rugged experimental jazz trio for nearly a decade and a half. In 2016 we recorded our first album, which was released in 2017 on the Italian record label Setola Di Maiale. It's time to make a new document of where we currently […]
Join us in person or online for another edition of Acoustic Moose! Pianist Paul Hecht returns to Audio for the Arts with a duo performance featuring vocalist Kat Sherman. Sherman and Hecht work to create unusual set lists that pull from their wide-ranging musical interests and experience, and exploit the flexibility of the duo format. […]
Buy Tickets Aaron Shaprio, guitar Aaron Shapiro has been leading jazz ensembles for 15 years in Chicago and has showcased his compositions at many of the city's esteemed Jazz venues: The Green Mill, The Jazz Showcase and Andy's Jazz Club. As a sideman Aaron has shared the stage with the likes of Esperanza Spaulding and […]
Tickets Lakewaves Trio is a Madison-centric, groove-based outfit that crafts celestial originals with an eclectic, progressive, soundscape-y instrumentalism that's pretty much guaranteed to get an intense response from your local community no matter where you are – a Motel 6 in Pittsburgh, an abandoned factory in south Milwaukee or a quinceañera in East LA. And like their offbeat, […]
The Bridge #2.10 Buy Tickets Nick Mazzarella : alto saxophone Tim Stine : guitar Céline Rivoal : accordion Katie Ernst : double bass, voice Sylvain Lemêtre : percussions In anticipation. What is the anticipation, since 2018 that this formation was envisioned? How do you talk about things and unknown music in anticipation? By daring to […]
Just in from Bluestem: saxophonist great "Mots Gudstafononom" will open for this show! BIG HONOR - RARE TREAT ! Jessica Ackerley is a Canadian guitarist, improviser and composer based in Honolulu and a current PhD candidate at University of Hawai’i after a decade of living in New York City. Ackerley continually develops a hybrid musical […]
David Lord opens on solo guitar followed by Hanami Quartet. "David Lord is a six-string anomaly, a genuine diamond in the rough. Over time inhis search and discovery missions with his chosen instrument, he has cultivated a wholly unique vocabulary that is devoid of any direct influences. What the guitarist presents is so delightfully weird […]
