Thu. 7. Mar.

21:00 Tim Berne & Bloodcount USA

Tim Berne: saxophone
Chris Speed: saxophone, clarinet
Michael Formanek: bass
Jim Black: drums

As far as I'm concerned, Tim Berne has counted - for years already - among the creative powers-that-be of the Lower East Side scene, which gained fairly wide recognition through the activities of the Knitting Factory. In recent times this club has attracted more attention due to slick image-marketing than by the innovative quality of its musical productions; nevertheless some representatives of this scene have retained their allegiance to the Avant-Garde (whatever that might mean) and have quietly & consistently continued to develop their own musical concepts, resisting temptations to sacrifice them in favor of short-term, get-rich-quick schemes. Tim Berne is a "bright" composer, who has known how to build on the ideas of his teacher/mentor Julius Hemphill and, with his own band Bloodcount, to blend four individualists into a homogeneous quartet. CH

Admission: AS 150
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