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Friday, 2/16 2007
OPENSOUND AND THE SOMERVILLE ARTS COUNCIL “Dave, Dave, and Dave” (Bryant, Curry and Gross) 8pm $7 |
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gdg (David Gross)
solo saxophones Empty Ho  use CooperativeDavid Michael Curry, Jonah Sacks, Chris Brokaw, Craig Colorusso cello, guitar, bass clarinet, viola, loops, singing saw, etc. Dave Bryant, keyboards John Turner, bass Eric Rosenthal, drums OpenSound continues its collaboration with the Somerville Arts Council in presenting the cutting edge in contemporary experimental music at Union Square’s Third Life Studio. February 16: Daves converge from the far corners of the improvising globe. gdg will astonish, balancing on the razor’s edge of tiny, razor-sharp sounds, treating his saxophones as metal sounding tubes or, perhaps, even physical razors. Dave Curry appears as member of Empty House Cooperative, whose flexible ensemble combines our shared experimental approach to improvisation with elements from ambient and popular genres. Dave Bryant attacks from a free jazz-based direction built in longtime collaborations with Ornette Coleman and within Boston’s jazz community. Called "One of Boston's steadfast explorers," by the Boston Globe, _saxophonist David Gross has been performing for nearly a decade. Among _a slew of others whose names are perhaps not as recognizable, Mr.Gross _has performed with Le Quan Ninh, Eddie Prevost, Steve Roden, John _Olson, Gino Robair, Martin Tetreault, Phil Minton, Tom Carter, Glenn Spearman, _Raphe Malik, and many members of the Boston free-improv scene including _Bhob Rainey, Greg Kelley, and Laurence Cook. Currently, Gross is transforming the saxophone into exactly what it is: a metal tube with _keys, mouthpiece, and a reed. Reviews of his recordings have been as _varied as "The range of textured noise that he cajoles from his instrument is impressive" to "lengthy episodes of fingernails ripping _at a blackboard". He has performed throughout the US including at festivals as diverse as The KNOB (Wichita, KS), Big Sur Festival of Experimental Music (CA), High Zero (Baltimore, MD), Improvised and _Otherwise (NYC), The No Idea Fest (Austin, TX) and Autumn _Uprising(Boston, MA) which he created in 1997.  The Northeast based Empty House Cooperative features an extended family of musicians including members of Molasses, Thalia Zedek, Consonant, Pullman, Boxhead Ensemble, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and The New Year. Though all of these artists are involved with significant other projects, the EHC has taken on a unique life of it's own. The collective began in 1997 with casual gatherings for brunch and music at David Michael Curry's apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts.The limits of a conventional band setting led DMC to explore ideas of improvised music with like-minded friends. EHC has performed live soundtracks to silent films, improvised dinner music at restaurants, and transformed rock clubs. EHC provided music for the American Repertory Theatre's 2003 production of Rinde Eckert’s Highway Ulysses, and provided the ambient musical score to a marathon reading at the 2001 Jack Kerouac Festival in Lowell, MA. A native Virginian, keyboardist Dave Bryant attended Shenandoah College and Conservatory of Music before moving to Boston, where he attended Berklee College of Music, graduating with a B.M. in Jazz Piano Performance in 1982. He then began studies with Ornette Coleman in 1983. Bryant released a self-titled debut album with his trio Shock Exchange in 1986, featuring bassist John Turner, percussionist Chris Bowman, and liner notes by Coleman. In 1990, Bryant joined on as an official member of Prime Time, marking Ornette Coleman’s first extended work with a keyboard instrument in decades. In 1999, Bryant released a CD, “The Eternal Hang,” recorded with long-time associates Turner, Bowman, saxophonist George Garzone, drummer Bob Gullotti, and noted recording engineer Roger Nichols. More recently, he recorded an as-yet-unreleased project again featuring Turner, Bowman, and Gullotti, this time joined by fellow Prime Time alumni Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Badal Roy, Bern Nix, and Ken Wessel. More information is available on the web: http://www.timfeeney.com/opensound.html |