Upcoming Madison Shows

From Surrounded by Reality Music:

Samuel Blaser/Bobbey Avey Duo – EARLY SHOW – 3/17 @ Audio for the Arts
Saturday, March 17th, 6pm start, $8 general admission

SBR is thrilled to host this phenomenal duo for the second time (we had them here in the summer of 2010). Both musicians are virtuoso players with a lexicon of conventional and extended techniques that they use to craft gorgeously precise pieces that seamlessly weave together intricate themes and extended improvisations.

Samuel Blaser is a Swiss born, New York-polished trombonist who has been racking up accolades for almost a decade, and has honors and a discography that is simply mind-boggling considering he’s barely in his thirties. His last album ‘Consort in Motion’ featuring the inimitable and recently deceased drum icon Paul Motian, was voted Best Jazz Album of 2011.

Pianist Bobby Avey gaining some serious traction as both a pianist and as a composer, for which he won the 2011 Thelonious Monk competition. Since his 2006 debut with saxophonist and Miles-alum David Leibman, Bobby has been described as “an indisputable rising star” (all about jazz), and “one of the most promising musicians of his generation” (Ken Dryden). In addition to his full schedule as a bandleader and sideman, Bobby has been busy composing for commissions from the likes of Chamber Music America.

Jaap Blonk, the Weather Duo – LATER SHOW 3/17 @ Audio for the Arts
Saturday, March 17th, 8:30pm start

Jaap Blonk (born 1953 in Woerden, Holland) is a self-taught composer, performer and poet.

In the late 1970s he took up saxophone and started to compose music. A few years later he discovered his potential as a vocal performer, at first in reciting poetry and later on in improvisations and his own compositions. For almost two decades the voice was his main means for the discovery and development of new sounds. From around the year 2000 on Blonk started work with electronics, at first using samples of his own voice, then extending the field to include pure sound synthesis as well. He took a year off of performing in 2006. As a result, his renewed interest in mathematics made him start a research of the possibilities of algorithmic composition for the creation of music, visual animation and poetry.

Madison’s Weather Duo will open the show with a set of electro-acoustic chamber pieces.

Sons Of Daughters – Sunday, March 18
@ The Cardinal Bar – 8pm, $10 / $5 students (Free to UW students)

Patrick Breiner – tenor sax, clarinet, voice (Easton, CT)
Aaron Darrell – bass, voice (Boston, MA)
Devin Drobka – drums (New York, NY)

Patrick Breiner, Aaron Darrell, and Devin Drobka all contribute compositions ranging from wistful rubato ballads to devil may care free jazz avalanches. Breiner’s tenor saxophone and clarinet are augmented by vocals (his own and those of bassist Darrell). Drobka is the wild card, as likely to play with any object within reach as he is to play his drum kit. In short, a helter-skelter new twist on the classic chordless jazz trio.