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Jazz Bridge # 2.11

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Join us for an evening of experimental Jazz that brings together spectacular musicians from Chicago and France. Complimentary food and refreshments will be provided post-performance.

This iteration, Jazz Bridge # 2.11 brings together four great musicians:

Greg Ward — alto saxophone

Nicolas Peoc’h — alto saxophone

Hélène Labarrière — double bass

Isaiah Spencer — drums

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. We can’t say it often enough, so we’ll say it again: creative music creates singularity by recreating space-time. By bringing together approximate bodies, in the same place and on the same backdrop, at the same time, and from past to future, from present to future, and back again.

From Chicago: Greg Ward, one of the most agile and zesty saxophonists of his generation, a distant descendant of Johnny Hodges and a close partner of Mike Reed, a worthy disciple of Von Freeman or Fred Anderson, i.e. unique in his genre (free funk swing or otherwise), whom nothing frightens, in a flash or a plume of smoke; Isaiah Spencer has also proven himself on the Chicago stage or belvedere, since his apprenticeship with Ernest Khabeer Dawkins : his (hypersensitive) drumming is obviously propulsive, is naturally ardent, he feigns a certain nervousness to adhere to everything going on around him and more.

From France and Brittany : double bassist Hélène Labarrière sails and capsizes freely over the equator, the tropics and even the meridians, thanks to the submarine of the most liberated (unsubdued) jazz, but also on the sailboats of so-called traditional music or the steamships of so-called contemporary music; Nicolas Peoc’h frequents the same casino, the same roulette table between aesthetics that are as many numbers for his ball or his saxophone, with in truth the same love for the game, for playing: he maneuvers and spins, this time with the mercury of jazz, from garage to Latin American to West African music.

To learn more about the Bridge visit www.acrossthebridges.org

This performance is presented and sponsored by the Logan Center for the Arts, the France Chicago Center, and the Department of Music at the University of Chicago. The Bridge is made possible through the support of the Jazz & New Music, a program of Villa Albertine and FACE Foundation, in partnership with the French Embassy in the United States, the French Ministry of Culture, Institut français, SACEM (Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique), CNM (Centre National de la Musique), SPEDIDAM, & Adami.

Join us for an evening of experimental Jazz that brings together spectacular musicians from Chicago and France. Complimentary food and refreshments will be provided post-performance.

This iteration, Jazz Bridge # 2.11 brings together four great musicians:

Greg Ward — alto saxophone

Nicolas Peoc’h — alto saxophone

Hélène Labarrière — double bass

Isaiah Spencer — drums

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. We can’t say it often enough, so we’ll say it again: creative music creates singularity by recreating space-time. By bringing together approximate bodies, in the same place and on the same backdrop, at the same time, and from past to future, from present to future, and back again.

From Chicago: Greg Ward, one of the most agile and zesty saxophonists of his generation, a distant descendant of Johnny Hodges and a close partner of Mike Reed, a worthy disciple of Von Freeman or Fred Anderson, i.e. unique in his genre (free funk swing or otherwise), whom nothing frightens, in a flash or a plume of smoke; Isaiah Spencer has also proven himself on the Chicago stage or belvedere, since his apprenticeship with Ernest Khabeer Dawkins : his (hypersensitive) drumming is obviously propulsive, is naturally ardent, he feigns a certain nervousness to adhere to everything going on around him and more.

From France and Brittany : double bassist Hélène Labarrière sails and capsizes freely over the equator, the tropics and even the meridians, thanks to the submarine of the most liberated (unsubdued) jazz, but also on the sailboats of so-called traditional music or the steamships of so-called contemporary music; Nicolas Peoc’h frequents the same casino, the same roulette table between aesthetics that are as many numbers for his ball or his saxophone, with in truth the same love for the game, for playing: he maneuvers and spins, this time with the mercury of jazz, from garage to Latin American to West African music.

To learn more about the Bridge visit www.acrossthebridges.org

This performance is presented and sponsored by the Logan Center for the Arts, the France Chicago Center, and the Department of Music at the University of Chicago. The Bridge is made possible through the support of the Jazz & New Music, a program of Villa Albertine and FACE Foundation, in partnership with the French Embassy in the United States, the French Ministry of Culture, Institut français, SACEM (Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique), CNM (Centre National de la Musique), SPEDIDAM, & Adami.

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