9pm: Salo

10pm: Nook

11pm:  The Curtis Macdonald Group

David Mirelles – Keys
Chris Tordini – Bass
Greg Ritchie – Drums
Curtis Macdonald – Alto Sax/Compositions

No Cover!

Presented by:
The Brooklyn Guitar Festival

9pm:

Curtis Macdonald – Alto Sax
Jeremy Viner – Tenor Sax
Travis Reuter – Guitar
David Mirelles – Keys
Cody Brown – Drums
Chris Tordini – Bass

10pm:
The Adam Rogers Trio

A party will follow!

9pm:

Curtis Macdonald – Alto Sax/Tunes
Jeremy Viner – Tenor Sax
David Miralles – Keys
Greg Chudzik – Bass
Cody Brown – Drums

10:30pm:

Logan Richardson – Alto/Soprano Saxes
Damion Reid – Drums
Matt Brewer – Bass

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$10 per set

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I gave an assignment to a group of aspiring sound designers not too long ago.  The task was to take two completely different tracks of music and find a way to make them work together and sound somewhat uniform using only editing, transposition and time compression/expansion.  They all had an afternoon to complete it.  Here’s my ‘remixed’ example.  Even caught some of the ii-V harmony in the second half!

Thanks to choreographer Cherice Barton for asking me to attempt this in the first place!  It was a fun experiment.  Makes me think what other wild juxtapositions are out there waiting for discovery.

Alex Wyatt – Drums
Karl McComas-Reichl – Bass
Yours Truly – Sax

Sunday, June 27th at 9pm $10 CANCELED

Using music by saxophonist and composer Curtis Macdonald; pianist and musical director Njo Kong Kie; and Russian-born violist Lev “Ljova” Zhurbi, the illustrious choreographer Aszure Barton has collaborated with each dancer independently and built a shared vocabulary for the ensemble based on these personal interactions. Inspired by collaboration, Barton is interested in creating dense environments on stage in which each performer is an individual and all are united by a shared language. Barton’s new work, Untouched, will receive its world premiere at the Harris Theater June 3-6, 2010. Tickets and more information here.

From Time Out Chicago:

“In between the two is Barton’s Untouched, a world premiere. Like Bardo, it’s for twelve dancers and moodily-lit. Otherwise, it’s from the other side of the universe. Its decor (uncredited) is lit (by Nicole Pearce) such that it appears we are looking onto a stage through its back wall. A heavy red curtain hangs, just partly opened, upstage. The floor is lit by shafts of light from beyond this curtain. There’s the sense another house, another audience, is back there sitting quietly, with only a small window onto the action we see clearly, thus, the work is our secret. On top of that atmosphere, Barton builds a world of bodily language suggesting rapidly-shifting power structures lightly dusted with the folkloric. The ambiguity of the work’s title echoes in your head as you watch: They’re immaculate. They’re virgin. They’re alone, above, below. They’ve yet to be experienced. It’s somehow about dancers. It features beautiful ideas about how and when dancers can enter and exit the stage. Its closing duet is spellbinding.”

“I can’t describe it.”

Other reviews:
Chicago Sun Times
Gapers Block Chicago

Curtis Macdonald – Alto Sax
Chris Tordini – Bass
David Miralles – Keys
Cody Brown – Drums
Kenny Warren – Trumpet
Natalie John – Vocals

Thursday June 3rd, 7pm @ the 55bar

The Curtis Macdonald Group Live
@ Spike Hill

Monday, April 12th at 8:30pm

Featuring:

Greg Ritchie – Drums
Dave West – Piano
Chris Tordini – Bass
Jeremy Viner – Tenor Sax
Yours Truly – Alto Sax/Compositions