CALENDAR

DOORS @ 7:30 / SHOWS @ 8PM, UNLESS POSTED OTHERWISE 

• Thu

  11

  Apr

  2024

  Selba • Jolie • Paraphrase April 11

  7:30 Door 8:00 show $12 suggested donation

  

  SELBA (Hannah Selin and Concetta Abbate) ties together tentacles of strings and voice as a unified superstructure of sound. Like the radical nature of Pi, they intertwine in intricate shapes but never quite meet between. Violists and vocalists, authors of song, arrangers of sonic resolution and improvisers alike, they are excited to join together in this unique collaboration of live musical performance.

  The soundscape-jazz band known as JOLIE first began in Chicago in 2015 as a spur-of-the-moment home recording session. Over the years, it has taken on vastly different forms, adding and subtracting collaborators for performances in bars, music clubs, and festivals. Now, with all four core members living in NYC, JOLIE has returned to its roots as a tight-knit ensemble committed to exploring surreal sonic spaces through improvisation.

   

  Dan Pierson – keyboards / Paul Bedal – keyboards  /Greg Tuohey – guitar / Mike Harmon – bass /Peter Manheim – drums

   

  Paraphrase (Michael Eaton, Nicki Adams) integrates divergent musical languages in a conversational style, integrating virtuosity, timbre and swing. Using modal and bebop vocabulary as a template, their arrangements draw on Ravel’s piano suites, Bartók’s piano etudes as well as Iranian Khush Rank rhythmic cycles. Their second album, The Transcendental portrays a thoughtful and musical duo rife with originals, imagining still closer integrations of jazz and classical music to come.