jazz/improv
6 - 7 PM
$5 donation
Blaise Siwula/Adam Lane/Toshi Makihara
Blaise Siwula – reeds
Adam Lane – bass
Toshi Makihara – drums
The trio of Blaise Siwula reeds/ Adam Lane bass and Toshi Makihara drum verges on intoxication. An outgrowth of the Siwula /Lane duet with a recording on Cadence Jazz Records -Tandem Rivers. The sound from these guys is more like the dam broke but yet there’s time for a coffee and the Sunday paper.
BLAISE SIWULA
Although primarily an alto saxophonist I play a number of reed, flute, percussion and string instruments at varying degrees of competency per composition requirements and recently began including computer altered sound files in performance for compositional purposes. I have been honored to work with musicians and composers such as - Cecil Taylor, Tan Dun, William Parker, Joseph Daly, Donald Miller, Peter Kowald, John Fischer, Vincent Chancey, Newman Taylor Baker, John Voigt, Matthew Paris, Adam Lane and Joseph Scianni - as a performer and co-composer. As an improvising musician I have found the line between composer and performer to be gray at best.
ADAM LANE
Combining influences from Duke Ellington, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Melt Banana, bassist and composer Adam Lane stretches the terms “jazz” and “chamber Music” beyond convention. His blend of music and performance art takes listeners on a meticulously orchestrated joyride, with horns, strings, electronics, spoken word, and the occasional vacuum cleaner. As a composer he has been recognized by critics world wide as “innovative” (Signal to Noise) and “forward thinking,” (Jazziz) and as a player he has contributed to important new recordings by artist such as John Tchicai and Tom Waits. http://home.earthlink.net/~bbrjsiwula/
TOSHI MAKIHARA is one of the major voices in Philadelphia’s New Music and Experimental Free Improvisation scene today. He studied percussion with Sabu Toyozumi, a prominent percussionist and improviser in Tokyo, and has worked with various new music ensembles as well as with numerous dance and theater companies in the United States, Japan. In the realm of experimental free improvised music, he has worked with musicians including Steve Beresford, Peter Brotzmann, John Butcher, Nels Cline, Eugene Chadbourne, Tom Cora, Amy Denio, Thurston Moore, William Parker, Jon Rose, Wally Shoup, LaDonna Smith, Andrew Voigt, Davey Williams and John Zorn. He has also collaborated with poets, visual artists, filmmakers and performance artists widely.
Makihara’s original improvisational style combines his masterful percussion technique with vaudeville humor, and a zen-influenced use of silence as well as gesture. He has also used a dazzling range of discovered sound media ranging from bicycle wheels to coiled slinkies in unexpectedly unique ways. Since the fall of 2000, Makihara has been using a very small percussion set consisting of just one drum and one small cymbal as his regular performance kit. This minimum setting allows him to capture the essence of free improvisation more clearly and dynamically. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/tosmos/
PRODUCTION: Blaise Siwula – blaise@cappuccinonet.com