jazz
9:30 – 12am
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The Lower East Side Social Club

Every Sunday night for their own pleasure the musicians who
makes up the Lower East Side Social Club get together at ABC No
Rio on Rivington Street NYC for an evening of totally improvised
immeubles music sounding somewhere between free jazz and New
Music under the leadership of premier reed master Blaise Siwula.
There isn’t too much more exciting in art that being
present at the creation of a musical piece from literally
nothing. Yet that is why The Lower East Side Social Club does
every week. The Club doesn’t meet anymore than once a week and
never dreams of making a living from music.
Talented as they are, these are smart guys who scramble
well in the world with nice day jobs. People pay most of them for
doing social work or even for doing nothing. The Club likes it
that way. They have lot of formal credentials, have all played
with famous people; if they all had to make a living for music, they’d be
residing in Mens’ Shelter. Then they’d be The Man’s Shelter
Social Club. The leader Blaise, Siwula, leader of COMA, the music scene
at legendary ABC No Rio where this club most often meets, was
once a Knitting Factory stalwart, is a free jazz master has done
stellar recordings in Korea and recently was featured at several
Danish music festivals. Two of these club stalwarts played with
Cecil Taylor, all of them have done prestigious New Orleans gigs.
Blaise has played with Cecil Tayilor innumerable times as a
regular in his band, toured Asia, gigged in the Netherlands and
Germany
Matthew Paris wrote music for twenty off-bride plays, was
once the premiere pianist at Dominicus’ on Dumaine street,
featured on local Tulane television as a French Quarter
character; he has also give many museum concerts and played the
organ at various famous cathedrals round the world. Show Business
has called him: “a superb singer.”
Drew Gardner is a regular at many CBGBs band sessions,
always in demand in New York as pianist and drummer. Greg Wildes
who plays everything from garden nose to his own kitchen stove is
always gagging in New Orleans as is Chris Jacques, noted for his
work in Brooklyn Latin dance bands.

Blaise Siwula reeds
Gregory J. Wildes samples/reeds
Matthew Paris piano
Christobal Jacques bass
Drew Gardner drums

Production: Blaise Siwula - blaise@cappuccinonet.com
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