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Date(s) - 06/26/2021
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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UpFront Exhibition Space
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Come celebrate the new album release of The Art Spirit (ESP-Disk) Michael Bisio, Kirk Knuffke, Fred Lonberg-Holm; in-person!
This music is inspired by Robert Henri (June 24, 1865 – July 12, 1929) artist, teacher, writer and an organizer of the group known as “The Eight,” a loose association of artists who protested the restrictive exhibition practices of the powerful, conservative National Academy of Design.
Michael Bisio, bassist/composer, has eighty five recordings in his discography, twenty four of these are split evenly between leader/co-leader, ten of them document his extraordinary association with modern piano icon Matthew Shipp. Michael has been called a poet, a wonder and one of the most virtuosic and imaginative performers on the double bass. Nate Chinen in the New York Times writes : “The physicality of Mr. Bisio’s bass playing puts him in touch with numerous predecessors in the avant-garde, but his expressive touch is distinctive;…”
“One of modern jazz’s most skilled navigators of the divide between inside and outside, freedom and swing,” Cornetist and Composer Kirk Knuffke has “full command of his most demanding instrument” (All About Jazz).
Accolades for Knuffke include NPR’s Best Jazz Album of the Year for 2017’s Cherryco (SteepleChase),winner of DownBeat Magazine’s “Rising Star” critics poll in 2015, and recipient of the Jerome Foundation Composers grant. In 2016, he placed 2nd in the European El Intruso Critics poll for trumpet.
Fred Lonberg-Holm is an American cellist based in Chicago. He moved from New York City to Chicago in 1995.
Lonberg-Holm is most identified with playing free improvisation and free jazz. He is also a composer of concert works. As a session musician and arranger, he is credited on rock, pop, and country records.
IMAGE courtesy of Michael Bisio, by Peter Gannushkin / DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET (Fair Use)