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Red Room Saturday: Jason Stein solo & w/ Microkingdom
Saturday, October 24th
$6 - doors: 8:30PM - show: 9:00PM
This weekend, confront new possibilities in sonic complexity from the lower registered member of the clarinet family as employed and wielded with fury by young master Jason Stein of Chicago. Stein will delight us with a set of solo works, then engage with likeminded local powerhouse, Microkingdom. Do consider, as it promises to be great! Also recommended as a fantastic followup to lantern parades, great and small!
JASON STEIN: solo bass clarinet
+ a set with MICROKINGDOM
Jason Stein was born in 1976 and is originally from Long Island, New York. He studied at Bennington College with Charles Gayle and Milford Graves, and at the University of Michigan with Donald Walden and Ed Sarath. In 2005, Stein relocated to Chicago and has since recorded for such labels as Delmark, Atavistic, 482 Music and Clean Feed. Stein has performed throught the US and Europe, including performances in festivals in Lisbon, Cracow, Barcelona, Debreccen and Ljubljana. He has had the opportunity to perform with a number of exciting local and international musicians including: Michael Moore, Jeff Parker, Rudi Mahall, Ken Vandermark, Rob Mazurek, Jeb Bishop, Michiel Braam, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten, Pandelis Karayorgis, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Tony Buck, Kent Kessler, Tobias Delius, Nate McBride, Jack Wright, Michael Zerang, Michael Vatcher, Frank Gratkowski, Peter Brotzman, Fredrik Ljungkvist, Wilbert DeJoode, and Håvard Wiik.
"Stein is exhilarating, a young master of his fiendishly difficult horn. Stein is a player to look out for."
- Chris May, All About Jazz
"Stein stands apart from the standard instrumental lineage. Whereas a player like Eric Dolphy or Michel Portal builds on wide intervallic leaps and verticality, Stein (like Michel Pilz, Rudi Mahall or John Tchicai) operates in a horizontal fashion, favoring a breadth of twists and turns more sideways than anything else, woven into a post-Ornette fabric."
- Clifford Allen, All About Jazz
Microkingdom. Basically: Guitarist Marc Miller of the supremely troublesome and monkeywrench-throwing MathDanceMetal band Oxes. Confounding percussionist and composer Will Redman. Usually Baltimore reeds legend John Dierker. Sometimes other intense musicians. Through slightly less-than-judicious use of skills and non-skills, and noise and non-noise, beats and non-beats, Microkingdom's music becomes imperceptibly complex noise Jazz of zone variances of extra-cognitive spiritual magnetism. Ears on fire, mind full of water and a skull in between. It has been suggested that our live performances make people feel like they are on crazy pills and/or break their hearts.
jasonsteinmusic.com
microkingdom.com
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