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The State Room PresentsALAN BRAUFMAN
FRI, 15 NOV 2024 at 08:00PM MST
Ages: 21 & Over
Doors Open: 07:00PM
OnSale: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 at 10:00AM MDT
Announcement: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 at 10:00AM MDT
Born in Brooklyn in 1951, Berklee-educated saxophonist, flutist, and composer Alan Braufman was an integral part of the New York free music community in the 1970s and 1980s, recording as a sideman with significant improvisational figures including Richard Landry, Cecil McBee, Carla Bley, William Hooker, and Paul Nash, in addition to subbing for saxophonist Gary Windo in The Psychedelic Furs. At Berklee, Braufman had linked up with multi-instrumentalist Cooper-Moore (then known as Gene Ashton), saxophonist David S. Ware, bassist Chris Amberger, and drummer Marc Edwards. All but Edwards moved into a loft building at 501 Canal Street in New York in 1973; this space became a nexus of performance in lower Manhattan, hosting sessions by the cooperative Braufman/Cooper-Moore group in its storefront venue. A variation on this band with McBee and percussionists David Lee, Jr. and Yohuru Ralph Williams recorded Valley of Search, Braufman’s debut as a leader, for India Navigation in 1975.
A 2016 Manna House performance resulted in the 2018 reissue of Valley of Search along with commemorative concerts, as well as the long-awaited follow-up The Fire Still Burns, released in 2020. The sounds you hear across Braufman's discography as a bandleader are richly detailed and forthright, embodying a range of emotions and circumstances that convey individuality, collectivity and hope. As infectious as the music is on 2024's Infinite Love Infinite Tears – this record contains several ear-worms – it is still generative and complex. Braufman observes that “the thing about this band that made it so much fun to work with is we could play with structure and within that we could go completely free and it was a seamless transition to come back. I compare it to a house; you can spend all day outside, but it’s nice to know where home is." The group is able to stretch out and reflect on optimism, beauty, and joy, finding dialogic phrases and a keening surge within the curvature of inside-outside playing. There is much history and love in this band, and in Alan Braufman’s art overall. Fifty-odd years after debuting on record, his sound-world is as vital and inviting as ever.
Alan Braufman in his first Salt Lake City performance of his album "Infinite Love Infinite Tears"
with
Corey Christiansen / guitar
Parker Swenson / drums
Harold Carr / bass
Joe Chisholm / trombone
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The State Room, 638 S State St, Salt Lake City, UT 84111-3820, United States,Salt Lake City, Utah
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