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Free Range is a monthly concert series providing artists with important resources in today’s content-driven music scene, and providing audiences with exceptional and affordable (even better than a city-wide!) Jazz and improvised music. With only a $5 cover, you receive food, refreshments, and a night of innovative music. Free Range prioritizes local musicians, giving all performers high-quality audio and video of their show, full use/rights to their materials, including the raw audio for additional production if they so choose. Please follow @free_range_music to stay up to date. Sponsored by Love City Brewing & Urban Movement Arts/Philly Music Factory
First Unitarian Church
2125 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19103
Doors at 7pm
Music at 7:30 and 8:30pm
*Schedule is subject to change by 5-10min*
$5 cover charge
Refreshments Included
Infra-Dig Trio | Ensemble Novo
More information on the Artists:
"Infra Dig" is a new trio consisting of Thomas Patteson (alto saxophone) Rob Paul (drums) and Bert Harris(bass). Taking inspiration from jazz, creative music, and global traditions, their improvisations seek to map out possible worlds of sound and spirit, from zero gravity to cosmic grooves
Rob Paul is a drummer inspired by the ocean and colour. He is proud to be from Philadelphia, where he can honor the work, beauty, and spirit of jazz legends like Jymie Merritt, McCoy Tyner, and Rashied Ali. Rob is mentored by his close friend Bobby Zankel, and is grateful for the wisdom he consistently shares regarding improvisation, listening, and mindfulness
Bert Harris is an electric bass guitarist and upright bassist who is at home in several genres of music. Current projects include The Afrojazz Collective, Gumbo Nouveau, Naru, String Theory, Reggae Thunder, Phillyska Jazz Quartet, RK$TDY, Philly Gumbo and Infra-Dig. Bert has recorded two cd's with Philadelphia jazz legend Byard Lancaster (Pam Africa and Ancestral Link Hotel). With Philly Gumbo he can be heard on their extended 45 rpm, Holy War and their cd, Come and Get It. Most Recent recording is with Gumbo Nouveau, and their cd, "Seasoned). Bert's playing ranges from straight ahead jazz, to reggae , to Cape jazz, to ska, to free jazz and his original compositions incorporate those genres
Thomas Patteson plays saxophone, keyboard, and electronics. His musical heroes include Ornette Coleman, Kadri Gopalnath, and Wendy Carlos. He also performs in the duo Argyle Torah with Aaron Pond. In his day job, Thomas is a musicologist and writer: he recently published The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (co-authored with Deirdre Loughridge), and will soon finish translating a history of improvisation in European music. Thomas is a Lecturer in Music at UPenn and Vice President of People's Music Supply.
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Ensemble Novo celebrates the windswept melodies and perpetual-motion rhythms of Brazilian music. The five-piece band has been performing in the Philadelphia region for over a decade, and has recorded a series of mini-albums that have been played on WXPN-FM and WRTI-FM as well as stations in Rio de Janeiro and across the globe. Its book covers nearly a century of Brazilian song, from old samba to bossa nova to the rock-influenced MPB (Musica Popular Brazil). Its sound is a balance of moods and textures: The crystalline clarity of the vibraphone is crossed with the husky introspection of the tenor saxophone, lively sparks from nylon-string guitar are animated by the crisp pulse of percussion. In its review of This Is Ensemble Novo, The Vinyl District raved that Ensemble Novo puts "a playful spin on some of the world’s most welcoming music, Brazilian pop from the 1960s and 1970s. The music is executed with a jazz touch and musical virtuosity by musicians who may not be household names, but deserve to be.”
Ryan McNeely: Guitar
Behn Gillece: Vibraphone
Tom Moon: tenor sax/flute
Claudio de Pujadas: drums
Doug Drewes: bass
Ensemble Novo is in the finishing stages of several recording projects -- an EP devoted to the quiet romantic songs of the bossa nova era, and an EP celebrating the music of a little-known Brazilian duo that recorded in Paris in the '70s, Teca & Ricardo. The story: Ricardo Vilas (from Rio) was forced to leave Brazil by the military dictatorship in 1970; his then-girlfriend Teca Calazans (from Recife) followed him. Calazans grew up playing music with the legendary percussionist Nana Vasconcelos, and during the early '70s the three of them played in Parisian cafes etc. while working on original music. They were heard by someone from the French Culture Ministry and hired to record an album of folkloric songs from the Northeast part of Brazil around Recife. That led to a series of albums of original material starting in 1974 -- they were homesick Brazilians taking inspiration from the titanic music of Milton Nascimento's Club de Esquina and other contemporary works, and creating an original sound with help from both French and Brazilian musicians. Their records were available in France/Europe but did not widely circulate in Brazil, and as a result they're kind've a "lost chapter" in the history of Brazilian music of the '70s. (We're planning to play several things from this project at the church....)
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First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, 2125 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19103-3146, United States
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