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Wednesday, March 5, 2025New Haven Improvisers Collective Presents
Light Upon Blight Ensemble
Dr. Caterwaul’s Cadre of Clairvoyant Claptraps
$12 advanced / $15 at the door
21+
Doors at 7 PM
Music at 8 PM
The New Haven Improvisers Collective presents an evening of new music with The Light Upon Blight Ensemble, plus special guests Dr. Caterwaul’s Cadre of Clairvoyant Claptraps. NHIC celebrates 20 years of music with an evening featuring two venerable New Haven groups playing exploratory and adventurous music with ever-changing, sometimes unexpected grooves.
The Light Upon Blight Ensemble celebrates the release of their second album, CENTURY, a stellar recording of a new composition by Jeff Cedrone and Bob Gorry exploring historical influences and heavy melodic structures woven with collective improvisations. Double drums, exploratory grooves, singular statements. Rock, Post-Rock, Free Jazz, Prog Rock, Harmolodics. Tonight’s performance will feature a new Jeff Cedrone composition dedicated to the legacy of David Lynch.
The Light Upon Blight Ensemble is Richard Brown: Alto Sax; Pete Brunelli: Bass; Jeff Cedrone: Guitar; Bob Gorry: Guitar; Tom Hogan: Drums; Peter Riccio: Drums. They have been performing for a decade evolving from other groups, and have played festivals and showcases featuring the music of Ornette Coleman, free improvisations, and original compositions.
Dr. Caterwaul’s Cadre of Clairvoyant Claptraps plays music from around the world and uses it as a launching pad for improvisations that never lose their sense of groove—whether it’s Colombian cumbias, Ethiopian jazz, Romanian horas, Argentinian tangos, or traditional music from the United States.
Based in New Haven, CT, currently a four-piece—Adam Matlock on accordion and vocals, Michael Paolucci on drums, Brian Slattery on violin, banjo, trombone and vocals, and Mike Tepper on bass—has opened for Xenia Rubinos, the Lost Bayou Ramblers, and the Krar Collective (from Ethiopia). Apart, they have toured the country and ventured into Europe, performing everything from Appalachian fiddle to funk and reggae to experimental new music. Together, they have put on evenings of songs by Kurt Weill and Ennio Morricone and performed back-to-back sold-out sets of music from Twin Peaks. All along, they work up original material by Matlock under his own songwriting project, An Historic. Always curious, always ready to try new music, Dr. Caterwaul’s Cadre of Clairvoyant Claptraps moves from genre to genre with a style that’s all its own.
Cafe Nine
250 State Street
New Haven, CT 06510
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