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Resonance Arts is proud to present its November 2024 Cross Modulations music series concert featuring the trio of Christopher Dammann (b), Jason Stein (bcl) and Steve Hunt (dms) along with the Mai Sugimoto (sax) and Time Daisy (dms) duo!Doors open at 7p, show starts at 8p. $15 admission Full bar!
About the Artists
Mai Sugimoto is a Japanese-born saxophonist, composer, and improviser based in Chicago. Her recent releases include a solo album monologue (2021) and trio album Sunlight Filtering Through Leaves (2024). Mai is featured on Tim Daisy’s October Music: Vol 4 - 7 Compositions For Duet, released in 2024. www.maisugimoto.com
Tim Daisy is a Chicago based drummer, composer, and presenter who’s been an active member of the international improvised music scene since the late 1990s.Mainly self- taught, with some private lessons on drums, marimba and vibraphone, Tim’s move and subsequent immersion into Chicago's fertile creative music scene in 1997 has given him the opportunity to perform, compose, tour and record with some of the city’s most acclaimed musicians and ensembles. www.timdaisy.wordpress.com
www.timdaisyrelayrecords.bandcamp.com
Christopher has assembled a trio of some of his favorite Chicago musicians for a night of improvised music.
Steve Hunt
Percussionist/Composer Steve Hunt has been active in the Chicago music scene since 1980 when he first became a member of the legendary Hal Russell NRG Ensemble, playing drums and vibraphone and contributing many compositions their catalogue. The group toured nationally and internationally whilst gaining critical acclaim and releasing six recordings, including two on ECM, an unlikely label for free jazz. Upon Hal’s death in 1992, the group was joined by saxophonist/clarinetist Ken Vandermark under the leadership of Mars Williams and recorded three albums. A fourth recording, “Hold That Thought” was released in 2024 on Corbett Vs Dempsey, which is a live performance recorded in Utrecht in 1997.
He has played with numerous groups and improvisers throughout his career, and recorded on such labels as Nessa, Principally Jazz, Chief, Abduction, Blue Room, ECM, Quinnah, Delmark, Atavistic, Okka Disk, Harmonic Convergence, Soul What, Knitting Factory, Sommes Sound, 1980, Clean Feed and Corbett Vs. Dempsey. Some of the groups he has recorded with include Caffeine, Witches and Devils and WiHuBa. He as been a member of Extraordinary Popular Delusions since 2005, which originally included Mars Williams, but is now featuring Edward Wilkerson, Jr. as well as Jim Baker and Brian Sandstrom, with Chris Dammann or Ausberto Acevedo sometimes subbing on bass.
Steve’s drumming has been described as “more likely to disassemble time than keep it…he provides gorgeous contrapuntal interaction and high-wire textural tension” Peter Margasak
Jason Stein
Jason Stein is among the mere handful of improvisers who play the bass clarinet exclusively. Stein leads the acclaimed trio Locksmith Isidore as well as his own quartet. He contributes to several of the leading bands on Chicago’s new-music scene and has brought a vital voice to the freest of free-jazz jams. Stein’s playing showcases an extraordinary expertise on the bass clarinet, which ranges from powerful post-bop lines to ear-grabbing wails in the altissimo range. Chicago writer Neil Tesser notes that “Stein’s playing has a rawboned swagger particular to Chicago jazz in all its manifestations – from the trad playing of Bud Freeman and Jimmy McPartland in the 20s, through the tenor titans of the 50s, through the adventurers who formed the AACM in the 60s, and right up to the city’s renowned modern cadre of new-music improvisers.” Stein moved to Chicago in 2005 and has since recorded for such labels as Leo, Delmark, Not Two, Atavistic, 482 Music, Clean Feed, Astral Spirits, and Northern Spy. Stein has performed throughout the US and Europe as both a bandleader and sideman and has amassed a discography of over 40 albums.
Christopher Dammann
Chris is a composer/bassist who lives in Chicago. He is lucky enough to have improvised with many of his favorite musicians, worked in a variety of bands, performed music for national television shows and ad campaigns. He writes music for games, television and film.
Recent work includes the score for Kera MacKenzie & Andrew Mausert-Mooney’s award winning non-fiction montage feature, Make A Distinction, the Restroy release, sketches, for ears&eyes records and IKZ (Toby Summerfield, Kevin Davis, and John Niekrasz) release I saw the Cryptic Problem of my Generation Destroyed on Chicago label, Amalgam music.
Chris is currently working on material for a newly formed sextet (Scott Clark, Jon Irabagon, Edward Wilkerson, Mabel Kwan, James Davis) with plans to record summer 2024.
Chris is also proud to be a teaching artist with the People’s Music School of Chicago, Chicago’s largest tuition free music school.
About the Presenter
Resonance Arts is committed to providing opportunities for performing artists and audiences to connect in spaces across the Chicago area. We elevate and prioritize multidisciplinary, progressive, and unconventional performances, with specific attention paid to amplifying new, emerging, and underrepresented creative voices. www.resonancearts.org
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Color Club, 4146 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618-1828, United States,Chicago, Illinois, Lincolnwood
