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"The first time I saw Portland's Blue Cranes live, I walked away trying to compare what I'd seen to anything I'd encountered before. I couldn't do it, and I still can't - the band is a force of nature.... Call it "creative music" or "post-jazz" or whatever you like, but the Blue Cranes sound is steeped in the ideas and concepts of jazz....a beautifully improvised sonic experience." - NPR/A Blog Supreme
December 17, 2019 - The 1905 - 830 N Shaver St - Portland, OR 97227
February 22, 2010 - PDX Jazz Festrival - Newmark Theater - 1111 SW Broadway - Portland, OR [opening for Archie Shepp Quartet]
Listen to & buy:
Swim
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""Tons of weird rock records have streamed out of Chicago over the past two decades, but none have blended pop smarts and avant-garde impulses as skillfully as this marvelous brainteaser..." – Time Out New York
"Cheer-Accident are the quintessential Chicago post-rock band... They've been exploring head-scratching, creatively fucked-up time signatures and sideways guitar shenanigans for 20 years now, leaving a pronounced influence on the Windy City's art-rock scene. Their playful musical approach is a ripe aesthetic of absurdist humor."
– Pitchfork
There are bands with pretty melodies, bands that rock, bands that dazzle with exalted technique, bands that make you laugh, and bands aiming to perplex even the most intrepid listener. Cheer-Accident is all those things and more, truly a band for the 21st century.
December 13, 2019 - Maus Haus - 2021 S. Throop - Chicago, IL [9:00 pm]
December 14, 2019 - 'unamed venue' - 2330 S. Burrell St. - Milwaukee, WI [9:00 pm]
January 3, 2020 - Schlafly Tap - 2100 Locust St - St. Louis, MO [9:00 pm]
January 4, 2020 - Subteranean [as part of Ian's Party Festival 2020] - 2011 W North Ave - Chicago, IL 60647
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"...has the subtlety of Can, the pomp of Pentagram and Sabbath, faithfully reproducing the looping musical themes of Magma and Goblin..." – Don’t Panic
Chrome Hoof is an evolving organism whose singular approach spans progressive rock, electronic dance music (especially electro), metal, funk, classical music, and more. Like Sun Ra, Magma, Trans-Global Underground and Afro-Celt Sound System, Chrome Hoof is an ever-developing affair, unpredictable yet with a drive and focus that makes their music (like the aforementioned icons) truly memorable. Moreover, Chrome Hoof serve up their sonic gumbo with a truly theatrical flair evoking the spectacles of Devo, Gong, Parliament/Funkadelic, Hawkwind, and Sun Ra, transporting their audiences on a Trip Into the Beyond. The result is a one-of-a-kind, hugely entertaining, nitro-pop, electro-metal, synth-pop, sci-fi, space-disco, psyche-Dalek spectacle!
May 22 -24 - RAW POWER 2020 - The Dome - London, UK
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London's Empirical are expanding jazz's reach with their music (embracing the future while respecting the past) and via innovative means ("pop-up jazz lounges" in Tube stations) to introduce jazz to the mainstream public. Named as the 2020 Nimmo Artists in Residence at the renowned Wiltshire Music Center, Empirical's 2020 calendar will include a new music commission, "pop-up jazz lounge", workshops & concerts with special guests.
December 12 - Bonington Theatre - Nottingham, UK
February 8, 2020 - Wiltshire Music Centre - Ashley Road - Bradford on Avon, BA15 1DZ, UK [ a special one-off concert with previous Nimmo Artist in Residence, Gwilym Simcock, featuring original music from both our and Gwilym’s back catalogues]
March 5, 2020 - Attenborough Arts Centre - Leicester, UK
March 15, 2020 - Wiltshire Music Centre - Ashley Road - Bradford on Avon, BA15 1DZ, UK [we will join the young talents of the Wiltshire Youth Jazz Orchestra (WYJO) for a performance showcasing jazz standards and some of our music adapted for big band]
April 5, 2020 - Kings Place - London, UK [recording a new live album!]
April 15-20, 2020 - Bath Festival - Pop Up Jazz Lounge - Bath UK
May 20, 2020 - Old Theatre Royal - Bath, UK
October 18, 2020 - Colchester Arts Centre - Church St - Colchester, Essex, UK
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The exuberant Swiss jazz/pop/beyond group - named after the American triple-Gold Medal winner at the 1904 Summer Olympics - tours the European festival and club circuit, celebrating their Cuneiform release Tilt.
January 23, 2020 - Tangobrücke - Einbeck, Germany
January 24, 2020 - Jazzstudio - Nürnberg, Germany
January 25, 2020 - Jan Lokerse Jazzklub - Lokeren, Belgium
January 26, 2020 - Jan Roskam - Brussels, Belgium
January 28, 2020 - Jan Hot Club de Gand - Gent, Belgium
January 29, 2020 - Jan Stadtgarten - Köln, Gertmany
January 30, 2020 - Jan Krämer - Meiningen, Germany
February 1, 2020 - WZK - Huttwil, Switzerland
Listen to & buy: Tilt
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Released this year on Cuneiform Records, Escape of the Fire Ants announces the arrival of Swiss band Le Rex as an international force: street smart & road-tested, ferociously grooving & lyrically charged, a new millennium jazz brass band powered by indie rock energy & attitude.
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The fourth release by this large, electric and eclectic French 'jazz and beyond band' and their first on Cuneiform.
December 10 - Les Disquaires - 4-6 rue des Tallianders - 75011 Paris, France
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The band is a 18 piece ensemble of five woodwind players, four trumpeters, three trombonists, two keyboardists, guitar, violin, bass and drums. There are a number of ensembles performing the music of Frank Zappa, who, 20 years after his death, is now recognized as one of the greatest American composers of the 20th century, but no one does it with the ease, skill and originality that Ed and his band do!
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December 9, 2019 - The Iridium - 1650 Broadway - NYC, NY
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The brutal-jazz power trio Schnellertollermeier doesn't screw around. Their uncompromising attitude is even apparent before you hear a note of their music -- it's right there in that deliberate tongue-twister of a name. Their fresh and uncompromising mix of jazz, punk, rock, sound and free improvised music, combined with great musicianship, interplay and a lot of energy, immediately hits the bullseye!
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