Sunday June 12 * 7pm *MASKS, VAX REQUIRED * TICKETS
(This show was originally going to be at Roda Movements, but has now been moved to Rhizome.)
Transparent Productions presents:
Bassist / composer Michael Bisio has been called a poet, a wonder and one of the most virtuosic and imaginative performers on the double bass.
Nat Chinen writes in The New York Times:" The physicality of Mr. Bisio's bass playing puts him in touch with numerous predecessors in the Avant Garde, but his expressive touch is distinctive."
He has over a one hundred thirty recordings in his discography, more than two dozen as leader or co-leader as well as a dozen more documenting his extraordinary association with piano icon Matthew Shipp.
Jazz Times describes Michael as a performer who resonates with intelligence, emotional depth and probing virtuosity." Signal to Noise writes, " Bisio is one of the few musicians who has managed to meld this high concept of physicality with the soulful charge of jazz. His fiddle-high, scraped overtones create a tangled choir that is impossible to resist; his expressiveness with the bow is unmatched."
Released January 1,2022, Inimitable (Mung Music) is his second solo recording:
“It is one of the best ways to hear this remarkable bassist’s artistry.”
The New York City Jazz Record
"Bisio's playing exemplifies the physical and sensory aspects of the bass; it infiltrates the listener beyond the ears. The artist is a working musician who digs down deep to create an air of generous harmonics and a profoundly earthy timbre that compares to Charlie Haden's freest playing. What we have heard from Bisio in recent years is the emergence of a powerful composer and leader.” All About Jazz
Michael has been recognized with ten project grants from various arts organizations, plus the prestigious Artist Trust Fellowship. In 2017 he was invited to be Master Artist in Residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts and is instructor of bass at Bennington College (2009 - present).
Michael has been a member of the Matthew Shipp Trio since 2009 performing throughout the Americas and Europe: Carnegie Hall, Newport Jazz Festival, Buenos Aries Jazz Festival, Am I Jazz ? Festival, Kiev, MoMA, The Vision Festival, NYC and Festival Sons D’hiver, Paris.
This performance is made possible with the support of Jazz Road, a national initiative of South Arts, which is funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.