Thursday September 15 * 7pm * MASKS, VAX REQUIRED * TICKETS
Join us for an evening of solo and group improvisations from four great reed players and multi-instrumentalists: Crowmeat Bob, Brad Linde, Mark Cisneros, and Sarah Hughes.
Crowmeat Bob has been playing reeds and guitar in North Carolina for more than 20 years. He’s performed in hundreds of improvised collaborations, worked as a hired gun with many well-known and lesser known acts (such as Syl Johnson), led, co-led, or contributed compositions to many other ensembles (Savage Knights, D-Town Brass), and recently released his first LP as a leader with a large string ensemble and heavy metal band, Judge Schreber’s Avian Choir (“Bleed”).
Notable improvised collaborations include Peter Kowald, Tatsuya Nakatani, Chris Cutler, Thurston Moore, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thollem McDonas, Quintron, Frank Gratkowski, Tashi Dorji, Jeb Bishop, Luke Stewart, Eugene Chadbourne, and many others.
Hailed as "the capital city's contemporary cool king" (Giovanni Russonello, Capitalbop), Brad Linde is a saxophonist, educator, bandleader, and impresario in the Washington DC metro area. He is the director of Jazz and Creative Music at Georgetown Day School and founder of the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra.
Raised in NC, he studied music at Elon University (BA) and attended UNC Chapel Hill before graduating from the University of Maryland, College Park with a MM. He learned the bebop language from Barry Harris and engaged in the Tristano School concepts with pianist Ed Paolantonio before studying privately with Lee Konitz and working with Ted Brown.
He has performed or recorded with Lee Konitz, Oliver Lake, Greg Ward, Richie Cole, Steve Wilson, Caroline Davis, Ted Brown, Joel Frahm, Jon Irabagon, Keefe Jackson, Gary Smulyan, Frank Basile, John Mosca, Slide Hampton, Grachan Moncur III, Ryan Keberle, Eddie Bert, Wadada Leo Smith, and many others.
Sarah Marie Hughes is a performing and visual artist currently living in Washington, DC. She has 26 years of experience playing the alto saxophone and also doubles on the soprano saxophone, flute, and clarinet. She received training in classical saxophone performance from Dale Underwood at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in music education in 2008. In 2015, Hughes earned a master’s degree in jazz saxophone performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where she studied with Jerry Bergonzi, Ran Blake, Anthony Coleman, and Donny McCaslin.
Hughes’ music is intuitive and genre-liberated while displaying an unquestionable command of her instrument and musical vocabulary. Her improvisations and compositions are infused with knowledge of both traditional and contemporary approaches and combine a love for “The Greats” with a drive to innovate.
Multi-Instrumentalist Mark Cisneros has played with Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds, Des Demonas, Make-Up, WE WERE HERE BEFORE, Hammered Hulls, the Low Ways Trio and Quartet, and many others.