Sunday January 8 * 7pm * TICKETS

Set One: Jim Ryan’s B’more/DC 4tet:  Jim Ryan flute, sax, words, keys, Charlie Reichert-Powel guitar, Steve Arnold ebass, Darian Baiza drums.  Charlie comes from Chicago, lives in Baltimore and is studying at the Peabody Institute. Darian arrived in the DC/Baltimore area from a small town in west Texas about 18 months ago, lives in Baltimore, and has been playing and jamming throughout the area. This set is the band’s debut performance. See blurb below for info on Jim Ryan & Steve Arnold.

Set Two: DC Current 4tet: Jim Ryan tenor, flute, song/spoken word, Kirsten Lies-Warfield trombone, Steve Arnold contrabass, Alan Kirschenbaum drums. This Washington D.C. area band plays free-style jazz and cosmic sounds in various configurations of local and visiting musicians with focus on acute attention to listening and intense but articulate expression of original ideas. Jim Ryan is a bandleader and multi-instrumentalist, presently concentrating on keyboards, saxophone and the promotion of DC Current his most recent musical project. The first woman to play Trombone in the U.S. Army Band, Kirsten Warfield, has moved on after 20 years of service, to live as a full-time artist, seeking & exploring all the creative avenues she can discover. Steve Arnold, bass, graduated from George Washington University a few years ago in music and English. He has become a go-to jazz bassist in the DC area. For several years Alan Kirschenbaum occupied the drum throne of the house band for the Sunday jam sessions at the Brixton Pub on U Street in D.C.