Nov. 10 : Brandon Lopez & Steve Baczkowski in Kingston NY

[clifford_thornton]

 

It gives me great pleasure to announce the second/final show of the Fall season of "So, What Do You Think?" at Tubby's in Kingston, New York on Sunday November 10, 2024:

A night of solos and duos with bassist Brandon Lopez and saxophonist Steve Baczkowski in support of their forthcoming duo CD on Relative Pitch, a follow-up to last year's Matanzas (Lopez Trio feat. Baczkowski and Gerald Cleaver). I first Saw Lopez around 2013, taking things apart and putting them back together with a level of commitment that is infrequent; this was in the days of backroom gigs at the Manhattan Inn in Greenpoint, all much to the bewilderment of trust-fund onlookers. He was clearly someone to keep an eye on and I am glad to have witnessed his deep, unflagging motion ever since. His work as a grab-you-by-your-throat soloist is not without a lot of space and attuned listening; I was reminded of the first time I heard Béb Guerin take a solo on record, masterful, gutsy, and capital-R Romantic but also inventively kicking ass. Baczkowski is someone I have listened to and greatly enjoyed on recordings but not seen much in person so I'm extra pumped for the experience.

 

Time: doors 7 hit at 8

Cost: $20 doors or $15 advance (advance tix help us gauge the evening, so buy early and often if you plan on attending) & remember all funds go to the artists!

 

 

flyer remix by d.norsen

 

-- words boosted from elsewhere below -- 

 

Brandon Lopez and Steve Baczkowski met at the fabled center for improvised and strange music in Buffalo, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts. Quick friends, they decided to test the musical waters of the Brooklyn underground. A year later, they gave a brutal performance at the Exposure Festival in Chicago, wowing listeners and critics in a show of sonic brutality not entirely devoid of tenderness. 

"There are musicians who leverage their instrument’s conventional vocabulary to create works of art, and then there’s Brandon Lopez." -- Dusted Magazine

"undeniably bad assed, precisely executed and lucidly organized" -- The Wire

Improviser/Composer Brandon A. Lopez was born and raised in Northwestern New Jersey and it was there that he cultivated a taste for left-of-center musics and subsequently dug graves. He’s had the pleasure of working with many of the world’s vanguard musicians and artists including jaimie branch, Rob Brown, Gerald Cleaver, Whit Dickey, Michael Foster, Ingrid Laubrock, Cecilia Lopez, Joe McPhee, Mat Maneri, Fred Moten, William Parker, Tom Rainey, Tomeka Reid, Dave Rempis, Matthew Shipp, Nate Wooley, and has toured and played prestigious halls, DIY basements, and festivals all across North America and the European Continent. In addition to numerous ensemble meetings and recordings he frequently plays solo and has released two unaccompanied contrabass CDs on the Astral Spirits and Tao Forms labels. He attended New England Conservatory and has received awards and fellowships through Issue Project Room, the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Trust, NYSCA, and Roulette.

An interview/statement with Brandon can be read here: https://soundamerican.org/issues/thirtieth/brandon-lopez

and another good one is here: https://www.wfae.org/arts-culture/2023-09-22/jazz-bassist-reshaping-the-sound-of-the-instrument 

Steve Baczkowski is an improviser, saxophonist, and multi-wind instrumentalist. Baczkowski began playing alto saxophone at age eight and switched to baritone by the time he was twelve. He studied music in high school at Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts and went on to studies in music, saxophone performance, literature, and ethnomusicology at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1994 to 1999. In 1999, Baczkowski became the music director of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, N.Y, where he has since produced and presented hundreds of concerts of contemporary music as well as numerous community-based artist residencies. His collaborators in addition to Lopez and Gerald Cleaver have included Tony Conrad, Chris Corsano, Paul Flaherty, Dredd Foole, Adam Lane, Bill Nace, Ravi Padmanabha, Rey Scott, and the groups Buffalo Suicide Prevention Unit and Buffalo Jazz Octet.

This will be a fantastic evening and I really look forward to seeing you there. Pass the word to a friend.

Stay well & healthy,

Clifford

Edited October 11 by clifford_thornton
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[Steve Reynolds]

1 hour ago, clifford_thornton said:

 

It gives me great pleasure to announce the second/final show of the Fall season of "So, What Do You Think?" at Tubby's in Kingston, New York on Sunday November 10, 2024:

A night of solos and duos with bassist Brandon Lopez and saxophonist Steve Baczkowski in support of their forthcoming duo CD on Relative Pitch, a follow-up to last year's Matanzas (Lopez Trio feat. Baczkowski and Gerald Cleaver). I first Saw Lopez around 2013, taking things apart and putting them back together with a level of commitment that is infrequent; this was in the days of backroom gigs at the Manhattan Inn in Greenpoint, all much to the bewilderment of trust-fund onlookers. He was clearly someone to keep an eye on and I am glad to have witnessed his deep, unflagging motion ever since. His work as a grab-you-by-your-throat soloist is not without a lot of space and attuned listening; I was reminded of the first time I heard Béb Guerin take a solo on record, masterful, gutsy, and capital-R Romantic but also inventively kicking ass. Baczkowski is someone I have listened to and greatly enjoyed on recordings but not seen much in person so I'm extra pumped for the experience.

 

Time: doors 7 hit at 8

Cost: $20 doors or $15 advance (advance tix help us gauge the evening, so buy early and often if you plan on attending) & remember all funds go to the artists!

 

 

flyer remix by d.norsen

 

-- words boosted from elsewhere below -- 

 

Brandon Lopez and Steve Baczkowski met at the fabled center for improvised and strange music in Buffalo, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts. Quick friends, they decided to test the musical waters of the Brooklyn underground. A year later, they gave a brutal performance at the Exposure Festival in Chicago, wowing listeners and critics in a show of sonic brutality not entirely devoid of tenderness. 

"There are musicians who leverage their instrument’s conventional vocabulary to create works of art, and then there’s Brandon Lopez." -- Dusted Magazine

"undeniably bad assed, precisely executed and lucidly organized" -- The Wire

Improviser/Composer Brandon A. Lopez was born and raised in Northwestern New Jersey and it was there that he cultivated a taste for left-of-center musics and subsequently dug graves. He’s had the pleasure of working with many of the world’s vanguard musicians and artists including jaimie branch, Rob Brown, Gerald Cleaver, Whit Dickey, Michael Foster, Ingrid Laubrock, Cecilia Lopez, Joe McPhee, Mat Maneri, Fred Moten, William Parker, Tom Rainey, Tomeka Reid, Dave Rempis, Matthew Shipp, Nate Wooley, and has toured and played prestigious halls, DIY basements, and festivals all across North America and the European Continent. In addition to numerous ensemble meetings and recordings he frequently plays solo and has released two unaccompanied contrabass CDs on the Astral Spirits and Tao Forms labels. He attended New England Conservatory and has received awards and fellowships through Issue Project Room, the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Trust, NYSCA, and Roulette.

An interview/statement with Brandon can be read here: https://soundamerican.org/issues/thirtieth/brandon-lopez

and another good one is here: https://www.wfae.org/arts-culture/2023-09-22/jazz-bassist-reshaping-the-sound-of-the-instrument 

Steve Baczkowski is an improviser, saxophonist, and multi-wind instrumentalist. Baczkowski began playing alto saxophone at age eight and switched to baritone by the time he was twelve. He studied music in high school at Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts and went on to studies in music, saxophone performance, literature, and ethnomusicology at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1994 to 1999. In 1999, Baczkowski became the music director of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, N.Y, where he has since produced and presented hundreds of concerts of contemporary music as well as numerous community-based artist residencies. His collaborators in addition to Lopez and Gerald Cleaver have included Tony Conrad, Chris Corsano, Paul Flaherty, Dredd Foole, Adam Lane, Bill Nace, Ravi Padmanabha, Rey Scott, and the groups Buffalo Suicide Prevention Unit and Buffalo Jazz Octet.

This will be a fantastic evening and I really look forward to seeing you there. Pass the word to a friend.

Stay well & healthy,

Clifford

I’ll be there. Not to be missed.

[clifford_thornton]

Thank you Steve! For once, the poster jpeg came through correctly.

[clifford_thornton]

Just a reminder for the upstate and nearby crew that this is happening on Sunday!

Doors 7/music 8ish

[cliffpeterson]

Have a ticket. Intend to be there

[T.D.]

Thank Clifford, I'd forgotten.

Do you think there'll be tickets available at the door?
I don't have a smartphone and the Tubby's website (as does the Local in Saugerties) uses software that requires a mobile to purchase tickets.