Doors 6:30 PM, Music 7:30 PM – 1 set(s) of music
Line-up:
Jessica Ackerley – Guitar
Rachel Musson – Tenor Saxophone
Eli Wallace – Piano
Mark Sanders – Drums
About
A UK-based saxophonist, improviser and composer UK, Rachel Musson has spent over a decade immersed in improvised music, and is now gradually introducing composed elements into her work, drawing on text, field recordings and processing sounds. Rachel is involved with a variety of improvisation projects, featuring on several releases (577 Records, Babel Label, Two Rivers Records),performing with musicians such as Pat Thomas and Mark Sanders, and a recent improvised collaboration with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Her recent album, Ashes and Dust Earth and Sky, blends compositions, improvisations and field recordings, and her solo performances have evolved to incorporate these sounds in a live setting. Rachel is a current (2024-2027) recipient of the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Composer award.
Jessica Ackerley is a Canadian guitarist, improviser and composer based in Honolulu and New York City and has been described as “one of the most exciting guitarists to have emerged from the US free music scene in recent years” by Wire Magazine. Since 2017, Ackerley has released 19 albums to much critical acclaim with features in Wire Magazine, Pitchfork, BBC Radio, and Bandcamp. They have been commissioned by Adult Swim, Mutual Mentorship, and New Music USA as well as received funding from Canada Council for the Arts and Foundation for Contemporary Arts. As an active performer, Ackerley has toured extensively throughout North America, performing at noteworthy venues like The Met Breuer, Roulette, The Stone, Something Else! Festival, Coastal Jazz Festival, and countless underground venues ranging from the basements of houses to record shops.
Eli Wallace, pianist/improviser/composer, resides in Brooklyn, NY, where he leads his own projects, and collaborates with other like-minded artists. His work as a pianist displays a proclivity to free improvisation, incorporating elaborate piano preparations that John Lewis (The Guardian) says is “…pushing the boundaries of the prepared piano.” His compositions employ notational strategies to broaden how musicians produce sound and the ways in which they interact. Over the past decade, he appeared on dozens of albums and performed at venues such as Roulette, Brooklyn, NY, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, IL, Bemis Center, Omaha, NE, & Cave 12, Geneva, Switzerland.
Mark Sanders is a drummer/percussionist who has had a career taking in many musical styles and genres, this history informs his now mainly free improvisation and free jazz based work. He has played with many renowned improvising musicians, including Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Elliott Sharp and Myra Melford. He is a member of many working groups including those with Nicole Mitchell, John Butcher, Paul Dunmall, John Edwards and also Neil Charles’ “Dark Days” with Cleveland Watkiss and Pat Thomas. Mark has played concerts and festivals around the world, including South Africa, Mozambique, Japan, Australia, Russia, USA, Canada, Turkey and Morocco. Teaching free improvisation, he is Visiting Lecturer at The Royal Academy of Music, was Lecturer at Leeds Conservatoire teaching his own improvisation module for seven years, and has taught individual students at many Universities around the UK. Mark appears on over 200 CD and Vinyl releases