LA + NM = Experimental Jazz
Cornetist and composer Dan Clucas joins four of New Mexico’s finest improvising musicians for an evening of jazz and experimental music at the Complex on Saturday, November 28 beginning at 8:00pm. Clucas lives and works in Los Angeles, where he has been integrally involved in the new music scene for over 20 years. He has performed and recorded with such luminaries as Nels Cline, Steuart Liebig and Michael Vlatkovich, as well as leading his own ensembles. Beginning in 2003, and stemming from his association with tuba player Mark Weaver, Clucas began to cultivate a relationship with New Mexico and its musicians. This concert will be his first outing as a leader in Santa Fe.
DATE: Saturday, November 28, 2009, 8:00 pm
COST: $5Contact Philip Mantione (music@philipmantione.com, 505/466.4832) for more information
Rounding out the quintet are four of New Mexico’s finest improvising musicians: Tuba player/composer Mark Weaver, leader of groups such as Brassum (in which Clucas plays) and UFO Ensemble, and a longstanding member of A Hawk And A Hacksaw; double bassist and multi-instrumentalist Michael Balistreri, founder of the improvising large ensemble th3 elemental orke5tra, and cofounder of the Rumble Trio (with Weaver); woodwind player/composer/multi-instrumentalist Shawn Woodyard, who taught at the Wind College in Los Angeles alongside such L.A. greats as John Carter, Bobby Bradford and James Newton, and who now leads the New Mexico improvising ensemble “The World We Dream”; and percussionist Al Faaet, founder of the Spiritual Energy Collective, active in the Philadelphia/Trenton area from 1972-84, and after his move to New Mexico in 1984, co-founder of The Drum Is The Voice Of The Trees, a highly successful series of drum and percussion concerts spanning from 1992-2004. All four are mainstays of the New Mexico improvising musicians’ community.
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| Mark Weaver | Michael Balistreri |
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| Al Faeet | Shawn Woodyard |
