Tag: Vol. 33 No. 36

On a good week you can catch Fred Lonberg-Holm playing a different kind of music, in a different club, nearly every night. The cellist makes daring stylistic leaps–between Peter Brotzmann’s paint-peeling free jazz and Manishevitz’s quirky indie pop, between Pillow’s hushed textural improv and Guillermo Gregorio’s unpredictable chamber music–as casually as most people walk to […]

A saxophone trio, as the name implies, is usually the reedist’s gig. Sticks and Stones, on the other hand, is a collective enterprise–you’ll notice the band’s not called “the Matana Roberts Trio.” Reedist Roberts, drummer Chad Taylor, and bassist Josh Abrams (all current or former Chicagoans–Roberts and Taylor have moved to New York) each bring […]