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Human Feel / The Westerlies (opening) **TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR**
Seattle Art Museum, Plestcheef Auditorium
Seattle, WA
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Human Feel / The Westerlies (opening) **TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR**
This collective, after its start in Boston, in the 1990s became a quintessential representative of new directions in New York area jazz. Andrew D'Angelo (alto sax, bass clarinet), Chris Speed (tenor sax, clarinet), Kurt Rosenwinkel (guitar), and Jim Black (drums) played sparkling, angled jazz with jazz-rock energy, improvisers' intuition, and contemporary chamber music chops.

It has always commanded the attention and affection of Seattle jazz fans because Black, D'Angelo, and Speed all ventured East from Seattle. They are certainly among our city's finest musical exports. During the last 20 years, they and the band's fourth stellar member, guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, have been present at, if not generative of, some of the major turns in modern jazz sometimes referred to as the "Downtown Jazz Scene," perhaps misleadingly, particularly now that the band is very much ensconced in Brooklyn. The quartet's mid-90s recordings, Welcome to Malpesta in 1994 and Speak to It in 1996, gained attention and wrought influence at the same time as the members of the quartet all branched out into other highly considered outfits. Speed and Black began long tenures with Tim Berne's Bloodcount and two of Dave Douglas's numerous. They performed together in Pachora, Speed's yeah NO quartet, and Black's AlasNoAxis quartet. Black played with Ellery Eskelin's trio and with Laurie Anderson, while D'Angelo joined Matt Wilson's quartet and Rosenwinkel landed an enviable contract with Verve. Still, as Human Feel they remained a touchstone of small-group collaboration, and their approaches influenced rising jazz experimenters the world over.

In its latest orbit, says Black, the band is intent on "balancing lyricism, aggression, order, and chaos, discipline and anarchy." A new album, Human Feel's sixth, is expected soon from Skirl Records.

Having taken New York by storm, former Seattle residents Riley Mulherkar, Zubin Hensler (trumpets), Willem de Koch and Andy Clausen (trombones) return as the new-music brass quartet the Westerlies. And Horvitz's all-star improvising conduction ensemble charms at their home venue.

The Westerlies emphasize original composition and improvisation in conventional chamber music, aiming to create in the ever-narrowing gap between contemporary classical composition, jazz-influenced improvisation and North American folk music. The Westerlies seek to present chamber music as an organic and dynamic means of artistic expression in the twenty-first century.

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Seattle Art Museum, Plestcheef Auditorium (View)
1300 First Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101
United States

Categories

Music > Experimental
Music > Jazz

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Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

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