︎

Josh Berman

Josh Berman


Albums
Video
Images
Schedule
Press
Contact




Josh Berman is a cornetist, improviser, composer, and music presenter. An essential contributor to Chicago’s active free jazz and improvised music scene, his work encompasses performing in a variety of highly collaborative formats, while also creating performance opportunities for musicians, having produced hundreds of shows in Chicago over the past 25 years. He has participated in over 40 recordings, with his own projects, Old Idea, Josh Berman and his Gang, and Josh Berman Trio receiving critical acclaim in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, DownBeat and many other publications. His recordings can be found on Chicago’s legendary Delmark Records, Austin’s Astral Spirits Records and most recently on Corbett Vs Dempsey.

OPTION: Ollie Bryce duos with Jason Stein & Josh Berman

Tuesday | 10 October 2017
Experimental Sound Studio - 7:30pm


Doors at 7:00. Music at 7:30.

Double bassist Ollie Bryce joins two of Chicago’s finest in improvised duos

with Jason Stein (bass clarinet) and with Josh Berman (cornet)

Ollie Bryce is an improviser, double bassist and composer.  He leads the Ollie Bryce Quintet and an improvising trio featuring Tobias Delius and Mark Sanders, and has also worked with the likes of Paul Dunmall, Ingrid Laubrock, Tony Malaby and Evan Parker.

“[He] plays bass as if he’s jumped onto a bear’s back to throttle it but then tries to Greco-Roman wrestle it to the ground. It is mesmerizing because there is no way to predict who will win. His pizzicato pounds like a battering ram knocking down doors, or taps like a hammer on notes like nails. His bowing bounces and stutters, then soars and dives to rip open space” – Rick Joines, Free Jazz Blo