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Josh Berman

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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.

Race Card

Thursday | 27 April 2017
Elastic - 9:00pm


Race Card collides three divergent musical approaches in an improvising format. Josh Berman’s cornet playing combines a profound knowledge of jazz idioms, free improvising expertise, and subtle sound-as-sound techniques. Damon Locks tethers his punk-inflected voice to a bottomless well of electronic processes and musical references from his many years as a DJ, Lou Mallozzi dismantles and reconstitutes vinyl and CD sounds from the human, animal, and vegetable kingdoms through a highly gestural approach to live mixing. For the second set, saxophonist Nick Mazzarella brings in his working quintet, a group that works in a very fluid way somewhere in the space between soul jazz and free jazz.

9 PM : RACE CARD
Josh Berman – cornet
Damon Locks – voice and electronics
Lou Mallozzi – turntables, CDs, mixer

10 PM : NICK MAZZARELLA QUINTET
Nick Mazzarella – alto saxophone
Nate Lepine – tenor saxophone
Tim Stine – guitar
Matt Ulery – bass
Quin Kirchner – drums