Peter Brötzmann & Jason Adasiewicz & John Edwards & Steve Noble

Tickets
Address Aleja Armii Ludowej 14, Warszawa
Doors 19:00
Tags Jazz, Experimental, Free jazz, Free improv
Entry 79–89 PLN
Venue's website www.pardontotu.pl

The flagship quartet of free jazz legend Peter Brötzmann with two shows at Warsaw's Pardon, To Tu.


German jazz saxophonist and clarinetist Peter Brötzmann is one of the most important names of free jazz and improvised music, with a signature style characterised by a fierce, uncouth tone, and a lyrical quality. Brötzmann's high-octane improvisational style—which he himelf has dubbed brötzen—has served to give him the nickname 'the world's loudest saxophonist'. However, he does not abandon traditional jazz structures; motifs play an important role in his music and his improvisations are often based on melody. These characteristics are close to the playing style of Albert Ayler, who can be considered Brötzmann's greatest source of inspiration. Active since the late 1960s, Brötzmann has collaborated with some of the biggest names in improvised music, including Sonny Sharrock, Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor, Keiji Haino, Mats Gustafsson and Ken Vandermark; in the 1980s, he was a member of Bill Laswell's downtown music staple Last Exit, and before—the Dutch free jazz orchestra Instant Composers Pool. His discography currently comprises over fifty full-length albums as a bandleader alone—and dozens more as sideman.

Brötzmann's quartet certainly rises to the occasion. Vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz followed a frequent path for Chicago musicians, starting his career in the city's extremely vibrant indie rock scene, only to fall into its—also extremely colourful—free jazz and improv scene in the early 2000s. He worked with its key players—Rob Mazurek, Ken Vandermark or Hamid Drake—and many musicians from outside Chicago, including Bill Dixon and Brötzmann, as of recent years his most frequent collaborator. As a vibraphonist, Adasiewicz takes the instrument to dynamic extremes, exploring the limits of its timbral possibilities with powerful blows and extended techniques. John Edwards is a British virtuoso bassist whose staggering range of techniques and boundless musical imagination have redefined the possibility of the double bass and dramatically expanded its role, whether playing solo or with others. Perpetually in demand, he has played with Evan Parker, Sunny Murray, Derek Bailey, Joe McPhee, Lol Coxhill, Mulatu Astatke and many others. Last but not least—Steve Noble, who has been working with Brötzmann since the 1980s, displaying his dynamic and complex playing style.

Performing artists

Germany
Jazz, Experimental, Free jazz, Free improv
USA
Jazz, Experimental, Free jazz, Free improv
United Kingdom
Jazz, Free jazz, Free improv
United Kingdom
Jazz, Free jazz, Free improv

Videos

Peter Brötzmann  Nipples  0 5 17:55 16 ×
Peter Brötzmann  Tell a Green Man  0 5 15:34 6 ×
Jason Adasiewicz  Rose Garden  0 5 6:35 0 ×
Jason Adasiewicz  (live)  0 5 39:58 0 ×

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