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| John Tchicai Trio at The Cornelia Street Cafe John Tchicai Trio (John Tchicai, tenor sax, bass clarinet and voice - Charlie Kohlhase, alto, tenor and baritone saxes - Garrison Fewell, guitar, assorted musical objects and percussion) will play April 16, 2006 at the Cornelia Street Cafe, New York City The Trio will perform compositions from their new Double CD release on Boxholder Records titled, Good Night Songs. Especially for this occasion in honor of the Easter Holiday, and for all fans of improvised music, the Trio will perform an original version of the Easter Island Suite consisting of composed and improvised music reflecting a positive harmony between the spiritual and material realms. The John Tchicai Trio with Charlie Kohlhase and Garrison Fewell brings together three veteran composer/improvisers, each with decades of experience and a legacy of high-quality creative music. Originally founded for a November 2003 New England tour, which was recorded live by Eremite Records founder Michael Ehlers, this drummer-less collective performs original compositions from all three musicians, as well as music that features spontaneous collective improvisation. Tchicai, the eldest by nearly 20 years, is the lynchpin of the trio, and it is his history of collaborations with both musicians that makes this group such a cohesive unit. Best known for his pioneering 1960's free jazz collaborations with musicians including Albert Ayler and John Coltrane, as well as his founding membership in the New York Art Quartet and his own ensembles, Afro-Danish reed player John Tchicai previously worked with seminal Boston saxophonist Charlie Kohlhase on recordings such as the Grammy-nominated Either/Orchestra's Across the Omniverse (Accurate, 1996) and the Tchicai/Kohlhase Quintet's Boston Music Award-winning Life Overflowing (Nada, 1999). The latter prompted to the All Music Guide to call the pair “two of the most lyrical saxophonists the avant-garde ever spawned.” Boston-based guitarist Garrison Fewell has also led a quintet with Tchicai, as heard on 2005's Big Chief Dreaming (Soul Note), and toured with him as a duo, often including special guests, on the East Coast and around Europe over the last three years. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |