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| Andrew Drury Trio at Roulette The Andrew Drury Trio featuring alto saxophonist Briggan Krauss and pianist Myra Melford debuts at Roulette at Location One on Friday, December 3. The concert will premiere new compositions by drummer/composer Andrew Drury (”a sophisticated modern composer”--Ken Waxman, Jazz Weekly) and feature group improvisations. Drury's music interweaves extended and conventional instrumental techniques, and is animated by a drummer's sense of rhythm, phrase, and energy. Several compositions will draw inspiration from work in other artistic media which have personal significance to the composer. These include Yvonne Rainer's dance 'Trio A,' Agnes Warda's film 'The Gleaners and I, Wassily Kandinsky's painting 'Center with Accompaniment,' and films of Grotowski's Theater group viewed at the Grotowski Museum in Wroclaw. A former student of Ed Blackwell, Andrew Drury has made two CDs as a bandleader--A Momentary Lapse (Innova, 2003) and Polish Theater Posters (Red Toucan, 1998). A third--As We Speak (Fever Pitch, 2005)--is coming in January. He currently collaborates with musicians such as Taylor Ho Bynum, Adam Lane, Jessica Lurie, Nate Wooley, and Jack Wright and has worked in the past with Mark Dresser, Wayne Horvitz, David Krakauer, Jenny Scheinman, Chris Speed, Wadada Leo Smith, and others. He has also done street theater in Nicaragua, played and photographed drum solos in deserts, and in 2000 was artist in residence for six months with the Oneida Nation on their reservation in Wisconsin. Celebrated pianist Myra Melford returns to New York from the University of California at Berkeley, where she is now Assistant Professor of Jazz and Improvisation. Melford has made a dozen CDs to high critical acclaim, performed in 30 countries, and won major awards including a Fulbright Scholarship to study in India. She has worked with artists such as Han Bennink, Dave Douglas, Marty Ehrlich, Joseph Jarman, Leroy Jenkins, Butch Morris, and Henry Threadgill and performed on Drury's 2003 CD, A Momentary Lapse. Briggan Krauss was named in the 2002 and 2003 Downbeat Critic's Polls in the 'Alto Saxophone Talent Deserving Wider Recognition' category. Known for his work with Steven Bernstein's Sex Mob, Jim Black, Bill Frisell, Wayne Horvitz, Medeski, Martin, and Wood, and John Zorn, he has worked with Andrew Drury often since the two met in Seattle in the early 1990s. write your comments about the article :: © 2004 Jazz News :: home page |