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| Ninth Annual Empty Bottle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music Since January 1996, reedist KEN VANDERMARK and writer/musician/producer JOHN CORBETT have brought established stars of the vanguard and emerging artists from all over the world to the Empty Bottle for an extraordinary gathering of Jazz and Improvised music. In its Ninth year, this four-day event(June 15th - June 18th) is no exception, featuring performances by SAM RIVERS, PETER BROTZMANN,ED WILKERSON JR., KEN VANDERMARK, PAUL RUTHERFORD, NASHEET WAITS and ROBERT BARRY,THE REMPIS PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE,TATSU AOKI, FRED LONBERG-HOLM Trio and others. This annual festival stems from the Empty Bottle “Wednesday Night Jazz Series,” concerts that continue to bring improvisers from Chicago, elsewhere in North America, Europe, Japan and the rest of the world to Windy City audiences on a weekly basis. Though the series maintains a jazz core, it is open to many forms of creative music, including total improvisation, free jazz, experimental composition, swing-based post-bop, tone-color improvisation, texturalist minimalism, and out-rock write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Jazz News :: home page |