Tony Jones Trio // Ayako Kanda Group
Presented in partnership with CONTINUUM ARTS & CULTURE:
FRIDAY, MAY 8
8PM: Tony Jones Trio
TONY JONES tenor sax
JESSICA JONES tenor sax
KEN FILIANO bass
Jessica Jones and her husband, Tony Jones, are perhaps the only avant-garde, tenor-sax playing man-and-wife tandem in jazz. Their 15-year track record revolves around experimental composition, freer forms and collective improvisation. Tony has worked with Joseph Jarman, Muhal Richard Abrams, Cecil Taylor, Idris Ackamoor, and Don Cherry, and Jessica has worked with Joseph Jarman, Cecil Taylor, Steve Coleman, Don Cherry, and Peter Apfelbaum; as well as a variety of Haitian, Caribbean and African bands.
Ken Filiano is a bassist, composer, improviser, and teacher who performs around the world, fusing the rich traditions of the double bass with his own seemingly limitless imagination. A “creative virtuoso” (JazzValley), Ken has performed and recorded with a veritable who's who in multiple genres, from Anthony Braxton to Pablo Ziegler.
9PM: Ayako Kanda Group
AYAKO KANDA voice
ANTHONY COLEMAN piano
ANDREW DRURY drum set
Ayako Kanda is a Tokyo-based vocalist, improviser, and performance artist known for her versatile vocal range, which spans from total improvisation to jazz. She collaborates with artists like Elliott Sharp and Yuma Takeshita. Her work blends vocal improvisation with electronic and acoustic soundscapes.
Anthony Coleman is a composer, improvising keyboardist and teacher who has has toured and recorded with John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Marc Ribot, Shelley Hirsch, Roy Nathanson and many others. Coleman is currently on faculty at Mannes College the New School for Music and the New England Conservatory.
Andrew Drury is a drummer, improviser, composer, and bandleader as well as a presenter, producer, educator. He is a pioneer of extended techniques for percussion, most notably in the use of drums as a wind instruments. Rooted in lifelong fascinations with Nature and African-diasporic creativity and cultivated by a decade-long mentorship with Ed Blackwell, Drury’s work combines a reverence for musical tradition with an openness to the infinite possibility of the moment.
$20 suggested / donations accepted at the door
