if ART
Gallery Concert Series presents:
Dave Rempis’ Latice
TUESDAY,
APRIL 25, 2017
8:30 pm
(doors open @ 8:00 pm)
Admission:
$10.00
if ART Gallery
1223 Lincoln St.
Columbia, SC 29201
(803) 238-2351
wroefs@sc.rr.com
Columbia’s
if ART Gallery presents on Wednesday, April 25, 2017, 8:30 p.m., a solo concert
by veteran Chicago saxophonist Dave Rempis. The concert is part of Rempis’ sprawling
solo journey around the United States this spring. During the tour, Rempis
develops repertoire for his first solo release scheduled on Aerophonic Records
this fall.
Admission is $10; concert,
at 8:30; doors open at 8:00.
Rempis has performed in Columbia on many
occasions with a variety of improv jazz ensembles, most recently at if ART in
October 2016 with his trio Gunwale. The saxophonist, improviser and composer has been an integral
part of the thriving Chicago jazz and improvised music scene since 1997. With
a background in ethnomusicology and African studies at Northwestern University,
including a year spent at the University of Ghana, Rempis burst onto the
creative music scene at the age of 22 when he joined the well-known Chicago
jazz outfit The Vandermark Five. This opportunity catapulted him to notoriety
as he began to tour regularly throughout the US and Europe, an active schedule
that he still maintains to the present day.
At the same time, Rempis began to develop the many Chicago-based
groups for which he’s currently known, including The Rempis Percussion Quartet,
The Engines, Ballister, Rempis/Abrams/Ra, Wheelhouse, Triage, The Rempis/Rosaly
Duo, and The Rempis/Daisy Duo. Other collaborations have included
work with Paul Lytton, Axel Dörner, Fred Anderson, Peter Brötzmann, C. Spencer
Yeh, Hamid Drake, Steve Swell, John Tchicai, Roscoe Mitchell, Kevin Drumm, Paal
Nilssen-Love, Nels Cline, and Joe McPhee. Rempis has been named regularly
since 2006 in the annual Downbeat Critics’s Poll as a “rising star” on alto
saxophone and as a “rising star” and “established talent” on baritone
saxophone. In 2013, he started his own record label, Aerophonic Records, to document this ongoing
work.
Rempis' musical expression
draws on a number of touchstones. While heavily improvisational in nature,
his work is informed by his Greek ethnicity, studies in jazz and
ethnomusicology, appreciation for the philosophical underpinnings of contemporary
composition and his love for unforgivingly strident yelps, screeches and
squeals that can encompass the ever-evolving state of human depravity.
