if ART
Gallery Concert Series presents:
Ken Vandermark / Nate Wooley
Duo
THURSDAY, May
11, 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 Thursday, May 11, 2017, 8:30 p.m., a concert by saxophone and
clarinet player Ken Vandermark and trumpet player Nate Wooley. The concert is
part of the duo’s current United States tour. Admission is $10; concert, at
8:30; doors open at 8:00.
A winner of a 1999
McArthur Genius Grant at the age of 35, Vandermark has been among the world’s
most celebrated free- and improv jazz composers, saxophonists and clarinet
players for decades. He and his Vandermark 5 ensemble are among the most
prominent representatives of the Chicago jazz scene. Vandermark has played in
Columbia several times, including a memorable 2009 concert at 701 Center for
Contemporary Art with the Dutch Ab Baars Trio.
Wooley
was called by Downbeat magazine “one of the most interesting and unusual
trumpet players living today, and that is without hyperbole.” He’s one of the
most sough-after trumpet players of the Brooklyn, NY, jazz and new music scene
and has played with legends such as John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, Eliane Radique
and Fred Frith.
Vandermark
and Wooley have been operating in each other's orbits for several years, having
worked together with Paul Lytton, Joe Morris, Agusti Fernandez and Terrie Ex
before putting together their duo project. In 2013 they toured the
United
States for the first time. With this unique ensemble, they deal directly with
each other's iconoclastic compositional and improvisational vocabularies and have created a book of original material that takes inspirational
cues from the under-appreciated work of John Carter and Bobby Bradford; two of those
musicians’ compositions are part of the group's repertoire. Vandermark and
Wooley have worked together to create an
organic
combination of the jazz tradition, free improvisation and modern composition
and have then placed it into the raw and intimate context of this duo. In 2014,
Vandermark and Wooley released their record East By Northwest.
