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Tim Berne's Snakeoil at Constellation
Courtesy of ECM records | Posted on May 1, 2015
Where
Constellation
3111 N Western Ave
Chicago, IL
Map
(312) 555-5555
When
Sat, May 9, 2015
8:30 pm
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TIM BERNE'S SNAKE OIL
Tim Berne: alto saxophone
Oscar Noriega: clarinet and bass clarinet
Matt Mitchell: piano
Ches Smith: drums, percussion
Tim Berne was recently ranked in the Top 10 of Time Out New York’s “Essential NYC Jazz Icons”, an honour he will likely take with a pinch of salt, but also a reminder of the persistence of his endeavours: “Based on the recorded evidence, it may very well have been Tim Berne who was the definitive genius of NYC’s downtown 1980s jazz scene,” Time Out opined. “In the intervening years, he has remained committed to exploring the small group jazz idiom with a series of gritty, head-turning bands that have helped propel younger players such as Jim Black, Craig Taborn and Ches Smith into alt-jazz stardom”. ...