Tim Daisy – Ken Vandermark Duo – 8/4

***The Tim Daisy - Ken Vandermark Duo will be performing FIRST!*** Get here on time if you don’t want to miss any of their set.

WCSB 89.3 FM presents the Tim Daisy - Ken Vandermark Duo. Show will be $8. Oblique Orchestra and the Drake-Henry-Scheible Trio will open.

Ken Vandermark (saxophones/clarinets) and Tim Daisy (percussion) have been performing, recording, and touring together in a number of critically acclaimed groups since 2001; these ensembles include the Vandermark 5, the Frame Quartet, Sound In Action Trio, Bridge 61, the Resonance Project, an…d Index Orkest.

Performing in the unique format of a reed/drum duo, the they concentrate on investigating free improvisation from the standpoint of rhythmic melodicism; following an international tradition that’s been developed by artists such as Don Cherry/Ed Blackwell, Anthony Braxton/Max Roach, Evan Parker/Paul Lytton, and Peter Brötzmann/Han Bennink.

In this band Tim and Ken draw on a number of musical influences, including many sources outside the Jazz lexicon, for example: percussion music from Africa and South America, New Music ideas of composers like Morton Feldman and John Cage, popular music forms such as Funk and Rock. Together they combine their creative energies to further explore and assemble sound in an open, completely improvised context.

Through regular performances in their home city, the duo developed a special level of communication and invention. The excitement of the group warranted documentation and a desire to bring the music to audiences outside of Chicago.

This Cleveland show marks the 11th stop on a 14 day tour of the United States in support of their new release, “The Conversation” available in early July on Multi Kulti Records. This will be Ken and Tim’s 3rd tour as a duo and will also mark their 3rd release following 2007′s self release “August Music” and 2008′s double LP “Light On The Wall” on Laurence Family Records.