10³²K - Frank Lacy,Kevin Ray and Andrew Drury in Baltimore

[bernardlyons]

CREATIVE DIFFERENCES presents 10³²K

Frank Lacy - trombone
Kevin Ray- double bass
Andrew Drury - drums

Sunday, November 18 @ 8pm
The Windup Space, 12 W. North Avenue, Baltimore, MD
www.thewindupspace.com
www.creativedifferences.us

$15, $10 students with ID

10³²K, a New York based trio featuring trombone legend Frank Lacy, bassist Kevin Ray, and drummer Andrew Drury will make a rare East Coast appearance at the Windup Space on Sunday November 18th at 8:00 pm as part of the Creative Differences concert series.
10³²K’s repertoire is a joyous reflection on the jazz tradition. Rather than focusing upon the more traditional masters this remarkable trio has, in addition to their own compositions, selected a compelling repertoire from some of the less-often played, but powerfully innovative composers and players of modern Jazz. Among these are Sam Rivers, Albert Ayler, Roswell Rudd, Henry Threadgill and Reggie Workman, along with unique takes on Mingus, Strayhorn and Jimi Hendrix. 10³²K offers a delightfully singular and most enjoyable voyage in modern Jazz history, while making a good bit of their own history on the way.

Trombonist Frank Lacy first came to recognition with greats such as Dizzy Gillespie, Abdullah Ibrahim, Henry Threadgill, Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake, Carla Bley and Don Pullen. He was a member of the first Bobby Watson Horizon Band and was also as musical director of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Frank was an integral part of Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy as a singer, arranger and trombonist, and a member of the big bands of McCoy Tyner and David Murray. He is currently one of the longest serving members of the Mingus Big Band.

Andrew Drury is a percussionist, composer, improviser, and educator whose work is animated by a tendency toward exploration and expansion, balanced with a love of tradition, lyricism, humor, theater, and narrative. His formative years were devoted to jazz, centering on studies with Dave Coleman in Seattle and Ed Blackwell at Wesleyan University, and playing experiences with artists ranging from Wadada Leo Smith and Wayne Horvitz to the Basie-era trombonist Dickie Wells and a teenage Brad Mehldau. In addition to “conventional” techniques he employs friction and air pressure in combination with a variety of gears, clamps, construction site detritus, and metal objects to conjure an extreme range of frequency and texture from the drums. He has become one of very few drummers known for circular breathing and bowing a metal dust pan. Drury plays with a wide range of musicians including Jason Kao Hwang, TOTEM>, Iron Dog, Steve Swell, Jack Wright, and others. His four cds as a leader feature Myra Melford, Mark Dresser, Briggan Krauss, and Chris Speed among others. He has performed internationally and on more than 40 recordings with Peter Evans, Charles Gayle, Darius Jones, Denman Maroney, Angelica Sanchez, Jenny Scheinmann and Nate Wooley, to name a few.

While many young musicians were embracing the retrospection of the period, bassist Kevin Ray was hearing the adventurous call of The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Henry Threadgill, The World Saxophone Quartet, Andrew Cyrille and other artists who held innovation higher than preservation. Supporting himself in the early ‘90s with a straight gig managing a division at Forbes Publishing, Kevin continued to study and play, and toward the end of the decade came into contact with one of his spiritual mentors, Andrew Hill. “Andrew gave me the confidence to become truly serious about becoming a musician” Ray explains. He played regularly with the pianist and performed with other outstanding artists like John Hicks, Oliver Lake, Greg Osby, John Stubblefield, Ray Anderson, and The Flux Quartet. He also performed in the premieres of major works by a wide range of composers, including Lee Hyla, Joe McPhee and Leroy Jenkins. Unfortunately, what seemed to be a bout with strep throat in 2000 turned into a decade-long nightmare of mysterious maladies that defied proper diagnoses and sapped the energetic young musician of strength, while crippling him with pain and other physical issues. Following hernia surgery in 2011, Ray found himself on the path to complete recovery and is now at full strength and at peak powers as a player and improviser.

UPCOMING CONCERTS @ THE WINDUP SPACE

DEC 2 - Jason Robinson Ensemble w.Marty Ehrlich,JD Parran,Marcus Rojas,Bill Lowe,Liberty Ellman, Drew Gress,George Schuller, Ches Smith

DEC 8 - Ben Goldberg w. Nels Cline, Ellery Eskelin, Rob Sudduth, Ches Smith

DEC 15 - Frode Gjerstad w.Jon Rune Strøm,Paal Nilssen-Love

Just added..
DEC 20 @ 2640 SPACE
Kinan Azmeh - clarinet,Eric Vloeimans - trumpet, Florian Weber - piano
plus Lafayette Gilchrist - piano solo

[Chuck Nessa]

Outstanding group interaction. Go if possible.