Friday night was a hour avantjazz marathon beginning with a vibrant and very exciting group featuring Steve Swell on Trombone and Barry Altscul on drums. Altschul and Swell worked well together driving the band from both ends creating a fantastic mix of structured composition and free improvisation.
The next set featured Sonny Simmons and Bobby Few locking in to each other's style of playing from Few's impressionist flowing passages to Simmons' staccato interjections.
Connie Crother's solo performance was a interesting contrast in it's more classical approach, omitting any jazz language except for the odd boogie / blues lick surprising the listener.
The closing sets cam from Henry Grimes with Sabir Mateen, Rasul Siddick and John Betch which was fierce and abstract with additional vocals from Mateen and Siddick.
Vijay Iyer perfomed the last set of the evening with the Wadada Leo Smith Quartet.
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