PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT, ALONG WITH THE ADDITION OF THE PREVIOUS EVENING, HAS BECOME A COLLABORATION WITH SUPERCRAWL ON THE BAY
This last in person sliver of a festival day (7th this fall, 10th this year) of our 2021 Something Else! Festival Series at the Bay event also stands out for multiple long distance visitors and their reach as artists. This one is built around veteran improvisers, saxophonist LARRY OCHS & drummer DONALD ROBINSON, on tour from the San Francisco Bay Area, and trumpeter NICOLE RAMPERSAUD visiting us from New Brunswick, joined by pianist MARILY LERNER from Toronto, as BRASS KNUCKLE SANDWICH… two incendiary duets. Toronto trio FISHER / FURLONG / GENNARO bring fire music to the proceedings. Another fine duet closer to home, ESCHATON, acts as the invocation, the welcoming.
Saturday, October 9
WEST — PAVILION STAGE
[12:00 ESCHATON Main Stage]
12:45 FISHER / FURLONG / GENNARO
14:30 MARILYN LERNER & MATT BRUBECK
16:00 OCHS-ROBINSON DUO
18:00 SOMETHING ELSE! SPECIAL
In accordance with provincial legislation, all ticket holders ages 12 and up will be required to show proof of full vaccination against COVID-19, as well as matching government-issued ID.
RESERVE TICKETS VIA EVENTBRITE LINKS BELOW
GENERAL ADMISSION TICKETS (FREE) – Limit 2 Tickets Per Individual
WEST STAGE SEATING AND TABLES — FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED
MAIN STAGE VIP RESERVED SEATING ($19.99 + SC & HST) – Limit 1 Table Per Household, 1 Household Per Table
OCHS-ROBINSON DUO
LARRY OCHS saxophones
DON ROBINSON drums
Both San Francisco Bay Area residents, on a tour of the Eat Coast, OCHS & ROBINSON first performed together from 1991 to 1998 in The Glenn Spearman Double Trio. From 1994 to 2002, they worked with bassist Lisle Ellis in the trio What We Live, a band that recorded many CDs and added incredible guests for special concerts / recordings including Dave Douglas, Wadada Leo Smith, Nels Cline, Miya Masaoka, Saadet Türköz and Chris Brown, among others.
From 2000 until 2010 Robinson was part of the Larry Ochs Sax & Drumming Core featuring drummer Scott Amendola, as well as the additions of Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura from 2007 - 2010. Throughout all this time, Ochs and Robinson jammed and rehearsed in Robinson’s studio, easily done as they live only 15 minutes apart. Thus it seems inevitable that they would – eventually - create a special repertoire for this duo.
"...a sometimes stark, brilliantly focused program. While the saxophone-and-drums format may suggest a certain excess, Ochs and Robinson invert the expectation, creating profoundly elegiac music with an economy that only magnifies its power. Recorded in 2018/19, it might suggest a Trump-era Jeremiad; heard in 2021, it’s larger than that: wise survivors reassembling, still whole, facing the difficult prospects of renewal."
— Stuart Broomer @ freejazzblog.org June 18, 2021
MARILYN LERNER & MATT BRUBECK
[Sadly, there will be no Brass Knuckle Sandwich performance, as Nicole Rampersaud is unfortunately stuck in NB. Instead, keyboardist MARILYN LERNER will play with cellist MATT BRUBECK at 2:30 PM at Zula / Something Else! / West / Pavilion Stage. They have history both as a duet and as a trio in Ugly Beauties with Nick Fraser.]
Jazz pianist/improviser Marilyn Lerner performs to acclaim internationally, from her native Montreal to Havana, from Jerusalem to Amsterdam and the Ukraine. Her musical career has been marked by a deep exploration of traditional and free jazz, new music tinged improvisation, and Ashkenazic folk music. Lerner performs and records with her two jazz trios, Ugly Beauties with Matt Brubeck and Nick Fraser and Lerner/Filiano/Grassi and accompanies silent films at the Toronto Bell Lightbox Theatre in Toronto. In the New Jewish music scene, she performs with, Frank London, Alicia Svigals and David Wall.
Matt Brubeck is a JUNO award-winning performer/composer specializing in improvisation on the cello. Raised on jazz and classically trained at Yale, Matt is at ease in multiple genres and has taken his cello improvisation skills into diverse musical territories (including Tom Waits, Yo-Yo Ma, PamelaZ, and many others.) In addition to his work with Ugly Beauties, Matt’s ongoing projects include the highly eclectic Stretch Orchestra, and cello/piano duo Brubeck Braid. In his solo work, Matt explores the reach of contemporary cello performance, placing various musical traditions in dialogue with each other to reveal a broad continuum of influences. Matt is on the music faculty at York University and Humber College, where he teaches strings, improvisation, composition, and leads various ensembles. Yes, he is the tallest son of Dave.
mattbrubeck.com
marilynlerner.com
FISHER / FURLONG / GENNARO
COLIN FISHER saxophone, guitar
ANDREW FURLONG double bass
MIKE GENNARO drums
Toronto improvisers saxophonist, guitarist COLIN FISHER & drummer MIKE GENNARO have had a long-running duo project. Adding double bassist ANDREW FURLONG made sense, when they wanted to add players to the mix. They play improvised music in a classic free jazz vein… fire music!
colinfisher.org
ESCHATON
AARON HUTCHINSON trumpet, synthesizer, electronics, percussion CONNOR BENNETT saxophones, bass, vocals
A fearless, soulful noise duo, Hamilton’s finest in sound exploration, made up of improvising multi-instrumentalists… creating thick textural noise with vulnerable horn expressions, narrative soundscapes that breathe, bend and distort. Come, listen to ESCHATON as they offer a transformative future for Canadian music!
This event was made possible with kind support from Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Heritage, City of Hamilton, and Ontario Trillium Foundation. Partnerships include Supercrawl, The Hamilton Spectator, Musicworks, and The Whole Note.
