JASON KAO HWANG’S
HUMAN RITES TRIO

Jason Kao Hwang violin/viola
Ken Filiano bass
Andrew Drury drum set

Following the performance, Francis Wong, saxophonist and co-founder of Asian Improv Arts, will moderate a discussion/Q&A with the Human Rites Trio.  He will talk about his long-time friendship with Jason Kao Hwang, the evolution of Asian American jazz, and the music of the Human Rites Trio.

$20 suggested donation

Wyldflowr Arts
809 37th St,
Oakland , CA

JASON KAO HWANG’S HUMAN RITES TRIO

Jason Kao Hwang violin/viola
Ken Filiano bass
Andrew Drury drum set

With origins reaching back to the Asian Arts Movement and New York Loft scenes of the 1970s, and work in ensuing decades in Jazz, opera, film, and with artists such as Henry Threadgill, Anthony Braxton, Butch Morris, Wadada Leo Smith, Pauline Oliveros, and Tomeka Reid, Jason Kao Hwang has constructed a uniquely multi-faceted legacy in American music. For this rare trip to Seattle the award-winning violinist explores improvised and intricately composed sonic landscapes with his stellar Human Rites Trio.

  …this is heavy, profound music. - Philip Freeman, Downbeat Magazine

This program is presented by Continuum Culture & Arts as part of the Wayward Music Series.

Katie Bull
cd release performance

The Katie Bull Group Project (KBGP)

Katie Bull, vocalist/composer/bandleader
Mara Rosenbloom, piano
Joe Fonda, bass
Jeff Lederer, saxophone
George Schuller, drums

Suggested Donation: $20
Students/Seniors: $10
Sliding Scale. No one turned away, pay what you can. 

The Loove Annex
238 North 12th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Adventurous and deeply entrained jazz ensemble with two decades together, offering a wild sonic trek “off trail” in Bull’s original compositions and genre-bending reinterpretations of classic standards. Threads of bop & swing, blues, groove, and, out-edged improvisation.

“...a career that can only be described as singular... think of vocalist Katie Bull as a jazz prism, refracting musical light in endlessly unpredictably ways.”

–Christopher Louden, JazzTimes

Charlie Kohlhase's North/ East Reunion
with Warren SmitH

Charlie Kohlhase, alto, tenor & baritone saxophones
Seth Meicht, tenor & soprano saxophone
Bill Lowe, bass trombone
Joe Fonda, bass
Warren Smith, drums

Suggested Donation: $20

Alto and baritone saxophonist Charlie Kohlhase (b. 11/28/56, Portsmouth, NH) has been a part of Boston’s jazz scene for more than forty years. After private studies with Stan Strickland and Roswell Rudd, Kohlhase moved to Boston from his native New Hampshire in 1980. In 1989 he formed the Charlie Kohlhase Quintet, a band that worked around Boston and toured nationally for a dozen years. Kohlhase has recently been leading two ensembles: the Explorer’s Club, an octet with two reeds, trumpet, trombone, tuba, guitar, bass and drums and the Saxophone Support Group, a woodwind octet that plays saxophone-oriented compositions by Julius Hemphill, Steve Lacy, John Tchicai and Kohlhase. 2025 saw the release of the Explorers Club LP “A Second Life” on the Mandorla Music label. Kohlhase also co-led groups with the late, great Danish/ Congolese saxophonist John Tchicai for New England tours in 1993, 1997, 1998, 2003 and 2006. Charlie was a member of Boston’s Either/ Orchestra from 1987 to 2001, playing throughout North America, Europe and Russia. Recent sideman activities have included work with the Makanda Project, a large ensemble dedicated to performing unrecorded compositions by the late woodwind player/ composer Makanda Ken McIntyre, bassist Kit Demos’ Flame-Tet and trumpeter Daniel Rosenthal’s Quintet. Charlie, along with Dave Douglas and Roswell Rudd, was an artist-in-residence at Harvard for Spring 2003. In May 2003 Kohlhase recorded with Anthony Braxton’s Genome Project and in June worked with violinist/ composer Leroy Jenkins at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art. Charlie rejoined the Either/ Orchestra in 2008 and has worked with them along with Ethio-Jazz greats Mahmoud Ahmed, Mulatu Astatke, Alemayhu Eschete and Teshome Mitiku in venues ranging from Chicago to London, Toronto to Germany and Holland to Ethiopia.

Charlie has also been active in jazz radio for many years, most recently hosting “Research & Development” Monday afternoons from 2 to 4 PM on WMBR-FM in Cambridge. He directs the No Boundaries Big Band and the JCM Art Ensemble at the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge.

The Hemphill StringteT

CURTIS STEWART, violin
SAM BARDFELD, violin
STEPHANIE GRIFFIN, viola
TOMEKA REID, cello

Suggested Donation: $20

The Loove Annex
238 North 12th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

JASON KAO HWANG’S
HUMAN RITES TRIO

Jason Kao Hwang violin, viola, compositions
Ken Filiano bass
Andrew Drury drum set

 With origins reaching back to the Asian Arts Movement and New York Loft scenes of the 1970s, and work in ensuing decades in Jazz, opera, film, and with artists such as Henry Threadgill, Anthony Braxton, Butch Morris, Wadada Leo Smith, Pauline Oliveros, Reggie Workman, Tomeka Reid, and many more, Jason Kao Hwang manifests a uniquely multi-faceted legacy in American music in this rare trip to Seattle. Playing together in various formations for over 20 years, Jason Kao Hwang’s Human Rites Trio moves through both freely improvised and intricately composed sonic landscapes with expansive imagination and esp-like communication.

 …this is heavy, profound music. - Philip Freeman, Downbeat Magazine

Jason Kao Hwang is a composer, violinist, and violist whose music draws on his Chinese American heritage and lifelong exploration of sound, language, and improvisation. His recent releases include Soliloquies, Book of Stories, and The Human Rites Trio. A five-time winner of the El Intruso International Critics Poll for Violin/Viola, he was also named a Rising Star by the DownBeat Critics Poll. His chamber opera The Floating Box, A Story in Chinatown was selected as one of Opera News’ Top Ten Opera Recordings of 2005. Hwang has collaborated with artists including Anthony Braxton, Henry Threadgill, Pauline Oliveros, William Parker, and Tomeka Reid.

Andrew Drury is a drummer, composer, improviser, educator, and arts organizer originally from Seattle. He has performed with Jason Kao Hwang and Ken Filiano for more than 20 years, while also leading his own ensembles and co-founding the percussion collective The Forest. A longtime mentee of Ed Blackwell, Drury has performed and recorded with artists including Myra Melford, Wadada Leo Smith, Kris Davis, Ingrid Laubrock, and John Tchicai. All About Jazz has called him “one of the most adventurous drummer/percussionists in creative music today.”

Ken Filiano is a bassist, composer, improviser, and educator known for combining deep bass traditions with a highly personal creative voice. Described by JazzValley as a “creative virtuoso,” he has performed and recorded with artists ranging from Anthony Braxton to Pablo Ziegler. Filiano leads the quartets Quantum Entanglements and Baudolino’s Dilemma, and collaborates regularly with Jason Kao Hwang, Fay Victor, and Taylor Ho Bynum. His recordings include the solo album Subvenire and Quantum Entanglements’ Dreams From a Clown Car.

Open Rehearsal:2:30pm
(the public is invited to watch and ask questions)

Performance:4pm

Suggested Donation: $20

patrick brennan’s
transparency kestra

multidirectional creative music
A social & musical experiment in the possibilities of consensual self organization.

Transparencies
overlay
rhythmelodic patterns
that can be
recombined
in a decentralized way
though
improvisation and conducted signals.

8pm
Leslie Ross bassoon
Stephen Haynes cornet, flugelhorn
Jen Baker trombone

$20 suggested donation

In an all-too rare appearance in NYC, bassoonist Leslie Ross will be joined by trombonist Jen Baker and Stephen Haynes on horn for an evening of trio improvisations. They are excited to jump in whole cloth and loom in this their first time playing together.

RESONANCE engages the synergy of written score and improvisation to simultaneously evoke the past, present, and future — a spiritual resonance that celebrates and heightens awareness of life’s essential feature, change.  Resonance is cinematic and poetic, inspired by jazz, Chinese, and contemporary classical music.

PERFORMER BIOS

Leslie Ross is a bassoonist, instrument maker, composer, performer, sound and sound installation artist who has immersed herself in experimental music and interdisciplinary collaborations since the mid-1980s. She has presented solo acoustic and electro-acoustic programs, exhibited sound installations, worked with choreographers, and played and toured with [wonderful?] musicians throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. Since moving from the Lower East Side in 2014, she has lived and worked out of The Cannery at South Penobscot, an ad hoc community- and artist-space in Downeast Maine.

Jen Baker, trombonist, composer, and author of Hooked on Multiphonics plays in contemporary art settings in music festivals internationally and throughout NYC. As an improviser, she explores the potential of human consciousness to shift energy with sound environments.

Stephen Haynes is an improviser, organizer and recording artist. His practice ranges from small groups to large orchestras with a particular focus on working directly with composers in the development and performance of new music. This aspect of his work is prominently featured on Pillars, Tyshawn Sorey’s groundbreaking work for octet released on Firehouse 12 Records. He is also a founding member of Adam Rudolph’s East Coast version of Go: Organic Orchestra.

Kellen Mills: TRYON

Performers include:
Katie Webster, alto saxophone
Jules Gardner, baritone saxophone
Nick Saia, guitar
Dafna Naphtali, electronics
Jon Elbaz, piano
Kellen Mills, bass
James Nadien, drums

$20 Suggested Donation

TRYON is conceived as a living ensemble—one that brings together New York–based performers and improvisers to realize new and unreleased works composed in Berlin, Germany. At its core, the project seeks to create a dialogue between European experimental composition practices and the deep improvisational traditions of New York, with free improvisation serving as a foundational and unifying element.

It is a large ensemble based on the written compositions of Kellen Mills. It combines complex written form as well as free improvisation and classical avant-garde. The project began , Feburary 2020 and is based in Berlin,DE.

TRYON have released two albums on Double Moon Records. “Läuterung” which was released with a 13 piece ensemble in 2022 comprised of: Ganna Gryniva, Erik Leuthäuser, Omri Abramov, Toms Rudzinskis; and in 2023 “Freaky Squash Baby” which was released as an 18 piece group featuring: Kiki Manders, Mirna Bogdanovic, Erik Leuthäuser, Oli Steidle, Taiko Saito, Rieko Okuda, Philipp Gropper, Jasper Stadhouders, and many more.

The group has performed as both large and small ensemble versions in: Jazzexzess, Jazzam Kaistersteg, VIllingen Jazzclub, Freakshow Artrock Festival, Ponava Jazz Festival, Improdimensija Concert Series, Nordhausen Jazzclub, M//Darbnica, Kaunas Jazz Academy, Donau115, Bflat, Jazzclub Schlot, Terminus Saarbrucken, Saxstall, Kultūras nams Wiktorija, LOFT, and many more.

“Jazz rock and rock sounds and rhythms can at one point morph into jazz avant-garde or emotional and even tender statements. At other moments, the musicians play intellectually and sonically demanding or meet at a certain point on the level of the classic jazz form. There are no rules here. There is a wonderful, seemingly spontaneous game. You just have to listen to this album.” (Jazzfun.de)

Open Rehearsal:2:30pm
(the public is invited to watch and ask questions)

Performance:4pm

Suggested Donation: $20

patrick brennan’s
transparency kestra

multidirectional creative music
A social & musical experiment in the possibilities of consensual self organization.

Transparencies
overlay
rhythmelodic patterns
that can be
recombined
in a decentralized way
though
improvisation and conducted signals.

MP Landis, live painting
Michael Sarin, drums

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Ayako Kanda, voice
Elliott Sharp, electric guitar

Suggested Donation $20

The Loove Annex
238 North 12th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

M P Landis is a visual artist inspired by music and sound artists with whom he often collaborates. He has exhibited widely since 1990, currently working with Cynthia Winnings Gallery (Blue Hill, ME), Farm Projects (Wellfleet, MA), and the international artist collective Pell Lucy. In addition to performing in Paint & Drums, he is in the trio Little Weirdo with Phillip Greenlief and Claudia La Rocco. He currently lives and works in Portland, Maine.

Drummer Michael Sarin has aided and abetted a wide range of musicians in the world of jazz/improvised music, including Ben Allison, Frank Carlberg, Thomas Chapin, Caleb Wheeler Curtis, Dave Douglas, Mark Dresser, Joe Fiedler, Erik Friedlander, David Krakauer, Myra Melford… He has contributed to hundreds of recordings, and performs throughout the world—in major and minor festivals; concert halls famous and infamous, big and small. He lives in New York City.

TONY JONES TRIO

TONY JONES Tenor Saxophone
JESSICA JONES Tenor Saxophone
KEN FILIANO bass

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AYAKO KANDA GROUP

AYAKO KANDA voice
ANTHONY COLEMAN piano
ANDREW DRURY drum set

Suggested Donation: $20

The Loove Annex
238 North 12th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Exploring a vivid spectrum of sound, the duo of Ayako Kanda (voice) and Elliott Sharp (baritone guitar, electronics) pairs Kanda's kaleidoscopic shifts between linguistic and nonverbal expression with Sharp's baritone guitar textures and electronic detail in an improvisational dialogue that moves fluidly between abstraction, color, and visceral intensity.

Tony Jones has been at the epicenter of several innovative creative music groups, and co-founded the Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness Ensembles and the Jessica Jones Quartet. He’s played with Muhal Richard Abrams, Joseph Jarman, Don Cherry and others and is a recipient of the Jerome Artist Fellowship and a Founder and Co-Artistic Director of REVA Inc.

Open Rehearsal:
2:30pm (the public is invited to watch and ask questions)
Performance:4pm

Suggested Donation: $20

patrick brennan’s
transparency kestra

multidirectional creative music
A social & musical experiment in the possibilities of consensual self organization.

Transparencies
overlay
rhythmelodic patterns
that can be
recombined
in a decentralized way
though
improvisation and conducted signals.

transparency kestra

Frank London, trumpet
Patrick Holmes, clarinet
Nick Gianni, bass clarinet, bass flute
Ayumi Ishito, soprano saxophone
Josh Sinton, baritone saxophone
Claire de Brunner, bassoon
On Ka’a Davis, guitar
Rod Williams, piano
Hilliard Greene, contrabass
Lloyd Haber, percussion
Michael T.A. Thompson, percussion
patrick brennan, composition, conducting, saxophone

a conversation on contemporary forms of thought and music with MIXASHAWN & LONE EAGLE

+ soup!

This is event is part of a three night series:

Night 1: Coyote Makes a World (Greenwich House Music School)
Night 2: Mixashawn presents D D UM DA DA (Greenwich House Music School)
Night 3: a conversation with Mixashawn & lone eagle (Soup & Sound)

NIGHT 2
INDIGENOUS SOUNDSCAPES

$25 after April 15 at 6pm /at the door

This is event is part of a three night series:

Night 1: Coyote Makes a World (Greenwich House Music School)
Night 2: Mixashawn presents D D UM DA DA (Greenwich House Music School)
Night 3: a conversation with Mixashawn & lone eagle (Soup & Sound)

NIGHT 1
INDIGENOUS SOUNDSCAPES

$25 after April 15 /at the door

COYOTE MAKES A WORLD is a multimedia performance ritual that interweaves Native American and other musical traditions using percussion, storytelling, song, electronic music, and projected photographic and video imagery. 

Performed by The Forest —a cooperative percussion ensemble consisting of Gustavo Aguilar, Leah Bowden, Andrew Drury, and Michael Wimberly—in collaboration with Native storyteller/musician čnaq’ymi (lone eagle) Coyote Makes a World explores a contemporary world in environmental and political crisis. Lone Eagle’s insightful reworking of his Spokan people’s traditional Coyote stories, music, and concept of ceremony brings a powerful, healing perspective to audience members of all backgrounds.

This is event is part of a three night series:

Night 1: Coyote Makes a World (Greenwich House Music School)
Night 2: Mixashawn presents D D UM DA DA (Greenwich House Music School)
Night 3: a conversation with Mixashawn & lone eagle (Soup & Sound)

Dance Clarinets
directed by JD Parran

perform the music of GERI ALLEN, CARLA BLEY & LEE ODOM

Guest soloist: LEE ODOM

Clarinets: PAUL AUSTERLITZ, IVAN BARENBOIM, ISAIAH RICHARDSON JR., KATIE PORTER, SKYLER HAGNER, MARK KRASZEWSKI, RANDOLPH MURPHY, D. ZISL SLEPOVITCH, DON SLATOFF, FRED ROSENBERG, JAMES ELMORE, PETER HESS, DAVID STOKES, GERALD THOMAS with ALEXIS MARCELO (piano), HILL GREENE (bass), ANDREW DRURY (drum set)

This is free event but reservations are required. 

FIRST SET
James Falzone (solo clarinet & penny whistle)

SECOND SET
James Falzone in combination with...
Guillermo Gregorio (clarinet)
D Zisl Slepovitch (clarinet)
Yuma Uesaka (contrabass clarinet)
Andrew Drury (percussion) 

$20 suggested

Clarinetist, penny whistle player, composer, and improviser James Falzone is an acclaimed member of the international jazz and creative music scenes, a veteran contemporary music lecturer and clinician, and an award-winning composer who has been commissioned by chamber ensembles, dance companies, choirs, and symphony orchestras around the globe. He leads his own ensembles Allos Musica, Elaía Ensemble, Renga Ensemble, and the duo Wayfaring with Chicago bassist/vocalist Katie Ernst, and is a member of the Tapestry Ensemble and many projects connected to composer/pianist Wayne Horvitz. James has released a series of critically acclaimed recordings on Allos Documents, the label he founded in 2000, and appears on numerous recordings as a sideman. James performs throughout North America and Europe, appears regularly on Downbeat  magazine's Critics' and Readers' Polls, and was nominated as the Clarinetist of the Year by the Jazz Journalist Association.

He has been profiled in the New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, New Music Box, and Point of Departure, among many other publications. Educated at Northern Illinois University and New England Conservatory, James is also a respected educator and scholar and has been on the faculty of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Deep Springs College, North Central College, Columbia College Chicago, and was a fellow at The Center for Black Music Research. His scholarship on improvisation has been presented at numerous academic conferences and to diverse audiences including admirals at the US Naval War College and executives at Google’s creative retreats. At present, James is the Associate Dean of Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University. James is a Backun clarinet artist and plays penny whistles made for him by Chris Abell.

Learn more about James Falzone and his work at his website: www.allosmusica.org

The Sara Schoenbeck and Wayne Horvitz duo navigate through original tunes and improvisatory soundscapes. With feet firmly planted in a genre-less zone, electronics and an ever-expanding textural palate serve to deepen the feel of a shared melodic language.

Composer, Pianist and Electronic Musician Wayne Horvitz is the recipient of numerous awards and commissions including the American Prize, the 2016 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award and created works for the Seattle Symphony, and the Vienna Radio Orchestra among others. Notable collaborators include Butch Morris, Bill Frisell, Reggie Watts, Gus Van Sant and Fontella Bass.

The Wire magazine places Sara Schoenbeck in the "tiny club of bassoon pioneers" at work
in contemporary music today and the New York Times has called her "riveting, mixing textural
experiments with a big, confident sound. Known for her work with Henry Threadgill, Anthony Braxton, Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet and Nels Cline among others.

PRESENTED BY the wayward music series + Continuum Culture & Arts

DoYeon Kim (gayageum, percussion, voice)
/Andrew Drury (percussion, voice)

$20 in advance, $25 at the door

Rising star Kim, and acclaimed Seattle-native Drury, conjure spirits from Korean and radical percussion traditions to make a musical performance ranging from catastrophe, chaos, and calm.

The Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Avenue North
4th Floor
Seattle, WA 98103

NYC Premiere!

TAKE ME TO FENDIKA (2024)
directed by Cisco Bradley

Take Me to Fendika a 23-minute documentary film that illuminates the traditional and innovative musical culture of Ethiopia at what has been called “the best venue in Africa”—Fendika—through its founder, world-renowned dancer, Melaku Belay. This film tells the story of how this vital space came into being and how it continues to serve as a place for artists to invent and reinvent Ethiopian modernity and place it in dialogue with global culture.

Post-screening conversation w/ Q & A with Cisco Bradley, director, author of the books: The Williamsburg Avant-Garde (2023), Universal Tonality (2021), and the forthcoming book, I Hear Freedom (2026), among others.

$15

Winner:

• Best Documentary, Africa-USA Film Festival (Cannes)

• Best Documentary, 2nd African Cultural Film Festival (Houston)

• Best International Documentary, 3rd Zepstone International Film & Music Festival (Salt Lake City)

• Best Director of a Documentary Short, London Vision Film Festival (UK)
  

Other Primary Credits:

Setshi Ford, associate director, director of photography
Briana Monet, editor
Lily Iserson, producer
Salem Daniel, co-producer

patrick brennan, alto saxophone
Cooper-Moore, diddley-bo
On Ka’a Davis, guitar
Jason Kao Hwang, electric violin

$20 suggested donation

Kn // kin // concurrent // sound // simultaneity
Current // electricity // flow // the ear catching burst
KnCurrent // combustion between cracks & boundaries

The Transparency Series is a new series with audience participatory open rehearsal and performance.

open rehearsal: 6pm
performance: 8:30pm

$20

The Transparency Series is a new series with audience participatory open rehearsal and performance.

open rehearsal: 6pm
performance: 8:30pm

$20

STEVE DYER QUARTET:
FREEDOM MELODY

“Steve Dyer… is a visionary, a pioneer and a symbol of a new Africa.”
- Vasco Zama Ndebele, Cue magazine 

South African composer and saxophonist Steve Dyer presents his latest project Freedom Melody (co-commissioned by Lincoln Center, NY), alongside the celebration of his new album, Multipolar (Ropeadope, released on Oct 31st, 2025). The performance by the quartet, which includes the Kenyan pianist Aaron Rimbui, puts the spotlight on the rich heritage of South and Southern African vocal and instrumental music within a contemporary setting. 

40 years ago In Gaborone, Botswana, April 1985 a Freedom Melody festival was held. Musicians based in Botswana as well as other parts of Southern Africa and from other locations converged for a memorable weekend of cultural events headlined by Hugh Masekela and Jonas Gwangwa. The repertoire performed included vocal and instrumental music that was symbolic of the liberation struggle. Through this festival the power of music to become a decisive unifying force for change became apparent. 

2 months later on June 14th 1985 the apartheid SADF (South African Defence Force) raided Gaborone killing 12 people. The cultural initiatives over a number of years by the Medu Art Ensemble collective (who had organized the festival) were abruptly terminated as a result. 

In 2025 Steve Dyer releases an album where he reflects on the urgent need for new and/or alternative ways of thinking and acting. The title, Multipolar refers to the global world shift from the falsehood perception of a unipolar power dynamic world to one with many centers of decentralized spheres of influence and power. Parallel lives have always been lived but often unrecognized and/or marginalized. The music on Multipolar reflects different elements of Steve Dyer’s cultural makeup as an Anglo-African. Born into, and influenced and shaped by Africa, this music originates here and casts its creative eyes outward to a global world of accessibility and connection. We all have our stories to tell, and we can all learn from each other’s stories. 

Conceptualized by Steve Dyer, who was part of the original Freedom Melody, the concert promises to be a night of cultural intersection and celebration to remember. 

Biography:

Steve Dyer believes that no single culture owns the monopoly on human wisdom.  Every human life born into whatever culture, ethnicity or spiritual belief system has the same value.

Steve was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa in 1960. His parents listened consistently to music of the Western classical masters. He also remembers maskandi musicians walking the streets as they played their guitars, and the Soul Brothers and “kwela” playing on the radio. He began composing music at the age of 10. An all-rounded conceptual artist, he is a significant figure in South African music scene, contributing to its growth, both domestically and abroad.

He completed a B Mus degree in performance at the University of Natal in 1981, majoring in saxophone and flute. Refusing military conscription into the SADF Steve left South Africa and lived in Botswana for 5 years. Here he came into contact with the exile sounds blowing through the horns of Hugh Masekela and Jonas Gwangwa. He helped form “Shakawe” led by Jonas Gwangwa and played in the band for 3 years. In 1988 after a stint in the U.K. he settled in Zimbabwe where after releasing his debut album Southern Freeway (1989) he formed a group with that same name. “Indlela yenkululeko” was released in 1992. In 1990 he joined the Amandla cultural ensemble of the ANC on a 7 week tour of Japan.

With democracy on the horizon in 1993 Steve returned to South Africa. Steve has released 10 albums under his name, including the critically acclaimed “Genesis of a Different World” released in 2019, and the award-winning “Enhlizweni - song stories from my heartland” (Ropeadope / AfricArise 2024). He conceptualised the Southern African music “supergroup” Mahube that has been an ongoing touring collaboration since 1997. Steve has also composed “Rebirth” - a concerto for soprano saxophone, string quartets, music for saxophone and marimbas and more. Steve also has extensive producing experience including 6 albums for Oliver Mtukudzi (1998-2002) including the seminal Tuku music, as well as directing large and small scale concerts on the African continent and abroad. He continues to work on unique projects that reflect the current times, trace historical elements and tradition within the modernity. His most recent project “Visions of Ubuntu” - Lincoln Center at Damrosh Park, New York in June 2024 - featured an 8-piece band, guest vocalist Motswedi Modiba, and a 50-strong Young People’s Chorus of New York City.

lone eagle/The Forest: Coyote Makes a World

As the central figure within Indigenous storytelling traditions of the Interior Northwest, Coyote navigates the tenuous and tumultuous present in Coyote Makes a World, a collaborative multimedia project between storyteller/vocalist čnaq’ymi (lone eagle) and The Forest, a cooperative percussion ensemble featuring Gustavo Aguilar, Leah Bowden, Andrew Drury, and Michael Wimberly. 

Centered on stories that embody the qualities of long held Native storytelling traditions, here Coyote encounters the contemporary crises of our times, oblivious to the consequences of his actions in ways that are familiar, unsettling, and often humorous. Set within a dynamic rhythmic landscape layered with songs and mesmerizing vocalizations, Coyote Makes a World reflects the world we’ve made while taking the listener to places they’ve never before encountered. 

BURTON / COCHRANE / DRURY
+ JUMP OFF THIS BRIDGE

7PM

JILL BURTON voice
CHRIS COCHRANE guitar
ANDREW DRURY percussion

8PM

JUMP OFF THIS BRIDGE
JUDITH INSELL viola
ELI ASHER trumpet
VIRG DZURINKO piano
+
ANDREW DRURY drum set (guest)

+ SOUP!

6:30 doors open
292 Lefferts Ave. Brooklyn
2/5 train to Sterling St.

$20 suggested donation

NOTAFLOF

JILL BURTON brings her voice and physical form as the two main tools of her trade. Her bio includes training in ballet and classical music at an early age, while having quickly developed an affinity for improvising in performance. Ms. Burton was a witness and participant in the profound cultural and interdisciplinary possibilities of the 1980′s arts renaissance that blossomed out of the then near-apocalyptic urban collapse and wholly non-commercial NYC/Lower East Side scene. She has spent more than fifteen years studying and practicing non-invasive medical modalities including Reiki, Ortho-Bionomy and Sound Healing. Burton’s improvised works manifest most often in wordless vocals, seemingly constructing invisible sonic architecture, both bordering the interior of a venue and transforming those same borders into transducers carrying vibrations. (Matt Gorney)

CHRIS COCHRANE is a songwriter and guitarist who has been playing in New York since the 1980s. Chris has played with Thurston Moore, Zeena Parkins, John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Billy Martin, Eszter Balint, Stew, James Chance, Mike Patton, Henry Kaiser, Andrea Centazzo, Annie Gosfield, Tim Hodgkinson, Miguel Frasconi, Richard Buckner, Davey Williams, Ladonna Smith and Jim Pugliese and many others.  He has composed music for Dennis Cooper, John Jasperse, Neil Greenberg, Nayland Blake, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Jennifer Monson and Circus Amok. He was in the bands No Safety and Curlew, and is currently works in several projects: Collapsible Shoulder with Brian Chase, Kato Hideki and Kevin Bud Jones, Alphawhore with Gordon Beeferman and Kevin Shea, a duo with Stuart Popejoy and periodically plays with the Chris Rael's Church of Betty.

ANDREW DRURY grew up near Seattle and mentored with Ed Blackwell from 1983-92. Drury has pioneered extended wind and friction techniques for drums, performing in 30 countries and on 80 recordings with musicians including Wadada Leo Smith, Myra Melford, Frank Lacy, Tomeka Reid, Annea Lockwood, Jason Kao Hwang, Satoko Fujii, Michel Doneda, and James Brandon Lewis. Drury has led over 1,500 workshops with vulnerable populations in shelters, prisons, Nicaraguan villages, refugee communities, and in 20 universities on three continents. He has produced over 200 Soup & Sound concerts every where from his home to Lincoln Center. He directs the non-profit organization, Continuum Culture & Arts.

call for location 917.301.6680 or 917.828.4951

$20 suggested donation
No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds

7 PM
ENTROPIC HOP
ARON NAMENWIRTH guitar, spoken word
AYUMI ISHITO saxophones
KEVIN SHEA drums

8 PM
WELF DORR GROUP
WELF DORR alto saxophone
LUKE GLAVANOVITS vibraphone
DMITRI ISHENKO bass
YUKO TOGAMI drums

9 PM
AVRAM FEFER GROUP
AVRAM FEFER saxophones
HILLIARD GREENE bass
MICHAEL WIMBERLY drums

The Transparency Series is a new bi-monthly series with audience participatory open rehearsal and performance at the Starr Bar in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

open rehearsal: 6pm
performance: 7:30pm

$20

patrick brennan’s
transparency kestra

multidirectional creative music
A social & musical experiment in the possibilities of consensual self organization.

Transparencies
overlay
rhythmelodic patterns
that can be
recombined
in a decentralized way
though
improvisation and conducted signals.

Powers of Two flute duo

ROBERT DICK & "HEFI" LESZEK WIŚNIOWSKI

*additional guests tba

door opens 6:30 
music starts at 7

BYOB (feel free to bring food or drink to share)

292 Lefferts Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11225

$20 suggested donation