DOUGLAS R.EWART AND INVENTIONS

[Lazaro Vega]

(This came across the desk via CHI IMPROV and is a press release).

DOUGLAS R.EWART AND INVENTIONS

"SO SORRY, LEASE FORGIVE ME!"

HAMID DRAKE, GUEST PERCUSSIONIST (On Friday only)

DEE ALEXANDER, VOICE & PERCUSSION

DUSHUN MOSLEY, DRUMS

EDWARD WILKERSON Jr., WINDS & PERCUSSION MWATA BOWDEN, WINDS & PERCUSSION WALLACE LaROY McMILLAN REEDS & PERCUSSION DARIUS SAVAGE, BASS DOUGLAS R. EWART, WINDS, PERCUSSION & VOICE

10:00 PM Admission $12.00

Friday 17th & Saturday 18th March 2006

Velvet Lounge

2128 1/2 South Indiana Ave.

Chicago IL 60616

312-791-9050

AACM: Power Stronger Than Itself!

Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians

Douglas R. Ewart is current co-chairman of Chicago Chapter of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Mr. Ewart is an internationally renowned composer, musician, visual artist and educator. He has performed with noted musicians: Muhal Richard Abrams, Amina Myers, Dee Alexander, Rita Warford, Beah Richards, Mia Masaoka, George Lewis, Anthony Braxton, Mwata Bowden, David Baker and Cecil Taylor. He builds and plays his own instruments and has exhibited work at the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art and other museums around the world. He teaches in the Twins Cities and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Mr. Ewart can be seen regularly with incarnations of Orchestra Inventions at Fred Anderson's Velvet Lounge, and other venues.