ESP LIVE @ The Bowery Poetry Club April 20th

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What: ESP LIVE

Where: The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery NY, NY 10012 (F train to 2nd Ave or 6 train to Bleecker)

When: Tuesday April 20th

Tickets: $10 at the door

10pm

Matana Roberts’ GRACE

Liberty Ellman – guitar

Tomas Fujiwara – drums

Matana Roberts – alto saxophone, compositions

11pm

Spärks

Peter Evans – trumpet, piccolo trumpet

Tom Blancarte – double-bass

What others say:

Matana Roberts

“a lyrical spiritual essence that recalls the voices of reed players Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Eric Dolphy, and others—one of profound soulfulness, passion and purity. Yet the embodiment of Roberts is devoid of mimicry or pretense, because she possesses her own identity…” - All About Jazz

Liberty Ellman

“Talk about a talent deserving wider recognition.” - All About Jazz.com

“I really liked it. I need to check this guy out! 5 stars.” - Bill Frisell, Blindfold test (Downbeat)

Tomas Fujiwara

“a quiet energy that propels” - All About Jazz.com

“alert drumming that has propelled some excellent ensembles on the new-music landscape” – New York Times

Peter Evans

“Peter Evans is something of a trumpet wunderkind…He seems to have internalized the various languages of the trumpet’s last half century – from extended and minimalist improvisation to purer jazz forms – and is able to recall them with an ease that saves him from sounding merely referential.” - Kurt Gottschalk

Tom Blancarte

“From the very first moments of the opening “Xangu” you’ll be tempted to delete the adjective “discreet” from this duo’s intercommunicative dictionary. The vicious manner in which Evans and Blancarte hurl hooks at each other, reciprocally clinching in a timbral slugfest of epic proportions, is enough to leave you with bruised ears, if not knocked out cold.” – Massimo Ricci