Events . ZOH AMBA & CHRIS CORSANO [NYC] with GLO-TREE, and ELI NAMAY, DREW COLLINS, CALEB GAMBLE trio

ZOH AMBA & CHRIS CORSANO [NYC] with GLO-TREE, and ELI NAMAY, DREW COLLINS, CALEB GAMBLE trio

Thursday October 26th 2023Sprezzatura and tcrps presentan evening of acoustic improvised music
Concert
Sprezzatura 616 North Highland Ave Pittsburgh
All Ages $15

Thursday October 26th 2023

Sprezzatura and tcrps present

an evening of acoustic improvised music

featuring

ZOH AMBA (saxophones & flutes) & CHRIS CORSANO (drums) duo [Tzadik/577 Records/Mahakala Music/Palilalia Records: New York City]

with

ELI NAMAY, DREW COLLINS, CALEB GAMBLE - a double bass trio

and

GLO-TREE - a freely-improvised, ambient duo of flutes and guitar by Tea Tree and GNM

"Spend an evening out with the live music of Zoh Amba and Chris Corsano, plus food by Sprezzatura. Amba and Corsano are a critically-acclaimed saxophonist and percussionist duo from New York City. Their music blends avant-garde, noise, and devotional hymns. Traditional Italian dishes available for purchase. The event is BYOB, so feel free to bring your favorite beverage." -- Sprezzatura

doors open at 7pm
live music starts at 7:30pm

all-ages

$15 advance

TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE:
https://www.sprezzaturamenu.com/product/zoh-amba-jazz-night/707

$20 at the door

Sprezzatura
112 East Sherman Street
Millvale, PA 15209
USA


ZOH AMBA

Zoh Amba is a composer, saxophonist, and flutist from Tennessee. Her music blends avant-garde, noise, and devotional hymns. Before studying music at the San Francisco Conservatory Of Music, New England Conservatory and studying with David Murray in New York, she spent most of her time writing and practicing saxophone in the forest near her home. Today, her powerfully unique avant-garde music is full of folk melodies, mesmerizing refrains, and repeated incantations. Amba released two records in 2022, her debut record O, Sun which was produced by John Zorn and released on the prestigious label Tzadik. Zoh Amba’s second record, Bhakti features Micah Thomas, Tyshawn Sorey, and Matt Hollenberg. She has collaborated with a variety of high profile musicians such as Jim White (Dirty Three), legendary jazz bassist William Parker, Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), etc. Amba has also performed at well respected venues and festivals Roulette (NY), Ars Nova Presents (Philadelphia), Vision Festival (NY), and Angel City Jazz Festival (LA) along with a 2023 Big Ears Festival’s performance.

https://zohamba.com/


CHRIS CORSANO

Chris Corsano (b. 1975, USA) is a New York-based drummer who has been active at the intersections of collective improvisation, free jazz, avant-rock, and experimental music since the late 1990's. He's been the rim-batterer of choice for some of the greatest contemporary purveyors of "jazz" (Joe McPhee, Paul Flaherty, Mette Rasmussen, Zoh Amba) and "rock" (Sir Richard Bishop, Bill Orcutt, Jim O'Rourke), as well as artists beyond categorization (Björk for her Volta album and world tour, Michael Flower, Okkyung Lee).

Corsano began a long-standing, high-energy musical partnership with saxophonist Paul Flaherty in 1998. Their style, which they occasionally refer to with (semi-)tongue-in-cheek humor as "The Hated Music", combines modern free-jazz's ecstatic collectivism with the urgency and intensity of hardcore punk. A move from western Massachusetts to the UK in 2005 led Corsano to develop his solo music -- a dynamic, spontaneously-composed orchestra-of-one utilizing extended techniques for drum set, non-percussive instruments of his own creation (e.g. bowed violin strings stretched across drum heads), circular breathing on modified reed instruments, and stockpiles of resonant metals. He spent 2007-08 as the drummer on Björk's Volta world tour, all the while weaving in shows and recordings on his days off with the likes of Evan Parker, Michael Flower, and Jandek. He moved back to the U.S. in 2009 and continued touring in an ultrawide array of ever-evolving collaborations. In 2017 he won the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. A renowned solo performer in his own right, Corsano has a new solo record, The Key..., due out next year on the Drag City label.

His dedication to collective improvisation has led to Corsano to join forces with many kindred spirits and his appearance on over 180 records and thousands of live performances. He's worked with, among others: Paul Dunmall (released by the label: ESP-Disk), Joe McPhee (Roaratorio), Okkyung Lee (Open Mouth), Bill Orcutt (Palilalia), Mette Rasmussen (Hot Cars Warp Records & Clean Feed), John Edwards (OTOroku & Dancing Wayang), Sylvie Courvoisier (Relative Pitch), Nate Wooley (No Business & Astral Spirits), Jim O'Rourke & Akira Sakata (Drag City & Polystar), Merzbow (Family Vineyard), Jessica Rylan (Load Records), Rodrigo Amado (Trost), Nels Cline (Strange Attractors), Heather Leigh (Volcanic Tongue), Ghédalia Tazartès (Ultra Eczema), Ken Vandermark (Audiographic), and Sunburned Hand Of Man (Manhand).

https://www.cor-sano.com/

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Tags: Ambient Experimental Improv Jazz