"Brötzmann, the tenor sax player, one of the greatest alive."
Bill Clinton
Peter Brötzmann has exemplified European improvised music for over 40 years and participated in countless historic collaborations with a who's who of fellow seminal artists including Derek Bailey, Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry. Evan Parker and Han Bennink. Self-taught on clarinets and saxophones, Brötzmann began his career in visual art, eventually applying his exploratory sensibility to music. He has produced a back catalogue of remarkable releases, including the 1968 LP Machine Gun, widely recognised as one of the defining records of the free jazz idiom.
This special concert also features internationally acclaimed Melbourne trio Pateras/Baxter/Brown and New York drummer and composer Brian Chase of the multi-Grammy nominated Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, performing solo in Melbourne for the first time. Pateras/Baxter/Brown have developed a worldwide reputation for their uncompromising live shows, drawing on traditional, contemporary and rarefied improvisational music techniques. With many experimental side projects, Brian Chase is an enthusiastic proponent of the Just Intonation tuning theory.
Featuring three of Australia's most respected and innovative improvisers, Pateras/Baxter/Brown have become internationally renowned for their ground-breaking approach to freely improvised music. Concentrating on the use of extended technique and preparations applied to conventional, acoustic instruments, the group has developed a unique aesthetic that is both visceral and cerebral - challenging prevailing orthodoxies in composition, improvisation and sound art equally.
Brian Chase is a drummer and composer living in Brooklyn, NY. He is probably best known as a member of the rock group Yeah Yeah Yeahs, a band that has toured extensively throughout the world and has been nominated for three Grammys. Other recorded projects include a minimalist punk rock band called the Seconds and his improvised experimental duo ensemble with saxophonist Seth Misterka that has a record on the Australian label Heathen Skulls. Chase has collaborated with artists including Alan Licht, Okkyung Lee, Matt Welch, Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone, and Stefan Tcherepnin
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BMW Edge, Federation Square Tue 4 May at 7.30pm $35 full, $30 concession Peter Brotzmann (tenor saxophone)
Anthony Pateras (prepared piano), Sean Baxter (percussion), Dave Brown (prepared guitar)
Brian Chase (drums and percussion)
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