Sep
21
with Kenny Wollesen and Will Shore & cocktail piano hour with Nate Sloan
Wed September 21st, 2016
8:30PM
Manhattan Inn
Minimum Age: 21+
Doors Open: 8:00PM
Show Time: 8:30PM
FREE (suggested donation: $5-$10)
This is a general admission event located at Manhattan Inn (632 Manhattan Ave, Greenpoint, Brooklyn).
Dave Harrington and Spencer Zahn
Kenny Wollesen and Will Shore
Kenny Wollesen (Bill Frisell, John Zorn, Tom Waits) and Will Shore (Tomboy, Shore) come together on two vibraphones to improvise and create wide-open original music. All 8 of their mallets swing real loose between freedom and precision: raucous polyrhythmic grooves and sharp dissonant lines lead into floating melodic rolls.
The duo’s unique sound comes from the mix of Kenny’s acoustic vibraphone with Will’s electric one, which is fitted with contact mics to create a timbre much like his solo production work (Shore).
Between Will’s manipulation of the vibes through pedals/electronics and Kenny’s vibrant and propulsive playing that you’ve heard on so many albums, the duo is sure to create an unpredictable noise and lively rhythmic interplay (though nothing else is certain).
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Kenny Wollesen is a drummer, vibraphonist, percussionist and instrument builder based in New York City. He is the founder of the Wollesonic Laboratories and the mastermind behind Sonic Massages and the Himalayas marching band. He has worked with Bill Frisell, Norah Jones, Tom Waits, Ben Goldberg, Steven Bernstein, Jonas Mekas, Butch Morris, Ilhan Ersahin, Hal Wilner, John Medeski, JIm Hall and has been a vital member of John Zorn’s ensembles and projects for over 20 years.
cocktail piano hour with Nate Sloan
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NATE SLOAN is currently a PhD candidate at Stanford University and a Geballe Dissertation Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, writing a dissertation on nightclubs in Harlem during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Nate teaches music history, jazz history and music theory at the California Jazz Conservatory and at Stanford Summer Institutes. By night, Nate co-hosts the music podcast Switched on Pop and blogs about pop music and music theory.
Nate is one-half of the guerrilla vaudeville act The Gideon and Hubcap Show (the Hubcap half), which performs exclusively in living rooms. He has written music and lyrics for two original musicals and scored the award-winning short documentary SLOMO, in addition to playing piano and banjo in local jazz and bluegrass outfits.
Nate occasionally writes for the Stanford News Service and various academic organs.