BEARCLAW
Tim Berne / Tom Rainey / Gregg Belisle-Chi
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
Robert Mills Carriage House|
Doors: 7:30. Music: 8:00
$18
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Tickets will be sold at the door. If you’d like to purchase tickets in advance, though, you may do so via Venmo.
Venmo address is @Justin-Weinberg-3. Last four digits of the phone number, should you need them, are 2720. 4 ticket maximum. Note that these are general admission tickets. Specific seats will not be held for you.
Please send an email to justinrweinberg@gmail.com (note the ‘r’ in the middle) confirming purchase.
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Screwgun Records (Tim Berne’s record label)
Artist Bios
Tim Berne is a composer, saxophonist and educator specializing in improvised music.
He has been performing internationally since 1982 with various ensembles he has led, including Caos Totale, Fractured Fairy Tales, Bloodcount, Paraphrase, and Snakeoil among others.
He has made over 50 recordings as a leader for labels such as Soul Note, Sony, JMT, ECM and Intakt records.
Berne started his own label Screwgun records in 1996. Its recent releases include “Disco Tent/Ravens Low & Ready 2,” which is a recording of a quartet with David Torn, Tom Rainey, and Trevor Dunn, and “Candid” by the group Sunny Five (Berne, Torn, Ches Smith, Devin Hoff, Marc Ducret). You can learn more about these and other releases here.
He has taught extensively since the late 90’s giving workshops in South America, Europe, and America.
Recent awards and residencies include:
- New York State Council on the Arts
- New York State Foundation for the Arts
- Readers Digest/Meet the Composer (for the Kronos Quartet and the Rova Saxophone Quartet)
- McDowell Colony
- Djerassi Foundation
- Civitella Ranieri
He is currently active in several groups he leads, including the trio, Bearclaw, with drummer Tom Rainey and guitarist Gregg Belisle-Chi. You can learn more about Berne here.
Gregg Belisle-Chi (池敏超) is an Asian-American guitarist and composer living in Brooklyn, New York, who over the past decade has been “busily establishing himself as an important and distinctive new voice in the contemporary guitar world” and “has emerged as one of the most creatively dexterous musicians.” (Earshot Jazz)
Within a career of mercurial interests, he has performed with Bill Frisell, Tim Berne, Reid Anderson, Hank Roberts, Chris Potter, Mat Maneri, Jim Black, Ches Smith, Marc Ducret, Steve Swallow, Cuong Vu, Wayne Horvitz, Nasheet Waits, and many more in the Jazz, Improvised, Rock, and Chamber music worlds.
Tom Rainey is a prolific drummer whose playing, informed by jazz, rock, funk, and classical music, has an “unassuming, yet remarkably technical style” and “deep rhythmic concepts” that make him “sought-after” in the jazz world. (All About Jazz)
Rainey was born in Pasadena, California in 1957. Since moving to New York in 1979 he has performed and or recorded with the following artists: John Abercrombie, Mose Allison, Julian Arguelles, Ray Anderson, Tim Berne, Jane Ira Bloom, Anthony Braxton, Nels Cline, Ted Curson, Kris Davis, Mark Ducret, Mark Feldman, Michael Formanek, Drew Gress, Mary Halvorson, Mark Helias, Fred Hersch, Andy Laster, Ingrid Laubrock, David Liebman, Joe Lovano, Tony Malaby, Albert Mangelsdorff, Carmen McRae, Mike Nock, Simon Nabatov, New and Used, Anita O’Day, Andrea Parkins, Herb Robertson, Angelica Sanchez, Louis Sclavis, Brad Shepik, Ken Werner, Denny Zeitlin, among others.
Current activities include performing and recording music with the Tom Rainey Trio as well as his quintet, Obbligato. He also continues performing with many of the aforementioned artists.
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