Jeb Bishop Trombone Trio with Forbes Graham, Pandelis Karayorgis and Brittany Karlson
Photo: Cristina Marx
Jeb Bishop trombone trio along with Forbes Graham, Pandelis Karayorgis and Brittany Karlson
Monday, October 9, 2023 at 8pm
Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street, Boston
Music: 8pm
Admission: $15 / $10 for students and Non-Event members
Advanced tickets available
Non-Event and Goethe-Institut Boston are pleased to present and evening of improvisation featuring the trombone trio of Jeb Bishop, Matthias M. and Matthias M. along with Forbes Graham, Pandelis Karayorgis and Brittany Karlson.
The trombone trio of Jeb Bishop, Matthias M. and Matthias M. plays music that moves between sculptural noise drones, walls-of-Jericho-collapsing fanfares, and delicate textures of air and sound. The acoustic properties of the trombone and the physical resources of the players are pushed to their limits and beyond; the ancient sliding tube is put through the bone mill ... pulverized, sublimated, and receiving the breath of new life.
About the artists
Jeb Bishop is considered one of the preeminent trombonists in improvisational music. He has played in Peter Brötzmann’s Chicago Tentet, Ken Vandermark’s Territory Band, and the Globe Unity Orchestra. The Chicago Sun-Times has called him “one of the best-kept secrets in American jazz.” Originally from North Carolina, he lived and worked in Chicago for over twenty years, resided in Boston from 2016 to 2022, and has recently returned to Chicago, where he is involved in several projects and groups.
Matthias M. has lived in Berlin since 2004 and has since performed with a variety of outstanding international improvisers. He is a member of the “Splitter Orchester,” a 24-piece ensemble of the Berlin echtzeit music scene and played for many years in the German-French Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Albert Mangelsdorff. Concert tours and festivals have taken him to Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, and various European countries. With his own projects, he has released more than 50 CDs, among others on his own label MaMüMusic.
Matthias M. lives in Cologne. He received the WDR Jazz Award 2021 in the category Improvisation. His large ensemble Bonecrusher – 10 Trombones & Percussion, was nominated for the short list of the German Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik [German Record Critics’ Award] for 2022. In his solo projects and Trio T.ON, he uses a wide variety of playing setups: feeds of speech and soundscapes into and on the trombone, spatial expansion using external bells, interactive computer graphics as synaesthetic perception, or simply the pure, naked trombone.
Forbes Graham is a composer, musician, sound artist, and visual artist whose work explores themes of simultaneity, perceptibility, transformation and collage. In 2020, he was selected to work with the JACK Quartet as a part of JACK Studio. His work “Encounters I” for trumpet, electronics, and voices premiered at Roulette in 2019. He performed with Michael Pisaro at (the) co-incidence festival in 2017 and has appeared at other music festivals including High Zero, Vision, and The Thing In The Spring. He currently studies composition with Chaya Czernowin.
Pandelis Karayorgis is a Boston based jazz/improvised music pianist, composer and educator. In the last thirty years, he has mostly led or co-led numerous groups in performances at festivals and clubs in Europe, the United States and Canada. His recordings appear on labels such as Hat Art, HatOLOGY, Clean Feed, Not Two, Leo Records, Nuscope, Boxholder, Okkadisk, Cadence, Accurate, Leo Lab, Ayler and more recently on Driff Records, an artist-run label co-founded by Pandelis Karayorgis and Jorrit Dijkstra.
Brittany Karlson (bass, voice) is an adventurous musician with roots in jazz, American folk music, and improvised music. She has performed across the USA, Canada, and Europe in a variety of ensemble settings, including improvised trio Letter Castle and American old-time/bluegrass/Swedish string band The Goodbye Girls. When performing solo, Karlson improvises, performs original songs under the moniker Karl, or ducks behind her bass to perform a lighthearted puppet show with many props. Karlson is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher. She lives in Boston.
This performance is co-presented by Non-Event and the Goethe-Institut Boston with funding from the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Senate Department for Culture and Community — Berlin.
