the best improv show ever ALEX WARD+SIMON FELL+JOE MORRIS + KATT HERNANDEZ (solo) Record Release, and David Maxwell and Andy Flop May 16, 2008

Guitarist Joe Morris joins British Improvisers Simon Fell (bass) and Alex Ward (clarinet), well-reknowned for their work with the late great Derek Bailey. PLUS Katt Hernandez, amazing solo violinist, is coming to town for her record release. PLUS Dynamic Blues Pianist David Maxwell plays a creative set with creative improviser Andy Flop using various electronics...

Simon H. Fell is a well-regarded improvising bass player from England. Bassist Simon Fell was born in the UK and now lives in France. He has performed with John Butcher, Peter Brötzmann, Lol Coxhill, Billy Jenkins, Joe Morris, Keith Tippett, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Ellery Eskelin, Tim Berne and numerous others, plus with John Zorn & Joey Baron (as part of Company) and with Elliott Sharp, Billy Bang & Christian Marclay. He has been awarded numerous Bursaries and Grants from the Arts Council of England and other organisations to further his performing technique and compositional studies. He runs the label Bruces Fingers. http://www.brucesfingers.co.uk/info/biog.html

Clarinetist Alex Ward lives in London. In 1986 when he was 12 years old he attended a workshop on improvisation run by Derek Bailey. In 1988 Bailey invited him to play at various events including Company Weeks in 1988, 1990, and 1994. Bailey also organized his first recording and CD release in 1991. He has also performed with Butch Morris, Eugene Chadbourne, Steve Noble, Phillip Clark Mike Westbrook and his group, Dead End Kids.

Guitarist Joe Morris has worked with Anthony Braxton, David S. Ware, Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Dewey Redman, John Butcher, Han Bennink, Ken Vandermark, Barre Phillips, Joe Maneri, Eugene Chadbourne and many others. He has recorded for the labels ECM, HatHut, Aum Fidelity, Clean Feed, Avant, Not Two, Leo, Incus and his own label RITI. His is on the faculty at New England Conservatory and Longy School of Music.www.joe-morris.com/

Focused primarily on freely improvised music, Katt draws a firey array of electronic-like sounds and keening melodies from her completely accoustic violin. She works extensively with microtonality, drawn from a study of a mixture of sources, including traditional folk and sacred musics of the Middle East, Turkey, and Eastern Europe, various odd-ball whisps of old Americana, and the Maneri/Sims 72 note system. Katt has collaborated with musicians, dancers, and others including- but certainly not limited to- Joe Maneri, Zack Fuller, David Maxwell, Beat Circus, Nicole Bindler, Matt Somalis, Vashti Bunyan, John Voigt, Allisa Cardone, Gordon Beeferman, Jonathan Vincent, Walter Wright, Joe Burgio, Eric Rosenthal, Jeff Arnal, Jaimie McGlaughlin, Andrew Neumann, Dave Gross, and Hans Rickheit. She has twice been invited to perfrom on the Autumn Uprising, High Zero, Mobius ArtRages, and Improvised and Otherwise festivals, and has also appeared at the Montreaux-Detroit, Brandeis New Music, Boston CyberArts, Michiania, IAJE, IASJ, and Ear Whacks festivals. She has been a guest artist at MIT, Harvard, University of Indiana and the New England Conservatory, performed in a vast slew of localized venues and life-making places throughout the east coast. www.katthernandez.com

David Maxwell is a well-known blues and R&B pianist, who also plays other experimental improvisational styles. Andy Flop is an improviser, who often employs the use of electronics, and often applies his skills in jazz related music. He has worked with Han Bennink, Ran Blake, Cecil McBee, Yo-yo ma, Jimmy Heath and Joe Morris among others.

ALL for the price of $7

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