The Supplicants August 17, 2007

THE SUPPLICANTS

Friday, August 17th





"As an art form, musical improvisation is often the most inspiring, exasperating, overwhelmingly emotional interchange between performer and spectator. It takes generous talent, and serious guts for a musician to take the stage without a script. On the recieving end, the listener must approach the music with a liberated mind, ready to be challenged and hopeful for a worthwhile outcome. Every experience I've have with local improv gurus The Supplicants has left me radiant, fulfilled in the way only the most profound spiritual encounters can. Composed of some of the Bay Area's most accomplished jazz musicians...the band soars with the fiery grace of A Love Supreme-era Coltrane." - Jonathan Zwickel (SF Bay Guardian)

"The Supplicants personify the spirit of jazz in its purest form. It is fitting that their members have not chosen a leader; rather, they all lead in their own right. This humility is both at once rare to find in the age of individual jazz and a perfect epitome for their art. The purity of their music is just as rare to find in a time in the history of jazz where its staunch supporters, critics, and historians have crystallized an art form which is still very much alive and placed it behind the glass displays of museums as an untouchable antiquity." - Drew Foxman (SFJAZZ)



www.thesupplicants.com

$10-$15 suggested donation. Doors open at 8:30 pm. Show at 9 pm.