Matt Piet

Chris Jonas Quartet

Matt Piet brings his working trio back to Elastic, and a quartet led by New Mexico-based reedist, composer, and arts activist Chris Jonas makes it’s Elastic Arts debut.

8:30 PM : MATT PIET TRIO

Matt Piet - piano
Ben Dillinger- bass
Tommaso Moretti - drums

9:30 PM : CHRIS JONAS QUARTET : MUSIC FROM THE DESERTS

Chris Jonas - reeds / video
Jeff Kimmel - clarinets
Rob Lundberg - bass
Sam Scranton - percussion/electronics

$15 - Tickets Available at the Door

ABOUT THE BANDS :

MATT PIET TRIO : This new incarnation of piano trio was originally assembled as the rhythm section of a quartet formed by Jake Wark. In 2021, Piet was inspired to write the long form composition  “The Lapse of Uriel” to explore the trio’s relationship between written and improvised material. This performance continues their exploration of group interplay through improvisation. 

CHRIS JONAS QUARTET :

The Chris Jonas Quartet: Music from the Deserts explores the music and video created by Chris Jonas over the past two years winter camping alone for weeks in very remote Sonora Desert places, including Arizona's Barry Goldwater Missile Range and at the US Border Wall that cuts across the granite Tinajas Altas. The music contains elements of a jazz-based ensemble, but working with colors and sounds outside of the usual domains of traditional jazz, mixing elements that are quirky, delicate, weirdly groovy, polyphonic, and a mixture of the disjointed and melodic. For the Elastic Arts performance, the ensemble will be accompanied by Jonas's videos from the Goldwater Missile Range, US border walls, the community of Yuma, Arizona and the vast wilderness surrounding these places.

Bios:

Chris Jonas (composition, saxophones, video) is a Santa Fe-based composer, performer, filmmaker, conductor and the Co-Director of multi-arts non-profit Littleglobe. Over the years he has led groups and directed projects, performing in collaboration with jazz luminaries Anthony Braxton, William Parker and Cecil Taylor, touring and recording worldwide. He was the 2008 recipient of the United States Artist Award. www.chrisjonascreative.com  Discography: https://chrisjonascreative.com/Discography

Rob Lundberg (bass, fretless baritone guitar) has performed a wide range of music throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe both solo and with outfits such as JOBS, Skeletons, Nestle, In One Wind, and Leverage Models at venues and festival such as Carnegie Hall, JVC Jazz Festival, Newport Folk Festival, and Big Ears Festival. They earned a BFA in Jazz Performance from The New School (New York) and graduate degrees in Law and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where they were a graduate fellow of the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies. Lundberg and Jonas created Displaced Horizons (2018-20), performing the multi-arts music piece at SITE Santa Fe and at the UW Madison Center for Humanities.

Instagram: @robonbass

Jeff Kimmel (clarinets) is a Chicago-based performer whose work encompasses improvisation, new and experimental music, and interdisciplinary collaborations. Jeff is a regular contributor to Chicago’s improvised music community, has toured with puppet theatre company Manual Cinema and was a member of experimental music ensemble a.pe.ri.od.ic from 2013-2020.  His discography includes releases on New Focus Recordings, Dinzu Artefacts, Amalgam, and Peira. Jeff’s work has been funded by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and he was awarded a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts to work with Roscoe Mitchell. He holds a B.M. from New England Conservatory. http://jeffkimmel.blogspot.com

Sam Scranton (drums, percussion, electronics) is a composer/performer/artist based in Chicago. He has presented work nationally and internationally at festivals, conferences, and performance series such as the Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Indexical, Composit, NUNC! 3, New Music Gathering, Frequency Festival, the International Conference on Music and Minimalism, Outer Ear Festival, and Omaha Under the Radar.  My music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Borealis Festival Radio Space, WFMT, and released by Parlour Tapes+. Current projects include Honestly Same (with Zach Good, Mabel Kwan, Lia Kohl, Zach Moore), Beautifulish (with Katherine Young), Physique (with Neil Quigley), and appears on records released on Amalgam and Shinkoyo Artists Pool. https://www.samscranton.com