Outside In (photo by Laura Shaeffer)

Andrew Barnes Jamieson
(photo by Esteban Allard Valldivieso)

Andrew Barnes Jamieson is a pianist, composer, and arranger. He lived in Oakland, California, for the last 12 years, now on tour for 6 months, migrating across the US on his way to continue studies at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. He will perform piano music, at the intersection or arrangement, composition, and improvisation, aiming to deconstruct and challenge white supremacy and injustice in musical and faith systems, and celebrate, and remain accountable to, the Black gospel music tradition, and the communities and musicians it represents, especially as a white person, confronting the ways he benefits from systems that misappropriate, marginalize, or exploit the tradition. Andrew wrote and produced Heaven Down Here, his 2014 avant-gospel chamber opera about Jonestown and Peoples Temple, founded Trouble Ensemble, performed over 1100 of #1000improvisations (1000 daily improvisational keyboard livestreams since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic), and collaborates on duo performances with baritone, activist, and visionaries Darnell Ishmel and Soyinka Rahim.

This week’s Improvised Music Series features an all-star grouping of Chicago musicians, convened by drummer and composer Tommaso Moretti to flip the approach of his Inside Out project into electroacoustic abstractions. Opening the evening is Chicago-born, Bay Area experimental staple Andrew Jamieson, presenting solo piano deconstructions that are equal parts free jazz, gospel, and Ives-ian mashup.

8:30 PM: Andrew Jamieson

9:30 PM: Outside In
Norman W. Long: modular synth
John Sutton: upright bass
Ben Lamar Gay: cornet
Tommaso Moretti: drums, samples, vocals

2 Sets

$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door

About the Artists:

Tommaso Moretti on Outside In:

“Outside In is a music project that aims to be a legitimate tribute to the iconic improvisational scene of Chicago. The artistic goal is to blur the line between improvisation and composition exploring new ways of blending the two sides of the creating process both in the context of music performance and during the producing process. Experienced local music improvisers will be involved in the musical effort of shaping extemporary compositions out of individual and collective improvisations. "Outside In" is meant to be the follow up of the "Inside Out" project and album which started from diametrically opposite artistic premises: playing pre-arranged compositions as a tool and starting point to inspire individual and collective improvisation. With "Outside In" the starting point would be the individual and collective improvisation with the abstract purpose of channelling and shaping the ensemble voices into a cohesive and organic musical piece all in real time. From the "Inside Out "to the "Outside In" We are the same living bio-organism and we can start acting as one. Music and the Arts are the empirical demonstration that we are all connected on a deeper level that we might be aware of.”