Clockwise from top: Danny Kamins, Jerome Bryerton, Marcin Bozek (Kamins & Bryerton photos by Peter Gannushkin).
Clockwise from right: Christopher Dammann, Matt Piet, Steve Hunt (Dammann photo by Liina Raud)
Christopher Dammann is a composer/bassist who lives in Chicago. He is lucky enough to have improvised with many of his favorite musicians, worked in a variety of bands, performed music for national television shows and ad campaigns. He writes music for games, television and film. Recent work includes the score for Kera MacKenzie & Andrew Mausert-Mooney’s award winning non-fiction montage feature, Make A Distinction, the Restroy release, sketches, for ears&eyes records and IKZ (Toby Summerfield, Kevin Davis, and John Niekrasz) release I saw the Cryptic Problem of my Generation Destroyed on Chicago label, Amalgam music. Chris is currently working on material for a newly formed sextet (Scott Clark, Jon Irabagon, Edward Wilkerson, Mabel Kwan, James Davis) with plans to record summer 2024. Chris is also proud to be a teaching artist with the People’s Music School of Chicago, Chicago’s largest tuition free music school.
Matt Piet is an improvising pianist, composer, and music director. Matt was born and raised in suburban Chicago, began his studies as a pianist and vocalist at age ten, and was a proficient classical pianist and accompanist by his early teens. Piet set aside his classical studies to focus on jazz, improvisation, and composition during his studies at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Piet returned to Chicago in 2014, and has since been an active participant in Chicago's rich jazz and improvised music scene. In addition to playing many ad hoc improvised performances as a leader and a sideman, he has three working trios: Matt Piet Trio, Four Letter Words, and the Rempis/Piet/Daisy trio. Piet works actively as a Music Director and accompanist throughout the Chicagoland area.
Tonight’s Improvised Music Series features two heavy-hitting jazz trios, including special guests Danny Kamins and Marcin Bozek from Texas and Poland, and a piano trio lead by Christopher Dammann (Restroy, Extraordinary Popular Delusions).
8:30 pm:
Christopher Dammann - bass
Steve Hunt - drums
Matt Piet - piano
9:30 pm:
Danny Kamins - saxophones
Marcin Bozek - bass
Jerome Bryerton - drums
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
About The Artists
Danny Kamins is an improvising saxophonist based out of Houston, TX. His current musical endeavors include playing in various musical ensembles such as FireLife Trio, Relative Dissonance, The Plot, CARL, El Mantis and Etched in the Eye as well as directing the jazz program at Rice University. He has also been booking shows in Houston that specialize in experimental/avant-garde music since 2016. Musicians he has presented include Peter Brotzmann, Jaimie Branch, Claire Rousay, Michael Foster, Chris Pitsiokos, Brandon Lopez, Lisa Cameron, Illicit Relationship, and Gaute Granli. Musicians he has performed/recorded with include Tatsuya Nakatani, Alvin Fielder, Ra Kalam Bob Moses, LaDonna Smith, Aaron Gonzalez, Stefan Gonzalez, Susan Alcorn, Jamison Williams, Thomas Helton, Lisa Cameron, Adam Goodwin, Vinny Golia, Antonio Borghini, David Leon, Jeb Bishop, Taylor Rouss, Sandy Ewen, Alexander Von Schlippenbach, Damon Smith, Luke Stewart, Kamila Drabek, Marc Edwards, Natan Kryszk, Paulina Owczarek and NewMusic groups Le Train Bleu, Loop 38, and Transitory Sound and Movement Collective.
For almost two decades, Marcin Bozek has been working intensively individually and collectively in duets, trios and leading orchestras to explore the musical spaces between rhythm and harmony. He sets the air in motion by vibrating it using an instrument. I use sounds that are not commonly called music. Music is an art. If you are curious about what's in between, new flavors and colors, please come to his world.
Jerome Bryerton is an American jazz and improvisation musician ( drums , percussion , composition ), who also works as a visual artist. Bryerton, who has been active in the American improvisation scene since the late 1990s, has played with John Butcher , Aaron Bennet , Danielle DeGruttola , Henry Kaiser and Damon Smith in the ensemble Sextessense ( Tribute to John Stevens , 1999). In the years around the turn of the millennium he toured with Damon Smith and Wolfgang Fuchs , documented on the live album Three October Meetings , including a recording from the Total Music Meeting 2002 in Berlin. In the following years he also worked with Nathaniel Braddock , Scott Rosenberg ( Creative Orchestra Music Chicago 2001 ), Matt Bauder , Frank Gratkowski ( The Voice Imitator ), Paul Hartsaw / Kristian Aspelin ( Sweep , 2006) and Guillermo Gregorio , among others. In 2021, he released the album There Must be a Reason for Generating Sounds as a duo with Damon Smith .