Tonight’s Improvised Music Series hosts New Orleans saxophonist and clarinetist Byron Asher in a quartet with some Chicago staples.

Opening the night we’ll have a new quartet of Jeff Goulet, Janna Lee, Chris Dammann, and Erik Sowa.

8:30 pm:
Chris Dammann - upright bass
Jeff Goulet - guitar
Janna Lee - vocals, electronics
Erik Sowa - drum se, percussion

9:30 pm:
Byron Asher - woodwinds
Hunter Diamond - woodwinds
Anton Hatwich - bass
Quin Kirchner - drum set

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

Byron Asher is a saxophonist and clarinetist and composer based in New Orleans and working at the intersection of broadly experimental composition and jazz and improvised music. Raised in Maryland, he has become an integral member of New Orleans’ creative music community since arriving there in 2011, working as a bandleader, collaborator, improviser, composer, and curator. In spring 2024, he released two new LPs on Sinking City Records: Lord, when you send the rain, the second release from his celebrated large ensemble project Skrontch Music, and May Day, from his “free jazz party band” Basher. 

This group's sound has elements of ambient noise, post rock, and free jazz while emphasizing mid-range bass tones, clean channel guitar, dynamic vocal directions, and prepared drum set configurations.