EFW Presents: Tim Berne & Nasheet Waits at Elysium Furnace Works at Howland Cultural Center

"Alto saxophonist Tim Berne and drummer Nasheet Waits connect a Möbius strip of improvisational wonder. Berne plays with intense lucidity of communication — his incisiveness fires arrows of indisputable meaning into the air. Waits likewise pulls out the rug from under us not out of a desire to break our equilibrium but to reveal an even more stable surface beneath it. Such is the depth of their rapport as each defers to the other until the geyser of creativity grows too hot to contain."

— Tyran Grillo, New York City Jazz Record

Elysium Furnace Works is thrilled to present a stunner of a summit between two renowned musicians making a rare Hudson Valley appearance: alto saxophonist Tim Berne and drummer Nasheet Waits...

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"Alto saxophonist Tim Berne and drummer Nasheet Waits connect a Möbius strip of improvisational wonder. Berne plays with intense lucidity of communication — his incisiveness fires arrows of indisputable meaning into the air. Waits likewise pulls out the rug from under us not out of a desire to break our equilibrium but to reveal an even more stable surface beneath it. Such is the depth of their rapport as each defers to the other until the geyser of creativity grows too hot to contain."

— Tyran Grillo, New York City Jazz Record

Elysium Furnace Works is thrilled to present a stunner of a summit between two renowned musicians making a rare Hudson Valley appearance: alto saxophonist Tim Berne and drummer Nasheet Waits. Continuing their collaboration following their celebrated 2020 release on Relative Pitch Records, The Coandă Effect, Berne and Waits will unleash virtuosic, ineluctable invention in one of the most acoustically sublime venues in the Hudson Valley.

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