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Wicked Knee at Evanston Space

Courtesy of Maxim Micheliov | Posted on July 24, 2014

Where

Evanston Space
1245 Chicago Ave.
Evanston, IL
Map
847.492.886

When

Tue, August 5, 2014
8:00 pm

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About

Spend an evening with Billy Martin’s Wicked Knee!

Wicked Knee is cathartic, heart-based and primarily intended for situations that invite people to let go, throw down, get down and have fun. And we add avant-garde interludes as release and tension.

Martin came up with Wicked Knee’s unusual configuration because, he explains, “I have always wanted to work with brass and drums but never had the time or the nerve to make it happen. I knew I had it when I asked Steven to help me get a few players together for Life on Drums (Martin’s educational, anti-instructional DVD out on Vongole Films). I wanted to have some brass with a previously recorded drumbeat. That ended up in the film as ‘Muffaletta’....

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