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Birth at Bop Stop
Courtesy of Gabriel Pollack | Posted on March 15, 2019
When
Fri, April 26, 2019
8:00 pm
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From 1998 to 2004 Birth, the Cleveland/New York based saxophone, electric bass, drums trio, carved a musical niche with the sound of their no-holds-barred creative music.
Their music evolved from youthful, unrestrained, often "sensationalized" (in the words of Joe Maneri) displays of prodigious outbursts on their instruments, to later, a hybrid of powerful, yet highly sensitive improvisation and composition that garnered attention and praise from some of the leading voices of the avant-garde jazz and creative music world.
A favorite of Cleveland jazz writer and folk icon Harvey Pekar, their music lead Harvey to proclaim that birth was "So good that it's scary." "Awesome and magnificent" lauded The Wire...