tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 7.30 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CEST
Gregg Belisle-Chi (池敏超) is an Asian-American guitarist and composer living in Brooklyn, New York, who over the past decade has been “busily establishing himself as an important and distinctive new voice in the contemporary guitar world” and “has emerged as one of the most creatively dexterous musicians” (Earshot Jazz).
Within a career of mercurial interests, he has performed with Bill Frisell, Tim Berne, Reid Anderson, Hank Roberts, Chris Potter, Mat Maneri, Jim Black, Ches Smith, Marc Ducret, Steve Swallow, Cuong Vu, Wayne Horvitz, Nasheet Waits, and many more in the Jazz, Improvised, Rock, and Chamber music worlds....
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tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 7.30 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CEST
Gregg Belisle-Chi (池敏超) is an Asian-American guitarist and composer living in Brooklyn, New York, who over the past decade has been “busily establishing himself as an important and distinctive new voice in the contemporary guitar world” and “has emerged as one of the most creatively dexterous musicians” (Earshot Jazz).
Within a career of mercurial interests, he has performed with Bill Frisell, Tim Berne, Reid Anderson, Hank Roberts, Chris Potter, Mat Maneri, Jim Black, Ches Smith, Marc Ducret, Steve Swallow, Cuong Vu, Wayne Horvitz, Nasheet Waits, and many more in the Jazz, Improvised, Rock, and Chamber music worlds.
https://greggbelislechi.com/
Tom Rainey was born in Pasadena, California in 1957. Since moving to New York in 1979 he has performed and or recorded with the following artists: John Abercrombie, Mose Allison, Julian Arguelles, Ray Anderson, Tim Berne, Jane Ira Bloom, Anthony Braxton, Nels Cline, Ted Curson, Kris Davis, Mark Ducret, Mark Feldman, Michael Formanek, Drew Gress, Mark Helias, Fred Hersch, Andy Laster, Ingrid Laubrock, David Liebman, Joe Lovano, Tony Malaby, Albert Mangelsdorff, Carmen McRae, Mike Nock, Simon Nabatov, New and Used, Anita O’Day, Andrea Parkins, Herb Robertson, Angelica Sanchez, Louis Sclavis, Brad Shepik, Ken Werner, Denny Zeitlin.
Current activities include performing and recording music with the Tom Rainey Trio as well as his quintet, Obbligato. Tom also continues performing with many of the aforementioned artists.
Tim Berne is a composer, saxophonist and educator specializing in improvised music. He has been performing internationally since 1982 with various ensembles including Caos Totale, Fractured Fairy Tales, Bloodcount and Snakeoil among others.
He has made over 50 recordings as a leader for labels such as Soul Note,Sony,JMT, ECM and Intakt records. Tim started his own label Screwgun records in 1996 and most recently released is Angel Dusk with Matt Mitchell.
He has taught extensively since the late 90’s giving workshops in South America, Europe and America. Recent awards and residencies include: New York State Council on the Arts, New York State Foundation for the Arts, Readers Digest/Meet the Composer (for the Kronos Quartet and the Rova Saxophone Quartet), McDowell Colony, Djerassi Foundation, Civitella Ranieri.
He is currently active with his Snakeoil group and Sun of Goldfinger.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berne
Press:
Tim Berne, Gregg Belisle-Chi, and Tom Rainey – Yikes Too (Out of Your Head, 2025) *****
by Gary Chapin on The Free Jazz Collective
There’s a master’s thesis—or a tawdry Netflix miniseries—to be written about Tim Berne and his serial relationships with amazing, visionary guitarists. Bill Frisell, Nels Cline, Marc Ducret, etc. Berne met guitarist Gregg Belisle-Chi when the latter arranged a Berne composition for solo acoustic guitar (it was something to do during the pandemic) and posted it on Instagram. Berne reached out to Belisle-Chi and soon we had Belisle-Chi’s Koi: Performing the Music of Tim Berne , produced by Berne. Then came their duet record . Now, Belisle-Chi has become one of Berne’s usual suspects on both acoustic and electric guitar.
Belisle-chi has an expansive way of playing the electric, filling the room the way an orchestra does, with a quantity of sound. There’s a touch of proggy goodness in there—which is a treat for this lifetime prog fan. This sort of electric bombast makes for a perfect partner for Berne’s preternaturally strong sax.
The two take Berne’s compositions in a less oblique way than in other settings. It’s always interesting to hear how different agglomerations of players render these compositions. On the disc, we’re given 10 studio tracks and 9 live tracks. Here’s the thing: in a few cases, we hear a tune played in the studio, and then hear the same tune played live. Call me a nerd but I find it FASCINATING to compare versions of the tunes to one another. There’s the obvious differences of improvised chunks, but tempos, dynamics, voicing … it’s all up for grabs. The composition is composed in the moment! And look, I know that this is how our kind of music works—but it’s very cool to see it so explicitly in action. Like seeing the aurora borealis.
I haven’t mentioned Tom Rainey, yet. Not because I want to look away, but because I want to set him aside for high honors. Rainey is characteristically great on Yikes Too, holding the whole garment together with his infinitely long thread of whackity-whack. I’ve loved his stuff forever, but this year I’m feeling something special. In the race for improv MVP of 2025, he’s already at the top of my list.
5 Stars
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