Charlie Kohlhase's Chicago Explorers Club at Lafontsee Galleries

The LaFontsee Galleries in conjunction with www.Adventuremusic.org continues their new series of improvised music concerts, The Underground Series, Sunday, March 22nd at 3 p.m. with Charlie Kohlhase's Chicago Explorer’s Club, spirited creative improvised music in the unique surroundings of LaFontsee Galleries, 833 Lake Dr SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506; (616) 451-9820.

Coming off of two nights at Chicago’s famed Green Mill, the Explorer’s Club promises an afternoon of adventurous, freewheeling, high interaction jazz. Boston/Cambridge area leader/composer Charlie Kohlhase plays alto, tenor & baritone saxophones, is known for decades of work with The Either/Orchestra, cutting his teeth as a musical compatriot of jazz greats Roswell Rudd and the late saxophonist John Tchicai, a leader of various free-jazz minded Boston ensembles since the 1980’s, an educator and jazz radio host, and Explorer’s Club leader for over 10 years. ...

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The LaFontsee Galleries in conjunction with www.Adventuremusic.org continues their new series of improvised music concerts, The Underground Series, Sunday, March 22nd at 3 p.m. with Charlie Kohlhase's Chicago Explorer’s Club, spirited creative improvised music in the unique surroundings of LaFontsee Galleries, 833 Lake Dr SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506; (616) 451-9820.

Coming off of two nights at Chicago’s famed Green Mill, the Explorer’s Club promises an afternoon of adventurous, freewheeling, high interaction jazz. Boston/Cambridge area leader/composer Charlie Kohlhase plays alto, tenor & baritone saxophones, is known for decades of work with The Either/Orchestra, cutting his teeth as a musical compatriot of jazz greats Roswell Rudd and the late saxophonist John Tchicai, a leader of various free-jazz minded Boston ensembles since the 1980’s, an educator and jazz radio host, and Explorer’s Club leader for over 10 years.

This version of the Explorer’s Club includes fellow East Coast musician Aaron Darrell, bass (www.aarondarrellmusic.com/about); two premier Chicago improvisers, James Falzone, clarinet, and Tim Daisy, drums; plus the former New York trumpeter Russ Johnson, who now teaches at the University of Wisconsin Parkside in Kenosha. For more on Russ please see http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2012/11/21/trumpeter-russ-johnson-raises-his-chicago-profile, or www.uwp.edu/explore/news/Russ-Johnson-article.cfm.

For more on Charlie Kohlhase, please click: www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2013/11/18/jazz-fixture-charlie-kohlhase-continues-his-free-wheeling-explorations/O651tLuHQlDkENKvEIdXqK/story.html .

In collaboration with Adventuremusic.org -- “Dedicated to the exploration of unique live music” -- the LaFontsee Gallery recalls their halcyon days of presenting live music in the 1990’s at their former gallery, The Underground Studio. Roscoe Mitchell, Reggie Workman, Nels Cline, Regina Carter, Ken Vandermark and the late great Fred Anderson are some of the stellar improvising artists who appeared there.

The “Underground Series” will present a concert each October, then February, March and April, though the third concert in this inaugural season takes place Sunday, May 3rd at 3 p.m. with Chicago bassist Harrison Bankhead’s Quartet featuring saxophonists Mars Williams and Edward Wilkerson, Jr.; plus drummer Avreeayl Ra.

Ticket are $20 in advance, $10 for students with a student I.D. and $25 at the door. Advance tickets available only from www.adventuremusic.org . The phone number at the LaFontsee Galleries is (616) 451 – 9820. The LaFontsee Galleries are wheel chair accessible.
To find LaFontsee Galleries please see, www.lafontsee.us/ .

This concert series is curated, in part, by Lazaro Vega, Jazz Director, Blue Lake Public Radio.

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