Rob Mazurek's Black Cube SP (São Paulo Underground + Thomas Rohrer) at The Krannert Center For The Performing Arts

The Krannert Center for the Performing Arts welcomes back composer and cornetist Rob Mazurek (voted musician of the year by Italian jazz magazine Musica Jazz), with his latest ensemble Black Cube SP, which features his long standing trio São Paulo Underground, with the addition of Thomas Rohrer, master of the keening rabeca (Brazilian viola).

This quartet features Mazurek on cornet and electronics, Mauricio Takara on drums, electronics and cavaquinho (Brazilian ukelele), Guilherme Granado on keyboard, synths, and sampler, and Thomas Rohrer on rabeca (Brazilian viola) and soprano saxophone. ...

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The Krannert Center for the Performing Arts welcomes back composer and cornetist Rob Mazurek (voted musician of the year by Italian jazz magazine Musica Jazz), with his latest ensemble Black Cube SP, which features his long standing trio São Paulo Underground, with the addition of Thomas Rohrer, master of the keening rabeca (Brazilian viola).

This quartet features Mazurek on cornet and electronics, Mauricio Takara on drums, electronics and cavaquinho (Brazilian ukelele), Guilherme Granado on keyboard, synths, and sampler, and Thomas Rohrer on rabeca (Brazilian viola) and soprano saxophone.

This is a record release show promoting the group's debut record, Return the Tides, on Cuneiform Records.

* This is a free concert

Listen to a full track of Return the Tides courtesy of The Wire magazine: http://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/listen_rob-mazurek-and-black-cube-sp_s-return-the-tides

"4 1/2 Stars" - DownBeat

"Mazurek's cornet playing, always affecting and timbrally luminous, achieves the paradox of being simultaneously corporeal and ethereal." —  The Wire 

"Mazurek's most personal and poignant offering to date; cathartic and compelling, it combines avant-garde jazz expressionism, bold electronic experimentation and hypnotic Tropicália rhythms with a profound spirituality." — All About Jazz 

"Nothing less than an aural spirit quest.” — Jazz Times 

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