JAZZ FUNK FEST at The Talking Stick

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At 6pm, BLUE MOON CRESCENT - Vet jazz bassist Ollie Steinberg and drummer extraordinare Moon Orangest combine improv forces with guests to merge outness and inward sonics. Think Fred Frith & Derek Bailey's bicycle built for fools colliding into Carl Palmer & Ansley Dunbar's repair shop as Tex Avery projects psychedelic animation at Hollis Frampton's drive-in theater of the absurd, all over the cosmic moonshine of Sun Ra. With experimental films. Turn your eye into an ear.

At 7pm, MAP - Steve Binder, Gerry Fialka & guests improvise live music (with avant garde films) evoking sonic sculptures that drive through the known boundaries of consciousness and unconsciousness. GPS may let you down, but MAP never will. ...

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We Invite You to Come in Costume

At 6pm, BLUE MOON CRESCENT - Vet jazz bassist Ollie Steinberg and drummer extraordinare Moon Orangest combine improv forces with guests to merge outness and inward sonics. Think Fred Frith & Derek Bailey's bicycle built for fools colliding into Carl Palmer & Ansley Dunbar's repair shop as Tex Avery projects psychedelic animation at Hollis Frampton's drive-in theater of the absurd, all over the cosmic moonshine of Sun Ra. With experimental films. Turn your eye into an ear.

At 7pm, MAP - Steve Binder, Gerry Fialka & guests improvise live music (with avant garde films) evoking sonic sculptures that drive through the known boundaries of consciousness and unconsciousness. GPS may let you down, but MAP never will.

At 8pm, BLACK SHOE POLISH. Within the free collective BSP, words that should never be said collide with notes that should never be played. Fiery poetic painter Rex Butters slap sense into words through multi-dimensional discourse. Gerry Fialka, Tad Derry, Paulie Dee, and guests combine fantastical funky fretwork with keyboards and a cauldron of controlled chaos, creating ink stained improvisational interplay. Spoken Word and Free Improvisation as it was never meant to be, Black Shoe Polish reconvenes the Inconceivable with righteous rascality.

At 9pm, Lyrical multi-instrumentalist ERIC AHLBERG'S JAZZ WORKSHOP recall the explorations of Public Enemy, Hank Williams, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, George Carlin and John Coltrane with tasty world beat tangents.

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