Chris Jonas Trio at Entropy Gallery

Saxophonist Chris Jonas will present a program of his new compositions with his trio and will share the evening with Ro(b)//ert Lundberg's Addendum.

Chris Jonas is a Santa Fe, New Mexico-based composer, conductor, soprano and tenor saxophone player, filmmaker, and video artist. Jonas has performed, recorded, and toured around the world with many musicians including TILT Brass, the Crossing Choir, Del Sol String Quartet, Butch Morris, Assif Tsahar, James Emery, Myra Melford, William Parker, Cecil Taylor, and Anthony Braxton. His recent release "backwardsupwardsky" has been described by All About Jazz thusly: "Jonas' compositions are less concerned with traditional harmonic progression than with the very shapes and rhythms of the land itself...

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Saxophonist Chris Jonas will present a program of his new compositions with his trio and will share the evening with Ro(b)//ert Lundberg's Addendum.

Chris Jonas is a Santa Fe, New Mexico-based composer, conductor, soprano and tenor saxophone player, filmmaker, and video artist. Jonas has performed, recorded, and toured around the world with many musicians including TILT Brass, the Crossing Choir, Del Sol String Quartet, Butch Morris, Assif Tsahar, James Emery, Myra Melford, William Parker, Cecil Taylor, and Anthony Braxton. His recent release "backwardsupwardsky" has been described by All About Jazz thusly: "Jonas' compositions are less concerned with traditional harmonic progression than with the very shapes and rhythms of the land itself. The result is music that unfolds like terrain: patient, unpredictable and charged with elemental force". Hear it for yourself at Bandcamp.

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