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Peter Brötzmann & Heather Leigh at La Peg

Courtesy of Mark Christman | Posted on February 22, 2017

Where

La Peg
140 N. Columbus Blvd
Philadelphia, PA
Map
(215) 375-7744

When

Thu, June 8, 2017
8:00 pm

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Musicians

Heather Leigh
guitar, steel

About

Ars Nova Workshop is honored to present the return of saxophonist Peter Brötzmann and pedal steel guitarist Heather Leigh.

Peter Brötzmann (b. 1941) has been a polarizing figure in global free jazz since the late 1960s. A painter by trade, Brötzmann applied lessons learned from Sidney Bechet, the proverbial American holy trinity — Coltrane, Sanders, Ayler — and Fluxus (he was a card-carrying member) to a primordial tenor sax caterwaul that even Bill Clinton couldn’t deny. Nate Chinen writes, “Mr. Brötzmann is famous for a hardheaded, fulminating style devoid of any trace of bathos. Trying to describe it sends you grasping for overheated metaphors: blowtorches, hellfires, certain Congressional libidos.”...

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