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Peter Brötzmann + Heather Leigh at La Peg

Courtesy of Mark Christman | Posted on April 1, 2016

Where

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

When

Wed, May 25, 2016
8:00 pm

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Musicians

Heather Leigh
guitar, steel

About

Ars Nova Workshop is honored to present a rare meeting between saxophonist Peter Brötzmann and pedal steel guitarist Heather Leigh, whose partnership began at last year’s Tectonics Festival in Glasgow.

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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