Respect Sextet at Lovin' Cup Brews & Bistro

BOP ARTS & BOP SHOP RECORDS presents: THE RESPECT SEXTET
Saturday March 28th 8:30pmRespectSextet_FC_large
Lovin' Cup Bistro & Brews
300 Park Point Dr. Rochester NY 14623
Tickets $15 adv / $20 door / $10 student.
FORMED IN 2001, The Respect Sextet is a powerhouse ensemble dedicated to performing a wide variety of improvisational musics.

Relying on their explosive energy, rare telepathy, outstanding musicianship, and a deep friendship, Respect pieces together free improvisations, original compositions, free jazz classics, television commercial jingles, text pieces, jazz standards, game pieces and more into “a whirling collage,” shouts Exclaim! Magazine, “that ransacks and reshapes the entire jazz tradition, from New Orleans march to Misha Mengelberg, Sun Ra to Charlie Parker.” Named “one of the best and most ambitious new ensembles in jazz” by Signal to Noise, The Respect Sextet continues—after over a decade as a collective—to fearlessly push the envelope....

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BOP ARTS & BOP SHOP RECORDS presents: THE RESPECT SEXTET
Saturday March 28th 8:30pmRespectSextet_FC_large
Lovin' Cup Bistro & Brews
300 Park Point Dr. Rochester NY 14623
Tickets $15 adv / $20 door / $10 student.
FORMED IN 2001, The Respect Sextet is a powerhouse ensemble dedicated to performing a wide variety of improvisational musics.

Relying on their explosive energy, rare telepathy, outstanding musicianship, and a deep friendship, Respect pieces together free improvisations, original compositions, free jazz classics, television commercial jingles, text pieces, jazz standards, game pieces and more into “a whirling collage,” shouts Exclaim! Magazine, “that ransacks and reshapes the entire jazz tradition, from New Orleans march to Misha Mengelberg, Sun Ra to Charlie Parker.” Named “one of the best and most ambitious new ensembles in jazz” by Signal to Noise, The Respect Sextet continues—after over a decade as a collective—to fearlessly push the envelope.
Through its eclecticism, humor, devotion to improvisation, predilection towards swing, and its use of toys and “little instruments,” The Respect Sextet has drawn comparisons both to New Dutch Swing and the AACM. Many dialectics are at work (and play) in Respect’s world, in which the serious, heady, and intellectual mingle with the light, comic, and absurd, where compositions alternate and mesh with improvisations, and where tight ensemble work coexists with loose, empathic interplay.

http://respectsextet.bandcamp.com/

http://www.respectsextet.com/

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