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Peter Brötzmann / Joe McPhee Duo at Waller Creek School Auditorium
Courtesy of Pedro Moreno | Posted on May 22, 2013
Where
Waller Creek School Auditorium
719 E. 41st
Austin, TX
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When
Fri, May 31, 2013
8PM
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Musicians
Peter Brötzmann
woodwindsJoe McPhee
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Epistrophy Arts presents the debut performance of free music icons Peter Brötzmann and Joe McPhee.
admission $17 advance plus service charge @ http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/390340
Epistrophy Arts is proud to present this unique collaboration between two Free Jazz heavyweights, the German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann and the American saxophonist and trumpeter Joe McPhee.
Peter Brötzmann "has abundant nonstandard technique, a vocabulary, but what impresses in his playing isn't the execution so much as the force of presence. He recently turned 70, and he sounds almost invincible,” writes the New York Times. Brötzmann is the most vital European Free Jazz musician of his generation. His 1967 album, Machine Gun, remains the most celebrated document of the early-Free Jazz movement, and ever since, Brötzmann has pushed the boundaries of jazz experimentation. He has worked with Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, Willem Breuker, Andrew Cyrille, Anthony Braxton, and Evan Parker, and has led numerous large ensembles since the 1960s, including the Chicago Tentet. He received the Vision Fest's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011, and was the subject of two documentary films released in the same year. ...