MUSIC

Grizzler, big band of experimental improv!

Set 1
For Grizzler, by Jack Callahan
Wave functions 1, by Forbes Graham
The Order of Things, by gdg

Set 2
Selections from Scream, by Cornelius Cardew

Set 3
Free improvisations by Grizzler
Gizzler is any or all of: Dave Gross, saxophone, LPs, Steve Norton,
reeds, Forbes Graham, trumpet, Michael Rosenstein, electronics, Lou
Bunk, assorted paraphernalia, Morgan Evans-Weiler, violin, David
Michael Curry, strings and electronics, Jack Callahan, percussion, Vic
Rawlings, cello/curcits, Jules Vasylenko, winds, Lou Cohen, wiimote,
laptop, Angela Sawyer, gadgets, electronics, Jed Speare, laptop/field
recordings, Joshua Jefferson, reeds, Matt Samolis, flute, Flandrew
Fleisenberg, percussion, Poly Hanson, percussion
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Program Notes and Bios

Grizzler is a large improvising band organized around a diverse group
of Boston's best musicians. Individually and in other groups, these
musicians have developed their own strategies for music making. In
Grizzler, we each try to stay true to our own individual voices while
creating a collective, spontaneous composition.

Forbes Graham is a trumpet player, composer, and electronic musician
currently based in the Boston area. He grew up in Silver Spring, MD
studying and performing jazz, classical, and concert band music. As a
teenager he discovered heavy metal and hardcore punk, genres which
influence his pursuit of extreme sound to this day. His music is also
influenced by numerology, poetry, cinema, marching bands, and the 80s
in general (the era in which he grew up). He has performed at Festival
of New Trumpet, Vision Festival, High Zero, amongst others.

Jack Callahan, Amherst resident, solo percussionist and booker of
countless basement shows. His music aims to create a total sonic
takeover of the space, always by employing silence to gather souls
towards a complete ecstatic takeover. (or, sometimes by). Sometimes you
will ask, "is this record still playing"? Yes it is still playing.

Called "One of Boston's steadfast explorers," by the Boston Globe,
saxophonist David Gross has been performing for more than a decade.
Among a slew of others whose names are perhaps not as recognizable,
Mr.Gross has performed with Phil Minton, Eddie Prevost, Steve Roden,
John Olson, Gino Robair, Martin Tetreault, Tom Carter, Glenn Spearman,
Raphe Malik and many members of the Boston free-improv scene including
Bhob Rainey, Greg Kelley, and Laurence Cook. Currently, Gross is
transforming the saxophone into exactly what it is: a metal tube with
keys, mouthpiece, and a reed. Reviews of his recordings have been as
varied as "The range of textured noise that he cajoles from his
instrument is impressive" to "lengthy episodes of fingernails ripping
at a blackboard" and recently "the intimacy with which he approaches
the saxophone, each screw in each latch, every fiber in the reed, every
pad or valve, and all the negative space in between, is simply
astounding". Gross has performed throughout the US and Europe including
at festivals as diverse as The KNOB (Wichita, KS), Big Sur Festival of
Experimental Music (CA), High Zero (Baltimore, MD), Improvised and
Otherwise (NYC), The No Idea Fest (Austin, TX) and Autumn Uprising
(Boston, MA) which he created in 1997. His most recent disk ,
'untitled(or not yet)' (1pt8 seconds) a studio recording with James
Coleman(theremin), Mike Bullock (contrabass) and Steve Roden
(electronics) was just released. Future releases include a live
re-issue of his band FETISH, with bassist Mike Bullock and
percussionsit Tatsuya Nakatani (Weirdo Records) as well as his second
solo disk 'this is the grizzle' (1pt8 seconds).