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Alternating Currents Live Archive Alternating Currents Live: Making Sounds Musical |
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 Sunday, April 3, 2005, 7pmWoodland Pattern Book Center 720 East Locust Street, Milwaukee Alternating Currents Live presents: Aoki / Wilkerson / Zerang TRIO Tatsu Aoki - bass Edward L. Wilkerson, Jr. - reeds Michael Zerang - drums Tatsu Aoki is one of the most recorded, talked-about bassists on the Chicago music scene. A prolific artist, composer, musician, educator and a consummate bassist, he works in a wide range of musical styles, ranging from traditional Asian music and jazz, to creative free and experimental music. Aoki is founder and artistic director of the Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival, which debuted in October 1996 and has had six straight successful seasons. Aoki has recorded seven solo bass albums, nine duet albums with various other artists, 15 ensemble works, and has appeared as a guest artist on over 70 other albums internationally. With works ranging from solo to larger ensemble, from mainstream to avant garde, Aoki has worked with many musical legends, including Fred Anderson, Von Freeman, George Freeman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Don Moye, Mwata Bowden, John Watson, Sonny Seals and Francis Wong. Edward L. Wilkerson, Jr. is an internationally recognized composer, arranger, musician, and educator based in Chicago. As founder and director of the cutting edge octet, 8 BOLD SOULS, and the 25 member performance ensemble, SHADOW VIGNETTES , Wilkerson has toured festivals and concert halls throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and the Middle East. "Defender," a large-scale piece for Shadow Vignettes, was commissioned by the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund and featured in the 10th Anniversary of New Music America, a presentation of BAM's Next Wave Festival. Wilkerson, past president and longtime member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), teaches composition at the AACM School of Music. Michael Zerang has been a professional musician, composer, and producer since 1976, focusing extensively on improvised music, free jazz, contemporary composition, and international musical forms. He has collaborated extensively with contemporary theater, dance, and other multidisciplinary forms and has received three Joseph Jefferson Awards for Original Music Composition in Theater, in 1996, 1998, and 2000. He has over forty titles in his discography and has toured nationally and internationally since 1981 with and ever-widening pool of collaborators. He has performed in our Alternating Currents Live series in the past with Hamid Drake, Fred Anderson, Mats Gustaffson, Jaap Blonk, John Butcher, Steve Nelson-Raney, Nathaniel Mackey, and Jim Baker.  This concert is brought to you by the Alternating Currents Live series,
broadcast on WMSE (91.7) FM, Milwaukee.
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