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Alternating Currents Live Archive Alternating Currents Live: Making Sounds Musical |
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| Sunday, April 4th, at 7 p.m. Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 East Locust Street, Milwaukee $6.00 General/$5.00 Advance tickets and Members Alternating Currents Live presents: The Josh Abrams Quartet Josh Abrams - bass Axel Dorner - trumpet Guillermo Gregorio - reeds Jeff Parker - guitar Bassist Josh Abrams' quartet embodies a remarkable geographic cross section of today's free 
music. Josh Abrams studied at the Settlement School of Music in
Philadelphia and played in the band The Roots. Upon moving to Chicago,
Abrams helped form the quartet Town And Country and currently also plays
in the Nicole Mitchell Trio and the David Boykin Expanse.Guitarist Jeff Parker is well known for his work with Tortoise, Isotope 217, the Chicago Underground Orchestra and, most recently, his first album as leader, Like-Coping on Delmark. Guillermo Gregorio's work spans a lifetime of playing improvised music with Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jim O'Rourke and Anthony Braxton to name just a few, as well as a long career as a composer exploring new ideas utilizing graphic scores. Berlin-based trumpeter Axel Dorner's output as both free improvisor and composer covers multiple continents with John Butcher, Alexander von Schlippenbach and Mats Gustafsson. He can often be heard in the ensemble Die Enttauschung which devotes its performances to the music of Thelonius Monk. The music of the Josh Abrams Quartet is vividly captured on a new Delmark CD released late last year titled Cipher.  This concert is brought to you by the Alternating Currents Live series,
broadcast on WMSE (91.7) FM, Milwaukee.
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