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The Gold Watch Trio Sunday, November 29, 2009, 7pm featuring Glenn Kotche - drums Jason Roebke - double bass John Corbett - guitar Glenn Kotche's virtuosity as a percussionist has been heralded by The Chicago Tribune for his "unfailing taste, technique and discipline." His eclectic performances and original compositions have explored the creative use of rhythm and space through various percussion projects the past 20 years. His various stints with groups and ensembles have resulted in participation on over 80 albums to date, including three recorded solo works: Introducing, Next, and Mobile (the last released on Nonesuch Records). In 2007, the Kronos Quartet premiered Kotche's Anomaly, a 25 minute, 7 movement piece at the San Francisco Jazz Festival. In the midst of composing for his solo efforts, Kotche joined the rock band, Wilco in 2001. Since joining as drummer/percussionist, Wilco's accomplishments include "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot", "A Ghost Is Born", the live double record "Kicking Television", and most recently "Wilco (the album)." He also records and performs as one half of experimental jazz duo On Fillmore and as one third of the trio Loose Fur with Jim O'Rourke and Jeff Tweedy. glennkotche.com
John Corbett's unique voice as an improvising guitarist and turntablist is often eclipsed by his more high profile endeavors as a concert and radio producer, visual arts curator, author and music critic, director of Atavistic Records' Unheard Music series, and co-owner of the gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago. As an acoustic guitarist he has performed and recorded with Mats Gustafsson, Terri Kapsalis, Torsten Mueller, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Guillermo Gregorio and many others. He has release several discs of studio-based compositions in collaboration with David Grubbs, Hamid Drake, Lou Mallozzi, Mats Gustafsson, Davey Williams, and others. He has performed in concert with members of the Nihilist Spasm Band, Alan Licht, Thurston Moore, and Michael Snow. He most recently has contributed the musical soundscape to a collaborative theater piece with Terri Kapsalis and Danny, presenting a live version of Terri Kapsalis' book The Hysterical Alphabet. The diversity of Jason Roebke's musical associations make him one of the most sought after bassists in Chicago. He leads the electro-acoustic ensemble tigersmilk (with Rob Mazurek and Dylan van der Schyff), co-leads the modular music and dance unit Art Union Humanscape (with Ayako Kato, Tim Barnes, Michiyo Yagi), and the brutal post-drone trio overova (with Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jason Adasiewicz). Roebke is also a member of various jazz bands including the Jeb Bishop Trio, Fred Lonberg-Holm's Valentine Trio, Klang, the Keefe Jackson Quartet, Mike Reed's People, Places, and Things, Jorrit Dijkstra's Flatlands Collective, and Jason Adasiewicz's Rolldow. www.jasonroebke.info As a musician, Glenn Kotche is devoted to playing exactly what the song needs—whether the rhythm is extremely complicated or supremely simple. And he'll do so using only one or two pieces of his drumset, or a vast array of percussive devices, at times providing a mind-blowing spectrum of sonic colors and textures." (Jim DeRogatis, Modern Drummer, 2005)
"Roebke often provides tiny gestures of rhythmic intrigue, bowing brief harmonics, sometimes in an altogether different register, filling the sound almost to a quiet breaking point." (Dusted, March 2009)  This concert is brought to you by the Alternating Currents Live series, broadcast on WMSE (91.7) FM, Milwaukee.
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