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Alternating Currents Live Archive Alternating Currents Live: Making Sounds Musical |
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| Sunday, December 5, 7pm Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 East Locust Street, Milwaukee $6.00 General/$5.00 Advance tickets and Members 
Alternating Currents Live presents: The David Boykin Expanse David Boykin - reeds and spoken word Nicole Mitchell - flute Jim Baker - piano Mike Reed - drums Alex Wing - electric bass David Boykin returns to Alternating Currents Live with his energy-charged quintet The Expanse featuring Nicole Mitchell, Jim Baker, Mike Reed and Alex Wing. Rooted in the hard swinging tradition of musicians like Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker, composer and saxophonist David Boykin is one of the most innovative and exciting musicians on Chicago's remarkably diverse music scene. Like Sun Ra and Ornette Coleman, his music challenges and expands the common aesthetics used to define beauty in music. He has performed with many world reknown creative musicians, including Malachi Favors, Kahil El' Zabar, Leroy Jenkins, Ari Brown, Nicole Mitchell and Hamid Drake. David Boykin is the cofounder (with fellow composer and life partner, flutist Nicole Mitchell) of Dreamtime Records, releasing in 2001 the CD "The Nextspiritmental Musics of Saxophonist David Boykin." His large ensemble, the Expanse, formed in 2001, performed on the main stage of the Chicago Jazz Festival and toured France and Russia in 2002. "David Boykin belongs to an expansive tradition of hard-blowing Chicago saxophonists that stretches from beboppers Gene Ammons and Johnny Griffin to hard boppers Eddie Harris and Clifford Jordan through postbop freedom fighters like Fred Anderson, Roscoe Mitchell, and Ken Vandermark. He has a big, blowsy tone and a swaggering style, both best heard on his album The Nextspiritmental Musics of Saxophonist David Boykin (released by his own Dreamtime label). " - Neil Tesser, Chicago Reader "David Boykin...is someone sure of his place in the jazz firmament. Using what must be a very thick reed on the sax, he produces a raw, rugged, masculine tone that only occasionally introduces freak notes. He's definitely influenced by Sonny Rollins—who spent time woodshedding in Chicago. The way he sometimes slips and slides off the notes is also reminiscent of Johnny Griffin, another Chicago-born tenor icon, who did his share of those prog bop sessions."- Ken Waxman, Jazz Weekly  This concert is brought to you by the Alternating Currents Live series,
broadcast on WMSE (91.7) FM, Milwaukee.
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