Concerts

Jhababa (James R. Cobb) is a former rock drummer who comes from a lineage of Texas musicians that include Bloodrock, Lost Gonzo Band, 13th Floor Elevators, Don Henley, and Armadillo World HQ. These days he is a composer of ambient art songs, with an affinity for simple motifs extended through various methods of spectral synthesis, …

Wrapping up a year-long effort, Seattle composer, cellist/bassist, and visual artist Paul Rucker celebrates the completion of Project 12, in which he set out to create a year of monthly visual art exhibits. The evening features two sets of music: solo cello, and a quintet with Isaac Marshal (flute, mbira), Neil Gitkind (trombone), Bill Horist …

Katsura Yamauchi has been active in the free jazz scene in Japan for nearly three decades, playing with notable improvisers such as Otomo Yoshihide, Toshinori Kondo, Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink, Barre Phillips, and Michel Doneda. Playing every member of the saxophone family, he is known for his intimate explorations of music in nature – he …

Co-presented with Subtext. Listen to an interview with Alison by Jen Graves of the Stranger. Alison Knowles makes performances, books, poems, and visual artworks. Since the 1960s she has been a key participant in Fluxus, an international group of artists working in/across various disciplines. For her first appearance in Seattle, she presents North Water Song, …

Presented by Nonsequitur and Earshot Jazz Festival. Reviewed in the Seattle P-I. Czech violinist/vocalist Iva Bittová performs a kind of “personal folk music” that blooms in a fertile sonic delta where Eastern European folk, contemporary classical, improvisation, and rock traditions meet. Her vocal elasticity matches her instrumental and compositional skill, note for breathtaking note. In …