Andrew Trim (album release) with Laurenzi/Cunningham/Bryan

 

$15 adv/ $20 at the door (advance sales until 3pm day of show, then available at the door). Doors at 6pm, showtime 7pm

Andrew Trim - guitar

Daniel Van Deurm - wurlitzer, synths

Barry Paul Clark - electric bass

Nick Lang - drums

Soaring melodies and psychedelic jazz flurries of electric guitar guide a sonically charged quartet grounded firmly in the Chicago sound. Swirling group improvisations explore haunting, timeless musical landscapes with peak immediacy.

Midwestern guitarist Andrew Trim spent the last decade working primarily as a leader of his Chicago based avant jazz groups Hanami (Charles Rumback, Jason Stein, Mai Sugimoto) and Dim Lighting (Devin Drobka, Kurt Schweitz) and as a sideman with a variety of other midwest groups including The Aluminum Group, Ted Sirota’s Heavyweight Dub, Rock Falls and Lady Cannon. Backed by a brand new rhythm section that developed material with Trim on a monthly gig in Milwaukee and contributions from Chicago keyboardist and Daniel Van Deurm, Trim brings his new group on the road to share the music from new instrumental album Retroreflector

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\”A flurry of ensnaring rhythms and lively psychedelia. The quartet dwell from a place of immediacy and intention, reaching mesmerizing altitudes through precise creative communication.\” - Breaking & Entering

\”The jazz quartet compositions are tight, yet allow enough space for Trim\’s fuzz-driven guitar to sprawl. There\’s a real driving at dusk past corn fields atmosphere, pulsed forward by a steady rhythm section.\” - Lars Gotrich, NPR Music

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Jeremy Cunningham - drums, percussion

Dustin Laurenzi - saxophone, OP-1, electronics

Paul Bryan - electric bass, synth

Drummer Jeremy Cunningham and saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi have been near-inseparable collaborators for years, working in countless groups together across Chicago’s vibrant jazz community. Their new album A Better Ghost finds them in collaboration with Los Angeles-based bassist/producer Paul Bryan, and is the product of phone-recorded improvisations and experiments dating back to 2017. With Laurenzi creating sequences and samples on the OP-1 synthesizer while on the road with Bon Iver, and Cunningham developing drum parts and melodic fragments, the two began finding a distinct direction to take the work, sharpening and editing these snippets into cohesive compositions.

While Cunningham and Laurenzi have collaborated this way for years, they decided to add Los Angeles based musician Paul Bryan, the Grammy-winning producer, engineer, and bassist (Jeff Parker, Aimee Mann, Lucinda Williams) who co-produced Cunningham’s Northern Spy debut 2019 LP The Weather Up There to finish these pieces. Adding bass parts and a producer’s ear to these songs, Bryan’s vital contributions were the missing link. “Paul really understood the vision of our music and added so much to what we’d already recorded. At a certain point it was a no-brainer to expand the duo to a trio” says Laurenzi. On A Better Ghost, there’s a euphoric melding of Chicago and LA’s jazz worlds present with features from prolific saxophonist Josh Johnson, legendary drummer Jay Bellerose, and Cunningham’s Resavoir bandmate and leader, trumpeter Will Miller. The resulting tracks are the product of years-long collaborators expanding their deep chemistry.

$15 adv/ $20 at the door (advance sales until 3pm day of show, then available at the door). Doors at 6pm, showtime 7pm