Co - presented with World Again.
The trio of alto saxophonist Jarrett Gilgore, bassist Luke Stewart, and percussionist Ian McColm is something of a trinity of the finest free jazz improvisers in the region. If you've seen Heart of the Ghost in concert, then you know—Gilgore, Stewart, and McColm's performances feel like a kind of séance, with the trio locked into a musical conversation with one another.
Though Gilgore's skronked-out sax wailings anchor the tracks, no one part is greater than the sum of the whole. McColm's inventive percussion techniques feel like a rhythm from another world, and Stewart—easily one of the most prolific and talented bassists in the region, if not the entire country—takes his instrument to new dimensions." - Matt Cohen/Washington Citypaper "
"...But free music is about right now, wherever you are at, anyplace that the right players get together and play. If you have a chance to hear Washington, D.C. trio Heart of the Ghost, rest assured that you’ve found another portal into the creative vortex that spontaneously lifts hearts, minds and bands off the stand. Their freewheeling improvisations tap into the same defiant spirit decanted by Mingus and the Minutemen, which is to say that the freedom is in the playing, but it’s also a conscious reaction to the ways in which people are not free. You can hear protest in alto saxophonist Jarrett Gilgore’s brays and peppery interjections. You can hear mourning and defiant creation in bassist Luke Stewart’s continually shifting frameworks of woody-toned dark motion. And you can hear the moment-to-moment dance necessary to keep it moving or just keep standing in drummer Ian McColm’s shifting tonal surfaces and rhythmic cascades."-Bill Meyer/Dusted
John Moran, Webb Crawford & Joey Sullivan trio:
John Moran has been a part of Maya Keren’s trio with Julian Miltenberger, Micah Graves’ group, as well as playing in bands like Bark Culture, EAT, Guitars and Drums, and Ceiba, both of the latter alongside Joey Sullivan.
Joey Sullivan is active in both setting up some very successful free music showings as well as playing with an array of east coast improvisers. Playing drums in out music groups like Bark Culture & Violet Salon III with James McKain as well as playing in active alt-folk groups like Florry.
Webb Crawford (They/them)
I’m a guitarist and instrument-builder. I like playing free-improvised music, Piedmont-style fingerpicking, and percussive/noisy stuff. I’ve built stringed instruments ranging from electric guitars, basses and mandolins to modern reconstructions of historical instruments and instruments made from repurposed materials or found objects. In 2017, I worked with the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art to restore the instruments of Gunnar Schonbeck as part of an interactive exhibit. I built replicas of Schonbeck’s “Triangular cellos” for Bennington College, and participate in instrument-building workshops with Hastings-on-Hudson based collective Bash the Trash.
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