| 2006
april | mayTuesday April 4 • 8:00 p.m.
The Rempis Percussion Quartet
 Hallwalls 341 Delaware Ave. Buffalo$10 general, $8 Hallwalls members, students and seniors Dave Rempis (alto/baritone saxophones) Anton Hatwich (bass) Tim Daisy (drums) Frank Rosaly (drums) Dave Rempis has emerged, over the past few years, as one of the most active young players on Chicago's improvised music scene. His work with the Vandermark Five has been noted in the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Reader, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Down Beat, as well as the Boston Globe, in which noted jazz critic Bob Blumenthal referred to him as the band's "primary firebreather." It has also given him the opportunity to perform extensively in clubs, concert halls, and festivals throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe. His own work, most intensively with Triage (with Jason Ajemian and Tim Daisy) and The Rempis Percussion Quartet (with Anton Hatwich, Tim Daisy and Frank Rosaly), has been called "ever more impressive" by Lloyd Sachs of the Sun-Times, and pushes him in directions which his work as a sideman does not approach. In addition to these two groups, Rempis plays regularly with The Territory Band, The Crisis Ensemble, The Chicago Improvisers Group, and The Thread Quintet, and has worked with Paul Lytton, Axel Dörner, Hamid Drake, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Michael Zerang, Jim Baker, Kevin Drumm, Paal Nilsson-Love, Chris Jonas, Tony Buck, and Joe Morris.  Sunday April 23 • 8:00 p.m.
Tim Berne's Big Satan
 Hallwalls 341 Delaware Ave. Buffalo $12 general, $10 Hallwalls members, students and seniors Tim Berne (alto/baritone saxophone) Marc Ducret (electric guitar) Tom Rainey (drums) Alto saxophonist / composer Tim Berne's been an enormous presence in improvised music for over twenty-five years. Although he didn't pick up the alto until he was nineteen years old, he had moved to New York City and begun lessons with his great mentor Julius Hemphill by the time he was 20, in 1974. Berne's been notable for his do-it-yourself spirit and his decidedly untimid willingness to get out there and play: he was performing as a leader and releasing records like his debut The Five Year Plan by 1979, effectively doing a great deal of his musical development in the public eye. Berne spent some time recording for Columbia Records and a longer time at JMT (for which he recorded the classic Fractured Fairy Tales in 1989 as well as seminal albums by his revered groups Miniature and bloodcount). This decade has seen Berne run his own record label Screwgun while performing and recording prolifically with groups like Hard Cell, Science Friction and Paraphrase. The above synopsis hardly covers a career as productive and interesting as Berne's... Read on: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=20295 "...this (Big Satan) is an ear assault that thrives on Ducret's spectacular technique and the churning rhythms of Rainey, who is always ready with dynamic, hard-kicking grooves that seem to defy drum logic. With respect to Ducret specifically, he seems to be the perfect foil for Berne, sparring with the saxophonist and shooting sparks of his own with each twist of the song's content and structure..." –Jay Collins, One Final Note Wednesday April 26 • 8:00 p.m.
Will Redman's Book
 Hallwalls 341 Delaware Ave. Buffalo $5 suggested donation Premiere of Will Redman's Book performed by a 12-piece version of the Open Music Ensemble featuring: Soloists: Steve Baczkowski (bass clarinet, baritone sax), John Dierker (bass clarinet, tenor sax), Todd Whitman (baritone sax, saw) Bird With Strings: Otto Muller (electric piano, accordion), Chris Reba (contrabass, electronics), Will Redman (drums, vibraphone), Bill Sack (electric guitar, oboe) and Josh DeScherer (contrabass), Ben Harris (violin), Leah Muir (cello), J.T. Rinker (trumpet), Andrew Walsh (contrabassoon) ...over 100 separate pages of confounding music arranged for a plethora of Buffalo's heartiest sonic adventurers. Saturday May 27 • 8:00 p.m.
Todd Whitman with Bill Sack and Will Redman 
Hallwalls341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo $8 general, $5 Hallwalls members, students and seniors Todd Whitman (reeds, bowed saw, megaphone) Bill Sack (electric guitar, prepared guitar) Will Redman (drums, percussion) "The first set of the very first High Zero Festival (Baltimore, '99) featured the primordial, guttural saxophonics of Todd Whitman, one of the most exciting and yet under-documented experimental horn players in the country. If the majority of free improvisation evokes the subconscious, Todd Whitman is the Id. His music is monstrous and explosive with a directness that is frightening. A highly idiosyncratic player and multi-instrumentalist with an enormously personal approach to extended technique, Whitman has been active in the field of improvised music for over twenty years and has been a strong influence on improvisors like Jack Wright, Greg Pierce, and Michael Johnsen." – High Zero
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