Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 8:00 pm
$15 general admission, $12 students/seniors, $10 members
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Michael Foster - saxophones, compositions
John Moran - bass
Joey Sullivan - drums, percussion
"The Ghost was formed as both a tribute to my disparate influences in free jazz, harsh noise, and the gay underground community, and as a middle finger to the suffocating heteronormative establishment of improvised music. "Vanished Pleasures" stands as a new direction for this project, utilizing overt compositional frameworks to convey the anxieties of aging, sexual freedom, and the power relations inherent in the sax-bass-drums format. The title comes from Derek Jarman's "The Garden," referring to the vanished pleasures of untethered, youthful sexuality and the friends whose lives were cut short" (Michael Foster).
Michael McNeill is a pianist, improviser, and composer from Western New York. Since returning to Buffalo in 2023, he’s appeared frequently in chamber music settings, with Tediyra Barton-Harris, Evan Courtin, Megan Kyle, Katie Weissman, and others. Also active in the area’s jazz scene, he can be heard around the city with Alex McArthur, John Bacon, Griff Kazmierczak, Dave Phillips, and the Buffalo Jazz Composers Workshop. His quartet Allegories — featuring pedal steel guitar innovator Susan Alcorn, trumpet virtuoso Dave Ballou, and exploratory percussionist Shelly Purdy — toured in 2022 and 2023 and will release an album in mid-2024.
Katie Weissman is a prolific cellist in myriad projects in Western New York and beyond. She works with the Little Cake Cover Band, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, contemporary music ensemble Wooden Cities, the composition think-tank Evolution of the Arm, free jazz group Root Cellar, folk-rock bands TEOA and Birddog, and various other chamber music outfits in the Western New York area. She has toured at home and abroad and has lent her playing to many recording projects in the studio, including multiple albums and stage performances by Buffalo's own Goo Goo Dolls. She teaches privately in her own studio and currently lives in Williamsville with her dogs, rabbits, and parakeet.
more info at: https://michaelfoster.bandcamp.com/album/vanished-pleasures