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| Sunday, May 25, 7pm Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 East Locust Street, Milwaukee $8 general, $7 students and seniors, $6 members The Chicago-Luzern Exchange
Josh Berman - cornet Keefe Jackson - tenor saxophone Marc Unternaeher - tuba Frank Rosaly - drums The Chicago Luzern Exchange consists of three musicians from Chicago: Josh Berman (cornet), Keefe Jackson (tenor sax), Frank Rosaly (drums) and one from Switzerland: Mark Unternahrer (tuba). The ensemble formed when the Chicagoans met tubaist Marc Unternaeher, a native of the Swiss city of Luzern, who was spending five months in Chicago in 2002 as part of a "sister cities" program. With Berman (a native Chicagoan), Jackson (originally from Arkansas), and Rosaly (from Arizona but a Chicagoan since 2001) he realized he had met musicians with whom he found common cause. Their first album together Several Lights, recorded for Delmark Records on a later visit in 2005, was widely reviewed as one of the best records of 2005. Three fourths of this quartet appeared at Woodland Pattern last year as part of the Keefe Jackson’s Fast Citizens. On the group's Delmark recording Several Lights (2005): "... the players deliver feather-stroke free improvisation that's so deft and intuitive is feels almost composed, casually combining the muted tones and understated gestures of 50s west-coast jazz with thoroughly contemporary rumbles, snorts, and whinnies."  This concert is brought to you by the Alternating Currents Live series,
broadcast on WMSE (91.7) FM, Milwaukee.
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