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| Sunday, August 24, 7pm Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 East Locust Street, Milwaukee $8 general, $7 students and seniors, $6 members The Frode Gjerstad + Paal Nilssen-Love Duo
Saxophonist Frode Gjerstad has been playing freely improvised music internationally since his first work with English drummer John Stevens in 1981. He played and recorded regularly with John Stevens' trio Detail (with bassist Johnny Dyani) until Stevens' death in 1994. He has also recorded with Borah Berman, Bobby Bradford, William Parker, and Peter Brötzmann. Since the late 1980s he has organized the Circulasione Totale Orchestra with young Norwegian musicians incorporating electric instruments and modern rock-oriented rhythms. Gjerstad also operates his own label, Circulasione Totale. Drummer Paal Nilssen-Love has played and recorded with Peter Brötzmann, Mats Gustafsson, Evan Parker, Joe McPhee, and many others. He regularly performs in the Scandinavian trio known as The Thing with Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, Ken Vandermark's Territory Band, and Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet. His most recent US tour with Chicago-based reed player Ken Vandermark brought him to Milwaukee last June for a duo concert at the Alchemist Theater. QUOTES: "Gjerstad has a a crying alto tone that has a searing emotional directness. Starting with simple, insistent themes he skillfully builds extended improvisations out of fleet, leaping lines colored with a chilling, soulful directness. He plays with the command and authority of a mature musician who has honed a personal voice, while continuing to push in new directions." - Michael Rosenstein, Cadence
 This concert is brought to you by the Alternating Currents Live series,
broadcast on WMSE (91.7) FM, Milwaukee.
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