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Alternating Currents Live presents Jason Stein: solo bass clarinet Sunday, June 3, 7pm $8 / $7 / $6  Jason Stein is one of the few musicians working today to focus entirely on the bass clarinet. He studied at Bennington College with Charles Gayle and Milford Graves, and at the University of Michigan with Donald Walden and Ed Sarath. In 2005, Stein moved to Chicago and has since recorded for such labels as Leo, Delmark, Atavistic, 482 Music, and Clean Feed. Stein has performed throughout the US and Europe, including performances in festivals in Lisbon, Cracow, Utrecht, and Barcelona. He has performed with a number of U.S. and international musicians including Jeff Parker, Rudi Mahall, Ken Vandermark, Rob Mazurek, Jeb Bishop, Urs Leimgruber, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Kent Kessler, Michael Zerang, and Peter Brotzman. His most recent recording, The Story This Time (Delmark) is highly praised and features his quartet of Joshua Abrams, Frank Rosaly, and Keefe Jackson.
"Limiting his textural explorations to striking accents and petulant asides, Stein punctuates circuitous thematic variations with brusque squalls and split tones. His predilection for dramatically constructed arcs reveals the influence of former teacher David Murray.... Avoiding clichéd register leaps, Stein prefers to navigate the middle and upper regions of his horn with a pliant, fragile lyricism that occasionally recalls Harry Carney and Coleman Hawkins." - Troy Collins, Point of Departure
"Jason Stein stands apart from the standard instrumental lineage. Whereas a player like Eric Dolphy or Michel Portal builds on wide intervallic leaps and verticality, Stein operates in a horizontal fashion, favoring a breadth of twists and turns more sideways than anything else, woven into a post-Ornette fabric."
- Clifford Allen, All About Jazz  This concert is brought to you by the Alternating Currents Live series, broadcast on WMSE (91.7) FM, Milwaukee.
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