Fat Kid Wednesdays

Name: Fat Kid Wednesdays
Start: 2024-05-08T20:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-05-09T00:00:00-05:00
Location: 2528 Nicollet Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404, United States

Schedule

Wed May 08 2024 at 08:00 pm to Thu May 09 2024 at 12:00 am

UTC-05:00

Location

2528 Nicollet Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404, United States | Minneapolis, MN

**6PM DOORS // 8PM SHOW START // $30 ADVANCE (+fees) // $30 AT THE DOOR // $35 PREMIUM BALCONY SEATING (+fees) // $40 ICE BOX - 10 person booth seating on balcony (+fees)**
Fat Kid Wednesdays' (Michael Lewis, Saxophonist, // Adam Linz, Drummer // JT Bates, Drummer) music suggests the influences of the crucial canon of modern jazz. Lewis’s dry, metallic tone on alto and tenor and the free melodic logic of his improvisations recalls the playing of Ornette Coleman (they opened with a Coleman composition), as well as the fragmentation of mid-sixties Sonny Rollins, the quizzical assertions of the great altoist John Tchicai, and even the visionary gospel rhapsodies of Albert Ayler. Linz has a big tone, like Charlie Haden’s, strums like Jimmy Garrison, and has a sure sense of musical space like Gary Peacock. As for JT Bates, in free rhythm, his shimmering cymbals recall Sunny Murray’s work with Ayler; the tom-tom groove is like the one Ed Blackwell got with Coleman; and, when he plays on an ethereally introverted modernistic piece, he sounds like a one-man Art Ensemble of Chicago, ready to use anything for the right sound—chopsticks, chains, his hands, and even the nub of a drumstick, which he rubs on cymbals to make them whisper as if butterflies were beating their wings upon them.