Jack Wright - Evan Lipson - Jonah Gelbart: Almost Music
Schedule
Tue Jun 02 2026 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
1307 Dodds Ave, Chattanooga, TN, United States, Tennessee 37404 | Chattanooga, TN
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These three will be making a Southeast tour in May and June 2026 that will involve collaborations with a variety of musicians in the South, All together, it's a kind of rolling festival involving ten musicians, not to mention sessions along the way. Participating musicians at Barking Legs will be drawn from frequent collaborators Brady Sharp, Bruce Kaplan, Randy Smith, Ernie Paik and Jon Brummit.Jack Wright (b. 1942) is a musician described as playing "post-electronic saxophone, and dedicated to to free playing since 1979. Described thirty years ago as an "undergrounder by design," he is a veteran improviser based mainly in Philadelphia. He has played mostly on tour through the US and Europe since the early 80s in search of interesting partners and playing situations. Now at 83 he is still the "Johnny Appleseed of Free Improvisation," as guitarist Davey Williams called him in the 80s, on the road as much as ever. He continues to inspire players outside music-school careerdom, playing sessions with visiting and resident players old and new. He's said to have the widest vocabulary of any saxophonist, including leaping pitches, punchy, precise timing, sharp and intrusive multiphonics, surprising gaps of silence, and obscene animalistic sounds. Apart from interviews, for a true assessment of his and his partners music and for links to his writings (including The Free Musics) go here: Spring Garden Music,
Evan Lipson (b. 1981) has lived with the incurable disease of music since early adolescence, seeking the liminal realms in which intellect and instinct, history and myth, and creative and destructive force intersect. Drawn towards aberrant perspectives at an early age, his formative activities were primarily rooted in extreme and discordant forms stemming from various traditions of “underground” and ancient musics. He may or may not have some degree of affiliation with Rev. Fred Lane in addition to a social scientific think tank known as MEINSCHAFT.
“It's Disaster Amnesiac's wish that in, say, one hundred years, musicians such as Evan Lipson and their contributions to a truly creative culture are discussed and valued.” -Mark Pino (Disaster Amnesiac)
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