Joe Morris/Dan Blacksberg/Carlos Santiago trio + Inverse & Obverse

Name: Joe Morris/Dan Blacksberg/Carlos Santiago trio + Inverse & Obverse
Start: 2025-04-05T20:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-05T22:00:00-04:00
Location: The Rotunda

Schedule

Sat Apr 05 2025 at 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

The Rotunda | Philadelphia, PA

Co-presented with People's Music Supply & Philly Music Factory, who are also hosting a workshop with Joe Morris at the same venue starting at 1pm at the same venue. Check ticket link for more info.
Joe Morris, Dan Blacksberg & Carlos Santiago trio:
Joe Morris is a composer/improviser multi-instrumentalist who plays guitar, double bass, mandolin, banjo, banjouke electric bass and drums. He is also a recording artist, educator, record producer, concert producer/curator and author. His is considered to be one of the most original and important improvising musicians of our time. Down Beat magazine called him “the preeminent free music guitarist of his generation.” Will Montgomery, writing in The Wire magazine called him “one of the most profound improvisers at work in the U.S.”
"… a guitarist whose sound is completely his own, oscillating between deadpan sweetness and dangerous, shrapnel-like caprice." K. LEANDER WILLIAMS, THE VILLAGE VOICE
Described by Bandcamp Daily as “a maestro who effortlessly hops between—and, ultimately, deconstructs—genres with abandon,” Dan’s musical vision has led him to compose music with a wide reach. From writing danceable klezmer melodies on his album Radiant Others – the first klezmer album to feature the trombone as the lead instrument – to the free-jazz of the Dan Blacksberg Trio, to genre-busting projects like his Hasidic doom metal band Deveykus and 2017 suite Together in Struggle, Dan forges music with a voice that “aims to infuse the fearless avant-garde with timeless sounds and techniques, and vice versa.” (WXPN’s The Key).
Carlos Santiago was born and raised in Philadelphia and was educated at The Hartt School of Music and Temple University. Approaching music from multiple standpoints, Carlos has relished performing in a wide variety of musical settings and styles such as the multi - disciplinary Bismuth String Quartet, the complex mathematical compositions of the rock band Normal Love, soloing with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, playing Tango, Salsa, and Afro-Caribbean jazz with Sonic Liberation Front, or Roma jazz with BeauDjango. Past teachers include John Blake, Diane Monroe, Yusef Lateef, Adolf Sandole, Louis Lanza, and Nicholas Mann. Sharing the unity of all of these types of music is the driving force behind his passion for sonic exploration.
Inverse and Obverse:
Aaron Pond – Horn, Flutes, Voice, Percussion, Bert Harris – Bass , Mattie McDonnell – Accordion & Max Glazier – Percussion. Inverse and Obverse is a quartet rooted in a phenomenological approach to creative music. like the great philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, we are examining the skin of the world, the very nature by which objects and sensations emerge from an interconnected web of being. It is this tenderness to the moment and each other which allows us to play poly-idiomatically.
venue is wheelchair accessible.