Akira Sakata, Darin Gray & Chris Corsano

Akira Sakata - saxophone

Darin Gray - bass

Chris Corsano - drums

Improvised Music Series: Bishop/Kwan/Kirshner, Corsano/McDonald/Stewart/Vandermark

 

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Tonight’s Improvised Music Series features an all-star lineup of Chicago improvisers in new configurations, convened by Julian Kirshner and Ken Vandermark.

8:30 pm: 

Julian Kirshner - drums

Jeb Bishop - trombone

Mabel Kwan - piano

9:30 pm:

Ken Vandermark - saxophones

Chris Corsano - drums

Beth MacDonald - tuba

Macie Stewart - violin/voice

Rodrigo Amado • Joe McPhee • Kent Kessler • Chris Corsano

released May 15, 2018

Rodrigo Amado – tenor saxophone
Joe McPhee - pocket trumpet, soprano saxophone
Kent Kessler – double bass
Chris Corsano - drums

Mette Rasmussen

Jazz/Creative Music from Portugal

• This Is Our Language by Rodrigo Amado with Joe McPhee • Kent Kessler • Chris Corsano



Joe McPhee - pocket trumpet, alto saxophone
Rodrigo Amado - tenor saxophone
Kent Kessler - double bass
Chris Corsano - drums



• Giz by Susana Santos Silva



Susana Santos Silva - trumpet
João Guimarães - sax alto
Federico Casagrande - guitar

Ingrid Laubrock • Nate Wooley • Chris Corsano

Laubrock/Wooley/Corsano @ Clemente Soto Velez Pt I from Windows Have Eyes on Vimeo.

A Windows Have Eyes Production: Ingrid Laubrock, Nate Wooley & Chris Corsano live at Clemente Soto Velez on on July 28, 2014 in NYC.

Camera: David Appel & Michael Lucio Sternbach
Sound: Robert O'Haire
Edit: MLS

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Magik

Daniel Carter/Chris Corsano Duo

Daniel Carter/Chris Corsano Duo - I from Windows Have Eyes on Vimeo.

A Windows Have Eyes Production: Daniel Carter/Chris Corsano Duo live at JACK in Brooklyn, NY on April 30, 2013.

Camera/Edit: MLS

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Daniel Carter/Chris Corsano Duo - II from Windows Have Eyes on Vimeo.

A Windows Have Eyes Production: Daniel Carter/Chris Corsano Duo live at JACK in Brooklyn, NY on April 30, 2013.

Camera/Edit: MLS

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Punk! & Jazz Sensibilities

Roulette TV: BILL ORCUTT & CHRIS CORSANO from Roulette Intermedium on Vimeo.

Roulette TV caught solo sets and a world premere duo performance by Bill Orcutt ("one of the most influential noise artists of the 20th century") and Chris Corsano ( “one of the most exciting drummers on the planet”) - and asked the tough questions:

"What is your name and what do you do?"

"Why are the two of you playing together?"

"Why play loud?"

"Why do your records sound the way they do?"

"Why modify your instrument?"

"WHY MAKE MUSIC?"

CHRIS CORSANO
First spellbound by freely improvised music in the mid-1990s after witnessing performances by TEST, William Parker, Cecil Taylor, and others, Chris Corsano began a long-standing, high-energy partnership with Paul Flaherty in 1998. A move from western Massachusetts, USA to the UK in 2005 led Corsano to develop an expanded solo music of his own, incorporating sax reeds, violin strings and bows, pot lids, and other everyday household items into his drum kit. In February 2006 he released his first solo recording, The Young Cricketer, and toured extensively throughout Europe, USA, and Japan. He spent 2007 and ’08 as the drummer on Björk’s Volta world tour, all the while weaving in shows and recordings on his days off with the likes of Evan Parker, Virginia Genta, and C. Spencer Yeh. Moving back to the U.S. in 2009, Corsano returned focus to his own projects, most notably a duo with Michael Flower, Rangda (with Sir Richard Bishop and Ben Chasny) and solo work, now revamped to include synthesizers and contact microphones in addition to his drum set and home-made acoustic instruments.

BILL ORCUTT
Former guitarist and founder of the noise/punk rock duo Harry Pussy (later a trio) Bill Orcutt’s sound is a hiccup-stuttered reimagining of blues guitar. One can hear familiar Southern folk scales between Orcutt’s jagged solo acoustic phrases, pulling and pushing melodies into unresolved fragments that eventually come unmoored in vast and satisfying note-torrents.

Produced by JIM STALEY
Directed, Edited, Shot, Mixed by MATTHEW MEHLAN
Audio Recording by JUSTIN FRYE
Additional Editing by BRENDAN RILEY
Title Music Courtesy of DORON SADJA

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Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt

Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt live @ Industry Lab, August 31st, 2012. from Keith Fullerton Whitman on Vimeo.

Bill Orcutt and Chris Corsano