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This grouping of Chicago regulars represents a cross-section of the city’s thriving jazz and improvised music scene. Left-of-center saxophonist Dave Rempis, known for his extensive work as a free improviser, unites here with two other established musicians more often associated with the jazz camp in town: trumpeter Russ Johnson, and drummer Jeremy Cunningham. All three are established leaders on their own, and bring an incredibly open-minded approach to bridging the spectrum between knowing how to truly swing, and knowing how to take it just as far out. The group also adds Jakob Heinemann to the mix, a younger bassist and composer who took the Chicago scene by storm while living here for several years during and after the pandemic. The band worked regularly during that tenure, refining their chemistry into a thoughtful, deliberate, and unique quartet sound. Embers and Ash documents their last Chicago performance before Heinemann relocated to California to pursue a graduate degree at CalArts in the summer of 2024. Much more introspective than some of the more blusterous bands that Rempis fronts, this quartet navigates breathy dynamic motion, space, and silence in a singular way.
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2028