Trio improvisations with:
Max Kutner - guitar Kevin Shea - drums Michael Eaton - tenor saxophone
Trio improvisations with:
Max Kutner - guitar Kevin Shea - drums Michael Eaton - tenor saxophone
Max Kutner - guitar, compositions Eli Asher - trumpet Michael Eaton - tenor saxophone Kurt Kotheimer - bass Colin Hinton - drums
Free improvised chamber music in a bucolic setting - an oasis in NYC!
Westport Coffee House, 4010 Pennsylvania Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64111
Michael Eaton - saxophones Seth Davis - guitar, electronics Jeff Harshbarger - acoustic bass Evan Verploegh - drums
Two sets, $10 cover, and all ages.
Free improvised chamber music in a bucolic setting - an oasis in NYC!
Free improvised chamber music in a bucolic setting - an oasis in NYC!
Remembering the great harmolodicist and singular improviser and musician, Bern Nix.
Cheryl Pyle - C flute, alto flute, piccolo Michael Eaton- tenor saxophone Haruna Fukazawa - C flute Gene Coleman - bass flute, piccolo Claire de Brunner - bassoon
I am very excited to debut a new twelve movement suite of music, Stygian Gates (a deliberate pun on a John Adams work, yes) for nonet this Saturday at Scholes Street! This piece will feature various friends and colleagues who I have played with over the years, and it has a marked twelve tone influence that I did my best to incorporate and develop. The inspiration was John Coltrane's "Meditations" suite, but instead inverted to a dark version (as in, a dark night of the soul or a phase of individuation) with themes drawn from Greek myth and alchemy.
Steeplechase Records has released "Paraphrase", a duo recording with me and pianist Nicki Adams, for its LookOut series on Tuesday, March 15. Our piano/saxophone duo originated as an online project during the Covid interim/lockdown of summer 2020. In 2021, Nicki and I went into the studio to record a handful of original tunes and arrangements of music by Wayne Shorter, Andrew Hill, Tim Hagans, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, and Thelonious Monk. I contributed "Blues for Bern" and a new composition, "Phenomenology". Later on, Nicki took the album cover shot at New York City's North 5th Street Pier and Park on the East River, and I wrote the liner notes. Paraphrase will be available through major distributors of CDs as well as streaming services such as Apple Music. A sincere thanks to Nils Winther for publishing Paraphrase. Steeplechase has a long history of recording seminal jazz artists like Dexter Gordon, Andrew Hill, Ben Webster, Eddie Harris, and many others. I have long enjoyed recordings by Dave Scott, Rich Perry, George Colligan, Ari Ambrose, Rick Margitza, Scott Colley, and other contemporary jazz musicians.
Art and design by Heather Basile.
On April, Mother Brain Records releases Ghost Tantras, a digital and CD release with eight tracks of quartet studio improvisations named for the 1964 book of poems by Michael McClure.Â
Mother Brain Records is a Kansas City, Missouri- based label formed to promote music from and creative connections between improvisers, composers, and sound artists in the Midwest and beyond. The label embraces a broad-minded aesthetic while focusing on free improvised, new music, experimental, electronic, and hybrid genres.
Personnel:
Seth Andrew Davis - electric guitar, laptop and electronics
Michael Eaton - tenor saxophones
Damon Smith - double bass
Kyle Quass - trumpet