Jazz / impro: Endangered Blood

Tuesday November 18th, 8.30 PM (door open at 8 PM), € 10

Endangered Blood is the sound of four long-time colleagues and friends Jim Black, Trevor Dunn, Oscar Noriega and Chris Speed. Their 2011 self-titled debut was a huge success among critics and listeners. The songs on their sophomore album “Work Your Magic”, push into new areas of compositional complexity without losing the intensity and the soulfulness that characterized their debut album. At their most sonic extremes, the band never loses the connection with their jazz roots.

Jim Black should need no introduction to listeners of creative music, having established himself as one of the most inventive drummers of his generation, and is currently leading his own trio as well as post-rock/jazz group Alas No Axis. Bassist Trevor Dunn has been touring the world with various Mike Patton and John Zorn projects as well as entering the Guinness Book of World Records by playing fifty gigs in fifty states in fifty days as a member of the Melvins Lite. Oscar Noriega is fast becoming one of the rising stars of creative music as a member of Tim Berne’s acclaimed Snakeoil quartet. Chris Speed continues to be one of the most highly respected jazz saxophonists and clarinetists working today, currently playing with Craig Taborn, Dave King, Uri Caine and John Hollenbeck’s long running Claudia Quintet.

“Of all the combos Speed and Black have played in together, Endangered Blood is the one where their contrasting styles flower most fully and fit together most organically” Chicago Reader

“Speed’s originals stand out as his most melodically generous, accessible and warm batch of compositions he’s yet to produce.” Four Stars in Down Beat Magazine