Fri
10/21/2011
9:00pm
Edgefest
Dead Cat Bounce
9:00 pm
- $15 General Admission
- $5 Student
- Matt Steckler, composer/saxophones/flute
- Jared Sims, saxophones/clarinet
- Terry Goss, saxophones
- Charlie Kohlhase, saxophones
- Dave Ambrosio, bass
- Bill Carbone, drums
Event Details
"DCB revels in a reed-driven sound marked by sharply contrasting forms, textures and tones... strident, joyful, lush and strutting use of a horn section." - Mike Joyce, Washington Post
Presciently stripped from the headlines, the term "dead cat bounce" denotes a small, brief recovery in the price of a declining stock. To the artists in Dead Cat Bounce, it signifies one’s dedication to creative rebirth and renewal even as times, traditions and masters move on.
Featuring four saxophones of all ranges plus upright bass and drums, Dead Cat Bounce since 1997 has been the unique artistic vision of founder and composer Matt Steckler. Word of DCB’s high caliber as a performance ensemble has brought them to festivals and concerts nationally, recently won them a grant from ACF Jerome Fund, and garnered distinctions from Meet the Composer, Chamber Music America, American Composers Forum, American Music Center, Boston Music Awards, Jazz Times, The Washington Post, Cadence and many others in the creative music community.
Dead Cat Bounce invokes Charles Mingus and the World Saxophone Quartet with their "tightly arranged, swirling contrapuntal reeds and multi-part, blues n’ roots-infused tricky compositions" (Jon Garelick, the Boston Phoenix). Their eclectic approach to rhythm is informed by traditions from the Caribbean, Deep South, Brazil, West Africa, Eastern Europe and Detroit. In Dead Cat Bounce, solo and collective improvisations energetically complement the poise of its ever-expanding compositional repertoire.
In 2011 Dead Cat Bounce will tour to promote its fourth full-length album, Chance Episodes, and also set to work on the new electro-acoustic cycle Eco-Beat Heresy. To their résume add the globally merchandized and seminal recordings Home Speaks to the Wandering (Innova), Lucky By Association and Legends of the Nar (Chonsky), and you have in Dead Cat Bounce one of the most prolific and soul-searching bodies of work available to one Little Big Band That Could.
Tickets to Edgefest are $10 - $15 for individual ticketed events, with a limited number of student tickets ($5) available for most performances. An Edgepass ($135) is available, which allows for admission to all events, as well as a special dinner with our Edgefest artists. A Saturday daypass is available for $50.
Edgefest is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
