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Jim Pugliese Phase iii big band + Positive Catastrophe

In drummer Jim Pugliese's current project, "Jimmy's Music Club," the musical structure stays the same but the musicians change all the time. Informed by everything from free impovisation to deep groove to Ghanaian drumming, his ensemble seeks to find the spiritual secrets of drumming. Taylor Ho Bynum and Abraham Gomez-Delgado bring their salsa-influenced group Positive Catastrophe, which also includes a French horn, erhu, and rock guitar.

Jim Pugliese is a drummer, percussionist and composer. As a freelance percussionist he has performed with The New York Philharmonic Horizon Series (guest artist), New York City Ballet and soloist or performer on numerous new music and jazz festivals. For the last 20 years, Jim has been improvising, recording and touring with many of downtown's most prominent composer/improvisers including John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Zeena Parkins, Bobby Previte, Elliot Sharp and Anthony Coleman. He has recorded on over 100 CD's of new music, jazz, rock and movie soundtracks. Jim's latest CD "Phase III Live @ Issue Project Room NYC" won "Best New Release of 2008 in All About Jazz NY. Jim performs on and endorses Alternate Mode's Malletkat.

This latest project titled "Jimmy's Music Club" is a mobile unit. The musical structure stays the same and musicians change, each allowed to speak in his or her own voice within the structure. It is a continuation of my ongoing quest to combine my diverse performing experiences into a single sound where the rhythmic harmonics inspire the harmony. The music skirts and shifts along the edges of free improvisation, deep groove and New Music. It reflects my ongoing quest to explore the powerful, enlightening and spiritual secrets of drumming and is inspired by recent association and work with Nii Tettey Tetteh, master musician from Ghana, with Milford Graves, learning drumming and healing through the heartbeat and the study of the spiritual songs of the Mbira Dzavadzimu from Zimbabwe.

Performers for this concert: Christine Bard, drums; Aram Bajakian, guitar; Audrey Chen, cello, vocals; Lewis Barnes, trumpet; Darius Jones, alto Sax; Steve Swell, trombone; Jim Pugliese, drums, vocal, mbira, shacktronics; Ken Filiano, bass.