Event Details
Friday Sept. 10, 2010 • The Music Gallery presents
CHICAGO UNDERGROUND DUO
First Toronto performance in 10 years!
Jazz Avant series
Rob Mazurek — cornet, electronics, piano
Chad Taylor — percussion, electronics, vibes
Doors 7pm, concert 8pm
Tickets $20 regular, $15 member + senior, $10 student
Or $15 advance at Rotate This, Soundscapes + online at TicketWeb — BUY NOW!
Chicago Underground Duo formed in 1997 as an organic offshoot of the larger Chicago Underground Collective. The Duo consists of Rob Mazurek and Chad Taylor, both stalwarts on the Chicago jazz front. The Duo has logged the most touring and releases of the Chicago Underground Collectives, five including the recent 2010 release Boca Negra (Thrill Jockey Records). Rob and Chad have toured extensively in the U.S, Canada, Europe, Japan and Brazil, while maintaining rigorous individual schedules. The Duo is also, arguably, the most musically adventurous of the Chicago Underground incarnations. Performances are based on both notated compositions, composed by both artists, and on pure improvisation.
New release Boca Negra contains powerful grooves along with ambient sound structures, folk song simplicity and polyrhythmic bursts of energy with lyrical melodic vignettes. The album was recorded in Sao Paulo, Brazil at Rocha Studios making it the first record not created in Chicago. It is also the first record that contains a “cover,” that being Ornette Coleman’s “Broken Shadows.” This record has been three years in the making and took so long to make due partly to both Chad and Rob’s frantic touring schedules — Rob is the leader of the Exploding Star Orchestra, Sao Paulo Underground and Mandarin Movie, while Chad performs with Iron and Wine, Marc Ribot, and others.
Chicago Underground Duo will also be performing at Casa del Popolo in Montreal on Sept. 9 and the Guelph Jazz Festival on Sept. 11.
