"The Dave Rempris Percussion Quartet is a free-improvising whirlwind that drawsinspiration from
a shared interest in West African and Latin American rhythms, coupled with American funk and free jazz. Using these influences, the band creates spontaneous music which maintains a focus on ensemble motion and compositional structures.
Led by saxophonist Dave Rempis (The Engines, Rempis/Rosaly Duo, Triage, Vandermark Five) the band originally formed for a house party in April 2004, and their performances maintain an unabashedly raucous energy based on relentless grooves and unrestrained blowing. This quartet has toured regularly in both the US and Europe, with North American tours and several major European festival performances. The band has also released five records since 2005, including the latest live release "Phalanx" (2012), a 2-cd set of live concerts from their 2012 European tour. It's the first release on Rempis’s own Aerophonic Records imprint."
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The Rempis Percussion Quartet's tremendously propulsive Afrobeat grooves,
unending swing, and even breathtakingly quiet moments seem to draw from a bottomless well of energy.
-Matthew Lurie, TIMEOUT CHICAGO
Rempis covers all the bases, getting down and dirty on baritone, preaching on
tenor, but still skronking and squealing as the moment demands. Hatwich's
bass alternates between roles as a free agent providing commentary and
the anchoring to freer flights of fancy. When drums, bass and saxophone lock onto a riff, they don't let go, constituting a unit of fearsome power.
-John Sharpe, ALL ABOUT JAZZ, -Michael Sczajewski, WNUR-FM
It's clear that this is a band which has allowed itself the time and space to develop as a unit, and the music is accordingly happening on a deeply profound level...the strengths and musical inclinations of the members have become symbiotic.
9pm, 21+
$10 at the door
$10 at the door