Edged In Brass

Edged In Brass is the theme of this year's Edgefest at Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor. The four day festival will feature the best in avant garde jazz from New York and elsewhere.

Notable performers are saxophonist Ned Rothenberg on September 29, trumpeters Taylor Ho Bynum and Amir ElSaffir (with altoist Rudresh Mahanthappa) on September 30, Trio X (with saxophonist Joe McPhee and the phenomenal bassist Dominic Duval), tubaist Joe Daley, and violinist Jason Hwang on October 1, and John Hollenbeck's Claudia Quartet (with tenorist Chris Speed, bassist Drew Gress, accordionist Ted Reichman, vibist Matt Moran) and trombonist Curt Hasselbring on October 2. The finale on Saturday is a Brass Blowout by eight brass players and two percussionists.

Please call the Concert House at 734-769-2999 or go to their website for more information. You can buy tickets for individual performances or buy an Edgepass for the whole festival.

2010 Edgefest Schedule

All performances at the Kerrytown Concert House, unless otherwise noted.

Wednesday September 29

7:00
Angelica Sanchez
Rob Mazurek

9:30
An Improv Moment
Nate Wooley, Ned Rothenberg
Matt Bauder's "Day in Pictures"
Angelica Sanchez, Jason Ajemian, Tomas Fujiwara.

Thursday September 30

5:30
Free “Fringe at The Edge” Event:
Kenneth Thomas & Abigail Alwin
[at Argiero’s Italian Restaurant, 300 Detroit St.]

7:00
James Ilgenfritz Quintet
Nate Wooley, Andrew Bishop, Stephen Rush, Andrew Drury

8:30
Amir ElSaffar's Two Rivers Ensemble: "Inanna"
Rudresh Mahanthappa, Tareq Abboushi, Zafer Tawil, Carlo DeRosa, Nasheet Waits
Taylor Ho Bynum's Spider Monkey Strings
Kyoko Kitamura, Jason Hwang, Jessica Pavone, Tomas Ulrich, Pete Fitzpatrick, Joe Daley, Luther Gray

Friday, October 1

7:00
CGM Trio Plus Strings
Piotr Michalowski, James Cornish, James Ilgenfritz, Curtis Glatter

8:30
Jason Hwang's "Burning Bridge"
Taylor Ho Bynum, Andrew Drury, Ken Filiano, Joe Daley, Sun Li, Dick Griffin, Wang Guowei
Trio X
Joe McPhee, Dominic Duval, Jay Rosen

Saturday October 2

Noon
Free "Fringe at The Edge" Event:
Edgefest Parade, led by Joe Daley. Bring your instruments. Lunch served following parade

2:00
Detroit-Ann Arbor Improv Summit
Amy Harrington, Skeeter Shelton, Mike Carey, Marko Novachcoff, Piotr Michalowski, James Cornish, Kenneth Thomas, James Ilgenfritz, Joel Peterson, Curtis Glatter, Kurt Prisbe

4:00
Curtis Hasselbring's New Mellow Edwards
Chris Speed, Trevor Dunn, John Hollenbeck

6:00
Free “Fringe at The Edge” Event:
Mark Kirshenmann, Katri Ervamaa
[at Sweetwater’s Coffee & Tea, 407 North Fifth Ave.]

6:00
Kin-Aesthetic Trio
Ben Cohen, Tim Cohen, Matt Endahl

7:30
John Hollenbeck leads University of Michigan Big Band
Ellen Rowe and students
[at St Andrew's Episcopal Church]

9:00
Claudia Quintet: "Royal Toast"
John Hollenbeck, Chris Speed, Ted Reichman, Drew Gress, Matt Moran, Matt Mitchell
Brass Blowout — A Party!
Taylor Ho Bynum, Ingrid Racine, Matt Wooley, Ed Sarath, Adam Unsworth, Dick Griffin, Curtis Hasselbring, Joe Daley, Luther Gray, Andrew Drury