Keefe Jackson: These Things Happen

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

TIME: 6:00-7:00PM

VENUE: LOGAN CENTER performance PENTHOUSE. 915 East 60TH ST.

KEEFE JACKSON: THESE THINGS HAPPEN

Every These Things Happen composition delivers a clear new concept of what it means to play jazz and improvised music, and every concert is full of surprises for the listener. Including classics from the American and Dutch jazz traditions, as well as originals, the trio digresses between composition and improvisation, sobriety and uninhibitedness, playfulness and formality. Covering new ground, the band discovers and ignores, grabs and releases, creates and then lets go.

The music of These Things Happen is a fusion of sounds and modes inhabiting the spaces between Chicago and Amsterdam. The music of Misha Mengelberg, Dewey Redman, Herbie Nichols, and Thelonious Monk are all jumping-off points. Monk’s music, in particular, has produced entire musical languages with conceptual lives of their own. These Things Happen has fed this notion back into the tunes, leading to an insistent stutter-time version of the famous Bemsha Swing, in which the improvisation actually happens during the head of the composition, rather than in solos.

The band’s newest album will be released in August 2022.

The musicians:

Keefe Jackson – saxophone

Jason Roebke – bass

Mikel Patrick Avery – drums

TBA - piano